The Storyteller, Whoever

   That Was,

      And Is,

   Precisely

‘Jesus in the wilderness

Being tempted by Satan.’

                              ‘Yes,’

‘Who’s telling the story.’

                         ‘What?’

‘Who’s telling the story.’

                            Why,

                               er,

         why, Jesus

Would be telling it.

To, someone.

Of course.  Yes.

               That’s

               it.’

‘Isn’t it more likely

That the person

Telling that particular

               story

                 is

The Storyteller

         of the whole

             thing.’

         …

                   ‘I

     am confused.’

          ‘Get used

            to it.  It

          goes on

            and on

            and on

          like that.

          Because

                   it

           was all

              just

        a story.

        Told us

               by

    the Flavian

       imperial

         family;

        in order

To make Titus -

        the Son

         of God

               (or

        at least

       the God

   of the day) -

           out

                 as

   the Jewish

   Messiah,

            come

To chastise them

   for continually

       rebelling

       against

       the yoke

  of the Roman

     emperor;

                 God

      in the flesh,

      as it were.’

   And still is

         to this

         day.

     And now

            no

         more.

    For, God -

      the true

           God -

    has ‘come’

       to claim

      His own.

  Which is us.

         Not

       Jesus.

And here endeth

    the lesson.

          In

     humility.