He was a man, like any man, woman or child, who had many sides to him. There really are few, if any, one-dimensional people around. All of us are conglomerates of anger and love, of joy and sadness, of hope and despair, of faith and doubt. And as a member of the human race, he was just like that: a person of many qualities, capable of many feelings, thoughts and expressions.

One time, Jesus of Nazareth proposed to go to Bethany in Judea because his long-time friend, Lazarus, had died. A lot of his friends tried to persuade Jesus not to go. After all, it hadn't been that long ago that the people of that region had tried to stone him. It may not have been a safe place to go back to. But Jesus was resolute, and so our man-of-many-sides stood up and announced: "Let us also go, that we may die…