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Matthew -- Errors 113-119
#113
Matthew 23: (KJV)
31 “Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the
children of them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure
of your fathers.”
Jesus is inciting the “scribes and Pharisees” to fulfill their
destiny and murder him. Murder was probably the worst sin of the Law and
in 5:19(KJV) Jesus said:
“Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,
and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of
heaven”
Another example of “do what I say, not what I do”. Right in
the middle of a Milleresque type rant on hypocrisy too.
#114
Matthew 23: (KJV)
35 “That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the
earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son
of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.”
According to Chronicles it was Zechariah (Zacharias) son of Jehoiada who
was killed by the temple. II Chronicles 24: (JPS)
20 “And the spirit of G-d clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada
the priest; and he stood above the people, and said unto them: 'Thus saith
G-d: Why transgress ye the commandments of HaShem, that ye cannot prosper?
because ye have forsaken HaShem, He hath also forsaken you.' 21 And they
conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of
the king in the court of the house of HaShem.”
It’s clear from the context that Jesus is trying to present the first
and last murders from the Tanakh and Zechariah son of Jehoiada was the
last recorded murder in the Tanakh.
There is no evidence in the Tanakh or in any other writings that Zechariah
the Prophet was murdered let alone murdered by the Temple. The first Temple
had already been destroyed in Zechariah the Prophet’s time. Christian
apologists are so desperate for an explanation here that the traditional
apology has been that “the Jews” must have removed from the
Tanakh whatever murder Jesus was referring to.
#115
Matthew 23: (KJV)
34 “Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men,
and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them
shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth,
from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias,
whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.”
Hard to know exactly who Jesus is addressing here since it was preceded
by “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers” but whoever it is
Jesus is already judging them for what they supposedly will do in the
future and also judging them for what they didn’t do in the past
“whom ye slew between the temple and the altar”. Previously
Jesus said, 7:(KJV)
1 “Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment
ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall
be measured to you again.”
So again it’s “do what I say, not do what I do”. Apparently
hypocrisy is contagious.
#116
Matthew 23: (KJV)
36 “Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this
generation.”
False prophecy. There is no objective evidence that the Scribes and Pharisees
of Jesus’ time received the damnation of hell. The Greek wording
of 23:36 is normally used by the author of “Matthew” in an eschatological
sense.
#117
Matthew 24: (KJV)
1 “And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples
came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said
unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall
not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
The author of “Matthew” was likely aware that Caesar ordered
the whole city and the temple razed to the ground but apparently this
was never accomplished as the Western Wall partially survived the Roman
destruction of the Temple buildings.
#118
Matthew 24: (KJV)
14 “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the
world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
Contradicted by 10: (KJV)
23 “…verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the
cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.”
#119
Matthew 24: (KJV)
29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the
sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,”
The moon does not produce light it only reflects light.
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