Live For Ever (Jesus on) [Edited)

Handel’s “Zadok the priest” is a fairly well known music item and has more than one use; for example in football and a wedding. If you listen to where the choir comes in it may sound familiar?

https://youtu.be/3kucFS9Gafk?si=hUUlhB2ioDcwLhdQ

Have you heard the lyrics to that 1727 piece of English coronation music by Handel? I happened this week to hear the musical item and catch the words.

Buns, Cross, Hot on (edited 2)

On Hot Cross Buns

Buns, cross, hot on the heels of Christmas fruit pies.

January 2026 arrived local supermarket

Jesus: your servant

Jesus: your servant

 
Background: The disciples had been contesting their place in their (expected) “pecking order”. Jesus gives them (us) a rebuke and gave a weighty explanation of his role in the flesh.

Jesus: told his betrayal

They were told; 

there was an agenda, but, whose was it?

The first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels, clearly recount that Jesus told his friends, and others, what was to befall him at the "end". The first (but different) such encounter in the text comes in John. (Was that the chronological first - I wonder? For the John pericope, see previous post: “Jesus: Lifted Up”.)

Matthew, Mark and Luke have several clear reports, with increasingly detailed words from Jesus.

Jesus: the WHY

Why did Jesus come into our world, then?

Be Freed!

Free? or slave? These were crucial person categories in Jesus’ day.  Ordinary people seemed shocked then when Jesus said he could set them free. In John chapter 8 this offer of freedom is made clear.

Lamb of God

Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away (does away with, or removes) the "sin of the world".