Bibliographic record
Abstract
John 18:33-37 race mercy and peace in the name of the Father and of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.Today we celebrate the kingship of Christ, it is Christ the King Sunday.But in our time and context the use of titles as kings and queens may not mean anything to us.The kings and queens we are familiar with now are all just titular heads with little or no power vested in them.We are more familiar with the titles of Prime Minister or President, depending on where one comes from.Just like kings and emperors of Jesus' time our modern day equivalents also are associated with power and dominance, or strength and subjugation.In this context what are we to make of the gospel reading for the day?We have reached the final Sunday of the liturgical year.After Pentecost we have been in the ordinary time of the church calendar when we focused on Christian living and discipleship and this final Sunday of the church year is designated to acknowledge the eternal kingship of Christ.This particular text presents the truth of this kingship which stands in contrast to the human misunderstanding of Pontius Pilate.He could not really comprehend the truth of Jesus' authority condemns him to a deadly fate.Jesus is brought by the Jews from the house of Caiaphas to the headquarters of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect of Judaea.Pilate asks Jesus, "Are you the King of the Jews?"This question by Pilate to Jesus is in all of the Gospels, but what follows in John is unique to that gospel.In the synoptic gospels or the first three gospels, Jesus responds in the affirmative, and does not say anything more.In John, however, Jesus not only offers an answer but also poses a counter question.Jesus' response to Pilate in a sense shows the inappropriateness of the question asked and also Pilate's misunderstanding of what he was asking about.As New Testament scholars are fond of saying, Jesus is on trial in the other gospels whereas Pilate is on trial in the Gospel of John.How could we understand the kingship of Jesus?What are our perceptions of this king that we worship?Ludwig Feuerbach, the German philosopher, talks of the human understanding of the Divine as the elevation of the human nature to an infinite degree.God is seen as all knowing, all powerful and all virtuous.Regarding the kingship of Christ, although this passage from John 18 (and others like it) gives us a picture that is contrary to the expected perception of kingship, we also expect an all-powerful, all conquering Christ, who will triumph over all.The Song of Herod from Jesus Christ Superstar voices Herod's expectations of the King of the Jews.Are not our expectations of Jesus Christ also very much in line with Herod's?We are also overjoyed to be followers of this famous person who heals cripples and raises the dead.We too ask him to prove his divinity by changing water into wine or by walking across swimming pools, or do something fantastic that will impress us and the world, or ask him for everything under the sun.1 Rev. Mathai is the pastor at Mt.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".