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THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN
April 5, 19S4
The King Nobody Wanted
liV (;. LANGHOKST
It was Thursday. On Friday aft
ernoon the lambs would be killed
for the Passover, and on Friday
all ROod Jews would sit (lown to
eat t'he lambs at the Passover
feast. The disciples of Jesus were
wondering where He was planning
to celebrate the feast with them.
But Jesus did not wait until Fri
day to have a meal with all his dis
ciples. On Thursday he sent two
of them into Jerusalem from Beth
any. He told them the name of the
man to whom they were to jjo.
Jesus said: “Go to this man, and
tell him I said the time has come”.
That evening Jesus and the
twelve disciples met together at
the house in Jerusalem. On the
second floor there was a room,
where food was spread upon the
table. As they were eating supper,
Jesus suddenly spoke. “One of you
is a traitor!” Everyone stoi)i)ed
eating. And each one of the twelve
disciples thought of his own sins.
And then each one cried out: “Mas
ter, is it I?”
Jesus only answered: “It is one
of you twelve men, eating with me
now. It would have been better for
that traitor if he had never been
born!” A moment later Judas Is
cariot slipped quietly out of the
door. The others did not know
where he had gone. Then Jesus per
formed the ceremony of the last
supper. When they had finished
they went out walking uj) to Mount
of Olives, and Jesus told Peter:
'“.'ou will not know of me.” Later
Jesus was arrested and his disci
ples fled away in fright and terror,
as it was written in the scriptures.
Later they took Jesus before all
of the high priests and rulers and
questioned him. The High priest
spoke: “You hear all the things
that are being said about you.
Aren’t you going to defend your
self?” Jesus did not answer the
ouestion. Then the pi'iest spoke
again: “In the name of the living
God I ask you: Are you the Christ
—the Messiah—the Son of (iod?”
Jesus answered: “You have said
it.”
Latei’ a woman sjiotted Peter
sitting in the crowd and said:
“Aren’t you one of his disciples?”
Peter’s faith was all gone as he
answered: “1 certainly am not!”
And others said this to Petei'
and then he remembered what
Jesus had told him: “Before the
cock crows three times you will
have denied me.” When Peter saw
what he done he left the palace and
wept bitterly.
The great council of the Jew.s
might say that this man deserved
to die, but they could not put any
one to death. Only the Roman gov
ernor, Pontius Pilate. At daylight
the council took Jesus to Pilate's
palace.
When Judas Iscariot saw what
was happening, he suddenly real
ized what he had done. He came to
the chief priests, and brought them
back the thirty pieces of silver they
had given him for turning traitor.
Later Judas took a rope and found
a tree and hanged himself, for,
after betraying Jesus he could not
bear to live.
While before Pilate, Jesus was
questioned by him. Pilate said to
■jesus, “Well, are you the king of
ihe Jews?” Jesus answered simply,
'• I ou have said it.” Pilate was as-
lOiiit-hed when Jesus did not defend
himself and he was wondering of
II way to free Jesus. Then he said:
"Every year at this time I set a
piisonei- free. Now you can have
,>oar choice. You know we have a
man named Bai'abbas in jail—he’s
the fellow that started a rebellion
a little wnile ago. We were going
to crucify him. And now here is
Jesus. Which one shall I let go?”
A great shout went up. “Barab-
l,as: And then Pilate asked them
what to do with Christ and they
shouted: “Crucify Him! Hang him
on a cross till dead!”
'Ihe Roman soldiers took Jesus
and dressed him in a purple robe.
They made a wreath, like the one
the Roman emperor wore out of
thorns, which stuck into Jesus’s
head so that the blood ran down
his face. Then the soldiers stripped
the purple clothes off Jesus, and
put his own clothes back on him,
and led him outside the city to be
ci ucified. He was too weak to car
ry his own cross, as those w'ho were
to be crucified usually did, so the
soldiers forced a man of Cyreiie
named Simon to carry it for him.
W'hen they reached Calvary, they
laid the cross on the ground and
stripped Jesus of his clothes. They
])ut Jesus on the cross, and stretch
ed out his arms. They drove a nail
through each hand, and one
through his feet, fastening him to
the cross. Then they stood the cross
uiii'ight. and let Jesus hang there.
On the top of it was w'ritten: “This
is the King of the Jews.”
Then Jesus said: “Father, for
give them; for they know not what
they do.”
Soldieis took his clothes and di
vided them up among themselves.
His coat was too good to tear up
so they threw dice to see which
one would get it.
The crowd came and walked to
and fro in front of the cross and
mocked Jesus, and one of the
thieves said: “If you are the Christ,
.-.ave yourself and us too!”
