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Hello Giuseppe -- I'm going to create a little minor mischief here - I'm even going to ask Huller to contribute and we all know how highly he thinks of anything I compose - but what follows looks to another understanding. Acts 18: 28 (RSV): [28] for he powerfully confuted the Jews in public, showing...

Thank you, andrewcriddle -- There are several pointers to Verginius Rufus. "He wore the toga...", emblematic of High Authority in the Roman Hierarchy (Was the toga limited to Senate Membership?). "Having a hoof on one foot" may be an indicator of clumsiness which is literally what did VR in - he dro...

GJohn CORRECTS the Synoptic Versions (Both GJohn and the Synoptics derive from the same Ur-Text ok but the Ur-Text had to be similar to proto-John, since only there Jesus is called Son of Father (and we know that Bar-Abbas is the his synoptical judaizing parody). A little Progress here and that is ...

We all know the story: John 1:29 (RSV): [29] The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! Actually, "We" don't. Here is what happens when you ignore the Roman fingerprints that are all over this text. "Lamb of God" is Semitic ...

John 1: 15 (RSV):

[15] (John bore witness to him, and cried, "This was he of whom I said, `He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.'")

The John character is of Bilgah. The Jesus character is of Immer.

Hello Joe W -- Please excuse the interruption here but, as usual, you have Posted something that resonates. There is another verse in this grouping that begs for analysis: Mark 1: 20 (RSV): [20] And immediately he called them; and they left their father Zeb'edee in the boat with the hired servants, ...

In other words, what it says defeats the purpose of "Judaizers" because it says outright that "I myself am not under the law." Acts 22: 25 - 29 (RSV): [25] But when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a ...

...what other evidence is there which contradicts the idea that when the gospel was written the author had in mind Titus's mass crucifixion of the Jews? ...Is there a second piece of evidence? Mark 13: 17 (RSV): [17] And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days! J...

John2 -- I commend you for a thoughtful Post. That is, I agree with a lot of what you say! So here's my big picture view again. I suspect Luke and Acts were written by Paul's (and later Josephus') patron Epaphroditus and that he is the person of the same name who was executed by Domitian c. 95 CE. I...

John 1: 2 - 3 (RSV): [2] He was in the beginning with God; [3] all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. He does not have to "Overcome" the World. He created it. These verses quoted above by you are Catholic interpolations. In their place, the original (...