Smurfed Behind: The Passion Of The Smurfs/Part 2

The next morning, Tapper woke up and left the camp to head into Jerusalem, but he didn't leave the camp alone. Smurfette and some other Smurfs such as Brainy, Clumsy, Grouchy, and Duncan saw him leaving the camp early that morning and decided to follow him. Smurfette went first because she was curious about seeing the Almighty's Son in person, and the other four simply followed because they didn't want either Tapper or Smurfette to wander off by themselves, with Grouchy not wanting to be with them but also not wanting to see Tapper in danger.

Tapper made it through the bustling crowd that arose early that morning to start their business, eager to see what would happen next according to what he remembered from Scripture. He waited near a fig tree until the Son would appear in the city when he heard somebody whispering his name. He turned and saw who it was. "Smurfette!" Tapped whispered back. "Great Smurfiny Crickets, you shouldn't be following me here all by yourself!"

"I'm sorry, Tapper, but I wanted to see the Son for myself, since I know how much He means to you and what you believe in," Smurfette said.

"That's quite all right, Smurfette, as long as we keep ourselves out of smurf around here," Tapper said. "So far I haven't seen Him arrive into the city, so He must still be in Bethany at this time."

"Bethany?" Smurfette asked. "What's so important about that place?"

"That is where He had dined at the house of Simon the leper, and while He was dining, a woman with an alabaster flask had anointed the Lord with a very costly ointment smurfed of spikenard," Tapper said.

"I can see that these places are very important to you, Tapper," Smurfette said.

"I feel very privileged to be smurfing in one of those places right now, just to see how the Almighty will smurf His plan of redemption for all mankind and creation by smurfing His Son here, Smurfette," Tapper said. "Oh, I wish that we could have been here at the time when John the Baptist was busy preaching and baptizing people in preparation for the Lord's coming. To see the heavens part and the Holy Spirit smurfing upon the Son like a dove, and to hear the voice from heaven smurfing, 'This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased'...oh, it would seem like the closest thing to heaven to me."

"It just doesn't seem right that we have to be here just to watch him die, Tapper," Smurfette said. "I mean, what has He done to deserve such a fate?"

"It isn't what He has done, but what mankind has done by committing the first sin that has made all of mankind become sinners, Smurfette," Tapper said. "The only way that mankind can be redeemed back to God is through the smurfing of blood from an innocent, and there's no one who could be more innocent than that of the Lamb of God who was born of a virgin to smurf away the sins of the world."

"Isn't there any other way that this Almighty could have forgiven His creation?" Smurfette asked.

"I'm sorry to tell you that there isn't any other way, my dear Smurfette," Tapper said. "God had smurfed it to be this way from the very beginning, and now it must happen that His Son must smurf to the cross on the hill of Calvary outside Jerusalem around the time of Passover, which will be days from now."

"Laddie," another voice called out in a whisper. "If you're going to smurf out of camp to see your Messiah, you're going to need your friends to smurf you out of danger."

Tapper and Smurfette saw that Duncan, Brainy, Clumsy, and Grouchy had also left the camp. "Duncan, you shouldn't have brought the others along with you," Tapper said as the four of them joined him and Smurfette.

"I only came along because I wanted to remind you of Papa Smurf's instructions not to interfere with history in any smurf or form, Tapper, even as much as you would want to smurf this Savior of yours in person," Brainy said. "Unfortunately, I can't get Clumsy to stay smurf in the camp for whatever reasons that he wanted to smurf along with me."

"Gosh, are we really going to see this Messiah again?" Clumsy asked, sounding curious.

"I hate seeing the Messiah again," Grouchy said.

"He should be arriving sometime today, because people will be in the Temple smurfing their merchandise that the Lord will smurf out of there," Tapper said.

To be expanded on.