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John -- Errors 586-589
#586
John 12: (KJV)
34 “The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that
Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted
up? who is this Son of man?”
The “law” normally refers to the Pentateuch which not surprisingly
refers primarily to the law and has next to nothing to say about Messiahs.
Even if “law” is expanded to include the entire Tanakh there
isn’t any verse saying that the Messiah will abideth for ever. In
the Tanakh only God abideth forever.
# 587
John 12: (KJV)
37 “But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they
believed not on him:
38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he
spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of
the Lord been revealed?”
“John” is giving one of Christianity’s earliest apologies,
that “the Jews” not believing the historical Jesus fulfilled
prophecy. In order to try and support this unnatural observation “John”
presents a quote from Isaiah (which agrees with Greek Christian translations
of the Tanakh word for word – surprise) supposedly showing “the
Jews” as the confessing witnesses at the start of Isaiah 53. The
chapter divisions though are
Christian Medevil inventions and a look at the end of so called Chapter
52 makes clear that it is the Gentiles who are the confessing witnesses
(he startle many nations, kings shall shut their mouths) and not “the
Jews”:
Isaiah 52: (JPS)
11: “Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean
thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, ye that bear the vessels
of HaShem.
12
For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight; for HaShem
will go before you, and the G-d of Israel will be your rearward.
13
Behold, My servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and
shall be very high.
14
According as many were appalled at thee--so marred was his visage unlike
that of a man, and his form unlike that of the sons of men--
15
So shall he startle many nations, kings shall shut their mouths because
of him; for that which had not been told them shall they see, and that
which they had not heard shall they perceive.
53:1
'Who would have believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of HaShem
been revealed?
2
For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground;
he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty
that we should delight in him.
3
He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with
disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and
we esteemed him not.”
Too bad no one ever knew who “John” was to ask him to apologize
for giving “the Jews” the opposite role of what Isaiah prophesied.
This is especially inappropriate for one so fond of calling “the
Jews” “liars”.
# 588
John 12: (KJV)
39 “For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah
says elsewhere:
40"He has blinded their eyes
and deadened their hearts,
so they can neither see with their eyes,
nor understand with their hearts,
nor turn--and I would heal them.”
Compare to Matthew 13: (KJV)
13 “Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing
see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 “And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith,
By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall
see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of
hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should
see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with
their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.”
“John” misquotes Isaiah himself in an editorial comment in order
to blasphemy God’s chosen and thereby God Himself while “Matthew”
has this blasphemy committed by Jesus to hedge his bets.
# 589
John 12: (KJV)
39 “For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah
says elsewhere:
40"He has blinded their eyes
and deadened their hearts,
so they can neither see with their eyes,
nor understand with their hearts,
nor turn--and I would heal them.”
Compare to what Isaiah said elsewhere:
Isaiah 6: (JPS)
1 “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the L-rd sitting upon
a throne high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.
2
Above Him stood the seraphim; each one had six wings: with twain he covered
his face and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3
And one called unto another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, is HaShem of
hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.
4
And the posts of the door were moved at the voice of them that called,
and the house was filled with smoke.
5
Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes
have seen the King, HaShem of hosts.
6
Then flew unto me one of the seraphim, with a glowing stone in his hand,
which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;
7
and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.
8
And I heard the voice of the L-rd, saying: Whom shall I send, and who
will go for us? Then I said: 'Here am I; send me.'
9
And He said: 'Go, and tell this people: hear ye indeed, but understand
not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.”
10
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut
their eyes; lest they, seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their
ears, and understanding with their heart, return, and be healed.'
“John’s” quote doesn’t agree with any known translation
(surprise) and it’s clear from the context of Isaiah that the excerpt
was addressed to Isaiah. The Christian Bible describes this phenomena
as “prophecy fulfillment” while outside of the Christian Bible
it would be described as “lying”.