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“The Original Easter Story” Presents Final Days of Jesus the Messiah


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The Original Easter Story is an intense, inspirational account describing the last days on earth of Jesus the Messiah. When it came time for the Son of Man to be glorified, the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves. At this time, as people sought Jesus, observed his signs, and came to believe in him, leaders among the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees grew fearful of the crowd’s support for Jesus and took counsel on how they might put Jesus to death. This planning set in motion a series of events that included:

  • an arrangement with Judas Iscariot (one of Jesus’ twelve disciples) whereby, for thirty pieces of silver, he would betray Jesus by identifying him to authorities
  • a trial confounded by lack of clarity in charges and jurisdiction – with appearances of Jesus before High Priests Annas and Caiaphas, Roman Governor Pilate, and King Herod – but that ultimately led to Pilate’s acquiescence to the crowd shouting, “Crucify him. Let him be crucified.”
  • guilt of blasphemy and condemnation to death by crucifixion, followed by a sequence of mocking and humiliating treatment of Jesus on his way to an excruciating death on the cross.

Following his death and interment in a sealed tomb, Jesus the Messiah rose from the dead. On the morning of the third day, the tomb was found open, and the body of Jesus was gone. Thereafter, Jesus revealed himself to Mary Magdalene and later to his disciples and others, in a number of different settings.

At the last, Jesus gathered with the eleven disciples on a mountain in Galilee and revealed “that it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance and remission of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations.” He then commanded the disciples to “go into all the world and proclaim the good news.” Raising his hands, he blessed them and then withdrew, and Jesus the Messiah was carried up into heaven to sit “at the right hand of God.”

The Original Easter Story is an authorized selection from The Common Gospel (ISBN 978-0-9759290-4-9), which itself is a complete work that combines the four traditional Gospels and presents the Good News of Jesus in a single, unified book. In so doing, it brings clarity and focus to the history of Jesus the Messiah as it assembles the original gospel fragments to frame a naturally flowing lifeline for the Son of Man – from his humble and holy birth through to his crowning glorification. The panoramic view that results is extraordinary and casts Jesus the Messiah in new and revealing light. The Original Easter Story contains the last four parts of this larger, sixteen-part work.

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Paperback – ISBN 978-0-9908547-3-9 – 5.5″ wide x 8.5″ tall – 62 pages – List Price $8.95

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WRITINGS ON THE WALL

  • The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work and that writing didn’t require any. –Russell Baker, Growing Up
  • The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. –Paul Simon, The Sound of Silence
  • Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, and universal darkness buries all. –Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
  • Life's like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. –Jim Henson, The Muppet Movie
  • Honeyed words like bees, gilded and sticky, with a little sting. –Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Pretty Words
  • Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact. It is silence which isolates. –Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
  • And many a word, at random spoken, may soothe a wound or heart that’s broken. –Sir Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles
  • Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can’t write, can surely review. –James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics
  • “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” –Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long Words Bother me. –Alan Alexander Milne, Willie-the-Pooh
  • To call forth a concept, a word is needed; to portray a phenomenon, a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality. –Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Traité Elémentaire de Chimie
  • The writer doesn’t want success ... The writer wants to leave a scratch on the wall of oblivion that someone a hundred or a thousand years later will see. Kilroy was here. –William Faulkner, Faulkner in the University
  • In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. –The Common Gospel, “Eternal Word”
  • A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator. –John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words”
  • How long a time lies in one little word! Such is the breath of kings. –Shakespeare, King Richard II
  • All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. –Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
  • The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. –Ernest Hemingway, Paris Review
  • Sweet religion makes a rhapsody of words. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • Prête-moi ta plume pour écrire un mot. Lend me your pen to write a word. –Au Clair de la Lune
  • How many verses have I thrown into the fire because the one peculiar word, the wanted most, was irrecoverably lost. –Walter Savage Landor, Verses Why Burnt
  • Choice word and measured phrase… above the reach of ordinary men. –William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
  • Word is a shadow of deed. –Democritus
  • Good words are worth much … and cost little. –George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
  • Man’s word is God in man. –Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Idylls of the King,” The Coming of Arthur
  • My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts –never to heaven go. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some irradiating word. –Alexander Smith, “Dreamthorp,” On the Writing of Essays
  • Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. –Horace, Epistles
  • Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. –Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • So is a word better than a gift. –Apocrypha
  • In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. –Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous
  • Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your action. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. –Anonymous
  • Omit needless words. –William Strunk, Jr, The Elements of Style
  • Words are like leaves and, where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. –Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

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