And the Angels Were Silent: The Final Week of Jesus
By: Max Lucado / Narrated By: Ben Holland
Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
Good, but it definitely wasn’t what I expected
I s’pose I dashed into And the Angels Were Silent thinking more from my History Buff Brain. I mean, there was only so much the Publisher’s Summary said (But to be honest, I’m usually left befuddled when I rely toooo heavily on it!), so I dunno how I thought I was going to be listening to an audiobook about the last week on earth of Jesus Christ with some preaching/teaching thrown in.
Uhm, no…
It’s like this, see: It’s heavy on Max Lucado’s sermonizing, little anecdotes here and there, and then, after he’s gone waaaaay into a topic, it kinda sorta loops back into itself to tuuuuuuug out a And Here’s What Happened to Jesus That Last Week snippet. Considering that it was a pretty packed and emotional week for the man, there’s scant little about what happened to him.
Lucado does say that on Monday, Jesus blasted a poor fig tree before his fit with the money-changers at the Temple, before he tossed tables and threw dove cages around (no, no—I get it: there was a super good reason for that, it’s just that it sounds funnier when I’m glib!). See, the fig tree ticked him off cuz it became a metaphor for what was going on at the Temple on the Sabbath. It promised much, sucked you in, then it gave nothing when you asked for what it was offering. Which doesn’t strike me as of being of much solace for the poor blasted fig tree—TOTALLY in the wrong place at the wrong time.
But I’ll stop being glib, shall I?
I did enjoy the audiobook, and Ben Holland as a narrator does a marvelous job. He has a scratchy avuncular voice, and as Lucado has a great sense of humor, none of that humor is lost in subpar narration or anything. It felt cozy listening to Holland; cozy and not a bit preachy considering the content.
And Lucado is a dear man with the best of intentions: that of bringing the Word of God to the masses so that you and I can have our souls saved and so that we might live our best lives possible.
It’s just that I would’ve preferred soooo much more about Jesus and what happened to him, his Words, his Deeds. Alas, the history buff in me went away sorely disappointed.
If you’re looking for Lucado’s Words, Lucado’s Deeds, look no further. Here’s a good man with a good message, a man who walks the talk. But if you’re looking for the Final Week of Jesus?
Welllllll, you have to wade through quite a bit before you find references to that.
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