davidmartin wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 2:40 am
Guiseppe, agree with you
ok but: G
iuseppe, please.
Note that the hirelings left with
Zebedee/Dositheus/John/Theudas/Thomas is an implicit accusation addressed by "Mark" (author) against the followers of John who wanted to remain faithful to their old leader, even after his Death. That accusation of "mercenaries" could be historically addressed by the followers of the Baptist, when they saw that many of them, gradually, started to join the Jesus cult and/or to identify Jesus as John
Risen. Therefore they cried "Betrayers!" but the Mark's irony is that they were the real "mercenaries", wanting to remain with their "father"
Zebedee/Dositheus/John/Theudas/Thomas
Hence the Jesus of paper fused the Simon Magus cult and the Baptist sect in only a new sect.
Traces of the co-optation of the Magus is in Mark 14:3-9, where Simon Magus became Simon the Leper, and the Sophia imprisoned, as Helen of Troy "with long hair", by 7 Archons, was cast in the prostitute freed by Jesus from 7 demons:
Magd-Helen = Magdalene.
Hence, the Jesus of paper wanted
for himself the woman who was exclusive (well: not so exclusive!) property of the Magus.
But, even if the honour of rehabilitating the prostitute Helen was usurped by the Jesus of paper from the Magus, the gospels say us that the women helped by their money the Jesus and the 12. Hence, even by the money won by Magdalene when she "worked" as prostitute.
An impure origin of these money, used by Jesus to eat and drink, while the Sinedrites rejected the money of Judah in virtue of their impure origin.
Evidently, already for the Jesus of paper,
pecunia non olet.