Bible Mastery
Matthew Commentary
Matthew is the last gospel written (even after John), but they put it first in the canon because it was their final attempt to get their story straight. Neither Matthew nor any eye-witness follower of Jesus wrote this gospel, because no first century follower was alive to write it in the late second or early third century when it was written. Irenaeus was unaware of Matthew in the late second century, but he pushes the narrative that the Apostle Matthew wrote in the Hebrew tongue. Some people falsely consider Matthew to have had an intended Jewish audience, because it makes so many references to the Jewish Scriptures. However, every single reference to the Jewish Scriptures is a gross manipulation and distortion. If anything, the gospel of Matthew was an insult to the Jews. A thorough study of Matthew alone, exposes the false narrative of Christianity from the very beginning. A verse by verse commentary would be too long, so I will hit the highlights of ridiculous lies throughout Matthew here.
Matthew 1
Verse 17, You have to do funny math to make this work. Matthew lists 14 generations from Abraham to David (if you count both Abraham and David). Matthew lists 14 generations from David to Jeconiah, but you can't count David or you get 15. Matthew lists 14 generations from Jeconiah to Jesus, but you have to count both Jeconiah and Jesus. So David is only counted once but you must count Jeconiah twice. Some people suggest that Joseph was Mary's dad, which would make 14 without double counting Jeconiah. There are 27 generations from David to Jesus in Matthew (not counting David), but there are 42 generations from David to Jesus in Luke (not counting David).
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Verse 19, This verse says Joseph was Mary's husband (not father), and that he was righteous who didn't want to put Mary to death for adultery, as he is commanded to do in Deut. 22:23-24, so he decided to divorce her privately instead. How could Joseph be righteous for disobeying God's law? A Jew would recognize this error.
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Verse 20, Joseph had to be the biological father of Jesus in order for Jesus to be considered the son of David. The Bible consistently and repeatedly identifies Joseph's lineage from David, but never once gives Mary's lineage. Luke tells us that Mary was the cousin of Elizabeth and that Elizabeth was of the daughters of Aaron, which means she was of the tribe of Levi, not Judah.
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Verse 21, the angel told Joseph to name the boy Jesus, then Matthew quotes Isaiah 7:14 as if this was a fulfillment to name the boy Immanuel. Someone forgot to tell the angel that his name was supposed to be Immanuel. Matthew simply quoted Isaiah 7 because the anonymous pagan Roman author wanted to create a false narrative that Jesus was a demigod who was miraculously born by the union of the Jewish God with a mortal woman (Mary). There were many Greek demigods born by the union of a god with a mortal. This is not Jewish culture and Isaiah 7 is not even about a miraculous sexless birth to a virgin girl. If you will be honest with yourself, the virgin birth narrative alone will tell you that liars wrote the Jesus story.
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Verses 24-25, Joseph takes Mary to be his wife, but doesn't have sex with her until after Jesus was born. "Matthew" is doubling down on his claim that Joseph was not the father. "Matthew" fails to realize that the entire genealogy he just cited is completely irrelevant if Joseph is not the father. Also, Jesus could not be the son of David, if Jesus was really the son of God. Just stop lying to yourself and admit the obvious truth. Matthew is lying. We can know Matthew was not an eye witness to the birth of Jesus and we can know that he was not divinely inspired by God, because his arguments are not logical or consistent.
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Note, an unnamed angel came to Joseph in Matthew but the angel named Gabriel came to Mary in Luke.
Matthew 2
Verse 2, Only Matthew tells of the wise men and the star of Bethlehem. Luke tells of shepherds instead. It is dishonest to assume a text in Divinely inspired and incapable of error. This is how people get brainwashed to believe lies. Matthew is the latest gospel written and Matthew included a lot of things that no other gospel includes. This does not indicate infallible knowledge, on the contrary, it indicates late additions to support the fictional narrative.
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Verse 6, Micah 5:2 is cited as a prophecy for Bethlehem to be the birthplace of the future Messiah, but Micah 5:5-6 says that this ruler would protect them from Assyrian invasion. Hezekiah is famous for protecting Israel from Assyrian invasion and Micah 1:1 mentions Hezekiah in the author's purview. Micah 5:2 is not a prophecy about Jesus being born in Bethlehem, but instead this citation demonstrates the Christians intention to pull verses out of context and create a fictional narrative about this Jesus character they were creating from literature and philosophy and propaganda.
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Verse 15, Matthew quotes Hosea 11:1 and claims that Jesus fled to Egypt to escape the infanticide of Herod in order to fulfill the prophecy that God would call his son out of Egypt. However, Hosea 11:1 says that Israel was God's son, not Jesus. Hosea 11:1 is about when Moses led Israel out of Egypt, but Matthew changes the meaning and creates a completely fictional narrative just to associate Jesus with a verse that could be manipulated to seem like a prophecy. The Jesus narrative was completely created from literature, rather than by eye witnesses to events. Jesus never went to Egypt, Herod never killed babies, Matthew is a con artist, and Christians are easily fooled.
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Verse 18, Matthew manipulates Jeremiah 31:15 to suggest that Herod's infanticide was predicted, but Jeremiah is simply a reference to Babylonian oppression. Matthew is obviously creating a narrative by duplicating and reassigning meaning from previous Jewish literature. Any Jew would recognize this, therefore the intended audience of Matthew is not the Jews. The Jews were the intended brunt of the mockery however.
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Verses 22:23, Matthew claims that Joseph took Jesus to live in Nazareth in order to fulfill a prophecy that he would be called a Nazarene. Matthew completely screwed up here. There is no such prophecy or even a passage remotely associated with this claim. Luke just says Joseph was from Nazareth both before and after the birth of Jesus.
