Garibay: Except for one person, everyone is around the table drinking and laughing.
I don't know if you are familiar with the last chapter of Luke...

So the figure at the center is a woman - she could be mistaken for a man
because she has short hair- she is drinking with them and kind of telling a Joke
and everybody is laughing around her.

But the point is that the joke is that people are laughing because
they thought all along that Jesus was a man,
and that Jesus is a Caucasian looking guy, you know...
all these conventional concepts about Jesus.

I have a different image of Jesus which is that of a woman,
a very ordinary looking Filipino woman, who drinks with them and has stories to tell.
The idea of laughing is very common among Filipinos-to laugh at their mistakes.
It's all part of understanding the culture and it's also part of
contextualizing the concept of faith within the culture.

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