The "Pensive Pastor" Posts

The third day (the women)

Posted on 22 Apr 2025 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor

Shabbat had ended at sunset the previous evening and immediately three of the women had dashed to the market and bought the myrrh and other embalming spices they needed. Praise to Adonai, the wealthy Tzaddick Yussef of Ramatayim had paid...  Read more...

At the cross, at the cross

Posted on 21 Apr 2025 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor

In the temple, flies gathered round body parts of the first sacrificial lambs of the day and worshippers filled all the courts of the Jewish sanctuary  as light turned to unexpected dark [1]. The timetable for the sacrifices that remembered...  Read more...

The third day (the soldiers)

Posted on 22 Apr 2025 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor

For two days (in the Roman reckoning) the eight soldiers that made up a contubernium had sat and complained, as soldiers do, at the pointlessness of their task. As Roman soldiers, however, they had not questioned for one second the...  Read more...