“The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come.” JesusRegionsPaganJerusalemNordic Author:Alfred Rosenberg
“While Jesus was at Jerusalem there came a voice from heaven. For what purpose was the voice sent? For the sake of those who stood by. "Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes" (John xii, 30). Of what benefit was the voice when those who heard it were unable to distinguish it from thunder? "The people therefore, that stood by and heard it, said that it thundered" (29).” PeopleSaidPurposeJesusHeavenVoiceHeardAtheismBenefitsSakePositive AtheismThunderJerusalem Author:John Remsburg
“... and people are to march around the church to commemorate the event, Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted with applause and with palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but ... no ... he had come to change THEM ... and that led to things turning bad.” PeopleJesusChurchEventsSundayMarchPalmsApplauseJerusalemPalm Sunday Author:Garrison Keillor
“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.” RealityThreeJesusConsciousnessTreeRootsPhotographerInstancePoeticAugustJerusalemCredibleOlivesDizzyOlive Trees Author:Roland Barthes
“We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking. The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 67-70 seems to many people to fulfill much of what we have traditionally understood as hell.” PeopleShouldEndsSeemsUniverseJesusHellFirePossibilityJudgmentMessagesUnderstoodConsequenceDestructionStatementsKingdomsHistoricReconciliationAfter DeathJerusalemRejectingPeacemakingHell Fire Author:Brian D. McLaren
“That's why I'm glad Jesus died when he did. Because if he lived to be 40, he would have ended up like Elvis. He was famous already at that point. If he lived to be 40, he'd be walking around Jerusalem with a big fat beer gut and black side burns going, Damn, I'm the son of God. Give me a cheeseburger and french fries right now.” IfsGivingHumorBigsFunnyJesusSidesBlackSonWalkingRight NowGive MeDiedGladFatsBeerDamnGutsJerusalemFriesFrench FriesCheeseburger Author:Denis Leary
“No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.” DoeHas BeensFactsBodyChristianJesusCasesDoorsWallWorshipNewsEmptyGlassesGloriousPrintThank GodTombsJerusalemTabloidsNazareth Author:Peter Marshall
“Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.” CertainJesusOne ThingJerusalemCertain Death Author:John Piper
“The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into his temple, seems appropriate for the day when Jesus was in the Jerusalem temple, teaching and establishing his authority. As with the Triumphal Entry, his actions then seem but a foretaste of even greater fulfillment when he comes again in glory. Just as the early Latter-day Saints were reassured by the promised return of the Savior, so we too can look forward with faith to his return as King.” LooksSeemsActionLastsJesusGreaterFourTeachingReturnKingsAuthorityGlorySaintFulfillmentGloriousAppropriateLatterTemplesSaviorVersesEntryMessiahJerusalemHymnsLatter DaysLatter Day Saints Author:Eric D. Huntsman