Courageous men and women still follow him

Worked at carpentry, we know. Knew fishing. We know he took his beating with dignity. That even as he died, he cared for others, his followers, his mother, and the guy on the next cross, then faded out reciting scripture and, finally, turning it all over to Dad.

We also know his tears as he gazed at doomed Jerusalem the last time.

Mostly we know about his man card by how strong Galilean fishermen dropped everything in their lives to follow him even when they didn't understand much about where they were going. These were not dumb rednecks, they were smart rednecks, men of strong faith and, as their later lives attest, inspiring courage. Much of that testifies to their Master, but they were men going in.

And as the world's greatest women's liberator, he also did in a certain light "make women men" (joke/Gosp of Thom ref), as we see in the courage of the Magdalene, who was the first herald of the resurrection, and even to that woman who, upon threat of death for aiding a condemned man, sought to comfort him as he carried the crossbeam. Women who stood at the cross.

And don't forget the documentarian Luke reported the Centurion who, watching that magnificent death, declared the condemned to have been a righteous man. Figure that Centurion had seen a few crucifixions and wasn't easily impressed.

Courageous men and women still follow him.