Matthew 3
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Verse 4, this verse says John the Baptist wore camel's hair with a leather belt and he ate locusts and wild honey. This exactly matches Mark 1:6, and Mark is overwhelmingly considered to be an earlier work. Why would an eye witness Apostle copy from someone who was not an eye witness? Obviously, the Jesus narrative is a product of literary composition rather than eye witness testimony.
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Verse 9, this verse is mocking the Jews who claim to have some benefit in relation to their bloodline association to Abraham. It says God could raise up children of Abraham from stones. This is obviously an anti-Jewish sentiment. This is further evidence that the author of this gospel was mocking the Jews rather than supporting them.
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Verse 11, John the Baptist announces the coming of one who is greater than him, but according to Luke 7:19, JTB was unsure if Jesus was that person, even after JTB baptizes Jesus in Luke 3:21 and hears a voice from Heaven saying this is my son in who I am well pleased. You would think that if God actually performed miracles for JTB at the baptism of Jesus, then JTB wouldn't struggle with who God's chosen one was.
Matthew 4
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Verses 12-14, Matthew says Jesus left Nazareth and moved to Capernaum for the sole purpose of fulfilling prophecy and he references Isaiah 9:1-2 which doesn't even mention Capernaum. It does mention the land of Zebulun and Naphtali, but it is not a prophecy about anything. This is just another example of how Christians created the Jesus narrative by ripping Hebrew literature out of its context and assigning new meaning to fit their agenda. John 2:12 says jesus went to Capernaum but he did not stay there many days. The gospels contradict each other when you look at the details.
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Verse 23, Jesus supposedly healed everyone of all their diseases not only in a small area, but in the whole surrounding regions. Matthew says Jesus was a renowned healer and people brought all their sick to him to be healed. If this really happened, there would be historical confirmation of the famous healer in Galilee in the 30's, but there is no evidence that this happened. This is obvious mythology.
Matthew 5
3, the beattitudes are listed also in Luke 6:20, but in less detail. Matthew adds a lot to Luke's version, which either indicates that Matthew added to Luke or Luke thought Matthew provided too many details about what Jesus taught. It is much more likely that the teachings of Jesus grew over time, than lost detail. Matthew is the longest and most comprehensive gospel, likely because they continued to add to the story of Jesus over time.
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13, the salt of the earth. If you look at Mark 9:49 and Luke 14:34, you can see how this tradition grew over time. Mark is the least detailed and Matthew is the most detailed and negative. The salt of the earth passages indicate to me that Mark was written first, then Luke, then Matthew. Mark said salt is good, but if salt loses it's flavor how can you season it, therefore have peace with your neighbors. Luke said salt is good but if it loses its flavor how can you season it, it is not fit for land or the dunghill, but throw it out. Finally, Matthew says you are the salt of the earth, but if salt loses its flavor it is good for nothing but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot.
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17-18, Matthew is unique in saying Jesus didn't come to destroy but to fulfill the law and the prophets. This is a significant passage and everyone wants to interpret it to fit their narrative. The teaching is clearly that the Jewish Law was fully in effect until every jot and tittle of the law was fulfilled. Therefore, if anyone claims that any Jewish prophecy is not fulfilled today, then the entire Jewish Law is still in effect. Paul comes along later and clearly teaches the end of the Law, so if you believe the Bible, you must believe everything is already fulfilled. This is a powerful verse for the Preterist doctrine, which teaches the fulfillment of all things, but most Christians refuse to believe all things are fulfilled and also refuse to believe the Jewish Law is still in effect. Therefore, most Christians reject the teachings of Jesus.
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21-22, Jesus didn't think God was restrictive enough in the Old Testament, so he increases the legalistic burdens. You have heard it said, thou shalt not murder, but I say don't even get angry without a cause, and if you call someone raka (stupid) or moros (fool), you will be in danger of judgement and hell fire. I guess Jesus is in danger of hellfire, because he called the Jews moros twice in Matt 23:17-19. I guess we will see Jesus in Hell.
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27-28, Jesus said lusting for a woman is committing adultery in the heart. Matthew is depicting Jesus as a radical legalist and perfectionist. This is consistent with my perspective that the Romans created Christianity in mockery of the Jews. The Romans were essentially mocking the Jewish idea of obtaining God's favor by law keeping. The Romans were also making their case for why God wanted to destroy the Jews.
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29-30, Jesus teaches self mutilation in response to sin. Jesus taught to pluck out your right eye or your right hand if they cause you to stumble, because it is better to be cripple than to go to Hell. Once again, this is a ridiculous teaching. It is amazing to me how people say Jesus was a wise teacher. This is evil and disgusting. As I was reading from Josephus one day, I noticed there were several examples of people cutting off hands as a form of punishment for rebellion. This is most likely a teaching reflecting brutal war practices.
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31-32, Only Matthew adds the loophole for divorce as being for the cause of adultery. Mark 10 does not allow divorce at all, and Luke 16:18 does not allow remarriage, but Matthew allows a man to divorce his wife, IF the wife is sexually immoral. It is far past time that we recognize the teachings of Jesus as ridiculous Roman propaganda. Deuteronomy 24 is where you can read about Jewish divorce laws.
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38-39, you have heard it said (in Jewish Law) and eye for an eye and tooth for tooth, but Jesus said do not even resist the evil person and if they punch you in the face, let them punch the other side also. Read Ex. 21:24, Lev 24:20, and Deut 19:21 for comparison. Matthew is clearly using Jesus to teach that the Jews should not rebel against Rome, even if the Romans are considered evil and oppressive. Christians just make excuses about how this is just teaching the honorable attitude of humility.
