The teller at the AM/PM is an Egyptian and everyone knows him as John, but his real name is Hanna which in the west is a female name but in Egypt the most common male name, like John.
We meet at Indian restraints once a month and try a lamb dish we haven't tried in the past.
I'm performing a study on him, as I do everyone I associate with.
He's Christian, Orthodox Christian, so nothing makes sense in his faith. My Ex was also Orthodox Christian and the services were a circus, albeit a healthier circus than the Pentecostal services just more like an Opera presentation. There's like a stage area where priest wearing medieval robes and apparently the design was a collaboration of Michael Angelo, Lady Gaga, and Elton John. they chanted everything in Armenian which no one in attendance understood. They had chains holding big incense pots they were swinging around as if ready for a fight.
It's Cirque du Soleil circa 800ad.
Never let yourself get to hungry, to tired, or to alone.

@Willow_Wisp real people are awesome. World needs more of them. BTW - middle eastern food is wonderful.

@Willow_Wisp also, there isn’t a 7/11 within 50 miles of here. Maybe been in one a couple of times. One of those was in Japan

Into thy hand I commend my spirit
is from the 31st psalm

Bart Erhman discusses the Christmas story from the Gospels. He points out that very few things match up in the stories from the events occurring when Jesus was born - there was about a 10 year gap and no overlap between events identifying when Jesus was born. Mary either had a 10 year birthing process or one of the accounts is wrong. Who showed up at Jesus birth is also different between the accounts. Only one version has the wise men and only another has the Shepard. Only by merging the stories - thus corrupting both - do we get both Shepards and wise men at Jesus birth. The same would be true of Jesus last words on the cross.

Elaine Panels (I believe) wrote about the evolution of how Jesus was deli Ted in the Gospels over time. Mark is the earliest account and has Jesus expressing great suffering and pain on the cross. Matthew and Luke depict his experience as a somewhat less excruciating, and John goes even farther. A number of concepts show an evolution throughout early Christian writing. One of particular interest is how Judas is portrayed - especially into the uncannonized books and lost Gospels. Judas goes from being the evil, Satan possessed villain to being Jesus favorite apostle in the Gospel of Judas who is the only one who truly understands Jesus and his mission. Judas was called to turn Jesus into the authorities as his special mission since none of the other apostles were faithful enough to fulfill this task.

@LenHazell53 Luke 23:46 says

Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.

@abyers1970 Your using the NIV translation I was using the KJV, both are legitimate translations from Aramaic and Greek for the same phrase.