It's Good Friday

I remember last year's Good Friday I wrote an entry on the 7 last words of Jesus before he died. This year I think i just shared about some of the small stories of the few more famous apostles of Jesus for Good Friday.

But before i begin, i feel very puzzled as in why people always treat christmas much more importantly than Good Friday and Easter. I dunno why as in I went to church earlier todya and realized the number of people attending is very small. Wont they feel guilty for not commemorating the crucification of Chirst and his resurrection? Never mind, shldn't scold pple.

Ok, let's start with the most famous apostles. I think everyone shld know who Peter is. Roman Catholic claimed that he's the first Pope. And you all shld know that it's a rule that anyone holding any post in the Roman Catholic Church system cannot marry. Which means Fathers, Bishop, Priests, Cardinals and POPE cannot marry. And you all know that both the Christians and Catholic read the Bible, just that the Christian's Bible got 66 books, 27 in new testament and 39 in old testaments and then the Catholic's Bible got 13 more books on top of the Christian one.

So now, let me type smth from the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 9, verse 14-15. "And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose, and ministered unto them."

Ok, you all read the part in blue? Peter, claimed by the Catholics as the first Pope got a wife. And then Catholic said Pope shldn't marry. So the Bible is to be trusted or rules made by ancient church administrator to be followed??? Whereas for Christian no such problem.

I think the discrepancy that mentioned above is very interesting. I found it out myself one. HAHA

As for how Peter died. He, just like many of the apostles was martyred. He was also crucified by the Romans. But what was so special about him is that he felt that he was unworthy to die as the same way as Jesus Christ, so he requested to be crucified upside down.

So much for Peter, next is John, the apostle that Jesus loved. This is how he address himself in the Gospel of John. He's the youngest of the apostles. When Jesus was being captured after the Last Supper in the garden of Gethsemane, he was eventually trialed and tortured by Pilate. You all shld know that during this time, Peter denied Jesus 3 times. The bible didn't mentioned where were the other Apostles. Only John. He followed Jesus all the way till Gogotha where Jesus was crucified. When Jesus was on the cross, he told John to take care of Mary (mother of Jesus), to treat her as his own mother.

John was the only apostle who was not martyred. When he was a very old man, he was banished to the island of Patmos by Emperor Domitian. And it was at Patmos that he wrote the book of Revelation. The book that contains all the end of world and armaggedon stuff. It was said that he passed away in Ephesus (located in Turkey today).

In my own opinion, it was because he followed Jesus all the way. Following hardest route of all when Jesus was crucified, others left, but John followed. Tt's y he wasn't martyred. Just my own thoughts.

James, together with Peter and John( younger brother of James), was the so called big 3 of the apostles. They were present in those very special moments in Jesus time. They were the 3 tt witnessed the transfiguration of Jesus and together with Jesus in his prayer in Gethsemane. Not much story on him because he was the first to be martyred. And the only one to be recorded int he Bible.

Then it's Andrew, he's the brother of Peter. He was said to be the patron of Scotland. Have you all realised the logo of SAJC is blue background with a white cross? same as the Scotland flag. Any idea why Andrew is associated with blue and white cross? For blue colour i dunno. But for the white cross, it's because he was also martyred. Persecuted by crucification also. And the cross they used on him is a X-shap cross. So andrew is linked is X.

Ok, so much for this. Hopefully I've told you all something that you all never noticed before la...