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WE have come to the end of the series on the alleged arrest and trial of Yahoshua with the following conclusions:
1. Who arrested Yahoshua?
According to the differing and conflicting narratives of the four gospels, Yahoshua was arrested by the “chief priests and the elders of the people” (Matthew 26:47), “chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders” (Luke 22:52,54), “chief priests, the teachers of the law, and the elders” (Mark 14:43), or “a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and the Pharisee” (John 18:3,12).
Yahoshua the Nazarene Rabbi was arrested by the local Roman power, Pontius Pilate, to avert political trouble on nationalist grounds. This was done with the collaboration of the Roman-appointed Hebrew religious authorities who felt threatened by Yahoshua’s popularity.
According to John 18:3 and 12, the arresting force constituted Roman soldiers accompanied by the Hebraic temple guard or police.
It was not an operation led by the Hebrew priestly class because the Hebrew were a subject people and therefore their “authorities did not have the power to command Roman troops”.
This renders Saul/Paul in 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 as a falsifier. Is this not the basis of hostility of literalist Pauline (believing) Christians against Judaism? To be a “literalist believer” is one who accepts anything without facts and evidence, questioning, examination or reasoning!
2. When was Yahoshua arrested?
According to the gospels, Yahoshua was arrested on the night of the day before Passover and Sabbath (Matthew 26:50, Mark 14:46, Luke 22:54 and John 18:3,12). The Sabbath preparation and Sabbath days are on Friday and Saturday respectively.
There is a historical assumption that Yahoshua was arrested in the month of Nisan, “which is the first month in the (Judaic) calendar”.
As a religiously practicing Hebrew, Yahoshua the Nazarene would have in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover (“Haggadah” or Festival of the Unleavened Bread), which commences on the 15th of Nisan according to the moon.
To say that the authority of the Sanhedrin arrested Yahoshua is a fictional invention devoid of knowledge about Hebrew law.
The time of Yahoshua’s arrest was an impossibility even if done by Roman-appointed Hebrew authorities.
If he was arrested despite the illegality and fraudulent possibility, then it means Romans forced it to happen because of their disregard of the criminal procedure of a subject people. They then worked with the Roman-appointed members of the Hebrew priestly class as local collaborators, despite the Hebrew authorities being inflexible observers of religious laws.
The Hebraic law was clear that it did not permit the trial of a capital offence to begin at night, on a day before the Sabbath, and on the day before a religious event.
3. Why was Yahoshua arrested?
According to the gospels, Yahoshua is said to have:
(1) committed blasphemy (Matthew 26:62-65, Mark 14:60-64). By definition, blasphemy is when one curses the name of or reviles the Divine – Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin Folio 56a.The legal authority is derived from the Hebrew Scriptures, Leviticus 24:11-23. The penalty for the offence is death by stoning. The “Mishnah” declares that a blasphemer is not guilty unless there is a pronouncement of the name of the Divine (Mishnah, Sanhedrin 7:5);
(2) claimed to be the Messiah, whose Hebrew word is “Mashiach” (Strong’s Hebrew Concordance #4899). This means “usually a consecrated person (as a king or priest)” (Luke 22:66-71). From the Hebrews, a “Mashiach” was to be a nationalist expected to lead in the overthrow of the Roman rule in Judea; and
(3) threatened to destroy the Temple and bring it up in three days (Matthew 26:61; Mark 14:58; John 18:12-24).
Which is the correct and true criminal charge? Which of the gospels is a reliable source and by what criteria?
The arrest of Yahoshua the Nazarene would thus be a fictional impossibility since the criminal charges laid out against him did not warrant the arrest and ill-treatment he suffered.
4. Who tried Yahoshua?
This is the alleged sequence of events: “Yahoshua was arrested at night, appeared before Annas the former High Priest, then Caiaphas the current High Priest (John 18:13, 24), then before the whole Sanhedrin at daybreak (John 18:28; Matt.27:1; Mark 15;1; Luke 22:66), and then they led him to Pilate (Luke 23;1-2; Mark 15:1-2; Matt.27:2), who sent him to king Herod (Luke 23:6-12), who examined him and then returned him to Pilate (Luke 23:13-16).”
None of these events were legal, while the indictment against Yahoshua was illegal because the Hebraic Law stated, “The entire criminal procedure of the Mosaic Code rest upon four rules: 1) certainty in the indictment; 2) publicity in the discussion; 3) full freedom granted to the accused; and 4) assurance against all danger of errors of testimony” (Salvador in, “Institutions de Moise” p365).
Under the Hebrew legal system, only the Sanhedrin could find a person guilty and that did not happen. He was found guilty by a hired angry riff-raff mob!
The involvement of Romans on a supposedly Hebrew crime would have led to a concocted trial of Yahoshua.
This clearly shows that the events to do with the arrest, trial and execution were fraudulent ones or that the gospel narratives were deliberately distorted by ignorant Christian scribes under the authority of the Roman Empire.
Everything scriptural about the arrest and trial of Yahoshua was a brazen violation of the Hebrew laws. Evidence has been provided that the gospels narrative about the arrest and trial of Yahoshua the Nazarene was an ignorant fabrication and a fictional invention with a total disregard of the Hebrew laws.
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