#scribes

JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. In this Bible story, Jesus warns His followers against teachers who value their status more than their mission. They wear long, rich robes to show off their status. They go out to marketplaces to be recognized and greeted. They receive seats of honor at lavish banquets. They recite lengthy prayers in public to impress people with their piety. Yet, when entrusted by law with helping to manage the assets of grieving widows, they take advantage and cheat them out of their property (Jesus says they "devour the houses of widows" in most translations). These hypocrites like to LOOK good instead of BEING good, and Jesus says that'll earn them a terrible punishment. 2. In this cartoon, Jesus says His line from the Bible, ending with, "Yet they devour the houses of widows." He's explaining how the hypocritical teachers take advantage of people, and a nearby widow quietly listens and concurs. Suddenly, a flock of hypocritical teachers descends to feast upon her home, and she's forced to fight the literal embodiment of Jesus's figurative speech. 3. I've said it before, but using straight up verbs as onomatopoeias is super funny to me, and a lofty scholar hissing while he's thwacked by a broomstick is surely novel, right?