The Pharisees were caught in a sitcom.

I think that they are like the dad, the one that tries everything to solve a problem and nothing works?

Last thing they knew, Jesus had left town. Their sources told them that he was back home, up in the northern part of the country. Good riddance, they thought.

The Feast of Tabernacles started, the happy feast, the party feast, the “pitch a tent and sleep outside and remember how God brought us through the wilderness” feast. It would be a horrible time for Jesus to show up for people trying to maintain order.  Jesus was the kind of person that would take a wilderness experience and turn it into some metaphor for deliverance and freedom.

It must have been a relief for the leadership to hear nothing of Jesus on the first day of the feast. Nothing on the second day. Nothing on the third or fourth days.

Dad leans back in the recliner. Mr Wilson thinks Dennis moved.

And then Jesus shows up.

Andy sends Barney to find out what’s happening. Jim sends his wife’s brother, Andy. Tim (the Toolman) Taylor sends Al Borland to bring Jesus in for a conversation.

Barney and Andy and Al come back in.

“Where’s Jesus?” says Andy/Jim/Tim/Chief Priest.

“Have you heard him talk? No one ever sounded like that. It was amazing!” says B/A/A.

“Bah. What would we expect from a mob? There isn’t one intelligent person who would say what you just said.”

“Just curious,” says Opie, says Cheryl, says Wilson and Jill and Nicodemus. “Should we talk with him before we try to kill him?”

The camera comes in close on the face of the leading character. Rage and frustration and betrayal and fear twist together.

“Are you leaving as sane us only?”

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