/lit/ - Literature

>>22278373
In all seriousness, I couldn't stop laughing when I first read Matthew and the Jews were selling out, mocking, and condemning their own Messiah and even asking for his blood to be on their hands forever, throughout the generations. It's horrible what's happening, but the reality of the situation is genuinely comedic. Their salvation is right before their eyes in the flesh, they even use his proper title and dress him up as their king when they mock him, and there's just something so brilliant about this scene, and it leads to what is honestly one of the greatest passages I've ever read in any book, being the splitting of the veil of the temple. All of this, perfectly fulfilling everything their own prophet Isaiah had said they would do, yet they were completely blind to it, and still are, if you take the Bible as being true.
>>Mt 27:28-30
>28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
>29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
>30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
>>Mt 27:36-37
>36 And sitting down they watched him there;
>37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
>>Mt 27:41-42
>41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
>42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
>>Mt 27:45-54
>45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
>46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
>47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
>48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
>49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
>50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
>51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
>52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
>53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
>54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.