Maybe it was a compassionate plea for his beloved mankind to stop trying to eat fruit from a tree out of season (or pray in a temple with money changers)
One of the interesting things, I find, about anger, is that we can express it while in a state of confusion, not knowing its cause or even target. Anger can also be received in a state of confusion, taken personally or blown out of proportion. Some people, for reasons of their own, can't stand to be in the presence of any display of anger. Might be that Jesus the man was telling us that sometimes, an angry response is the only response that will create change. There is certainly passion to it. On May 16, 12:56 pm, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 Mai, 16:25, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It is interesting to me that when most people think of the anger of > > Jesus in the biblical stories, this is the one they come up with. Are > > there others? > > There is, Molly, and it's a good one too. In Mark's account, just > before the the expulsion of the moneychangers from the temple (Mk > 11:12-14, 20-25) (Matthew places the incident after the temple event), > Jesus curses a fig tree, because it has no fruit, causing the tree to > wither. Mark emphasises that it was not the season for fruit on the > tree. > > Textual analysis people are pretty certain that this is a very old > story, with high factual likelihood. What argues for it is that it > doesn't fit well with the general picture of Jesus as presented by the > evangelists. Luke, who certainly knew Mark's gospel (at least in an > early form,) leaves it out altogether, Mark and Matthew both do a > fairly stretched link to a meaning illustrating the power of faith in > order to get it to fit in. The argument for authenticity goes that - > in the normal course of writing, the authors of Matthew and Mark might > have felt tempted to leave it out, but the tradition was too strong > and (possibly) had authentic testimony backing it. > > I like the story because it's a hint - just a hint, mind you - at the > original man Jesus, behind all the stories. Tired, and hungry, and > frustrated. And now this f***ing fig tree doesn't have any fruit! So > he gets royally pissed of and curses it. Like you or I would kick a > car when it broke down. Had a bad day. Just another manic Monday. > Personally, I think the links to the power of faith explanations spoil > the story. I like the idea of a (divine) fit of pique/bad temper much > better :-) > > Francis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
