Showing posts with label Pontius Pilate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pontius Pilate. Show all posts

Thursday, November 27, 2025

The blood curse in Matthew indicates Jesus' Jewish opponents didn't get the Ezekiel memo, either

 

Nothing could be more Jewish than the blood curse, except maybe Judaism arguing with itself about it.

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

-- Matthew 27:24f.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. 

-- Ezekiel 18:20

Jesus certainly didn't get the memo:

... the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechari'ah ... shall be required of this generation.

-- Luke 11:51

The Torah was divided on the subject:

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 

-- Deuteronomy 24:16

Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

-- Deuteronomy 5:9

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Luke uniquely among the evangelists specifies preaching tax avoidance as the reason the Jewish authorities said Jesus must die

 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King. 

-- Luke 23:2

Yet the gospels all, including Luke, have Pilate focus on the charge of Jesus claiming to be King of the Jews, despite "how many things they witness against thee":

Art thou the King of the Jews?

-- Luke 23:3

Art thou the King of the Jews?

-- Matthew 27:11

Art thou the King of the Jews?

-- Mark 15:2

Art thou the King of the Jews?

-- John 18:33

The charge of forbidding to give tribute is doubtlessly an inference from Jesus' standard for discipleship, a religious detail uninteresting to the likes of an oblivious Pilate but entirely subversive of the Jewish client state's status quo:

So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.  

-- Luke 14:33

A disciple without possessions, family, and occupation is a revolutionary who cannot pay tribute to Caesar, let alone pay fellow Jews for sacrifices in the temple.

Praying "Thy kingdom come" however requires no mammon.

And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

-- Matthew 21:13

And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

-- Mark 11:17

Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

-- Luke 19:46

Luke's gospel time and again makes more sense of Jesus the eschatological prophet than any of the other gospels.

Lukas war Historiker.


 

Friday, April 3, 2015

Luke's Jesus predicts it, but Luke never says that Pontius Pilate scourged Jesus or that Jesus was scourged

And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.

-- Luke 18:33

Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

-- Matthew 27:26

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

-- Mark 15:15

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.

-- John 19:1