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Hi Ficino, I tend to like Stephen' suggestion that John Mark is used just to tie Peter and Paul together. Perhaps the author wanted to explain why Mark writes nothing about Paul and that's why he brings up the split. On the other hand, following the supposition that this was an historical reference ...

Hi Ficino,

Actual footage from Pamphylia of the fight between John Mark (clean shaven) and Paul (beard and mustache).



Warmly,

Jay Raskin

Hi maryhelena, Why not a physical crucifixion in heaven and a metaphorical crucifixion on Earth? Couldn't I, as a good pagan, say that John Lennon was crucified by the NRA in the United States the way Zeus crucified Prometheus? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY-ftTvsC7M or the San Francisco Giants ...

Hi Andrew, Thank you for this. The passage I quoted does seem to be from the Babylonian Talmud and not the Mishnah. However I am not sure that there is nothing in the Mishnah about Jesus as magician. G.J. Goldberg draws parallels to Jesus as magician in Mishnah Taanit 3:8 see Honi the Circle-drawer ...

Hi Blood, It is interesting that Polycrates daughter draemt of his crucifixion before she could have possibly known that he was going to be crucified. We find the same thing in Matthew 17:19 - While Pilate was sitting in the judgment hall, his wife sent him a message: "Have nothing to do with t...

Hi Adam, Sorry, I try to use logical deductions and check my imagination as much as possible. It doesn't matter what we imagine, it matters what we can demonstrate to be most probable. Warmly, Jay Raskin Jay, I've always said that you are very inventive and imaginative, thus a pleasure to read that ...

Hi Leucius Charinus, The traditional date of the Mishnah, the first part of the Talmud is around 200 CE, which I don't think is too far from the time of the NT gospels creation. I think visual evidence for Jesus first being regarded as a magician is quite striking, See http://www.rome101.com/Topics/...

Hi Charlie, Thanks for this. I am not sure about the whole unclean thing as the text does not discuss it, but I think the scene strongly supports the idea that Jesus was the Rich Man in the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. Look at the full text of the scene: 12 Then Jesus six days before the pas...

Thanks Charlie, What other stuff do you have about Jesus being unclean when he was crucified? I have been thinking further about Jesus coming from a family of lepers, with his father being Simon and his brother being Lazarus. This seems to me to be a perfect charge that the Jews would make against J...

Hi All, This is a companion thread to the thread "Why Jesus Cut off the Ear of the High Priest" http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=988 . As with that proposal, it takes what is now gibberish and shows how with very small, logical changes, we get a logical story that fit...