This article was made to find out whether or not Yehoshua's last meal with his disciples was either a regular meal, or actually the Passover. The reason for this is because of the blatant errors or contradictions in the gospels regarding that night and the testimony that leads up to that time. Some believers in Jesus however, cannot accept the fact that there are errors, contradictions, and discrepancies in the gospels. I
really cannot talk to these types of people because they are intellectually dishonest, and by being such,
they can very well portray Yehowah's only begotten son as a sinner, by believing that this meal was the Passover. Now to answer this foregoing question blatantly, that meal was NOT the Passover. For if
this truly was the Passover, Jesus and his disciples would have all been breaking the commandments of
Yehowah in a grand fashion; thus, making all of them sinners. Likewise, if that was truly the case, then that transgression would automatically disqualify Yehoshua as the moshiach, for he must not sin.
We all know, (or you should know,) that the messiah of Israel must not ever sin if he is to be qualified as the messiah; thus, he must be Torah-observant or an orthodox Jew (not with the modern Jewish meaning). He also must be greater than all the prophets that were before him, in every way, like: in converting folks to holiness through the law (like Jonah, Elijah and...), in miracles (like Moses, Elijah, and Elisha and others) and in teaching (like Moses, Samuel, Solomon and others). Likewise, in order for the Father, or the God of Israel, to replace the sin offerings in His Torah, the messiah himself cannot ever sin. For the animal of the sin offering according to the holy torah must be flawless - without blemish.
In this article I will prove that this last supper was not the Passover so that you may
know for certain that the accounts of that particular night by Matthew, Mark and Luke
are all false; whereas John's account is trustworthy. By the proof I will
provide, you will also see that the authors of those three gospels have displayed
their ignorance of the law. For if these authors knew the law at all, they would not have written the story down in the manner that they did. Or again, if they would have been
well-versed in the Torah at all, they would have discredited the story the very moment it was handed down to them. Having done thus, they would have never put it down on parchment to make Jesus look like a sinner as well as all those present with him. In this paper I will prove that this "Matthew" was not even there at the meal and that the 'Gospel of Matthew' was not even written by a torah-observant man named Matthew, (which he would have to be in order to follow the moshiach of Y'israel). In truth, you will learn that the Gospel of "Matthew" was penned by a Gentile, as was also the gospels of Mark and Luke. Instead, it was the original "Universal Church of the Holy Roman Empire" that put the name of Matthew on these writings, because 'it sounded like him.' While in fact, these people have never met Matthew. Furthermore, if you know the law at all, (which you should if you desire to be with the holy son of the Father in the future), you will then also know that when you read this gospel, it contradicts the various doctrines of the Torah. It also has Jesus sinning several times, in fact, as well as other righteous people. The fact of the matter is that this gospel is actually peppered with lore and apocryphal writings that simply are not true. I do not want to get into this however, so let us move on.
First off all, I want to show you the discrepancies between the first three gospels when compared to John's gospel. Then I want to show you a portion of the law itself about the Passover meal so that you can see for yourself where Jesus would be portrayed as a sinner if this particular night had been the Passover. I will then prove what night this actually was by one special word that is found in all four gospels. This word is also found in Paul's writings, and lastly by King David, through prophesy about that night. This particular prophecy was said around 990 years before the night Yehoshua was betrayed, by the very words Yehowah Himself gave David, and we all know that He does NOT lie.
Here are the verses of Scripture:
Matthew
Matthew 26:
1 When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,
2 "As you know, the Passover is two days away—and the Son of Man will be
handed over to be crucified."
3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace
of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
4 and they plotted to arrest Jesus in some sly way and kill him.
5 "But not during the Feast," they said, "or there may be a riot among the people."
(* I find this statement by the Pharisees and the Priests somewhat Torah observant. That is if
Jesus was really a blasphemer. In this particular passage, however, they are mostly afraid of
the vast amount of people that believe in Yehoshua who were present at Jerusalem in order to
get ready for the Passover and the week long holiday, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Nonetheless,
the reason I find this somewhat torah observant is because according to the Torah you must
not put anyone to death during a festival, since it can wait until afterwards. One of those reasons is
because when you slay or kill someone, all those that touch the body of the dead person or he that
does the killing by a hand held object becomes defiled. Defiled people, therefore, are not allowed to
observe Passover, nor participate in any feast. Now here is a Torah portion about Passover and a
dead body, in Numbers 9:2-13: "Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of
it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that
they should keep the passover. And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in
the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. And
there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on
that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: And those men said unto him, We [are]
defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in
his appointed season among the children of Israel? And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what
the LORD will command concerning you [SEE NOTE 1] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or [be] in a
journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. The fourteenth day of the second month at even
they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs]. They shall leave none of it unto the
morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. But the man
that [is] clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off
from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall
bear his sin."
