kiezen {& delen}

Dat is aanvankelijk 't begin v/d blijde boodschappen van Yehosjoea: de onzichtbare g d redt ons uit alle nood & so sal alles toch nog reg kom want alles verandert niets staat stil dan g d die niet is maar
altijd eeuwig wordend & komend aanwezig is onder ons tussen vingertoppen, tenen, kruinen & daden ....

As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. 't Is als 't ware bij wijze van spreken 'g d' zelf die telkens tot in komt in andere gedaante ...

As the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord and make his paths straight?

Yochanan did baptize in the wilderness, and preached the baptism of repentance for remission of sins: in
't betreden van nieuw leven voelen we ons als herboren, naakt schoongewassen met nieuwe witte kleren!

Wanneer echte & valse profeten rondgaan overal dan krijgen ze soms hele volksmassa's achter zich aan.

Wat kan 'n mens nog meer verwachten van fris helder stromend water dan dat 't goed smaakt & ons kan
schoonwassen van de ongerechtigheden bezoedelingen besmettingen van 'n duister verleden vol ellende.

Confessing our 'sins' in order to start a new life? Blijkbaar valt er heel wat te leren in/op ons aardbolletje?

And Yochanan was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat of
locusts & wild desert mountainhoney. And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me:
the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose, because I have indeed baptized
you with water: but she shall baptize you with Holy Ghost. And it came to pass in those days, that Yeshu
came from Natseret of Galilee, & was baptized of Yochanan in water of the river Jordan aka haYardeen ~

And straightway coming up out of the water he saw the heavens opened & G d's Spirit like a dove on him.

Je lichaam, voor driekwart samengesteld uit water, plus wat aardse mineralen, een handjevol. En in je die grote vlam waarvan je de [ware] aard niet kent. Met in je longen, altijd & altijd weer opgenomen
in de borstkas, de lucht, de schone vreemdeling zonder wie we niet meer kunnen leven in lichaam/geest!

De evolutie van onze hersenen vanuit blood & bones: de evolutie van de mens vol tegenstrijdigheden ...

'n Streven om verantwoord, goed gedocumenteerd vooral 'n leesbaar betoog te houden waarin evenwicht
te vinden is: naarmate 'n schip sneller vaart heeft 't minder diepgang & bij hoge snelheid is er zelfs deze
merkwaardige neiging tot zweven, vliegen, losraken van de aarde & opgaan in een heelal dit in ons is ....

Te zwaar beladen loopt ons voertuig aan de grond of zinkt weg in de diepte van de oceanen binnenin ons.

Elke beschrijving lijkt soms 'n vorm van diefstel maar in dagboeken is alles geoorloofd wat bruikbaar lijkt!

WAYISJMEHOE KROEVAW WAYETSEOE LEHACHAZIEK BO KIE AMROE YATSA MIDAETO WAHASOFRIEM ASJER
YARDOE MIYEROESJALAYIEM AMROE KIE BA'AL-ZEVOEV NICHNAS BO WEAL-SAR-HASJEDIEM HOE MEGARESJ
ET-HASJEDIEM WAYIKRA OTAM ELAW WAYEDABER LAHEM BIMSJALIEM LE'EMOR EICH YOCHAL HASATAN LE-GAREESJ HASATAN WE'IM-NECHLEKAH MAMLACHAH AL-ATSMAH LO-TOECHAL LA'AMOD HAMAMLACHA HAHI!

Mark's version {3:21} of that saying seems to be influenced by his unique and unreliable {?} report that Yeshua's family had come to seize him, because
"people were saying
'He is beside himself!'
"
Notwithstanding the evidence of the Evangelist's editorial creativity, Yehoshua clearly understood that un-compromising religious commitment sometimes results in breaking family ties:
"Truly, I say to you, there is no man who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for
the sake of the kingdom of G d, who will not receive manifold more in this time, and in the age to come
eternal life!"

To another he said,
"Follow me!"
But he said,
"Lord, let me first go and bury my father?"

