Good thoughts. One aspect of this story, I was made aware from Skye Jethani of the Holy Post, was the detail that Jesus grew up going to temple and seeing this scene his whole life and picked this moment to take action, possibly purposefully inciting the events that led to his death. Curious what you thoughts are on how that may shape how we view this story. (If anything it only adds to that restrained reaction of making a whip... perhaps he'd been working on it for quite a while!)
Ah, yeah that’s a good point. Honestly, it makes the premeditation of it even more bizarre. To think that maybe he’d been planning this for years takes all the fire out of his supposed anger. Or maybe the opposite. If you’re planning on something like this for a long time, that anger — maybe zeal is a better word — has a long time to breathe.
Thank you for talking about anger and aggression in such an illustrative way. I did like that The Chosen included Jesus braiding the whip, showing that it was premeditated and not "flying off the handle." He brought it back to its purpose as a House of Prayer, as illustrated by the crowds' "Hosannas," which are prayers for salvation.
Yeah, the Chosen did a great job with it. To your point, I like when the writers have him saying, “I used to hear the sound of prayer in these courts.” Though I chose to focus on the protest element of this as I think it’s relevant, ultimately the purification and restoration element is most important.
Good thoughts. One aspect of this story, I was made aware from Skye Jethani of the Holy Post, was the detail that Jesus grew up going to temple and seeing this scene his whole life and picked this moment to take action, possibly purposefully inciting the events that led to his death. Curious what you thoughts are on how that may shape how we view this story. (If anything it only adds to that restrained reaction of making a whip... perhaps he'd been working on it for quite a while!)
Ah, yeah that’s a good point. Honestly, it makes the premeditation of it even more bizarre. To think that maybe he’d been planning this for years takes all the fire out of his supposed anger. Or maybe the opposite. If you’re planning on something like this for a long time, that anger — maybe zeal is a better word — has a long time to breathe.
Thank you for talking about anger and aggression in such an illustrative way. I did like that The Chosen included Jesus braiding the whip, showing that it was premeditated and not "flying off the handle." He brought it back to its purpose as a House of Prayer, as illustrated by the crowds' "Hosannas," which are prayers for salvation.
Yeah, the Chosen did a great job with it. To your point, I like when the writers have him saying, “I used to hear the sound of prayer in these courts.” Though I chose to focus on the protest element of this as I think it’s relevant, ultimately the purification and restoration element is most important.
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