Matthew 6
9-13, the Lord's prayer is shorter in Luke 11:2-4, but some manuscripts of Luke try to fill in the gaps. The Egyptian Book of the Dead has a very similar prayer, which indicates prior traditions, rather than an original teaching by Jesus.
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15, if you don't forgive others then God won't forgive you, hmm, so back to eye for an eye concept now. Forget about mercy or love or grace. It is just forgive or you will not be forgiven, and Christians will make excuses why this is not a contradiction. Is unforgiveness the unforgivable sin?
Matthew 7
3, why do you see the speck in another eye but not the beam in yours? I believe Luke was written first and Matthew copied this from Luke 6:41.
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12, the golden rule, whatever you want others to do to you, that is how you should treat them. Luke 6:31 duplicates this saying, but in a different order. Christians like to suggest the gospel are independent accounts, but that is ridiculous. They are obviously just updating previous versions of the gospel story. The gospels are not independent eye witness testimonies. They are propagation and development of a narrative with an agenda.
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13, wide and narrow gate. Luke 13:24 has a similar saying but Luke provides more context than Matthew, which is rare. Usually Matthew provides more detail than Luke. I think Matthew was written after Luke, but I am not sure if Matthew was just updating Luke or if there was this hypothetical Q Source that was being updated. That source could have been the Gospel of the Lord published by Marcion.
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21, not everyone who calls me Lord, Lord. I saw something interesting on this recently. The Greek phrase Lord, Lord (kyrios, kyrios) is most likely a reference to the Hebrew phrase Lord God (Yahweh Elohim), but Jesus goes on to say that people need to obey his father in Heaven. Yahweh had no father, but Jesus did, according to their own testimonies in the Bible. Trinitarians created the nonsensical trinity doctrine in an attempt to salvage the poor Greek interpretations of the Hebrew God.
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24, the wise man builds his house on rock. In Luke 6:48, the wise man builds on a foundation. It is the same idea, but someone (likely Matthew's author) decided to upgrade the previous version (Luke) with rock and sand vs foundation/no foundation.
Matthew 8
2, Jesus touched a leper to heal him. This story is also in Mark 1:41 and Luke 5:13 and what is interesting is that it was a violation of Torah law to touch an unclean person. This is an example of Jesus violating Torah Law. This would make Jesus a sinner (Leviticus 5:3). Not only does Jesus violate the law not to touch unclean humans, but he violates the same passage again by hiding his sin. That is two sins for Jesus in the same occasion.
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8, Jesus heals a Roman Centurian's servant without even touching the person, so why did Jesus violate the law by touching the unclean leper? So Jesus heals Romans purely based on the Roman faith, but he has to touch unclean Jews in violation of Jewish Law. Think about that! Jesus represented the Roman narrative, not the Jewish narrative.
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17, quoting Isaiah 53:4, he took our infirmities and bore our diseases. The Greek Septuagint uses the words infirmities and diseases, but the Hebrew text says sins and sorrows. Matthew is quoting the Greek instead of the Hebrew, which is commonly what all Christian writers did, because they were Greek people instead of Hebrew people. The Hebrews were being exterminated by the Greeks and Christianity is the Greek replacement religion for the Hebrew religion.
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21-22, Jesus wouldn't even allow a man to bury his father. This is another example of Jesus violating Torah. This man wanted to honor his father, but Jesus said he was more important than that man's father. "whoever does not honor father and mother must be stoned to death."
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26, Jesus commands the winds and waves to be still. Luke 8:24 and Mark 4:39 also claim that Jesus had supernatural power over the weather. Only Christians fail to see this violation of Torah from Deut 18:10-12. All sorcery, witchcraft, divination, spells, and necromancy was forbidden by the Jewish Law, but Jesus was representing the Greek Deities, not the Hebrew one. Jesus was comparative to the mighty Zeus, Greek storm god and Christians can't see it.
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34, Jesus casts a demon out of a man and into pigs who drown. This story is also told in Mark 5 and Luke 8. Joseph Atwell suggests that this story is a lampoon of Titus killing Jews in the Sea of Galilee in the first Roman-Jewish war, and I believe he is right. The writings of Josephus were certainly used as a model to create the Gospel narrative, and Jesus was often the actor playing the role of Caesar Titus. The story says the people were afraid of Jesus and asked him to leave their town. Now why would people be afraid of someone who cured a demon possessed man, and why would there be a heard of pigs in the Jewish land that considered pigs to be unclean? The Romans considered the Jews to be unclean and they created Jesus to represent the Greek narrative in the battle between the Romans and Jews.
Matthew 9
5, Jesus forgives sins and heals a lame man. The same story is in Mark 2 and Luke 5. Those in Capernaum were not afraid of Jesus and praised him as a man whom God has given the ability to heal. Those who accepted Jesus were the friends of the Romans and enemies of the Jews. The Jews were the unclean pigs in the gospel story, but the Romans were the good guys. The gospel narrative is directly related to the Roman-Jewish wars. If you don't know that, then you need to study more.
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9, Matthew was apparently a tax collector. If Matthew wrote this, why didn't he say, I was a tax collector? Not only that, but Luke 5:29 says the tax man was named Levi. In Mark 2:14 Levi is called the son of Alphaeus. The Bible never says Matthew was also called Levi or that Matthew was the son of Alphaeus, but Christians just assume Matthew and Levi are the same person, because they have to in order to avoid contradiction. Matthew 10:3, Mark 3:18, Luke 6:15, and Acts 1:13 all list Matthew as an Apostle but says another Apostle named James was the son of Alphaeus.
