Helga چـو ایـران نباشد تن من مـباد's Reviews > Jesus: The Son of Man: His Words and His Deeds as Told and Recorded by Those Who Knew Him

Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

My third time reading this precious book left me emotionally wrecked yet again.

Often it seems to me that He was but a dream dreamed by countless men and women at the same time in a sleep deeper than sleep and a dawn more serene than all dawns.

In this book, with his uniquely lyrical style, Gibran portrays Christ from different people’s perspective; people who knew him and loved him and those who knew him and despised him; people who followed him and those who betrayed him.

One man longed for a kingdom in which he was to be a prince.
Another man desired a kingdom in which all men shall be princes.

We see Jesus through the eyes of his mother, his maternal grandmother, Peter, James, John, Judas , Mary Magdalen...

Then His eyes opened wide to the sky, and He said: “Father, why hast Thou forsaken us?”
And then He said in compassion, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

...and we see him with the eyes of a cobbler in Jerusalem, a Greek apothecary, a man from Lebanon, a rich merchant, a Persian philosopher, Pontius Pilatus and his wife and many other real and fictional characters.

Master, Master of our lonely hours, Here and there, betwixt the cradle and the coffin, I meet your silent brothers, The free men, unshackled, Sons of your mother earth and space. They are like the birds of the sky, And like the lilies of the field. They live your life and think your thoughts, And they echo your song. But they are empty–handed, And they are not crucified with the great crucifixion. And therein is their pain. The world crucifies them every day, But only in little ways. The sky is not shaken, And the earth travails not with her dead. They are crucified and there is none to witness their agony. They turn their face to right and left And find not one to promise them a station in his kingdom. Yet they would be crucified again and yet again, That your God may be their God, And your Father their Father.