Invokes the whole of psalm 22

he could have cried one of the last words here. But I think he's just yelling

definitely unironic in matthew

Gall is a painkiller, vinegar/wine also

the 3-repetition is important

he doesn't believe, but 3 times he tries to save Christ.

crucially this is not theological repentance. Repentance: putting your life in the hands of God, turning towards Jesus Christ, surrendering. Different from remorse.

The tragedy of Judas: he punishes himself eternally.

in light of Peter's betrayal of Jesus, Judas is also very sad. They both betray him. Even if Judas is more active. Peter still trusts Jesus' love after, whereas Judas does not.

apparently Friend only in Matthews

4 months of wages, $25k.

EAs getting first calss tickets and working in constellation.

Also used to justify the wealth of Roman church

Markus: hard work is important. You have to work otherwise you'll go to hell. Also prepare for the day of judgements.

this is prophesy of the temple's destruction, and then you'll have to run away. If about temple's destruction, it's already passed.

But maybe this is about the endtimes

Temple destruction: 70 AD matthew: 80-90 ad

only priests can go in usually. after destruction

Classic biblical justification for separation of church and state. But jesus is just avoiding being roasted by the Pharisees, so that might not be literal. so rather maybe it's "you can give this to Caesar but it's effectively worthless." Not obvious he believes church would be nonpolitical.

That's certainly a way to preemptively counter the Christian meme.

wow. That's why Sunday is the first day of the week in English-speaking countries. But for some reason in Spain it's the last day?

Apparently in Europe in the 19th-20th century, with the push towards a two day "week-end", it got standardized that Sabbath and Sunday are at the end of the week.

Apparently here it just means believers. As opposed to Catholic saints are formally canonized people in Heaven.

Friday

and ofc also Jesus

Palpatine-ass line.

I'm mildly disturbed that I know bible references in Star Wars because I memorized many Star Wars lines, as opposed to because I read the bible.

Is Pilate therefore actually innocent? Or does he just want to be?

How crazy is it that Jesus and [Augustus] Caesar were roughly contemporaries? According to Claude, not really crazy. First, Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. Jesus is born ~4 BC and crucified 30-33 AD. The Roman emperors who overlapped with are: Augustus Caesar (27 BC-14 AD) and Tiberius.

The fall of the Republic is based on Roman sources. Then, the Romans conquered Judaea at around Christ's time, so it is only then that it was possible for someone to be the Messiah (~military leader who would liberate Jews) and later for the religion to spread through Roman roads and trade.

Also for some reason many figures are documented very well in that 1st century AD era, so it looms very high resolution. It seems Roman literacy peaked in this period (due to prosperity, probably), and also medieval monks selectively preserved this period because it touched the life of Christ.

Janna explains: because the Jews treated Christ badly, God took away the Kingdom from them and gave it to the gentiles (another nation, which hopefully then produces fruit). Therefore Christianity can hold that Judaism was the true religion up until the arrival of Christ, and thereafter Christianity was the true religion.

The master of the household is the Lord, the servants are prophets, and his Son is Christ. Obviously the Jewish priestly and scholarly class treated them badly, because they didn't believe their slopulism.

according to Bishal it's not a pretense, it's rather that the circumstances that came up for Macbeth won't come up

Or rather, it's making the point that virtue only comes up from circumstance.

Judy Dench delivers this line in a sad way. She's saying that the ambition of Macbeth becoming king is so strong, that if she had it she would be forced by it to murder her babe.

banger line