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18, Jairus daughter is healed. Luke 8:41 and Mark 5:22 tell the same story of resurrecting a 12 year old girl along with the healing of a woman with an issue of blood. Mark and Luke identify the father as Jairus, but Matthew doesn't identify the father. It is rare that Matthew has less detail than the Mark and Luke. There is probably some reason why "Matthew" didn't want to include Jairus name. Joseph Atwell talks about a connection with this Jairus and one in Josephus writings.
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34, Jesus is accused of casting out demons by the power of demons. This is the unforgivable sin, but the unforgivable sin is not mentioned except in Matthew 12:32 and Mark 3:29.
Matthew 10
20, Jesus tells his Apostles that when they are arrested God will speak through them by his spirit. There is no need to send the Holy Spirit if it could already direct their words. It is in John that Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit after he leaves, but that is an obvious false promise since Christianity has never had a spirit of truth or unity.
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33, whoever denies Jesus before men, he will deny before his father. Well, I guess all the Apostles will be denied before God because Matthew 26:56 says they all forsook Jesus in order to fulfill prophecy.
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35-37, Jesus says he came to cause division in the household. This is a quote of Micah 7:6, but it is also a violation of the command to honor father and mother. This is just another example of how the Jesus narrative was created from previous literature. The Romans took everything out of its original context and created a fictional narrative to apply to their mythical Jesus Demigod.
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38-39, you are not worthy of Jesus unless you take up your cross and die like he did. Watch how this instruction gradually increases in intensity from Mark to Luke to Matthew. Mark 8:34 says to take up your cross and follow me. Luke 14:27 says if you don't bear your own cross, you can't be my disciple. Matt says if you don't bear your cross you are not worthy of me. Mark 8:35, Luke 17:33, and John 12:25 also teach dying for Jesus. Christians soften Jesus words because they don't really want to die for Jesus. They say it just means put Jesus first.
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42, if you just give a little one a cup of water in Jesus name, you will never lose your reward. I have given many little ones a cup of water, so I guess I am all good.
Matthew 11
3, John the Baptist sends people while he is in prison to ask Jesus if he is the Messiah. John must have forgotten that God spoke from Heaven after the baptism of Jesus, and said this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased (Matt 3:17). This is not remotely logical. We are dealing with mythology rather than historical accounts.
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10, a voice crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord. Matthew, Mark (1:2), and Luke (7:27) all quote some form of this verse either from Isaiah 40:3 or Malachi 3:1 in association with John the Baptist being the forerunner to "the Lord" Jesus. Trinitarians and human worshippers like to use this quotation to suggest that Jesus is Yahweh, but this is just another example of someone ripping a Jewish Scripture out of its context and reassigning a Roman interpretation to their new Roman Demigod Jesus. When the Jews talked about God coming to them, they did not expect God to come dwell in flesh on earth. To them, God's presence was undetectable except for the blessings they received when their God was pleased with them. The Greeks and Romans simply literalized this idea of God dwelling with men and applied the messenger role to John the Baptist and the Lord role to Jesus. Jesus is clearly not Yahweh, since Jesus said his father was the one true God (John 17:3).
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14, was John the "Elijah" who was to come before the Lord (Malachi 4:5)? Matthew 11:14, Mark 9:13, and Luke 1:17 all say that John was Elijah, but in John 1:21, John the Baptist said he was NOT Elijah. John the Baptist was just totally confused apparently. He didn't know Jesus was the Messiah even though God told him with a booming voice from Heaven, and John didn't know he was Elijah. How silly.
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20, Jesus rebukes the cities of Galilee (Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum) because they didn't believe, even though Jesus healed everyone of all their diseases. Matthew said earlier that Jesus was such a famous healer, people were bringing him their sick from all over the region, and he healed them all. It is not logical that all these people believed enough to bring their sick, and then when home with their sicknesses healed, and then they stopped believing in Jesus. The only reason they would stop believing in Jesus is if he didn't really heal them. I suspect that the true reason the cities of Galilee were rebuked by Jesus is because this was the Roman narrative to explain why the cities of Galilee were conquered by the Romans in the 60's. I believe Joseph Atwell is on the right track in his book Caesar's Messiah. The Jesus narrative was written as a parallel account to the Roman's conquest of Israel in the first century.
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25, Jesus thanks God for hiding the truth from the wise and understanding. Why would Jesus be thankful for hiding the truth? Why would Jesus not want to reveal the truth, instead of hide the truth? Because Jesus is a liar and the whole Christian narrative is a lie. Luke 10:21 is a parallel passage.
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27, Jesus continues his mysteriousness by saying no one knows who God is but Jesus and no one knows who Jesus is except the father (Luke 10:22 parallel). Joseph Atwell is correct, in my opinion, that the reason Jesus said this is because the father was Vespasian and the son was Titus. Jesus and his father were actors or role players in the religious scam to control the Roman Empire with a mysterious Emperor Cult in disguise. I think it is most likely that these narratives developed during the reign of Domitian and during the life of Josephus in the late first century. Domitian was Deifying his brother and father with this mysterious Emperor Cult, and Domitian himself expected to be Deified as the Holy Spirit who would come after the son (Titus) left.
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30, my yoke is easy and my burden is light, except you have to be hated by all men, you have to hate your own family and your own life, you need to take up your cross and give your life for Jesus and you need to forsake everything to follow Jesus. Sure, his yoke is easy, all you have to do is completely give up everything, including your own happiness and family. How ridiculous!
Matthew 12
1, plucking heads of grain on the Sabbath. The Jews were told not to work on Sabbath, not that they could not eat. Plucking a head of grain to eat is not harvesting the crops, but the Romans hated the Jews so much, they created this narrative to mock how ridiculous they thought the Jews were. Mark 2:23 and Luke 6:1 also tell this story, but Mark adds one detail that the others took out. Mark said the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. This is indicating that God just wanted to bless men with one day of rest without obligation, not that God created Sabbath as a rule to oppress men with. The only reason I see for taking this logical statement out is, the Romans did not want to depict the Jewish God as a loving and compassionate God. The Romans needed the Jewish God to be a God of destruction.
