Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617-1682)
Ecce Home, c.1660-70
Museo del Prado
“Behold the man” (in Latin, Ecce homo) – the words Pontius Pilate used to present Jesus of Nazareth to a hostile crowd ahead of his crucifixion (John 19:5).
Matthew 26:24 (NIV) -
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
Today is the day of premiere of The Chosen season 4. I am so excited! I'm going to the cinema to see first two episodes. I discovered The Chosen (TV series) through Tumblr. I want to thank the person who posted the scene of the paralyzed man being lowered from the roof to Jesus.
This series is amazing! I was watching previous seasons with all my family. I recommend The Chosen whether you are religious or not. This series is about our lives and problems, how religion affects non-believers and what believers think(when they have a problem, for example). [My mother cried with Eden when she lost her child. My mother also lost my sibling. She felt like Eden.]
Beside that Jesus, our Lord became human. And that's beautiful. This series shows that Jesus is God and also Man.
When Big James and John told Jesus to use fire from Heaven He first was shocked by that request and then He told them the point of His mission here. That were a God's words.
After this explanation Jesus "switch on" His human side.
(I think that) He was like fire? No locust? Darkness? Only fire from Heaven? And then He just chuckles. He was is truly a Man.
He even played with Lazarus friends (IDK who they were).
Here's my interpretation of the Son of Man referance in Cat :3
The Son of Man by René Magritte is a painting made to be a self portrait. The meaning behind it can be derived from a direct qoute from the artist: "At least it hides the face partly well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present."
I've highlighted the words that are important for this analysis for easy reading. Firstly, Magritte says that the apple only hides the face partly well. While this isn't true in Kazui's case, a meaning can still be derived from this. Kazui wants Milgram to discover what his sin is and although he is still hiding what his sin actually is, he is slowly letting his mask fall. He's only partly disguising himself in Trial 2,it's like he is having an internal conflict between what he wants and what he fears. The next part is that 'everything we see hides another thing', which is very true for both of Kazui's MVs. In Half he is shown to litteraly act out his persona that he puts on, and in Cat this is shown by the illusion of magic tricks. He is tricking those around him that he is happy in his relationship, like a magician. Even the red and green apples are hiding things from us, the red apples usually referencing his relationship or Hinako herself, and the green apples representing his sin. All of the important details and imagrey in Kazui's MVs are hidden away, and you need to nitpick to discover the truth within. The last point that is relevant to Kazui is that 'this creates an intense feeling of conflict between what is hidden and what is present'. Again, going back to my previous point that Kazui wants Milgram to discover what his sin is, even though its shown multiple times in both MVs that he is scared of his sin, scared of the truth coming out and that he wishes to be normal. He is conflicted about whether or not to reveal the truth to Milgram (and in the case of the dinner scene, his wife, Hinako) or to continue lying and keep up his facade. We know this feeling eventually builds up and he does tell her the truth, but even then we can see his internal struggle before telling her, going so far as to smoke a ciggerate to calm down in Cat before revealing his sin.
Leonello Spada (Italian, 1576-1622)
Le Couronnement d'épines, Détail, 1620
Galerie nationale d'Art ancien
Palais Barberini, Rome
“And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head and put a purple robe on Him” (John 19:2). The accounts of this happening in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John are intense. One can only imagine the pain and suffering Jesus Christ endured.