I have been discussing with my son, how much we miss by not having a three dimensional (TV) bible, and that, properly acted out. It would be handy in understanding the teachings of the Christ.
Picture in your minds TV:
As he walks through the temple listening to the disciples telling him of the wonders of that great temple (Herod's), He stops walking. The disciples walk a few more steps and seeing Jesus is no longer among them, they stop and turn. As they turn HE looks at them, and they at Him, and spreading His arms wide, says, "Destroy THIS temple, I will will raise it up in three days."
Of course they didn't get it.
Consider:
Scene 1: Jesus tells his disciples, "Beware the leaven of the pharisees."
And they wonder among them selves, "Is it because we have brought no bread, that he said this?"
And Jesus asks, "Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
Scene 2:
Christ and his disciples are sitting by a river and He gets news that his dear friend Lazarus is very ill. He waits around a while and then says, "Let's go visit Lazarus - he sleeps"
Disciples in their usual manner misunderstand and say, " Isn't it good that he sleeps?"
Jesus drops his head, sighs, takes a deep breath, looks up and says, "Lazarus is dead."
All through the Gospels you see The Christ say it His way, and then having to clarify in human speak.
And, so it is with His promise.
Scene 3:
Jesus is sitting with his disciples and He says, "If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." (Ask yourself, "who is the "He" that Jesus said dwelled with them?)
Now the disciples, Looking at one another , puzzled, begin reasoning among them selves (as usual) about what Jesus has just said.
Then Jesus, as in the past, looking on his sheep, sighs a deep sigh and says, "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."
(Now you also know who it is who the "he" they know, and "he"who dwells with them)
