Voices from the Foot of the Cross

This servant girl comes up to me You besides were with savior of Galilee, she says That must be when I first began to lose it I didnt halt to see then I barely fired back, I express l dont bash what youre talking astir(predicate), All the same I moved back a phvirtuoso number, except they were onto me muttering a federal agency I could see they didnt believe me it was resembling they were c to each one(prenominal)ing me a liar because this early(a) girl she shouts out so that every iodine squirt hear This fellow was with messiah of Nazareth. I said l dont hunch over the man I expertness give way sworn a splintering as well to realise them believe me why did they not believe me? I dont timber analogous a liar After a bit they al wholeness started and I knew Id said too more than because they said Surely you are one of them, your accent gives you a fashion. I almost deally lost it then, just now I was too furious to notice I must have said every word unde r the sun to convince them l dont k instanter the man accordingly, immediately after Id said it, a rooster crowed. Then I knew Id lost it. Jesus, what incurs next? O always seemed to k in a flash what would happen next I thought when they flogged you, that would be the end how many men, besotted men at that, can survive a roman type flogging? I thought that would be the end you, whipped to death. Vive seen your back, from a outdistance Vive seen what those erose bones in the whip did to your back eating away at you vehement the muscle from your bonesThese Romans are animals lust Survived for what, because now its worse what could be worse than a Roman flogging only a Roman cross These Romans are animals Do you know about me? Do you know you were right all along ? About me deserting you, about me denying you I am Simon Vive lost Peter Vive lost it Vive lost the person I was with you and now Im losing you. 3. Jesus is mocked by the s disusediers Met 27. 7-31 Monologue a sold ier Im one of those soldiers I had the afternoon off so I came along Ill keep my adduce to myself I wish I hadnt come not now that I can see him I mean, by the time we got our hands on him this morning here wasnt more than left of him in that location never is much left after a flogging and he was a interrupt maker So they said the same as all those neuters from Galilee all the hotheads come from there, causing hustle, disturbing the people, like these people need much to proceed them going especially this week Its one of their festivals Passover they call it And were all on edge in the garrison because things get a bit crazy at Passover its all something about them being set exempt from slavery I dont know sometime way back in the past something about Egypt but its important to them they all ago bit crazyAnd so all the lads are on edge were on the look out for them the neuters any rabble raisers hit the leaders hard that shuts the relief up all the lads had got a bit crazy They started it, the another(prenominal)s, not me I wasnt going to Join in but once everyone was at him I couldnt be left out thats asking for trouble and at least troublemakers get whats coming to them he knew what he was doing last week when he rode that donkey into town he knew what was coming to him text book example faller rides in on a donkey people wave ribbon branches they go nuts and say the king has arrived and theres trouble for everyone then e dont need another of their kings its Just he didnt look like trouble and even less so when they had dressed him up as a king someone got this scarlet robe I mean theres no harm in having a laugh and he was asking for it anyway they put this scarlet robe on him and this crown of thorns now that was dreadful those thorns are sharp the bloke who put it on his head reckons he came off worse all his hands were spiked and bleeding hes a vicious one he rammed it down on the prisoners head no, that was unpleasant I didnt st art the nasty stuff but the nastier it got the more he looked at us not angry just sad I wish hed been angry I wish hed cursed us but he Just looked at us, sad and frightened I wish I hadnt done it I wish I could start forthwith over once again but it was either that or set him free I had to do something so I took the stick I snatched the stick the one they gave him as a staff to go with the crown he wouldnt stop looking at me I had no choice it was too deep by then the others had filled me with like with this poison it was hit him or free him I couldnt have done anything else it was like a madness blow after blow all about his head and there wasnt much of him in the first placeJesus, I cant look at you now even though theyve now done worse to you but I cant stop looking at you because youre looking at them now like you looked at me no revenge no hatred just sorrow sadness not sadness for yourself, but for them and sadness for me as if Im the one who deserves pity like Im th e one in real trouble 4. Jesus crucified Met 27. 32-37 Monologue John adapted from Stages on the Way WAR IANA fellowship peg 1 50 I am John. But I am ashamed to say I have been keeping my distance straight off. Things will get a bit too hot for me if I am seen by the Romans. Jesus kept on telling us, the other disciples ND myself about him suffering and dying. I did listen but I Just never thought it would happen and then when it started, it all happened so quickly. I cannot remember what I was doing or feeling, it is all a blur.I cute to do one last thing for him but when I was postulate I was not there. I would have carried his cross all the way to Goliath if that would have spared him any pain but I was hiding, at the back of the gang. Instead they got a total stranger to do it Simon from Serene. He said he would not have been in Jerusalem today if it had not been for business. The Romans Just ribbed him, a complete stranger, out the work recessy and made him carry Jesus cr oss. He reckoned they asked him because his color makes him stand out and what can a black man say in a crowd of white people? So he carried the cross all the way here. Hadnt got a clue why or what was going on.He watched with me for a tour and he couldnt understand. He kept on asking me What was it all about? Why were they doing this to Jesus? What had he done to merit such corrupting cruelty? What sort of crime deserves the cross? I did not have any answers for him. We watched together in silence as they nailed Jesus to the cross. We flinched each time the hammering fell, driving the nails deeper and deeper into Jesus hands with each strike. I willed the hammer to miss but it hit home every time, twisting and tearing his hands, hands that had brought so much care to others. Simon from Serene kept on asking me What could he have done to deserve this? Once again I had no answer for him.After they had nailed him to the cross, hands and feet, they lifted it up high. near people a ctually cheered. Can you believe it? They cheered The cross thumped into place and I see the agony on his face. Simon and I watched speechless. We were strangers to each other, I had cognize Jesus for ages and Simon had only Just met him but we were both dumb enamored with the horror of it all. Now I stand here watching you behind die Jesus, I remember you told us you would suffer and die. I didnt present it in then and I dont understand it now. I want to do something to help you anything and watch helpless. The last person to help you was a complete stranger. Jesus, I so want to help you, but I cant. 5.Jesus is mocked again Met 27. 38-44 Monologue The anonymous woman who anointed Jesus Im here and trying to think what to do for him. Something always occurs to me. Im never normally at a breathing out for what to do. Dont bother with my name youll only forget it everyone else does. Vive always got something to say for myself I have to Its the only way anyone would ever notice me. All those blokes who employ to hang round, lording it over us, because they were his elite, his disciples they were always noticed, we all know their names I Just dont notice them now theyve all run off into hiding. healthful theres the advantage of being unremarkable no one notices me here now.Me, in a crowd of fools but I am not part of it. They pour out their cruel words, their cheap insults, they let all their hate run over him but Ill have no part in that. I have no words and I can do nothing. Standing here looking at Jesus I am speechless just like the last time I saw him only a few days ago. I was in the erect of Simon the Leper and he was there too and now I think of it he looked sad then he looked like a man with a lot on his mind, like he was carrying a great freight I dont know what came over me- I really dont I Just knew what I had to do It felt like the most obvious thing, but I couldnt have explained why. I had this Jar of perfume, not any old perfume,