(a part of the summer place 2007)Disciples of Jesus Christ
(disciples de Jésus le Christ)
Jesus Christ must have, most probably, taught His followers with silence.
Japanese can enjoy music which insects play and winds create, which is impossible for Europeans and European Americans.
Japanese love silence in the middle of music, which Europeans and European American cannot enjoy so much.
In my view, when Jesus Christ was alone with His followers, He mostly kept silence.
And, His followers gradually learnt to learn through silence.
This is why there are too little contents in the Bible about His words and deeds.
(There might have been however more Magdalens, though not recorded in the Bible for a certain reason. That Magdalen alone must have her own friends and enemies alike.)
There must have been no chatting, laughing, joking, consultation, business talk, and singing.
I suppose they were a very silent group in contradiction to your image on Jesus Christ and His band.
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Meditation and holy silence are two different matters.
Holy silence really would lead people near Heaven without hard mental work.
But, it does not look like having given any discipline to His followers in a pragmatic meaning.
Thus, when the reality led by the Roman soldiers captured Jesus Christ, His followers all left Him simply in fear due to the lack of training and discipline, especially, on how to act in a case of crisis and emergency, while such an attack by His opponents and enemies were easily expected beforehand.
You cannot laugh at them.
It is not a failure of Jesus Christ to have had such disciples as with the case of Judas.
Indeed, Jesus Christ had not trained them beforehand, though he could, so as to make His followers go, suffer, and die with Him, which would have however made them saints or heroes instantly only for that fact from a historical point of view.
(Or, as Jesus Christ alone must have resurrected, no followers were allowed to die even temporarily with Him, you might reckon.)
Yet, holy silence Jesus Christ practiced while being surrounded by His followers alone is still mysterious for us.
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Now you know that Jesus Christ was a silent man.
But, it might be very painful to be with such a man with great power and great silence in addition to great responsibility and great secrets.
Jesus Christ was not a jolly god.
Your image of Him may be very wrong mostly due to an error of the Roman Church.
(Anyway, if you love Jesus Christ more than anybody, you will be given the best answer.
Whom will you share it with?)
"...Peter spoke up, 'Look! We have left everything and followed you. What will we have?'......"
(Note: St. Peter said this not when he and Jesus Christ were alone.)