My Kingdom is Not of This World (John 18:36) | Bold Red, Yellow & Black Textured Design with Icon Motifs | Orthodox Christian Canvas ArtAnd now behold the king whom ye have chosen; and behold, the Lord has set a king over you. If ye should fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and not resist the mouth of the Lord, and ye and your king that reigns over you should follow the Lord, [it is] well. But if ye should not hearken to the voice of the Lord, and ye should resist the mouth of the Lord, then [with wrath] shall the hand of the Lord be upon you and upon your king. 1

Now behold

And the hand of the Lord came upon me

and I do not know where they have laid Him

’—he comes at midnight

for the enlightenment of me and the world

but the Holy Fathers recognize it as the beginning of all evil

together with thieves

unable to accomplish it easily and accumulating for yourselves a very great  burden of sins

Blessed are the blameless in the way

so it is written

The Lord is risen

you can be a slave of passions