Likewise, here is another portion of the Torah in regards to someone touching an object that is
either defiled by someone that is unclean by a corpse or by the dead body itself, this is Numbers
19:22, "And whatsoever the unclean [person or corpse] toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth
[it] shall be unclean until even." Thus, according to the Torah, you must not slay, nor kill someone
during a holiday. The whole day of Passover, or the 14th of Aviv in whole, was NOT and is NOT a
day that was set apart like other days where special annul sacrifices had to be made. Meaning,
regular business affairs and transactions could carry on whereas on the first and seventh day of
the Feast of Unleavened Bread this was not allowed. This also goes for the Feast of Weeks, the
Trumpet Feast, New Moons and others. You, nonetheless, could not just deliberately defile yourself
on that day, because you had to participate in the passover ritual and rite.
17 Now prior to [the first] day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus
and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"
18 He replied, "Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, 'The Teacher says: My appointed
time is near. I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.' "
19 So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.
20 When evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the Twelve....
26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his
disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body."
(* I changed v. 17 to read "Now Prior to the first day," because obviously the translator does
not know the law of Moses, for you must eat the Passover at night, at the beginning of
the feast of Unleavened Bread from after sacrificing it the last few minutes before sundown
of the 14th day, not sacrifice the Passover when the first day of Unleavened Bread is already
existing (which would be the 15th), for that would be too late and those that would do such
would sin. For this is what the NIV Bible says in v. 17, "On the first day of the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make
preparations for you to eat the Passover?" The Greek manuscripts confirm my view, by the
way. Secondly, the reason "the day" in v.17 is italicized is because it does not exist in Greek,
the so called 'scholars' that translated the verse added it there. Thus, it would be better
as, "On the eve of the feast of Unleavened Bread.")
Thus, the gospel of Matthew does in fact say that Jesus did eat the Passover. Now, lets look at the Gospel of Mark.
MARK
Mark 14
12 Prior to the (NIV did it again: 'On the') first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when it
was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you
want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"
13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of
water will meet you. Follow him.
14 Say to the owner of the house he enters, 'The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where
I may eat the Passover with my disciples?'
15 He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there."
16 The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they
prepared the Passover.
17 When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve.
18 While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, "I tell you the truth, one of you will
betray me—one who is eating with me."
19 They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, "Surely not I?"
20 "It is one of the Twelve, " he replied, "one who dips bread into the bowl with me.
21 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays
the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."
22 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his
disciples, saying, "Take it; this is my body."
So, we see that Mark also testifies that Jesus ate the Passover with his disciples. This would mean the last supper occurred on the night of the first day of the Unleavened Bread Feast, being the 15th of Aviv. This is because we (Jews) start our days at sundown, not midnight as the Gentiles do. Now, let's look at the gospel of Luke to see what he wrote and said.
Luke
Luke 22
1 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,
2 and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get
rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.
3 Then satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve.
4 And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed
with them how he might betray Jesus.
5 They were delighted and agreed to give him money.
6 He consented, and watched for an opportunity to hand Jesus over to them when no crowd
was present.
7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, (In the Greek, the word 'came' can also be 'nigh,' thus
meaning it most likely should read something like, thus "The Unleavened Bread Feast was drawing
nigh in which the Passover Lamb had to be sacrificed" ), on which the Passover lamb had to be
sacrificed.
8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover."
9 "Where do you want us to prepare for it?" they asked.
10 He replied, "As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to
the house that he enters,
11 and say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may
eat the Passover with my disciples?'
12 He will show you a large upper room, all furnished. Make preparations there."
13 They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
14 When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table.
15And he said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God."
17 After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take this and divide it among you.
18 For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."
19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body
given for you; do this in remembrance of me."
This account obviously claims that Jesus ate the Passover Meal. Next we come to the gospel of John, where we see that this meal was not the Passover in his account , but that it was simply a regular meal.
John
John 13:
1 It was just before the Passover Feast (meaning it was not the Passover). Jesus knew that the
time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were
in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.
2 The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already
prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus.
3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power,
and that he had come from God and was returning to God;
4 so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and
wrapped a towel around his waist.
5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash
his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped
around him.
John 18
1 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples
and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was
an olive grove, and he and his disciples went into it.
2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus
had often met there with his disciples.
3 So Judas came to the grove, guiding a detachment of soldiers
and some officials from the chief priests and Pharisees. They
were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons.........
4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that would come upon him, went forward and said to them,
“Whom are you seeking?”
5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus said to them, “I am he.” And Judas, who betrayed him, also stood with them.
6 Now when he said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
7 Then he asked them again, “Whom are you seeking?”
And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
8 Jesus answered, “I have told you that I am he. Therefore, if you seek me, let these go their way,”
9 that the saying might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom You gave me, I have lost
none.”
10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his
right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
11 So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which my
Father has given me?”
12 Then the detachment of troops and the captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and
bound him.
13 And they led him away to Annas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was high
priest that year.
14 Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for
the people.
15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that disciple was known
to the high priest, and went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.
16 But Peter stood at the door outside. Then the other disciple, who was known to the high priest,
went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought Peter in.
17 Then the servant girl who kept the door said to Peter, “You are not also one of this man’s
disciples, are you?”
