ISTVAN ONODI is the Financial Director of the HUNGARIAN EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP a small Methodist denomination in Hungary which is sometimes critical of the “Christian” policies of Prime Minister VICTOR ORBAN. The other day, bungling officials of the state arrested him at 6 am in the morning and sent him to prison for 30 days. He […]

POSTSCRIPT Hind Rajab, a girl of six years, was discovered dead in a burnt-out car near Gaza City, where twelve days ago she pled for help to her mother and the Red Crescent to come and rescue her. Members of her family also in the car had already been killed, so that she was left […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 28:16 The eleven pupils made their way to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had commanded them. When they saw him they knelt before him although some were in two minds. Then Jesus came near and said to them, ” All power is given to me in heaven and upon earth. So […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 28: 11 While the woman were on their way, -see this- some of the guard went into the city and told the high priests all that had happened. They assembled with the elders, and when they had discussed the matter, gave an adequate sum of money to the soldiers, with the instruction, “Tell […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 28:1 Now after the Day of Rest, in the dawning of the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And -see this- there was a great earthquake, for a messenger of the Lord God descended from heaven, drew near, rolled back the stone […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 127: 57 When it was evening, there came a rich Arimathean, Joseph by name, who was himself a pupil of Jesus; he went to Pilate and requested Jesus’ body. Pilate ordered it to be given to him. Joseph received the body, wrapped it clean linen, and laid it in his own new tomb […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 27:45 From noon onward, there was darkness over all the earth until three in the afternoon. Around three o’clock Jesus howled in a great voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachtani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you deserted me?” Some of the bystanders who heard it , said, “He’s calling for Elijah, […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 27:32 As they went out, they met a Cyrenian,a man named Simon, whom they pressed into service to carry Jesus’ stake. And when they arrived at a place called Golgotha, which means ‘place of a skull’ they gave Jesus wine mixed with gall, but after tasting it he would not drink. When they […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him. They stripped him of his clothes and put a scarlet military tunic around him. Pleating together a crown from thorns, they put it on his head and a reed in his right hand, then […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 27:11 Jesus stood before the governor, who questioned him, asking, “Are you the king of the Judaeans?” Jesus said, “You are saying so.” And when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he gave no answer. Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against […]