Leave my child, you bloodthirsty murderer!
Lust is fulfilled.
That which was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah.
In Ramah, was there a voice heard, lamentation, weeping and great mourning.
Rachel, weeping for her children,
but would not be comforted, because they were no more.
King Herod is dead.
Taken in the midst ofhis sins.
Struck down by the Lord to whom the power and pride ofkings are as nothing.
You cannot defy God,
the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Yet the yoke oftyranny will not be lifted from us.
Rome will choose a king from among his sons, and her grip will become stronger,
but you should lift up your hearts, forthe Eternal will not abandon us.
He will send us a deliverer,
and His dominion is the everlasting dominion that shall not pass away.
And his kingdom, that which shall not be destroyed.
Come.
There, look! Do you see? Nazareth! That's where we live.
Here, O Israel.
The eternal, our God, the Eternal is one.
Blessed be the name ofthe glory of the kingdom forever and forever.
And thou should the eternal, thy God, with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might
and these words which I command thee shall be in thine heart.
Amen.
A man who's skillful in his work, will stand before kings.
And ourwork like every other, has a second meaning in God's eyes.
We use this to make a straight line on the wood before we cut it,
and as we use the rulerto make straight lines,
God gave us rules to keep our lives straight.
God gives the wood.
And man with his skill and invention, that God gave him,
is always finding new uses.
Sometimes wonderful uses for it,
a wheel, a plow, a ladder.
They all look simple, but they are from God.
And a ladder can sometimes reach from earth to heaven.
Joseph! Joseph! Didn't you say the plow would be ready?
Coming!
Keep on with yourwork.
What is this?
Well, look at it.
What have you done?
This is not how I asked you to make it!
Oh, no! No! It is not worth labor at all!
It was supposed to be ready days ago, and now it is not ready.
No, son!
Bless God who has given us the Torah.
The Lord god will go before you.
Be strong and of good courage.
Fear not, do not be afraid, forthe Lord, Thy god, will go with you.
He will not fail you orforsake you.
Amen!
Now you are truly a man.
Jesus by Joseph. As a new adult member of our community,
you have exercised your right to read and comment upon the scriptures
that is your heritage. It is the heritage ofthe children oflsrael
but rememberthat God's word is spoken in times oflight and in times of darkness and persecution.
May you always read from the law in a time ofjoy.
Amen.
May God protect you.
May God bring blessings on the boy.
Romans! Here!
Romans? Hey, hey!
Brothers, brothers, quiet! Shh... The Roman forces are here.
Jewish bread. Betterthan nothing.
- Who ordered this? - Quarter master. An army must eat,
and it's a long way from Dumasta to Jerusalem.
But Galilee isn't Roman territory!
Hah! The whole world is Roman territory!
Hey, put your sword back. Ignore them. You'll meet with plenty ofthose in Jerusalem.
They're called zealots. They're mad religious fanatics.
You there!
Rememberthis! The Roman army is not a pack ofbandits.
And we'll be through with the likes of you in our own good time. Come!
May the curse of God fall upon these murderers!
How long must we wait? How long?
Are you to help us?
God has abandoned us.
How long?
Look, Jerusalem.
This is a lamb with no mark, without blemish.
...are not enough to please our Father, our eternal God. A prayer ofthe heart is more important.
Do you rememberwhat King Solomon said after he built the temple?
Standing in front ofthe temple ofthe Lord,
he spread out his hands and said, "Can God indeed dwell with His creatures on earth?
Heaven itself, the highest heaven, cannot contain thee,
how much less this house that I have built?
Yet attend to the prayer and supplication ofthy servant, O Lord,
that thine eyes can always be always upon this house, day and night.
This place of which thy bid to say, 'It shall receive my name."'
Son!
We've been looking for you everywhere.
Why were you looking for me everywhere?
Did you not know you would have found me in my father's house?
O Lord, I grow old.
What have thy promised to the prophets. Where are they?
"Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and tell herthat hertime ofbondage has ended.
That her penalty is paid. Salvation is at hand.
To be shouted from the mountaintops...
The teaching is clear behold thy send my messenger and He will clearthe way before me.
Messenger before me...
messenger. And the Lord will suddenly come to His temple,
and the messenger ofthe covenant, behold, is here."
The people of Galilee thought they had seen the depths ofinequity
when their land was ruled by Herod, the mayor ofblood.
But now his son and the Herod Antipas, the new prince of Galilee strives to outdo his fathers' crimes
for he follows his last's and breaks faith with God.