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17-18, I will put my spirit on my servant and he will proclaim justice to the nations. Matthew quotes Isaiah 42:1, but Luke 4:18 quotes Isaiah 61:1. If you would just study Isaiah in its context, the servant of God is repeatedly identified as Israel or Jacob, but the Romans ripped these verses out of context and applied them to their fictional Demigod Jesus. There is no prophecy here. There is no prediction of the future. There is only a reinterpretation to fit a new narrative.
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31, the unforgiveable sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. If this narrative was written when I suspect it was (during the reign of Domitian), then this could be interpreted to mean, Vespasian and Titus are dead, but don't talk ugly about the reigning Emperor Domitian. The parallels are in Mark 3:28 and Luke 12:10.
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39, no sign to this generation except the sign of Jonah. Luke 11:29 is the parallel, but Luke doesn't mention Jonah inside the fish. Luke only mentions the preaching and repentance in Nineveh. Matthew thought Luke left out an important detail, so he corrected it and added that Jesus would be in the belly of the earth 3 days and 3 nights like Jonah was in the belly of the fish. Mark never mentions Jonah or Nineveh. Also, is Jesus admitting that he never healed anyone? If the only sign that generation would see was his resurrection, then he shouldn't have healed everyone of all their diseases. This is a contradiction, no matter how bad you want to deny it.
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50, who is my mother and brother, except those who obey me? Not only does Jesus dishonor his own mother here, but there is another interesting point to make here. Mark 3:35 uses the phrase will of God. Luke 8:21 uses the phrase word of God, but Matthew12:50 uses the phrase my father in Heaven. I suspect Matthew liked the title father more than God, because the father was really Vespasian.
Matthew 13
1-2, Jesus teaches multitudes from a boat. Mark 4 and Luke 8 also tell similar stories, but with minor differences. Jesus gives the parable of the sower, his reason for speaking in parables (to hide truth), and the interpretation of the sower to his disciples.
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25, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. Only Matthew teaches this parable and it is clearly a reference to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Just let the bad seeds grow alongside the good ones and then at the harvest we will separate the good from the bad. The harvest of souls was when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 CE. This is not a prediction of the future, but it is a parable about the past war. This is a critical point to understand if you want to "master the Bible."
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31-32, the smallest seed grows into a tree. mark 4:30 and Luke 13:19 are parallels, but there could be a mistranslation of what is called the mustard seed. Mustard seeds do not grown into trees where birds can nest. Mustard is a weed, not a tree. We can't even know what seed Jesus was talking about.
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35, fulfilling prophecy to speak in parables. Jesus says he spoke in parables for the purpose of hiding truth in order to fulfill Psalm 78:2, but Psalm 78:4 says we will NOT hide truths from our children. An honest person should be able to see that the stated reason Jesus spoke in parables was contrary to Psalm 78 reason. Jesus wanted to hide truth, but God wanted to reveal truth.
44-50, three parables of the value of the kingdom. Only Matthew tells these three parables about selling everything to obtain the Kingdom. Whoever does not sell everything will be thrown in a furnace of fire where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Christians sure don't obey Jesus here. Why don't they sell everything? Why do they make excuses as to why Jesus didn't mean what he said? Why aren't they afraid they will be burned in fire? Christianity has always been a threat to believe or be tortured. This is a disgusting human manipulation tactic. It is a vain threat.
55-56, Jesus was the son of Joseph, not adopted. Here in Matthew 13, Mark 6:3, Luke 4:22, and John 6:42, Jesus is called the son of Joseph and Mary. Jesus supposedly had brothers named James, Joses, Simon, and Judas. There is no distinction made about the uniqueness of Jesus relationship with any of his family, yet we are supposed to believe Jesus was born from a virgin in a miraculous sexless union between her and the one true God.
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57, a prophet is not without honor except in his own country. Luke 4:24 and John 4:44 are parallel. Jesus called himself a prophet here. Jesus did not consider himself to be a Divine person.
Matthew 14
8, beheading John the Baptist. Matthew and Mark 6:24 mention the death of JTB, but Luke does not. It is interesting that Luke cut this out.
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17, five loaves and two fish. Mark 6:38, Luke 9:13, and John 6:9 repeat this miracle. Matthew 15:34 tells another story about seven loaves and a few small fish, but if you read Matthew 15, the disciples are just as worried that they are all going to starve, as if they never saw Jesus multiply bread and fish before. It is not logical, it is mythology.
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25, Jesus walks on water. Mark 6:48 and John 6:19 are parallel. Peter does not walk on water in Mark or Luke, but he does in Matthew. Did Mark and John forget this significant detail, or did Matthew think it would be cool if Peter walked on water too?
Matthew 15
2, hand washing tradition. Mark 7:1-23 is the parallel. As Jesus rebukes the Jews, he says it is not what enters the mouth that defiles the man, but what comes out of the mouth that defiles. Jesus is essentially disregarding the Jewish food restrictions. This would be another sin on his part. Jesus represented the Roman narrative, not the Jewish narrative. Jesus was constantly rebuking the Jews and disrespecting their laws. The Romans won the war with the Jews, then Christianity appeared on the scene. It is obvious.
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24, Jesus was only sent to Israel. This is where Jesus calls a Canaanite woman a dog, but healed her daughter anyway, after he insulted her. Why was Jesus only sent to Israel, you ask? Because the Romans needed Jesus to rebuke his own people. The threats from Jesus were only targeting the Jews of the first century who were rebelling against Rome. Jesus was not sent to us today. I am sorry, but Jesus is completely irrelevant today.
