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Luke -- Errors 445-450
#445
Luke 22: (KJV)
66 “And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the
chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council,
saying,
67 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you,
ye will not believe:
68 And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.
69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of
God.
70 Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto
them, Ye say that I am.
71 And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have
heard of his own mouth.”
“The Jews” of the time had no conception (pun intended) that
anyone was literally the “son of god” and the term “son
of god” to them indicated either an unusually righteous person or
a title for the Messiah. When Luke’s Jews ask Jesus if he is the
Messiah he gives an indefinite answer. Then “the Jews” ask if
Jesus is “the son of god” with the implication by Luke that
this meant something other than “the Messiah” to the Jews. “Son
of god” would have only meant something different to the Christians
of “Luke’s” time and not the Jews of Jesus’ supposed
time. Jesus then gives another indefinite answer and Luke’s Jews
take this as a yes and evidence of guilt. But to the Jews of that time
claiming that one was the son of God and therefore either very righteous
or the Messiah would not have been a violation of the Law.
# 446
Luke 22: (KJV)
66 “And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the
chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council,
saying,
67 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you,
ye will not believe:
68 And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.
69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of
God.
70 Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto
them, Ye say that I am.
71 And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have
heard of his own mouth.”
Compare to Mark 14: (KJV)
55 “And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness
against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
56 For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not
together.
57 And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,
58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands,
and within three days I will build another made without hands.
59 But neither so did their witness agree together.
60 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying,
Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest
asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the
right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
63 Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any
further witnesses?”
“Mark” has witnesses testify against Jesus while “Luke”
has removed the witnesses to protect the guilty. Mark’s use of witnesses
here is one of the funnier parts of the Christian Bible. The Jews, who
have no problem manipulating Pilate like a puppet are also easily able
to manufacture false witnesses but are unable to provide these false witnesses
with the required testimony to convict Jesus even though they could by
just telling the truth about how Jesus caused a disturbance in the Temple.
Then, when Mark’s witnesses give a false testimony (that’s really
true) and by Mark’s words agree, Mark says they don’t agree.
Apparently I’m not the only one who found Mark’s account amusing.
# 447
Luke 22: (KJV)
6 “When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were
a Galilaean.
7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he
sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.
8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous
to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him;
and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
9 Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.
10 And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.
11 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and
arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.”
Mark and Matthew don’t report this very critical information.
# 448
Luke 23: (KJV)
16 “I will therefore chastise him, and release him.”
Compare to Mark 15: (KJV)
9 “But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto
you the King of the Jews?”
Luke’s Pilate decides on his own to release Jesus while Mark’s
Pilate asks “the Jews” if they want Pilate to release Jesus.
# 449
Luke 23: (KJV)
25 “And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder
was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to
their will.”
There is no evidence outside of Christian writings that the Romans ever
released murderous insurrectionists. Unfortunately the Gospels don’t
record Pilate’s answer to Ceasar’s question, “You did what?!”.
# 450
Luke 23: (KJV)
25 “And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder
was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to
their will.
26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian,
coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might
bear it after Jesus.”
Compare to Mark 15: (KJV)
15 “And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas
unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and
they call together the whole band.
17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and
put it about his head,
18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!
19 And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him,
and bowing their knees worshipped him.
20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and
put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of
the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.”
Luke’s Jesus is not mocked by the Roman soldiers like Mark’s
Jesus is (Luke’s Jesus was previously mocked by “the Jews”).
Apparently the author of “Luke” wanted to relieve the Romans
of responsibility for Jesus’ demise and put it on “the Jews”.
Successfully, I think.