King of Kings Page #3

Are you Elijah?

No, I am not.

Are you the Messiah?

No, I am not!

I am the voice of one

crying in the wilderness.

The Messiah is one

who will come after me.

You are welcome.

Peace be on this house.

What would you have of me?

I seek your son.

My son has gone into the desert.

Why did he come to the river?

For you to baptize him.

He is without sin.

How could I baptize him?

I preach in the wilderness...

but the Word must be brought

to Jerusalem.

Yet I know I am not the one to deliver it.

Only he can.

When his time comes...

he will be there.

You say that with sadness.

And joy!

And Jesus, baptized...

returned from Jordan,

and went into the wilderness.

And with the baptism,

the Holy Spirit came upon him...

and a voice said to Jesus:

"Thou art my beloved Son,

in thee I am well pleased. "

And Jesus knew the wilderness...

its day of heat...

its night of cold and solitude.

And stayed himself there

to commune with God...

and strengthen himself

for the times to come.

And ate nothing and hungered.

And brought his soul forth in the light...

to be seen of himself and known.

And was 40 days tempted of the devil.

Behold! I am here!

Come! I command you!

Come! Be tried and found wanting!

If you are the Son of God, command

these stones that they be turned to bread.

Man does not live by bread alone...

but by every word of God.

Behold!

I show you all the kingdoms of the world,

in a moment of time.

All this will I give you,

and the glory of them.

If you will worship me, all shall be yours.

Lo! Come to this high place.

If you are the Son of God,

cast yourself down from here.

For will not His angels save you

from falling and prevent your death?

Come to the high place.

Be gone!

I worship the Lord my God...

and only to Him do I do service.

Come!

Come, if you will...

but I shall not call upon

the Lord my God to stop you.

You shall not force me to put

the Lord my God to the proof.

And when the devil had ended

all his temptations, he departed away.

And Jesus came out of the wilderness,

and was seen by men.

There is your new rabbi.

He is the Lamb of God.

And Jesus called those of his choice.

And two of the chosen

were John and Andrew...

and they followed where he led.

And Jesus took himself down

by the Sea of Galilee.

And there did name his third apostle,

and summon him forth on land.

Simon! You have been chosen!

You are Simon.

You shall be called Peter, the rock...

upon which I will build.

What will you have me do, Rabbi?

I am just a fisherman.

Come with me...

and I will make you a fisher of men.

Attention.

I have just made a tour of the city.

I found no statues, no banners...

no emblems of Caesar anywhere.

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