1001 Errors in the Christian Bible

Luke -- Errors 425-431

#425

Luke 21: (KJV)

27 “And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.”

False prophecy. Seems unfair that the Son of 1001 Errors can only count this as One Error.

# 426

Luke 21: (KJV)

32 “Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.”

False prophecy. Jesus appears to have just described himself as one of the false Jesuses not to follow. Is it true that Jesus really means “yes” when he says “no”?

# 427

Luke 21: (KJV)

37 “And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.”

Compare to Matthew 21: (KJV)

17 “And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.”

Luke’s Jesus spent his nights at the mount of Olives while Matthew’s Jesus spent his nights at Bethany originating the term “double occupancy”. Perhaps one was a Jesus double trying to confuse would be assasins.

# 428

Luke 22: (KJV)

1 “Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.”

Technically, Passover and The Feast Of Unleavened Bread are two separate holidays:

Leviticus 23:(JPS)

5 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at dusk, is HaShem'S passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto HaShem”

Apologists can point to Josephus who used “Passover” to refer to the combined eight days of the two holidays but Josephus wrote late first century and you can’t find any good support for this usage of “Passover” early first century. So Luke’s usage is probably anachronistic. Luke still wouldn’t be saved anyway because he claims that the Feast Of Unleavened Bread was also called Passover when in Josephus time it was the entire eight days combined that could be referred to as Passover, at least according to Josephus, and not only the seven days of the Feast.

# 429

Luke 22: (KJV)

2 “And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.”

Compare to Mark 14: (KJV)

1 “After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.”

In the original story, “Mark”, the chief priests and scribes feared an uproar of the people if Jesus was killed on a holiday. Then, as the story goes, the chief priests and scribes had Jesus killed on a holiday. This is a flaw in Mark’s story that the author didn’t deal with. The author of “Luke” recognized this flaw and changed the villains’ fear of “the people” into the reason to kill Jesus and not the reason not to kill Jesus during a holiday. Ironically, 2,000 years later, the day the Christian Bible reports that Jesus was killed is a National holiday in Israel.

# 430

Luke 22: (KJV)

2 “And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.”

Compare to Mark 14: (KJV)

3 “And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.”

Luke omits the anointing of Jesus at Bethany story that Mark and Matthew had (remember that Luke’s Jesus was roughing it by staying at the Mount of Olives while Mark and Matthew’s Jesuses got to stay in Bethany). No wonder Luke’s Jesus’ prophecies all failed. He was never properly anointed as required by the Tanakh. Doh! Guess “Luke” considered anointing “too Jewish”.

# 431

Luke 22: (KJV)

3 “Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.”

Compare to Mark 14: (KJV)

10 ”And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.”

Compare to Matthew 26: (KJV)

14 “Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.”

So, Luke’s Judas betrayed Luke’s Jesus because of Satan, Mark’s Judas betrays Mark’s Jesus for no reason and Matthew’s Judas betrays Matthew’s Jesus for money. We don’t need a Church to present this to the Public, we need a theatre.

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