The dead law
It is clear that the interests and strategies of the leaders and representatives of the Hebraic religion, the biblical scholars, the religious, leaders and the scrupulous observers the Holy Law are radically and totally incompatible with the interests and strategies of Jesus, God’s Son. Jesus enters in the synagogue to teach, to set His people free from ignorance and submission, to heal a sick man. The law’s representatives and the religious leaders entered the synagogue to look at Jesus with their evil and inquisitorial stare, to find fault in Him according to the law, and to accuse Him. Jesus is perfectly aware of what His enemies are thinking, while the religious men, having based their wisdom on rationality and their own rumination, understand nothing about Jesus and what is happening before their eyes. Jesus asked the man with the withered hand to stand before the assembly so that he could receive the healing and freeing power of His Word and so that God’s glory could be shown to everyone. The religious men wanted Jesus to stand before the assembly to dishonor His person, to disparage His works, to discredit his Word, therefore to celebrate not God’s glory but the process of His condemnation. Jesus asked the religious men to elevate their judgement’s capacity, to place their intelligence under the light of a more evolved point of view. I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it? Jesus tried to explain to the people and to the religious leaders that it is not the day that makes something good or bad, but the good or bad things then people do that make the day good or bad. Days do not determine man, it is man that determines days. Laws, conventions, customs, habits and beliefs cannot define what is right and what is wrong. Man’s choices and actions are self defined: they can be evil if they cause death, good if they walk towards life. The religious men responded to Jesus in accordance with their typical, consolidated habit, not with a renewed capacity to discern, but with a crystallized violent prejudice: But they became enraged and discussed together what they might do to Jesus. Jesus introduces a new understanding and the religious men answer with anger. Jesus inspires a new vision of life to help humanity evolve towards true wellbeing and happiness; the religious leaders respond by discussing together, not to understand or to comprehend, but to decide how to eliminate Jesus. Religious and powerful men can easily be recognized and their actions are perfectly predictable, because they always and constantly discuss the form and never, never the substance of reality. The powerful ones will never discuss the real substance of things, but always only the form, because they cannot allow their own interests and plans to be discussed. Jesus insists, every time He can, on the fact that it is necessary to change the substance of our thoughts, of our choices and actions, and not the form, if we want to be able to grow in awareness in order to live a better, healthier and happier life. Jesus invites us to think about the fact that in the world there is so much violence and evil, thirst of dominion and possession, vanity, avidity, rage, slavery, pain, suffering. This can only mean that there is a deep abyss between what man thinks he wants and his deepest desires. If the earth, water, air, and animals suffer so much because of man’s avidity, if there are unimaginable cruelty and wars everywhere, if hunger and thirst are still the only daily bread for millions of men and women, it means that even if our words are all in favor of justice, legality, rights, equality and peace, this is only the external form of a completely different even opposite substance. It means that there is an abyss between the form of the words expressing what we want and our deepest, truest desires and interests. Jesus inspires persons who really want to change and to be happy, not to discuss form, laws, formality, principles, appearances, protocols, but the real content of their true interests. Jesus asks each and every one of us to seriously verify what our real and deep wishes and interests are, because either the true progress or the total destruction of this generation depend on those interests and wishes.