Isbn: 9798249071608 - yeshua: the weight of knowing (8 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Yeshua has spent thirty years in Nazareth building furniture and quietly carrying a question he cannot name. He is a craftsman, a good son, a man who has done everything correctly. He has also, since the age of twelve, harbored a private conviction that he cannot explain and has never shared - that he is somehow not finished yet. That his life is prologue to something whose shape he cannot quite see.On his birthday, he sets down his plane and walks to the Jordan River to be baptized by Yochanan. In the water, he understands - briefly, completely, terrifyingly - what he is and what will be required of him. He spends forty days alone in the wilderness turning this knowledge over, sitting with doubt on the seventeenth day, almost going home on the thirty-eighth. He does not go home.He returns to Galilee and begins. He gathers fishermen and a tax collector and a woman from Magdala who has been through the worst kind of darkness and come out the other side. He teaches in parables - about lost sheep and lost coins and a father who runs down a road - not because facts are insufficient but because a story can live in a person in ways that a proposition cannot. He heals because he cannot look at suffering and maintain the required distance. Each healing costs him something he cannot fully replenish.He grows famous and is misunderstood in the specific ways that fame produces: people want from him the things he is not offering - a military messiah, a political kingdom, a revolution with clear winners. What he is offering is harder and stranger: the kingdom is already here, already planted, already growing in the dark. The seed. The leaven. The smallest and most invisible things.He goes to Jerusalem knowing what Jerusalem means. The week there is a week of questions and confrontations and a last meal in a borrowed room. In a garden on the last night he prays to be spared what is coming, and is not spared, and goes anyway. He is tried and crucified and dies on a Friday afternoon saying it is finished, which he means in more ways than he can explain.Three days later, in a garden, a woman hears her name said in a voice she knows. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Yeshua has spent thirty years in Nazareth building furniture and quietly carrying a question he cannot name. He is a craftsman, a good son, a man who has done everything correctly. He has also, since the age of twelve, harbored a private conviction that he cannot explain and has never shared - that he is somehow not finished yet. That his life is prologue to something whose shape he cannot quite see.On his birthday, he sets down his plane and walks to the Jordan River to be baptized by Yochanan. In the water, he understands - briefly, completely, terrifyingly - what he is and what will be required of him. He spends forty days alone in the wilderness turning this knowledge over, sitting with doubt on the seventeenth day, almost going home on the thirty-eighth. He does not go home.He returns to Galilee and begins. He gathers fishermen and a tax collector and a woman from Magdala who has been through the worst kind of darkness and come out the other side. He teaches in parables - about lost sheep and lost coins and a father who runs down a road - not because facts are insufficient but because a story can live in a person in ways that a proposition cannot. He heals because he cannot look at suffering and maintain the required distance. Each healing costs him something he cannot fully replenish.He grows famous and is misunderstood in the specific ways that fame produces: people want from him the things he is not offering - a military messiah, a political kingdom, a revolution with clear winners. What he is offering is harder and stranger: the kingdom is already here, already planted, already growing in the dark. The seed. The leaven. The smallest and most invisible things.He goes to Jerusalem knowing what Jerusalem means. The week there is a week of questions and confrontations and a last meal in a borrowed room. In a garden on the last night he prays to be spared what is coming, and is not spared, and goes anyway. He is tried and crucified and dies on a Friday afternoon saying it is finished, which he means in more ways than he can explain.Three days later, in a garden, a woman hears her name said in a voice she knows. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…