1001 Errors in the Christian Bible

John -- Errors 618-624

#618

John 19: (KJV)

11 “Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.”

The logic of this sentence is backwards. The first part indicates there is a greater power than Pilate that gave Pilate his power. The second part indicates that a lesser power brought Jesus to Pilate, a greater power, yet the lesser power has more responsibility for the sin. Backwards. The greater power should have more responsibility. Seems the soul purpose of this backwards sentence is to blame “The Jews”.

# 619

John 19: (KJV)

17 “And he bearing his cross”

“Cross” is an anachronistic mistranslation and should be “stake” which is the primary meaning of the underlying Greek word. There does not appear to be a single known Greek author of the time who ever explicitly identifies the underlying Greek word “stauros” as being two intersecting stakes in the shape of what is now considered a cross.

# 620

John 19: (KJV)

17 “And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:”

Compare to Mark 15: (KJV)

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.”

“John’s” Jesus carried his own stake. “Mark’s” Jesus had a Simon carry Jesus’ cross. Next to John 19:17 there should be a Warning Sign that says, “Danger, Men Theologizing”.

# 621

John 19: (KJV)

19 “And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Compare to Luke 23: (KJV)

38 “And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Two different Jesuses?

# 622

John 19: (KJV)

25 “Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.”

“Cross” is an anachronistic mistranslation.

# 623

John 19: (KJV)

25 “Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.”

Compare to Matthew 27: (KJV)

50 “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children.”

According to “John” whose witness testimony says he was not a witness to the crucifixion assorted women witnesses who unlike him were witnesses to the crucifixion even though the subsequent Christianity decided not to preserve the testimony of theses women witnesses who were witnesses according to a “John” and decided to preserve the witness testimony of “John” who testified that he was not a witness to the crucifixion these witness/non-witnesses were witnessing/non-witnessing next to the stake(s). According to “Matthew”, whose own Gospel indicates that he was probably really “Levi” and not “Matthew” and therefore can’t even reliably testify about his own identity, whose witness testimony says he was not a witness to the crucifixion assorted women witnesses who unlike him were witnesses to the crucifixion even though the subsequent Christianity decided not to preserve the testimony of theses women witnesses who were witnesses according to a “Matthew” and decided to preserve the witness testimony of “Matthew” who testified that he was not a witness to the crucifixion these witness/non-witnesses were witnessing/non-witnessing not next to the stake(s). The only agreement here between “John” and “Matthew” is that both agree that the other was not a witness. The world renowned Hyperpologist, JP Holding, has harmonized the location of the witness/non-witnesses women according to “John” and “Matthew” by speculating that during the crucifixion the women entertained themselves by playing pin the tail on Jesus’ donkey which accounts for the change in their location during the crucifixion and the related bonus apology that the necessary blindfolds for the game prevented them for providing testimony.

# 624

John 19: (KJV)

25 “Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.”

Compare to Mark 15: (KJV)

40 “There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;”

So many women, so little agreement. “John” and “Mark”, who indicate they were not witnesses to the crucifixion but women were and have subsequent Christianity treat them like they were witnesses to the crucifixion and treat the women like they weren’t, whose only agreement here is that neither said the other was a witness, disagree about who the women witnesses were that subsequent Christianity decided not to believe (surprise).

But seriously folktales, here you have all the Gospel authors indicating that the witnesses to the most important event in the history of Christianity were women yet subsequent Christianity decided not to preserve any testimony written by these women. This is the type of result you are left with when a story is about an event which was not historical. Authorship can not then be based on real memories.

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