John 19:19 · World English Bible
John 19:19 Meaning Pilate Wrote a Title Also
Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
What does John 19:19 mean?
The title fixed to the cross names what is being shown, and the cross is the body itself, the upright of head and shoulders and trunk on which a person is stretched out in the flesh. Jesus of Nazareth is the separated one, consciousness lifted out of the carnal into the divine, for Nazareth carries the sense of being set apart and never once appears in the old writings.
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The title fixed to the cross names what is being shown, and the cross is the body itself, the upright of head and shoulders and trunk on which a person is stretched out in the flesh. Jesus of Nazareth is the separated one, consciousness lifted out of the carnal into the divine, for Nazareth carries the sense of being set apart and never once appears in the old writings. King of the Jews reads through Judah, which is the right hemisphere of the brain, the seat of Christ consciousness and the children of light, so the title declares the divine mind ruling from that side.
The lower, discerning outer mind writes the label without grasping it, yet what it posts on the body is the plain fact: the separated Christ-mind reigning from the right side of the brain.
Cross: the body itself, the upright of head and shoulders and trunk. Nazareth: the separated one, consciousness lifted out of the carnal into the divine. King of the Jews / Judah: the right hemisphere of the brain, seat of Christ consciousness and the children of light. Pilate: the lower, discerning outer mind that labels what it cannot understand.
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Live John 19:19 today
- When you catch yourself describing yourself by your job title or your worst habit, stop and say silently that this is a label and not the thing. The one doing the labeling is not the label.
- When someone tells you who you are, in a group chat or at the dinner table, you can let it stand without arguing. Their description does not get a vote on what is actually governing you.
- Under pressure at work, when the reflex is to manage how you are being perceived, drop that for one hour and just do the work in front of you. Let the reading of you be wrong.
Who is in charge of me when nobody is naming me?
The same truth in other traditions
Katha Upanishad
The real self sits quietly in the body like a rider in a chariot, and it rules whether or not the senses and the mind acknowledge it. The driver who does not know the rider still carries the rider.
Tao Te Ching 33
Knowing others is one kind of intelligence. Knowing yourself is a light the other kind cannot produce.
Sufism · Ibn Arabi
The one who looks for the beloved far away was carrying the beloved the whole time. What is sought was never absent, only unrecognized.
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