chapter 07

Don't judge others, maybe others won't judge you. If your brother has a little trouble, before flipping out on him, deal with your own trouble or inadequacies. Don't be sharing holy things with dogs or throw pearls at pigs.

Ask and you get. Look for and find. Knock on a door and it gonna open.

At least in most cases, thus making the effort of action quite a rewarding practice.

Think about: some son of yours wants bread, you don't give him a rock, or a bunch of laws. Or a snake if he wants a fish. Or a elephant when he wanted a chicken.

Do onto others as you would have them do unto you.

Someone wrote in that this is what Moses meant. It ain't.

Moses said do unto others what I tell you to do. And there is only war.

So keep the straight and narrow path. The wide one is an endless over lit bullovard of fast food chains and hollywood fantasy. Boring. And lifeless. Stay away from well trodden paths.

And watch out for lying prophets that look like sheep but under their fine disguise are wolves.

You don't get grapes from a thorn bush. No fig from a thistle. Ain't no fruit on a dead tree and the analogy leads up to, if you ain't no good we throw you into the fire.

And don't think because you make a show of casting out devils in my name that you get a free ticket to heaven. I simply won't let you in. Sucker.

Build on a rock, not shifting sand.

The people were really impressed with Jesus. Ain't nobody come and told so much information so elegantly like he was right and they should listen up.

chapter 08

I hate to suggest this but I can't help observe the obvious possibility of theater.

Jesus heals a leper than sends him to a priest. The priest knows it's most likely to raise their level of anger toward the traveling preacher of a very disruptive updated version of who can be and talk to god. Namely, any bum on the street.

Not good for business. Just wait and see how the law following Jews get on with the Jesus movement.

Anyhow, a roman centurien gets Jesus to heal a servant. He is so humble he don't want Jesus to bother coming by. A word of clean bill of health.

Jesus says how impressed he is with the Roman's faith. Israel hadn't a man with so much faith.

Another jab at the priests. He even lays weeping and gnashing of teeth to their future.

So after Jesus sent the centurien on his way, which might raise a few questions. Did Jesus, as a priest and teacher, have authority over military leaders of the reigning occupying empire.

Not likely. But we proceed pretending the story is real. Even if it isn't, something like it always is.

Hell, Angels run rampant undetected these days.

Almost anything could be possible.

Just not most of this.

They go to Peter's mom's and she jumps up out of bed when Jesus comes and touches her.

Bloody right. I would too.

"Hey. You want something to eat, boys."

After eating, Jesus healed some more broken and hopeless people. Jesus sent devils out of people and then mentioned Esaias had said someone would come along and do such things.

So Jesus crossed the lake. In a boat. And a disciple wanted to bury his dad and Jesus said no, we are going now.

Because a storm was coming.

Jesus slept.

And they woke him up.

"Jesus. There is a storm. We're gonna all die."

"True. But not today. You with so little faith."

So Jesus went up and told the waves to settle down. Now he might of got lucky and they did. Or the boat didn't sink and they made it across the lake and made up the story when they had smoked a joint to chill on the other side.

Jesus and his followers walked on down a road by the burial caves. And two mad men yelled out at him.

"Hey Jesus, you son of God you. Are you come to punish us."

"I'm gonna set you free of your devils."

"Jesus. Send us to the pigs."

The devils said that. Jesus went along with the proposal and the pigs ran off and drowned themselves.

Which sucks for the pig farmer. Even if pig farming sucks. A pig farm with no pigs is a field of, well, whatever's left when pigs jump off a cliff or whatever and are gone.

So no surprise when the pig herders run into town and the whole town comes back and tell Jesus where to go. Anywhere but here.

chapter 09

Jesus jumped back on a boat and went back to his home town. Capernaum. He was taken to a paralyzed man.

"Your sins are forgiven."

Some Sadducees pick up on this.

"Blasphemy. We call blasphemy on Jesus, the bastard child of Herod."

"You sorry ass buggers. You think I can't forgive sins. The son of man. Well, guess again suckers. The rules have been changed. By me. Get up man. Take your bed with you."

So the paralyzed, maybe from too much brandy the night before, man gets up and goes home.

Then Jesus went to eat with Matthew and asked if he'd like to come on his campaign to wage a fight against old crusty dictatorship slave soldier laws.

"Count me in, Jesus. I'm sick of being a tax collector for the vile aristocracy tyrants."

Some priests of the laws of Moses see Jesus hanging out with tax collectors. Publican and sinners. By the way, a publican is a Jewish tax collector that collects for the Roman Empire. The lowest of low life. Except for gentiles.

"Jesus. Why do you hang with such people."

"Why does a doctor see sick people. Huh. Think."

"What."

"Enough with the holy sacrifice, let's think about interracial protocol. A salvation for all."

"Who we to kill."

"Space technology, man. There is much more to have in space than what can be won from everlasting war."

"Now he's a business expert too."

Then John's followers ask Jesus how come his crew don't fast.

"Well, people, who knows how long I'll be around. We want to enjoy our time together. Can you dig it."

A Jewish officer comes to Jesus. Down on his knees and begged Jesus come make his dead daughter not dead.

"All right. I got time for one more before the next coffee break."

On the way, a woman touches him. She had been bleeding 12 years. Sometimes happens to women after menopause.

She had the faith and the bleeding stopped and Jesus told her it was her faith that healed her.

And there is a little truth in that. Faith. What is Faith. A cousin of hope. Positive vibrations.

But let's get to the dead girl before she rots.

Jesus tells the truth, what no one believes.

"Get out, she ain't dead yet. In fact, she's just sleeping."

Jesus went and held hands with her and she got up.

"Jesus, I wish you would spend more time at home."

"I got things to do, my love."

Like making the blind to see. He told them not to tell no one about suddenly not being blind, which in Jewish tradition, or even the times, it was a matter of formality so no one thinks Jesus is just trying to get some attention.

And I see his point. He had things to say and do and needed an audience. A big one.

So he visits a dumb man and tells him to speak. And everyone is awed.

Jesus didn't hang around, he went from town to town, healing people and gathering large crowds. Getting the word out.

And he knew they were ripe for it. Poor people always wanna be delivered from their slavery.

Oddly enough.

"We need some more help."

He had five main men still and everyone, even the mormons, knows you need a dozen.

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