Come and See

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Come and See

• John 143-46, 148-9, 12-14

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The Last Supper

• Leonardo Da Vinci
• 1498
• The painting is life-sized. It is on a full wall
  of the church Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
• During World War II, the church was bombed. Only
  the wall with this painting survived.

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Understanding

• We sit down before the picture in order to have
  something done to us, not that we may do things
  with it. The first demand any work of art makes
  upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive.
  Get yourself out of the way.
• C.S. Lewis

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An Artists View

• Makoto Fujimura
• When looking at The Last Supper, our attention
  first goes to Philip, then to Jesus.
• Jesus is at the center.

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Introducing Philip

• ?43? The next day Jesus decided to leave for
  Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, Follow
  me.
• ?44? Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the
  town of Bethsaida. ?45? Philip found Nathanael
  and told him, We have found the one Moses wrote
  about in the Law, and about whom the prophets
  also wroteJesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
  
• ?46? Nazareth! Can anything good come from
  there? Nathanael asked.
• Come and see, said Philip. NIV, John 143-46

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On Seeing God

• ?8? Philip said, Lord, show us the Father and
  that will be enough for us.
• ?9? Jesus answered Dont you know me, Philip,
  even after I have been among you such a long
  time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
  How can you say, Show us the Father?
• NIV John 148-9

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Greater Things?

• ?12? I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith
  in me will do what I have been doing. He will do
  even greater things than these, because I am
  going to the Father. ?13? And I will do whatever
  you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring
  glory to the Father. ?14? You may ask me for
  anything in my name, and I will do it.
• NIV John 1412-14

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Capturing the Moment of Betrayal

• I tell you the truth, one of you is going to
  betray me.
• NIV John 1321

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Scale

• The painting dominates the small space of the
  room enclosing it. The viewer is forced almost
  to enter into the painting and become a part of
  the story it tells.
• The picture of the betrayal painted by Leonardo
  starts with Philip, and ends in a moneybag in
  Judas hand.

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Seeing

• Artists often use light to reveal what they want
  the viewer to see.
• The light is not coming from the windows.
• The source of light is Jesus face.
• The light from Jesus reflects on all of the
  disciples except Judas.
• The vanishing point for the geometry of the
  picture is on the forehead of Jesus.

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Tension of Betrayal

• Philips head breaks the horizontal plane.
• The other figure that breaks this plane is Judas.
• This is what draws our eyes first to Philip, then
  to Jesus and across to Judas.

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At the Table

• Most paintings of the last supper from this era
  show Judas leaving the room.
• Leonardo places Judas near Jesus, directly in
  front of Peter.
• In the size and scale of the painting, and the
  arrangement of the elements, he places the viewer
  at the table also.

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Observations

• Jesus is at the center.
• Light from Jesus reflects from the disciples
  faces.
• The betrayer is dark holding tight to money
  (self-interest).
• The viewer is made to feel as if he or she is in
  the scene.
• Philip Come and see.

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Glorious Ministry

• ?7? Now if the ministry that brought death, which
  was engraved in letters on stone, came with
  glory, so that the Israelites could not look
  steadily at the face of Moses because of its
  glory, fading though it was, ?8? will not the
  ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
• NIV 2 Corinthians 37-8

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Bold

• ?12? Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are
  very bold.
• NIV 2 Corinthians 312

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Reflected Glory

• ?18? And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect
  the Lords glory, are being transformed into his
  likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes
  from the Lord, who is the Spirit. NIV 2
  Corinthians 318

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Blinded

• ?4? The god of this age has blinded the minds of
  unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of
  the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the
  image of God.
• NIV 2 Corinthians 44

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Light

• ?5? For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus
  Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants
  for Jesus sake. ?6? For God, who said, Let
  light shine out of darkness, made his light
  shine in our hearts to give us the light of the
  knowledge of the glory of God in the face of
  Christ.
• NIV 2 Corinthians 35-6

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Reflecting

• ?7? But we have this treasure in jars of clay to
  show that this all-surpassing power is from God
  and not from us.
• NIV 2 Corinthians 47

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So What? Vision!

• Come and see.
• Get in the picture! (You already are)
• Its all about reflecting the glory of Christ
  that others might see.
• Bold! Greater things.
• But in jars of clay