He dares to defy the law ofMoses by entering into unholy marriage with the wife ofhis brother.
Can we permit this? All of us will sufferfor his sins!
...Messengerfor King!
Your majesty, he's here, the Baptist.
He's here?
Well?
Well, well what?
What?
Well, uh... leave him alone.
We'll march again! Continue!
Oh, what harm can he do?
He's been out there for years in the desert living on locusts and, and, and prayers.
He doesn't incite the people to rebellion! He asks nothing for himself.
All he wants is to remain poor and naked.
And he would do very much like everyone else doesn't the same.
Oh no, when the wedding festivities is over, I'll have him preach at the palace.
You can hear him with your own ears. He's a very remarkable.
I'm glad there is somebody remarkable in Judea.
Herod!
Herod! The tablets ofthe law speak plainly!
You may marry the wife of your brother when your brother is dead, but not while he lives!
This woman, Herodias, is the wife of your brother Phillip, and Phillip lives...
It is written, "I have seen thine adulteries and thine abominations, woe unto them!"
Will thou not be made clean?
Send this woman back to your brother! Repent!
How can you allow this longerto continue?
No, we decided to be clement on ourwedding day.
I'm not afraid of your power on earth, Herod Antipas!
Lfl do not warn you, you will die in sin.
And the Lord will ask me to account for your life!
Quickly! Into the palace!
Repent! Repent!
- The Lord blesses you! - Forthe kingdom ofheaven is at hand!
Brothers, we can make use ofthis man!
His attacks on Herod Antipas excites people makes them think oflsrael.
Don't be too sure about it. Prophets only make men think of our God in Heaven.
So do we, and if we want to direct people's thoughts, we must use what means we can.
Yes, but we zealots want to see the power of God on earth fighting the Romans.
Does John want that?
The time has come! The great and terrible day ofthe Lord is at hand!
Repent! And change your lives!
Every valley shall be exalted! Every mountain in here laid low.
The winding way shall be straightened! And the rough way made smooth.
God let you back from Babylon to serve Him but you betrayed Him!
Now you are warned! Please! Please!
"I am the Lord unchanging," says the Eternal, "and you too shall not cease to be sons of cheaters.
From the days of yourforefathers you have been wayward, and have not kept my laws.
If you will return to me, I will return to you!" says the Lord.
Do not think you will be save by your rituals, by going to the temple
it is not sacrifices the Lord demands!
Bring no more vain offerings at the Lord. "I delight not in the blood oflambs".
The sacrifice that God demands is a repented heart!
- What can we do, then, to be saved? - Change your hearts!
Take the right way!
The Lord said that my ways are not yourways.
Why speak as though none of us know the way to salvation.
We know the law as well as you, and we try to obey it!
We are the sons of Abraham. We have always kept the law.
To those of you that seen themselves just and pious,
I say that you must bring the fruits of repentance!
Do not content yourself with saying, "Abraham was a father, and that is enough to save us."
The Lord could take anyone ofthese stones and turn it into a son of Abraham.
Pharisees, we know you! Go back to Jerusalem!
Yeah, go back to Jerusalem! It's right.
...You are the prophet! Save us John! Save us!
I baptize you with water that you may be purified and ready for the coming ofthe kingdom.
Open up your hearts to God!
Receive this cleansing light!
Save me, save me, John! I have sinned! Have mercy on me, John. I am a sinner!
Let his waterwash away your sins.
Disgrace! Go back! Go back!
John, you'll pay for it! You'll pay for it!
Oh! One day they'll almost stoned me to death! Is that what you want?
You're tired of me, aren't you?!
- No! - Yes yes, admit it, you are tired of me!
I can tell by the way, by the way you mooned over my daughter, Salome!
- Nonsense! - You like her!
She's a child! Baker! Liar!
- No! - Coward!
- I am not a coward! - What are you then?
That prophet I demand that you arrest him.
Demand?
Demand? That's a strong word, my heart.
You must remember.
John is right.
By the laws ofMoses, we have sinned.
Come on, come on!
We have sinned,
and we go on sinning, and very pleasant it is, too.
Even ifl wanted to, I could do nothing about his reproaches until he once more sets foot in Galilee.
And then, my own, my heart, we'll throw him into prison.
Repent! Repent! Repent!
A little repenting won't do him any harm.
After all, he preaches it.
Rabbi!
We have been sent by the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem, amongst whom you have many friends and admirers.
They understood why you could not come to the temple.
It would've been wrong for you to abandon your mission, even for a single day.
