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#632
John 19: (KJV)
37 “And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him
whom they pierced.”
This appears to try and refer to Zechariah 12: (JPS)
9 “And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to
destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto Me because
they have thrust him through; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth
for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in
bitterness for his first-born.”
“John” appears to have outdone himself here as there isn’t
a single match between any element of his claimed prophecy fulfillment
and the relevant Scripture. “They” in John’s narrative
are the Romans but no there is no reference to Romans in Zechariah. In
John’s narrative the Romans look at him whom they wounded while in
Zechariah God is looked to and a different subject was pierced. “John’s”
fulfillment claim of “pierced” doesn’t even agree to his
own narrative since he wrote “stabbed” or “picked”
and it was translators who mistranslated “pierced”. Zechariah
also has an apocalyptic context that John’s narrative lacks.
# 633
John 19: (KJV)
38 “And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus,
but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take
away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore,
and took the body of Jesus.
39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by
night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound
weight.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with
the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.”
Compare to Mark 15: (KJV)
45 “And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to
Joseph.
46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the
linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled
a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.”
“John’s” Jesus is wrapped by Joseph and Nicodemus while
“Mark’s” Jesus is only wrapped by Joseph. Other oddities
of “John’s” account are that Joseph and Nicodemus have
just made themselves ritually impure for the upcoming Passover by touching
a dead body and Jesus is not buried by his own family (the change from
Joseph the earthly father to Joseph the disciple father is probably not
a coincidence).
# 634
John 19: (KJV)
40 “Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes
with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.”
The underlying Greek word for “linen clothes” should be “linen
strips” which a majority of moderns avoid. The combination of winding
in linen strips with 100 pounds of spices makes an interesting parallel
to mummification.
# 635
John 20: (KJV)
1 “The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when
it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from
the sepulchre.”
Compare to Mark 16: (KJV)
1 “And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the
mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might
come and anoint him.”
Compare to Matthew 28: (KJV)
1 “In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first
day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.”
Compare to Luke 24: (KJV)
10 “It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James,
and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the
apostles.”
Likely the earliest Gospel, “Mark”, has Mary M., another Mary
and Salome visit the cave. “Matthew” reduces to Mary M. and
the other Mary and “John” reduces to Mary M. “Luke”
enlarges to Mary M., the other Mary, Joanna and other women. So, while
we’d all agree that if there was a Jesus he died, regarding the most
important potential evidence for a resurrected Jesus (which is the basis
of disagreement) we have the situation of unknown people determining that
there were 4 anonymous authors whose only agreement here is that none
of them were witnesses to the empty tomb providing us with 4 different
groups of witnesses to the empty tomb all for an event which is Impossible.
A Possible explanation for the direct relationship between the make-up
(pun intended) of the witnesses and the number of anonymous authors is
that the anonymous authors lacked a historical account to base their report
on thus accounting for the variation.
# 636
John 20: (KJV)
1 “The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when
it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from
the sepulchre.
2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple,
whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the LORD out
of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.”
Compare to Mark 16: (KJV)
1 “And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the
mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might
come and anoint him.
2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto
the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from
the door of the sepulchre?
4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it
was very great.
5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the
right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.”
“John’s” Mary M. doesn’t notice anyone inside the
tomb. “Mark’s” Mary M. does.
# 637
John 20: (KJV)
1 “The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when
it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from
the sepulchre.
2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple,
whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the LORD out
of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.”
Compare to Matthew 28: (KJV)
8 “And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and
great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying,
All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.”
“John’s” Mary M. goes from the tomb to Peter. “Matthew’s”
Mary M. is interrupted along the way by Jesus. Seems like kind of an important
detail for “John” to leave out.