Matthew 16
9-10, Matthew mentions the two occasions where Jesus fed multitudes with different amounts of fish and bread and scraps. This gives me the idea that there were different traditions about feeding multitudes with fish and bread, so rather than pick one tradition, Matthew just adopts them both. Kind of like when he tells the story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on two donkeys at the same time. This is not eye witness testimony. This is recording competing literary traditions.
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16, thou art the Christ, the son of God. This is Peter's great confession. Mark 8:27 and Luke 9:18 are parallels, but only Matthew and Mark mention Caesarea Philippi Philip the Tetrarch built this city and it was named after him possibly after Jesus was supposed to be dead already. The mention of Caesarea Philippi could be a telling indication that the gospel stories were written long after the events they claim to teach.
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28, some standing here will not die before they see Jesus return in his Kingdom. This is the main verse that exposes the lies of Christianity. Jesus either had to return in the glory of his father with his angels for judgment before his Apostles all died, or else he was a liar. This is not describing the transfiguration or the resurrection. This is what Christians call the Second Coming. Mark 9:1 and Luke 9:27 are parallels.
Matthew 17
2, the transfiguration. Luke 9:28 and Mark 9:2 are parallels. Matthew and Mark say it happened six days later, but Luke says it was about eight days later. Since the transfiguration happened right after the promise of his return in his Kingdom, most Christians desperately hold to the transfiguration as the fulfillment of Jesus promise to return in his kingdom before all of his Apostles died, but none of them died in those 6-8 days and Jesus didn't reward everyone according to their works either. It is a shame they have to lie to defend Jesus.
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12, Elijah already came and they killed him. Jesus says John the Baptist was Elijah in fulfillment of Malachi 4:5-6, but John the Baptist said he was not Elijah in John 1:21. Who was right? Was John the reincarnation of Elijah or was he just the spirit of Elijah or is this all just force feeding a doctrine down gullible believers throats?
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17-18, Jesus rebukes his own Apostles lack of faith. The Apostles couldn't cast out a demon so Jesus insults his Apostles and says he will cast out the demon since they are too stupid and faithless. Mark 9:14-29 is a parallel but gives a different reason why they failed. Mark said that kind of demon only comes out by prayer and fasting, but Matthew just said they didn't have enough faith. I say no one has ever been possessed by a demon and this is all hogwash.
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27, Jesus pays taxes with a coin in a fishes mouth. Only Matthew tells this story about Peter catching a fish that has a coin in his mouth to pay taxes with. This story could uncover some timing and dating issues with the amount of taxes paid and the types of coins mentioned, but I have not studied those details.
Matthew 18
8-9, cut off your hand, foot, or eye rather than go to Hell. What good is self mutilation? If you ever walk where you shouldn't go, then Jesus says you should cut off your feet. If you ever look at what you shouldn't look at, you should pluck out your eyes. How could such a wicked evil teacher maintain such a reputation of being a wise and good teacher? There is nothing wise or good about self mutilation. mark 9:43-48 is a parallel passage. Even in the New Heaven and Earth from Isaiah 66:24 there is a place where the worm never dies and the fire is not quenched.
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11, Jesus came to save the lost. The King James Version includes this verse but the manuscript evidence is weak. Luke 19:10 is a parallel. So, did Jesus save the lost or didn't he? Was Jesus successful or did he fail? Jesus wasn't sent to us, he was sent to the lost sheep of Israel. Did he save them?
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17, brotherly discipline. If someone sins against you tell him and the assembly, but if he doesn't repent, count him as a gentile or tax collector. Peter immediately ask how many times should he forgive and Jesus answers 70 times 7. Luke 17:4 adds the condition of repentance before forgiveness, but Matthew doesn't expressly say it.
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34, torment your debtors until they pay in full. While on the subject of forgiveness, Jesus tells a parable of a man who was forgiven a debt, but went out and demanded that his debtors pay him. This makes Jesus mad and he justifies torturing the hypocrite until he pays in full. Did you catch the irony? Jesus said forgive 70 times 7 times, but this guy wasn't given any extra chances. Maybe Jesus deserves to be tortured for eternity.
Matthew 19
9, divorce except for adultery is wrong. Mark 10:11 and Luke 16:18 are parallel, but do not include the exception. Matthew realized that Mark and Luke were too restrictive, so he just threw in an exception.
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17, why call me good? Jesus said no one is good but God alone. Brainwashed Christians will use this verse to teach that Jesus was claiming to be the only good God, because he didn't expressly say he was not good, he just asked why do you call me good. This is the kind of reasoning that demonstrates that Christians will look for every possible excuse to worship a man as God, even when he expressly says he is not God. Jesus claimed to be the son of God who was sent by God and that he did not speak on his own authority. You have to be really braindead to think Jesus was God. Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19 are parallels.
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18-19, which commandments should I obey? Jesus lists 6 of the 10 commandments in Matthew. Mark 10:19 adds defraud and Luke 18:20 only lists 5 commandments. Matthew is always trying to improve on Mark and Luke.
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28, twelve thrones. Jesus told his Apostles they would sit on 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel when he (Jesus) sits on his throne. Luke 22:30 is parallel. I guess all the thrones are occupied. This shows the connection between the New and Old Testaments with the number 12. The number of Apostles had to match the number of Tribes. Jesus was the new Moses. The Jesus story is just a literary compilation that used previous literature as its model. It is not a true story.
Matthew 20
11-12, full days wage for one hour of work. Only Matthew tells this parable. So what motivation could he have for telling a story about a Master handing out equal payment for different amounts of work? Maybe he was teaching that even if you convert to our religion late, at least you converted and we won't have to kill you now.
