Jesus was the truth and had to speak the truth, and the world was the world and had to kill him for it: that’s tragedy. He wasn’t betrayed by an act of evil. He wasn’t murdered by a villain. He would not have avoided dying had he been born among another people or in another time. He was the living truth. The religious had to kill him because they were religious. The leaders had to kill him because they were the leaders. The people had to kill him because they were the people. The law had to kill him because it was the law. That was what it was like to be the truth in the world. That was the
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