☆No 68 The Last Night ( Mama’s Boy)
This is my story by the Holy Spirit.
Evening in that day.
Jesus left the house of Simon in Bethany and went to the house where Mother Mary stayed in Jerusalem.
When He entered the room, she welcomed Him and asked, "You smell lovely. whom did You meet?"
Jesus answered, "Martha's sister Mary anointed My body a little while ago."
Mary said, "Oh, dear! I think that she knows You are the Messiah."
But Jesus said to her," The Messiah that you say is an image that was made of the people.
And all things will disappear that was made of the men.
By contrast, the children who were born of God's love will remain forever.
And today the Pharisees understood I am not the Son of David. That means I am not your husband's son.
So, I am a sinner against their law. Your honor is the last thing I wanted to hurt until now.
Therefore, I do not want to make you a disgrace in public anymore."
Then Mary said," Since Simeon who when you are born said that shall happen on me, I have already prepared for that.
But I am afraid that Martha told me some of them will kill You soon. So, I am very anxious about Your security.
Therefore, I am knitting this to drown my uneasiness. it is all I can do now. "
Then Jesus answered to her, "Now in the being faithless and perverse generation, many want to kill Me.
Also, Satan is moving on that prepares for the day."
She clasped His hands and said that when she was knitting a tunic for Him, she remembered His happy childhood.
And she wove that into it one by one.
So, Jesus considered her feeling and said, "Since I will stay here till morning, I put on it tomorrow."
Mary said with delight to Him, "I am glad at Your word. I might have a happy feeling only tonight."
And Mary hugged Him and said, "Let me measure You once more, please.
Oh, boy! You have become slimmer. Do You eat much lately?"
Jesus said to her, "Yes, I have just eaten supper. And tomorrow is the day before the feast of the Passover.
I am going to eat supper with My disciples.
Wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this supper will be told as a memorial to them."
When Jesus knew that His hour had come and that He should depart from this world to the Father,
having loved His mother, Mary who is in the world, He showed His own love to the end.
Therefore He slept on His mother's bed that night.
And Mary kept talking about His happy recollections with knitting beside the bed till dawn.
Now the next morning, Jesus woke up and found her sleeping on a couch tired.
The knitting that was finished was on the table.
He saw that and groaned in the Spirit, and holding the tunic He said to Mary's soul.
"I am full of feeling that desire to call you Mother, up more than a thousand times in the world.
However, when this will have been taken from My body,
I will not call you Mother any longer. But I will not leave you alone.
I will give you another son who you well know, therefore he becomes your son since that time.
And you will teach him as I taught you. But you should teach him with endurance.
because he is too young to learn My words.
Do not worry, because, the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name,
will teach you, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
To My sorrow, My garments as Church will make four parts, but this tunic will not tear.
Because nobody can break a mother's love.
That is true forever. Against this, there is no law.
Thank you so much for giving birth to Me. My life came by your water and blood on the earth.
For Me Jesus, not only by water but by your own water and blood.
And it is the Spirit who bears witness that He sent Me to you because the Spirit is truth."
This painting represents the last night of Jesus and Mary before the Cross.
December ２０２１ Oil 980mm×1240mm
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