The Man for Mankind - The Story of Jesus as told by the Beloved Disciple
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In this descriptive presentation I have sought for a means to acquaint the scriptwriter with the real quality and aims of JESUS - independent of Christian teaching and theology, and without the necessity of having him portrayed by an actor. I have therefore employed the device, as a means of communication to the scriptwriter - and I hope inspiration - of framing an interview with the man who was closest to Jesus, and in old age had made his home in the great Asian city of Ephesus (in modern Turkey). The man was not Peter, or any one of the Twelve Apostles, but one of a highborn priestly family in Jerusalem in whose home the Last Supper was held and the first Messianic Community of followers of Jesus had their meetings. In the memoirs he dictated he is referred to as the Beloved Disciple. Here I use this man as the one who was closest to the personality and plans of JESUS, and to whom he could speak more freely than to any other living soul.
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The Man for Mankind - The Story of Jesus as told by the Beloved Disciple - Hugh J. Schonfield
Introduction
In this descriptive presentation I have sought for a means to acquaint the scriptwriter with the real quality and aims of JESUS - independent of Christian teaching and theology, and without the necessity of having him portrayed by an actor. I have therefore employed the device, as a means of communication to the scriptwriter - and I hope inspiration - of framing an interview with the man who was closest to Jesus, and in old age had made his home in the great Asian city of Ephesus (in modern Turkey). The man was not Peter, or any one of the Twelve Apostles, but one of a highborn priestly family in Jerusalem in whose home the Last Supper was held and the first Messianic Community of followers of Jesus had their meetings. In the memoirs he dictated he is referred to as the Beloved Disciple. Here I use this man as the one who was closest to the personality and plans of JESUS, and to whom he could speak more freely than to any other living soul.
PART ONE
In this presentation the interviewer’s questions are assumed, not scripted, and of course there is no obligation on the scriptwriter to employ the structure of an interview at all, which is purely instructional. The imagined date is about A.D. 90. The speaker throughout is the beloved disciple.
You want me to tell you about the real Jesus. You’ve come to the right man. Jesus loved me, and I am the only one in whom he was willing to confide. So I know a great deal that has never been made public. He visited me often in Jerusalem in the year before he went to the cross. He had come from Galilee at the season of the Feast of Tabernacles, in October, and he remained for more than three months, until after the Feast of Dedication, commemorating the re-sanctification of the Temple at the time it was desecrated by the Syrians. No doubt you have heard the story of our hero Judas Maccabaeus.
Jesus did not lodge with me. It would have been too dangerous. With a few of his best-known followers he stayed at Bethany, a few miles away on the other side of the Mount of Olives. But in the hours of daylight he came frequently to the city, to teach in the Temple, to meet people, and to lay his plans. Sometimes he had secret talks with key individuals in my house, where he was assured of complete privacy and security. Of course I did not always know what went on at these meetings as I was not present at many of them, and naturally I did not press Jesus to tell me. I knew he would confide in me as much as he could. But I have notes of all the conversations we did have together, and that is why I am in a unique position to assist you.
You want to know more about me? Well, obviously you know who I am, Yohanan ha’Kohen - John the Priest - connected by blood with the great family of Annas, former High Priest of Israel. He was still living at the time of which we are speaking. But after the revolt of our people against the Romans, when the Holy House was burnt down and sacrifices could no longer be offered, I and some others travelled north and finally settled here at Ephesus where there is a large Jewish community, and which is a self-governing city, the greatest in Asia.
Of course Ephesus is also a centre of heathenism, famed for the splendid temple of the goddess Artemis. You are not an idolater, I take it? I thought not. Yet you are not a Jew, but you serve the One God, who is the Lord of the Universe. Well, there are many like that nowadays. Some of them acknowledge our Messiah; but they tend to make a god of him and worship him. What folly! But old gentile habits are hard to break.
I was devoted to Jesus. You might say we were like David and Jonathan. You know the Bible story! But I never thought of him as divine, like a Caesar. That would have been blasphemous. Yet there