But he said to him,
"Leave the dead to bury their own dead ...!"

Another said,
"I will follow you, Lord; but first let me say farewell to those at my home?"

Yeshu said to him:
"No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of G d!"

There is one more pertinent saying that does not sound so inhuman in Hebrew as in translation.
"If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters ... he cannot be my disciple!"

In Hebrew the verbs "hate and love" can be juxtaposed to suggest {GEN 29:31} preference: the apostle
Paul [aka Sha'ul] was also familiar with this idiomatic usage, 'As is written, 'Ya'acov I loved, but Esaw I hated!'" {ROM 9:13}.

That emotion-laden tension seems to have arisen between Yehoshua and his family in Natseret, and it would appear to have been this psychological fact ~ the background to which we do not know ~ that also contributed powerfully to his personal decision that was so decisive for mankind.

The impetus for his departure from Natseret probably lies in the fact that his family regarded the mission that led Yeshua to his death as a [very] dangerous illusion.

Yeshu correctly suspected that his own kith and kin would not favor his mission, and for this reason he did
not return home after his baptism, but went to [live in] Kfar Nachum: later, when he returned to visit his native town {?}, he proved that no one is a prophet in his own country!

What happened to "JC"'s family after his death?

An interesting report in Acts 1:14 tells us that Miryam, the mother of Yeshu, and his brethern joined the apostles in Yerushalayim. The Lord's brother, Ya'akov, came to believe as a result of an [unexpected] re-surrection appearance. In 62 a Sadducean high priest murdered Ya'acov for his faith in his own brother ...

The other brothers were later converted to faith, and with their wives they accepted the hopitality of the congregations according to I COR 9:5?! Having recognized their deceased brother as the Messiah, those
other brothers of the Lord then realizef that they, too, were of David's line. An old account [Eusebius] tells us that Emperor Domitian regarded grandsons of the Lord's brother, Yehudah, with suspicion because they
belonged to 'the Jewish royal house'. The emperor is supposed to have interrogated them in Rome, but then set them free when he discoverd that they were only poor peasants. They were leaders of Christian
churches, apparetnly in Galilee, and they lived until the reign of Trajan.

Ya'acov, the brother of the Lord, was succeeded as head of the Church in Yerushalayim by Shim'on, cousin
of Yeshua. After Yeshu's death, his family, therefore, overcame their [former] disbelief, and assumed an honorable place in the young Jewish-Christian community. We can now understand their [re]actions: stress
& 'peace of mind' because of the expectation that Yehoshua would {SOON} return from heaven, assume his 'royal position' also 'on earth' so everybody could live happily ever after this "Future Happening"; Paul
seems to have had these same expectations as the other Jewish Christians but saw it more 'worldwide' ...!

It might be dangerous [it was!], indeed, to live as the Redeemer's relatives within an ordered dociety, but
if they lived within a messianic community they would find it more compatible. Despite her inability to fully
understand her son, this was also the case with the mother of Yeshu: from her point of view, all Miryam's
worries were justified because the dreaded catastrophe came and her own heart was pierced by a sword ac-cording to Lucky Luke 2:35. DID she find complete consolation later through faith in her risen son, and in the hope that she would see hem again?

Love is a many splendoured thing: in alle mydibijbelverhaaltjes kunnen mensen zichzelf herkennen in al
onze veelvoudigheid van karakter, persoonlijkheid, opvoeding, atheisme, aversies, likings - 't gaat er nu
dus allang niet meer om slechts 'n eenduidige visie te extraheren, conserveren, aanhangen, verdedigen
&/of bestrijden, maar om te zien hoe dergelijke stromingen door alle eeuwen en plaatsen heen hebben plaatsgevonden en blijven gebeuren ook onder ons. De kern is van alle tijden & betreft ieder mens: die rest is illustratie, bijzaak, verpakking, variatie op aanverwante thema's & niet te verwaarlozen: 't blijft 'n
open boek ook al weten we nog lang niet alles als 't gaat om oorzaken & gevolgen in de komende jaren.