The Mystical Life of Jesus by Sylvia Browne

Author:Sylvia Browne [Browne, Sylvia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101664315
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2007-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

The Real Passion Story of Christ

WHETHER HE WAS CURING the sick or making the lame walk or the blind see, he was constantly preaching. He had only a few run-ins with the Sanhedrin. They tried at first to ignore him, feeling as if he was just another fanatic like John the Baptist; but as his popularity grew and the synagogues began to be empty, they became more alarmed. This came from two motives. One, they were losing money, and two, they didn’t want to make the Romans angry; not only because they had their own gods, but because they wanted to separate themselves from the fact that, after all, he was a Jew and they were afraid they would be blamed for his words that went against Judaic teaching.

In all deference, let’s understand that this religion had already existed and flourished for hundreds of years and gave birth to great kings and great religious beliefs for the time. Here they sat, the lawmakers and judges of the Judaic faith, with this “new” prophet, so to speak, who threatened the fiber of their established religion. The Romans at the same time became somewhat nervous, because wherever he went huge crowds gathered and this could spell insurrection.

The Jewish people, sadly, have had to bear the stigma of crucifying Christ. But we didn’t live then, and if our establishment was threatened, how do we know what we would have done? Both the Jews and the Romans had a hand in his crucifixion—which, by the way, was the favorite Roman means of execution at that time. Later on, to the Romans, it became burning at the stake or a means of entertainment such as throwing criminals to wild animals; but at that time the Roman norm was crucifixion, just as the Jewish norm was stoning to death. Let’s also not forget Jesus had to go through this to fulfill the prophecies that would culminate in his supposed death. It was out of this martyrdom that his teachings would live on.

Let’s be logical . . . his teachings were vying against the long-standing religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and the all-powerful Romans as well as other religions that were minor but popular. No one knew anything of this new monotheistic religious philosophy of a gentle, loving and all-forgiving God. Most Eastern religions don’t have a personal God as such or they have many deities. The Judaic religion had one God, but He was unreachable, harsh, unforgiving and sometimes very frightening. So there appears on the stage of life a man who is trying to set the record straight, and he might well be ignored and forgotten unless his exit were dramatic. Let’s face it, the world seems to love martyrs.

Yet here is where there is a big hole in the prophecies. The “Savior” was supposed to come and free the Jews. He was to be a king with wealth and, much like Moses, was to free them from oppression and lead them in their promised land.

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