The Jewish celebration of Passover begins after sundown tonight across America. The night is significant for Christians too, because on Passover Jesus spent his last night/day alive on Earth.
It’s indisputable that there was a Man named Jesus who lived in the first century, preached around Judea, and was eventually executed by the Romans. The eyewitness accounts we have of him (Matthew, Mark, John, and the secular historian Josephus) paint a picture of a truly astounding Man, one of great power and authority (granted to him by God) and wisdom (he’s personified as wisdom in Proverbs chapter 8) and, most of all, love.
The Jesus we know was a Man who defended and supported the weak, the broken, and the discouraged against the wicked who despised them and took advantage of them. He defended the truth. He was worshiped by many, but he instead directed such worship toward God. Jesus was a perfect Man who had the power to have the whole world, but he instead sacrificed his perfect life so that many more could eventually have everlasting life as well.
The Bible is filled with the exploits of many extraordinary Alphas, both Protector and Destroyer archetypes. There were destructive Alphas like Goliath, or King Saul, or Absolom. But there were also some glorious Protector Alphas, like Kind David, or Samson, or the Apostle Paul.
But none of them can touch Jesus, history’s greatest Alpha. He was a perfect Man, and a perfect reflection of his Father, Jehovah God. He bravely endured the most excruciating death imaginable (at the hands of inferiors, no less!) so that he might buy back faithful humans and give them everlasting life in a paradise Earth.
That is what the Bible says about him. As Pontius Pilate said when he presented Jesus to the angry mob of Jews chanting for his death: “Look! The Man!”
Indeed, history’s greatest Man!
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