The other thief turned to Jesus
and said: “Lord, remember me
when you come to your Kingdom.”
Then Jesus said to him, “I tell you,
today you will be with me in
hi'aven.”
Hours passed and then Jesus
cried out, “My God, My God, why
hast thou forsaken me?” Then
Jesus said: “I am Thirsty.” A sol-
c’ier dipped a sponge in vinegar and
held it up to Jesus Ups so that he
could drink. Jesus cried out once
more: "It is finished. Father, into
thy hands I give my spirit.” There
was a loud sound like a clap of
thunder, and the earth shook. In
the silence that followed, a Roman
soldier spoke. “This man—this man
was indeed the Son of God.”
On the Sabbath day, three v/om-
en came to the garden where Jesus
wis buried. They came, as the cus
tom was, to put ointments and
,pices on the body of Jesus. On
the way thev remembered that a
great stone had been rolled against
the door of the tomb. They w'onder-
ed how they would get in. But when
they reached the tomb, they found
that the stone had bsen rolled
back. Some one had been there be
fore them: the door was open.
The women went through the
door of the tomb. A man in white
clothes was sitting on one side.
Seeing their amazement, the man
spoke: “Do not be surprised. You
are looking for Jesus of Nazareth,
who was crucified. He is not here.
He is I'isen from the dead. Look!
Theie is the place where he was!”
They looked, and they saw that
his body was no longer there. The
young man told them, “Go quickly,
and tell this to his disciples: ‘Jesus
is alive’.”
Who Said This
This isn’t the famous television
program in which the panel at
tempts to answer the question
“Who Said That?” This is just a
check-up to see how you rate on
the following quotations, which,
no doubt, you have heard and re
peated dozens of times but never
knew W'ho said them. They’re all
by a very famous author.
“I am become a name.”
“I am a part of all that I have
met.”
“Come, my friends, 'Tis not too
late to seek a newer world.”
“To strive, to seek, to find, and
not to yield.”
“In the spring a young man’s
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
love.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom
lingers.”
“'Tis better to have loved and lost.
Than never to have loved at all.”
“Arise, and get thee forth and seek
A friendship for the years to come.”
“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild
sky.
The flying cloud, the frostly light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bels, and let him
die.”
“Sunset and evening star.
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of
the bar.
When I put out to sea.”
How did you rate ? Of course you
knew that Alfred Tennyson w'as
the composer of all.
Men Are What
Yes . . . .Men are what women
marry. They have two hands,
two feet, and sometimes two
wives, but never more than one
dollar or one idea at a time Like
cigarettes, they are made of the
same material but some are bet
ter than others. Generally speak
ing, they may be classed into
three different divisions: hus
bands, bachelors, and widowers.
An eligible bachelor is a mass
of obstinacy entirely surround
ed by fuspicion. Husbands are
of three varieties: prizes, sur
prises, and consolation prizes.
Making a husband out of a man
is one of the highest plastic arts
known to civilization. It requires
."^cience, common sense, faith,
hope, and charity—mostly char
ity.
If you flatter a man. you
frighten him to death. If you
don't, you bore him to death. If
you permit him to make love to
you, he gets tired of you in the
end. If you don’t, he gets tired
of you in the beginning. If you
agree with him in everything,
you soon cease to interest him.
If you argue with him, you soon
cease to charm him. If you be
lieve every thing he tells you,
he thinks that you are a fool. If
you don’t, he thinks that you
are a cynic.
If you wear bright colors,
rouge, and a startling hat, he
hesitates to take you out. If you
wear a little brown toque and a
tailored suit, he takes you out
and stares all evening at a wom
an who does wear bright colors,
rouge, and a startling hat. If
you join him in his parties and
epprove of his behavior he
swears you are driving him to
the devil. If you don’t approve
and urge him to give up his bad
habits, he thinks you are prig
gish.
If you are the “clinging vine”
type, he doubts if you have a
brain and if you are the modern,
independent, advanced type, he
doubts that you have a heart. If
you are silly, he longs for a
bright mate, but if you are tin
intellectual, he longs for a play
mate. If you are popular, he is
jealous, if not. he hesitates about
marrying a walflower.
BLESS THE WOMEN
U’hat they have to put up with ..
“That’s a funny-looking cow,”
remarked a sweet young thing from
the city. “Why doesn’t it have any
horns ?”
“It might be for any one of a
number of reasons,” remarked the
farmer. “Some cows don^t have
horns until later in life; some
breeds don’t have horns at all. Oth
ers are dehorned. The reason this
cow doesn’t have horns is because
it’s a horse.”