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18, Jesus predicts his death in Jerusalem. Mark 8:31, Mark 9:30, mark 10:32, Luke 9:21, Luke 9:43, Luke 18:31, Matt 16:21, Matt 17:22, Matt 20:17, and Matt 26:32 all say that Jesus predicted his death. They wanted to make sure that all the readers would know that it was no accident that Jesus died. Jesus also predicts his resurrection many times, but for some strange reason his Apostles didn't understand what Jesus was talking about. How odd.
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23, I don't have authority to let you sit next to me. We just read how Jesus was going to give the Apostles 12 thrones to judge the 12 tribes of Israel, now Jesus is saying only his Father has authority to do these things. The Bible claims many times that Jesus would have all authority, so we have identified another contradiction. John 3:35, 1 Peter 3:22, Matt 11:27, Eph 1:20, Heb 2:8, 1 Cor 15:27, John 17:2, Phil 2:9, John 13:3, and other verses teach that Jesus would have all authority.
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30, son of David. Two blind men ask Jesus, the son of David to heal them, but Matthew can't figure out whether Jesus was really the son of David or if he was the son of God. A son of David would be a regular human who descended from David, but Christians think Jesus was a Divine son of God who had no earthly father. Matt 22:42 expressly teaches that Jesus was the Lord of David, instead of the son of David. This ridiculousness should teach you that the Christian narrative is human philosophy full of errors and contradictions.
Matthew 21
2, the two donkeys, LOL. You will find a donkey and her colt. Untie them and bring them to me. Matthew misinterprets Zech. 9:9, even though Mark 11:2 and Luke 19:30 get it right. It was supposed to be a colt of a donkey only, but Matthew misunderstood and says Jesus rode on a donkey and he colt at the same time. This is evidence that we are reading fallible human words instead of divine infallible words.
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16, out of the mouth of babes, you have perfected praise. Only Matthew quotes Psalm 8:2. Luke 19:38 says blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord and if they were quiet the stones would cry out. Funny how Psalm 8:2 actually says you have defeated your enemies and silenced the foe. This is more evidence of Matthews screwups.
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46, afraid to seize Jesus because of the multitudes considered him to be a prophet. They considered Jesus to be a prophet, the did not consider him to be a god or the God, but Christians today consider him to be the God. Even the people who hated Jesus in according to the Bible considered him to be a regular human, not a Deity. If God became flesh, why would he hide his divinity from the people he came to convince? Obviously, God just wanted to deceive and judge. Wake up!
Matthew 22
14, many are called but few are chosen. Why was Jesus so restrictive and narrow minded? Why wouldn't God want to save everyone? Because it is really about the destruction of Jewish rebels by the Romans and it is not even about what people call God today.
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21, render to Caesar what is Caesar's. Mark 12:17 and Luke 20:25 also teach paying Roman taxes. This is a critical teaching that was never left out. Paul teaches heavily on obeying and submitting to Rome in Romans 13. This is what it is all about.
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25, whose wife will she be in the resurrection. A woman gets married to seven brothers so whose wife will she be in Heaven? Jesus says there is no marriage in Heaven. Mark 12:19 and Luke 20:29 are parallels.
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32, the God of the living, Jesus makes the point that the Hebrew God claimed to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob after they were dead, therefore God is the God of the living. He is actually teaching that the resurrection already happened, which is another contradiction. If Abraham was not really dead, he was resurrected, but it would have to be in an unseen spiritual realm. This would negate all who teach in the physical resurrection of the body. Mark 12:26 and Luke 20:37 are parallel.
36, the greatest command. Mark first addressed this in Mark 12:29 and he quotes the Shema saying Yahweh is our God and Yahweh is one, followed by you shall love God with all your heart. Matthew deliberately cut out the shema (our God is one) because Matthew was written later and the Trinity doctrine was becoming favorable.
42, whose son is the Christ? Mark 12:35 and Luke 20:41 are parallels. This blatant lie exposes Christians for what they really are, liars. All three gospels teach that Jesus was not supposed to be the son of David but was supposed to be the Lord of David, based on a misunderstanding of Psalm 110:1. Yahweh was David's Lord in the OT and Psalm 110 is a song about David and his Lord Yahweh, but the Christians interpret Psalm 110 to be written by David who says Yahweh is talking to Jesus instead. When you have to lie to support Jesus, your scam is exposed.
Matthew 23
35, Jesus hated and wanted to kill the Jews. The Romans were actually the ones who hated the Jews, but they just created a fictional Jewish Messiah to teach their message for them. Luke 11:50-51 is parallel. Who was this Zechariah son of Barachiah who was killed in the Temple? I think Joseph Atwell said something interesting here. I will update this note later.
Matthew 24
3, the Temple will be destroyed. Jesus supposedly predicts the Temple, but the truth is, the Romans wrote this propaganda after the Temple was destroyed. They associated the destruction of the Temple with the return of Jesus and the end of an era or age (the Jewish Temple age). Mark 13:3-4 and Luke 21:7 are parallels. The Biblical return of Jesus was in 70 CE at the destruction of the Temple. Christianity just perpetually extends the return of Jesus into the future because it is such an effective control mechanism.
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34, this generation will not pass until all things are fulfilled. Jesus was not talking about our generation. He was telling his Apostles that they would see all these things happen before they died. Christians just perpetually extend the return of Jesus into the future because it is an effective control mechanism. Mark 13:30 and Luke 21:32 are parallels.
Matthew 25
3-4, wise virgins took extra oil. Only Mattthew tells of these wise virgins who bring extra oil while they wait for the groom to arrive. How wise were the millions of Christians who were bringing extra oil for the last 2,000 years waiting for Jesus to arrive? They would have drained the world of all oil by now. This is essentially teaching that Jesus only wanted to wait long enough that he could catch his enemies off guard so he could bring sudden destruction on them when they didn't expect it. This is another reference to the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70CE.
