Jesus of Nazareth

By Colin Bryan, Contributor

THERE ARE several expressions which come to us from religion, which most of us ignore, that is we do little to find out what they mean.

INRI.

All who examine a Rosary, will see INRI on the top beam of the Cross on which Jesus died. But many of us do not bother to find out what the INRI says to us. The INRI are the four first letters of the four words in Latin describing the sacrificed victim, Jesus of Nazareth.

The INRI stand for Jesus Nazarenous Rex Iudaeorum, the Latin for "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews"

Exemplary

It is Jesus of Nazareth who was exemplary in His behaviour as the Son of God showing us how to behave, how to treat the poor, how to stand up for our beliefs, how to talk with people, how to deal with the wealthy, how to preach the word of God, how to avoid expelling people from our development. The Apostle John tells us in 1 John 3:15 that "Everyone who hates his brother is a manslayer, and you know that no manslayer has everlasting life remaining in him". So, as The Water Tower says in its August 15, 2000 issue, all Jehovah, God's Witnesses believed that. So "they are now being integrated - from all ethnic, cultural, religious and political backgrounds - Genuine Global brotherhood.

Are we in Jamaica being integrated? Are we on top yet of the flourishing drug trade? For a committee to recommend the legalisation of one drug in small quantities, Ganja, is to run away from the startling issue of drugs.

Let us not run away from the fact that cocaine and marijuana (ganja) have become powerful as our illegal exports to the United States of America and elsewhere. Let us look at these drugs in the religious way, for we cannot become integrated before God with some of us becoming wealthy through sinful drugs.

Jesus, of Nazareth, King of us all, sees us all, and is waiting for us to run away from sin.

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