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William Barclay13 describes what happened when these two societies collided. “It is the simple historical fact that in the thirty years from 67 to 37 B.C. before the emergence of Herod the Great, no fewer than one hundred and fifty thousand men perished in Palestine in revolutionary uprisings. There was no more explosive and inflammable country in the world than Palestine.”
Instead of the message “No undesirables allowed,” he proclaimed, “In God’s kingdom there are no undesirables.”
No undesirable people
Jesus asked us his followers to do three things to remember him. He asked us to baptize others, just as he had been baptized by John. He asked to us remember the meal he shared that very evening with the disciples. Finally, he asked us to
wash one another’s feet.
I would prefer, I must admit, to live in a country where the majority of people follow the Ten Commandments, act with civility toward each other, and bow their heads once a day for a bland, nonpartisan prayer.
Yes indeed!
“God weeps with us so that we may someday laugh with him.”
