Jesus the Son of Man

Kahlil Gibran

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781504081160
• Subtopic: Classics

The renowned author of The Prophet creates a portrait of Jesus Christ through the observations of seventy-seven of his peers in this fascinating compendium.
 
What if we had firsthand impressions of the son of God found not in the pages of the New Testament, but from the very people who surrounded him? This is what Kahlil Gibran imagined in this lyrical and inspiring book. He captured the observations of friends, enemies, commoners, and rulers in beautifully poetic passages. Anna the mother of Mary said of her daughter, "Sometimes it seems that my longing for Him is greater than hers. She stands as firm before the day as if she were a bronzen image, while my heart melts and runs intro streams. Perhaps she knows what I do not know. Would that she might tell me also." James, the son of Zebedee warned, "The only man among us who did not turn to behold Him in His aloneness was Judas Iscariot. And from that day Judas became sullen and distant. And methought there was danger in the sockets of his eyes."
 
"It is as a fellow-countryman that [Gibran] approaches the Man of Nazareth. What we have in his case is not history but drama, a series of soliloquies, poetic in structure and beauty, which are attributed to the contemporaries of Jesus, sometimes authentic, like Mary Magdalen, sometimes imagined, as Philemon, a Greek apothecary. Of the immortal theme, here is a treatment, certainly unusual, possibly unique . . . The opinions about Jesus, whether appreciative or depreciatory, when attributed to his contemporaries, are often brilliant in phrase and accurate in perception." — The New York Times

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• JAMES THE SON OF ZEBEDEE
• ANNA THE MOTHER OF MARY
• ASSAPH CALLED THE ORATOR OF TYRE
• MARY MAGDALENE
• PHILEMON A GREEK APOTHECARY
• SIMON WHO WAS CALLED PETER
• CAIAPHAS
• JOANNA THE WIFE OF HEROD’S STEWARD
• RAFCA
• A PERSIAN PHILOSOPHER IN DAMASCUS
• DAVID ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS
• LUKE
• MATTHEW
• JOHN THE SON OF ZEBEDEE
• A YOUNG PRIEST OF CAPERNAUM
• A RICH LEVI IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF NAZARETH
• A SHEPHERD IN SOUTH LEBANON
• JOHN THE BAPTIST
• JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA
• NATHANIEL
• SABA OF ANTIOCH
• SALOME TO A WOMAN FRIEND
• RACHAEL A WOMAN DISCIPLE
• CLEOPAS OF BETHROUNE
• NAAMAN OF THE GADARENES
• THOMAS
• ELMADAM THE LOGICIAN
• ONE OF THE MARYS
• RUMANOUS A GREEK POET
• LEVI A DISCIPLE
• A WIDOW IN GALILEE
• JUDAS THE COUSIN OF JESUS
• THE MAN FROM THE DESERT
• PETER
• MELACHI OF BABYLON AN ASTRONOMER
• A PHILOSOPHER
• URIAH AN OLD MAN OF NAZARETH
• NICODEMUS THE POET
• JOSEPH OF ARIMETHEA
• GEORGUS OF BEIRUT
• MARY MAGDALENE
• JOTHAM OF NAZARETH TO A ROMAN
• EPHRAIM OF JERICHO
• BARCA A MERCHANT OF TYRE
• PHUMIAH THE HIGH PRIESTESS OF SIDON
• BENJAMIN THE SCRIBE
• ZACCHAEUS
• JONATHAN
• HANNAH OF BETHSAIDA
• MANASSEH
• JEPHTHA OF CAESAREA
• JOHN THE BELOVED DISCIPLE
• MANNUS THE POMPEIIAN TO A GREEK
• PONTIUS PILATUS
• BARTHOLOMEW IN EPHESUS
• MATTHEW
• ANDREW
• A RICH MAN
• JOHN AT PATMOS
• PETER
• A COBBLER IN JERUSALEM
• SUZANNAH OF NAZARETH
• JOSEPH SURNAMED JUSTUS
• PHILIP
• BIRBARAH OF YAMMOUNI
• PILATE’S WIFE TO A ROMAN LADY
• A MAN OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM
• SARKIS AN OLD GREEK SHEPHERD CALLED THE MADMAN
• ANNAS THE HIGH PRIEST
• A WOMAN ONE OF MARY’S NEIGHBOURS
• AHAZ THE PORTLY
• BARABBAS
• CLAUDIUS A ROMAN SENTINEL
• JAMES THE BROTHER OF THE LORD
• SIMON THE CYRENE
• CYBOREA
• THE WOMAN OF BYBLOS
• MARY MAGDALEN THIRTY YEARS LATER
• A MAN FROM LEBANON
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