The reason forthe invitation was to ask you one simple question.
Who are you?
First, I will say who I am not.
I am not the messiah.
The messiah is yet to come.
Then, in the name ofthe living god, who are you?
I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness make great the way ofthe Lord.
If you are not the messiah orthe prophet Elijah,
by whose authority are you backed up?
By the authority ofhim who shall come after me.
Whose shoes I am not worthy to unloosen!
I baptize you with water
but he will baptize you with the holy spirit! And with fire,
his rod is in his hand and with it he will cleanse the freshing floor.
Though the dust will returneth to the earth as it must,
the spirit returneth unto God, David.
Mary, you'll be left alone.
They will run the shop.
Jesus, we have always known. It was not for us that Jesus came to earth.
If only I could've stayed a little longer.
God's will be done.
Peace, Joseph.
To thine end, I command my spirit.
Out of my distress, I cried to the Lord and He answered me.
I cried and He heard my voice.
I went down into the cities underneath the earth,
to the people ofthe past,
but He lifted my life from the grave.
Here, O Israel, the Lord thy God, the Lord is one.
Here, O Israel, the Lord, our God, the Lord is one.
You are born into a new light through your repentance!
And the Lord forwards his blessings on you!
The Lord rejoices in your kind.
Go in peace.
He will forgive you, if you truly mean it in your heart.
Open up your eyes, be ready forthe coming ofthe kingdom.
Let your heart now be cleansed.
Forgive me, I have sinned. Help me to be strong.
Be strong.
It is I who need baptism from you.
And yet you come to me
Let it be so.
We must fulfill all righteousness.
Lord, Eternal Father, I hear your voice.
"This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased."
You are born into a new life, true to your repentance.
And the Lord pours His blessings on you.
The Lord rejoices in repented hearts.
This water cleanses you.
Andrew. Phillip.
Behold, the lamb of God, who takes unto Himselfthe sins ofthe world.
It is Him you must follow now, not me.
He must increase as I must decrease.
He has come to take us, come with us please!
My time is over.
Please please! Mary! Mary! Mary! Mary!
Hurry! Hurry! Mary! Mary! Mary!
Your son is back! He's at the synagogue.
He went straight to the synagogue! I saw him!
And now our reading from the prophets.
The prophet Isaiah. Now, who is, who is our reader?
It is my turn today, Rabbi.
Isn't that Joseph's son?
- Yes, Joseph the carpenter. - The carpenter, God rest his soul.
The spirit ofthe Lord is upon me,
because He has anointed me to give good tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to heal the broken hearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives, to give sight to the blind.
To set at liberty them that are bruised.
To proclaim the acceptable year ofthe Lord.
Amen.
Today, in your hearing, the scriptures are fulfilled.
The scriptures are fulfilled?
- Did he say fulfilled? - How can he dare to say such a thing?
What do you mean?
The prophecy you have read can only be fulfilled by the coming ofthe messiah.
Yes, he's right, by the coming ofthe kingdom of God.
The kingdom of God comes not in a way foreseen by men.
Repent and believe the good news.
The kingdom ofheaven, behold, is suddenly upon you.
What?
John the Baptist! Rabbi, take the scriptures away from him! He is a blasphemer!
He shouldn't touch them with his unclean hands!
I've heard things about you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
A prophet is never accepted in his own country!
Who do you think you are? John the Prophet?
You should be thrown out ofthis holy place!
Blessed is he who is not ashamed of me!
Take this man out ofhere! Don't let him touch the holy scriptures!
Today, in our hearing, the scriptures are fulfilled.
What? What's happened inside the synagogue?
Come see!
Rabbi! You must stop them! You cannot let this happen!
Rabbi! They do not understand who this man is! Andrew!
Go away, go away! Never come back to Israel!
Don't let him go! Blasphemer!
...Stone him to death!
Blasphemer!
That's what he deserves! That's what he deserves...
Don't let him go!
Master! Master!
Master!
We were told to make ourselves known to you.
I am Andrew of Capernaum, a fisherman by trade.
I am yourfollower now, if you'll take me.
This is Phillip.
We were sent by John the prophet, the Baptist.
He has just been imprisoned by King Herod Antipas.
Andrew.
Phillip.
Come with me.
Come on!
- Tell me, when was John arrested? - As soon as he set foot in Galilee
He had to return. Too many people were waiting for him...
There it is. The sea of Galilee and Capernaum, where I was born.
It's a town of fishermen, but it also has the greatest synagogue in Israel.