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26-29, you knew I reaped where I did not sow. The parable of the Talents depicts Jesus as a wicked Master who at least expects more in return than he contributed. Then Jesus says to those who have more will be given, but to those who don't have, even what they have will be taken away. Jesus is no Robin Hood. Jesus steals from the poor and gives to the rich. Luke 19:11-27 is a parallel, but Luke says Jesus commanded the execution of those who would not accept his kingship. Open your eyes! This is the Roman narrative against rebellious Jews.
35, I was hungry and you didn't feed me. This only appears in Matthew. It is just another way to justify the destruction of the enemies of Rome. Just dehumanize your enemies and kill them. Why can people not see this?
Matthew 26
5, Don't arrest Jesus during the feast, but they did. Verse 17 says they were preparing to eat the Passover when it was the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. This demonstrates that no intelligent Jew proofread Matthew. The Passover is the first day of the feast followed by 7 days of unleavened bread. Verse 20 says Jesus ate the Passover meal. In verse 30 they sang a song and went out to the Mount of Olives (after supper at night). In verse 31 Jesus says he will be betrayed the same night. According to Matthew (Mark and Luke), Jesus was arrested, tried, crucified, and buried before the sun set after they ate the Passover meal. This would require all the Pharisees to also eat the Passover meal and immediately go arrest Jesus and try him through the night, obtain the audience of Pontus Pilate, and get a conviction by early morning so they could get Jesus on the cross, all during the exact same day that they were supposed to be observing the Passover. There are many contradictions and illogical conclusions in the crucifixion scene and I will get into those details on another page. John 19:14 says Jesus was on trial during the Preparation Day before Passover. This would actually make more sense. They should have preferred to do their executions before the 8 day feast started, not during the feast.
56, fulfilling what scripture? Matthew claims that all his disciples fled in order to fulfill scripture, but that is not prophesied. If he has any particular passage in mind, it would be a passage that they used to model their fictional story after and not some legitimate prediction of a betrayed and murdered Jewish Messiah.
Matthew 27
9, thirty pieces of silver blunder. Matthew says Jesus was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver and then Judas threw the money back at the chief priest and they bought a field with the blood money. Matthew mistakenly says this is a fulfillment of Jeremiah, but he should have at least referenced Zechariah instead of Jeremiah. Zechariah is not a prediction of a Jewish Messiah being betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, but it is the literary model that was cherry picked to create the fictional story of Jesus.
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15, releasing Barabbas. Matthew, Mark (15:6), Luke (23:18), and John (18:39) all say Pilate had a custom of releasing Jewish prisoners at the Passover, but this is not remotely likely or plausible. If Pilate release a murderer who was arrested after insurrection just to appease the Jews, Caesar would have had Pilate's head on a platter. This is a story about two sons of God and a choice that Pilate offered to the Jews. Would you Jews rather me release this peaceful son of God who is innocent and wonderful, or the wicked evil son of God (bar Abba) who is a murderer and insurrectionist? The wicked Jews wanted the insurrectionist instead of peace, so the Romans killed the Jews and replaced their religion.
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19, Pilates wife believes Jesus. Only Matthew involves Pilates wife in the story. Pilates wife has a dream about how Jesus is a righteous man, so she asks Pilate not to kill Jesus. So according to Matthew, Pilate releases an insurrectionist murderer to appease the Jews and ignores the advice of his wife.
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45, darkness from noon to 3 PM. Matthew requires Jesus to be on the cross during the day time hours on the same day that they ate the Passover meal at sundown the night before, but Matthew also wants Jesus to be taken off the cross before Passover, and that is impossible.
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56, Mary, the mother of James and Joses. It is very odd that Matthew says Mary Magdelene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee witnessed the crucifixion. This Mary who was the mother of James and Joses should be Jesus' mother Mary, but why was she not listed at the mother of Jesus? I think the reason Matthew would say it like this is because he didn't want to portray Jesus as a regular man, but as a Deity who didn't even need a mother. Jesus insulted his mother according to Matthew and didn't even consider her his mother.
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57, Joseph of Arimathea was Josephus. In the Autobiography of Josephus toward the very end, Josephus sees three of his old friends on a cross and asks Titus to let his friends down. Titus agrees, but two of the friends die, but one of them survives. There was no place call Arimathea, but Josephus was the son of Matthias, so he was Joseph bar Matthias (Joseph of Arimathea). There are too many parallels to ignore here. Joseph Atwell in Caesars Messiah was on the right track.
Matthew 28
15, bribing the Tomb guards. The author of Matthew wanted to cover his bases so he addressed a potential explanation for how Jesus could have escaped the guarded tomb. So Matthew comes up with the idea that the disciples of Jesus stole his body while the guards slept. Now this would certainly result in the death of the guards, so Matthew makes sure the Jews comfort the guards with assurance that they would take care of Pilate if he has questions. It is absolutely ridiculous to think the Jews could control Pontus Pilate. This is obvious fiction.
18, All authority is given to Jesus in heaven and earth. Jesus told James and John earlier that only his father could grant them to sit on his right and left, but now Jesus has all authority in Heaven and earth. This would certainly imply that Jesus had no father God anymore, because he had become the ultimate authority. There are many problems with this.
19, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is the only verse in the entire Bible that says to do anything in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is a strong indication that this was written later than all the other gospels, because the Trinity concept was not original in Christianity. Trinity became doctrine in 381 CE at the Counsel of Constantinople. They didn't even talk about Trinity at the Counsel of Nicea in 325 CE.