You can stay at my brother's house.
He's a good man, Simon Peter.
The commandments God gave to Moses so long ago must not remain dead stone forthe reverence of unthinking minds.
Dead stone? The tablets ofthe law? Dead stone?
- What do you mean? - Stone is what the law is written on,
but the law itselfis alive!
And living things now are constantly changing
But the law is eternal you cannot change law of Moses. No! That's right, the law is here.
The man is made of flesh and blood, and he changes.
Doesn't he remain the same man?
God wants to write the law on your hearts.
Rabbi, you said you have come here to give us the good news.
Is this it? The good news? That the law is living like a man?
The good news I bring you is this, Your captivity is over.
What does that mean, our captivity is over? What captivity?
Captivity in sin!
God fulfills the promise He made to our people Israel,
and reconciles Himselfto man.
God is coming to you.
To all of you, even the most wretched.
Do not shut the door in His face
Rabbi! The demon has always tried to burn him into fire, and to what he has triumphed!
If you do anything, have mercy, help my poor son!
Satan!
Leave him!
Son! Son!
Praise be the Lord!
Yes, we're all fishermen in ourfamily. Andrew here knows us well,
but I was sent offto learn.
That's all that you were fit for, perhaps.
And what have you learned?
That two and two make four, sometimes.
But most people seem to be here to be pushed about, that getting on is a fine thing,
that birth is the beginning to death.
But there must be something more for man between birth and death.
Today, when I heard you preaching, I began to understand, and it gave me hope.
Through yourwords, the old scriptures seemed to be coming alive.
That's all we want, we want the Lord to be alive,
written in our hearts, not carved in stone.
What is your name?
John, son of Zebedi.
John.
Stay with us.
Back, back! This way, you idiots!
That's my brother now, Simon Peter.
And there's my brother, James.
He's shouting again, angry as usual.
If anyone's drunk, it's you!
He doesn't mean it. He's a good man.
What's the matter, brother? Poor catch?
Poor catch?! Nothing! The only things we catch these days are Roman taxes!
And while we're out sweating, working our hands raw with the nets,
the stinking tax gatherers take half and give it to the Romans!
Bloodsuckers! The lake.
Hello brother, go and tell that leach, that two faced tax collector of ours, Matthew,
that ifhe wants more money out of me, to put more fish in
Simon, this is the man I told you about.
The man John spoke of. John the Baptist.
What? Another holy man?
Are you another ofthose that tells us to be patient
and promise us bettertimes will be ahead?
What about now? What about our children?
Who will fill their bellies?
A lot oftalk these days while we all starve!
Find a holy man who can put an end to that. Then maybe I'll listen.
Go out again.
I shall come with you.
We've just pulled in! Get that net offthe boat!
Please Simon, do as he says!
Why do you always listen to these people who knows the lake betterthan I?
Please!
What are you staring at?
Come. You can preach to the fish.
Cast off! We're going out again.
We've been out all day and we caught nothing! We go out again and we catch all this fish!
It's a miracle!
It's not a miracle! Only God can work miracles.
They speak these profanities, they believe it!
We must go and speak!
...my house will not hold anymore people! Please! Please! Please!
Help me out! I can't get up!
It was amazing! I've been fishing forfour years, I've never seen a catch so big...
More...
So, there were miracles were they?
And a big catch inspired by a prophet, what's his name, Jesus? Get out!
He's staying with Simon Peter, you know him? The fisherman?
Yes, he owes me back taxes, doesn't he?
Move!
Well, well, well...
Well, ifthere's been a big catch, he can pay, can't he?
The kingdom ofheaven is like a treasure hidden in a field.
A man finds it, and in his joy spends everything he has to buy that field.
It's like a merchant in search of fine pearls.
He finds one pearl of great value, and sells everything to have that pearl.
You, you're all fisherman.
Well, the kingdom ofheaven is like a net. A great net thrown into the sea.
Suddenly it is filled, it's almost bursting!
You have to call to the other boats to come and help! Everyone is working together, happy, excited!
It's a time for joy, for rejoicing in what God has freely given.
But one day, God will ask you to account forthe gift he has given.
Be prepared.
The kingdom is at hand.
Rabbi. You say that the kingdom ofheaven is at hand,
but when exactly will it come?
When you see the clouds moving from the East,
you say the rain is coming, and so it is.
When the desert wind blows, you say it will be hot, and it is.
All of you can read the signs of the earth and the sky.
How is it you can't read the signs ofthe times?
The kingdom of heaven is here, now.