He said, “I am not.”
18 Now the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, for it was cold, and
they warmed themselves. And Peter stood with them and warmed himself......
28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they
themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might
eat the Passover.
So you can see by John's gospel that this night was NOT the night when one eats the Passover, but that the following night was, as we can see in verse 28. For the words, 'might eat the Passover' means that it has not occurred yet. And so, because John's account is the TRUTH, it is OK then for Jesus to do certain things which would not be allowed to be done if this was really the night of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. One of those things that would not be allowed to be done on the first night of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the night when one eats the Passover offering, would be buying things or conducting business. For even in the book of Nehemiah we find the proof of these commandments. For it says in Nehemiah 19:38-10:31, "...we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it... ...[v 10:28] The rest of the people—priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants and all who separated themselves from the neighboring peoples for the sake of the Law of God, together with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand- all these now join their brothers the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the LORD our Lord. We will not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons. When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on any holiday." Yet Luke, after he claims that Jesus ate the Passover, he then portrays Jesus sinning by tempting his apostles to buy a sword, and sell their garments, for this is what is said in Luke 22:35-36, " 'When I [Jesus] sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing?' And they said, 'Nothing.' Then said he unto them, 'But now, he that hath a purse, let him take [it], and likewise [his] scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.' This, however, would be allowed according to John's account, because according to his account this special sabbath or the first night of the feast of Unleavened Bread would actually be the following night. Lastly, it would also be lawful to kill someone on the 14th of Aviv if that person was guilty of a capital offense, which the priests thought Jesus was guilty of. As we know though, he was not, for he did in fact tell the truth. According to the Torah you must not take the life of a person during or on a sabbath day or on any high holiday, regardless of how evil a person might be. For it can wait until after the sabbath or holiday. Now to back this up even further, Jesus himself says the following words while at a synagogue, "I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it [Luke 6:9]?"
Now let me say a few more things before I get into this special word in which I will really prove that Jesus never made it to the 15th of Aviv, or to the very night one MUST ONLY eat the passover meal, as commanded by Yehowah.
I will now write a few laws regarding the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, namely the first night of that feast, for that is the only time when the Passover offering can be eaten. If you want to read the laws regarding Passover, please click HERE.
Exodus 12
1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,
2 "This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.
3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take
a lamb for his family, (meaning the elder of the household), one for each household.
4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor,
having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of
lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.
5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from
the sheep or the goats.
6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community
of Israel must slaughter them at sunset. (Some bible translators who do not know the law have written,
'twilight.' But, twilight actually means the time between the first gleam of light of the morning to
the actual sunrise. Then, others write the word, "dusk," this also would be wrong, because that
means the existing light after sunset, until the fullness of night. Where both of these terms would
constitute the following or next day, or 24 hour period according to the Jewish calendar. Thus, no
longer being the 14th 'day', but the 15th 'day.' Remember, we must sacrifice the Passover on the
14th, only. Then others, namely sects among the Jews and a few "messianics", think that this time is
after 3:00 o'clock, or the midpoint between full midday and sunset, but that is disproved by the
next two verses.)
7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the
houses where they eat the lambs.
8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread
made without yeast.
9 Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire—head, legs and inner parts.
10 Do not leave any of it until morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it......
14 "This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a
festival to Yehowah - a lasting ordinance.
15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. Prior to the first day, the yeast from your
houses must have already been done away with, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the
first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. (Jewish sages from the past to now
ignorantly translate the words "prior to" as "on the first day remove leavened bread from your houses."
This is a horrible sin, for we see in the latter part of verse 15, it mentions that a person will be 'cut off' if
they have any of it during any part of those seven days. If preparations for Passover, such as getting rid
of all leavened bread are not done early enough, it is easy to overlook some yeast, or to not clean well
enough, and therefore, transgress - if there is some old bread laying around.)
16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all
on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat — that is all you may do.
Thus by the above laws, you can see that you must only eat the Passover meal on the first "night" of the feast of Unleavened Bread, being the 15th of Aviv, but the actual sacrifice of the animal takes place right before the close of the 14th day. For when a person kills an animal right before sunset, it is impossible to cook that animal within five minutes, and even within an hour if you are only allowed to roast it over fire. Because of this, it is only natural that the people of Israel were to eat it during the night. On a footnote: only Leviticus 23:11&15 calls this first day of the feast a 'sabbath.' Other passages regarding this night only refer to it as a 'holy convocation.' Thus, it was only a 'sabbath' from servile work [being: from all manner of business or things with business intentions connected to them, like farming] and sexual relations with one's wife or concubine and abstaining from all manner of uncleanness. Therefore, when one is cooking the Passover lamb or goat on the first night of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, they must keep in mind that this is a 'special' shabath and so must observe all it's special rules. It's strictness must be treated in the same degree of a New Moon, which is nowhere close to being as strict as a regular weekly sabbath.
Now, let us finally get to that special word I was talking about earlier that will prove within itself, or all by itself whether Jesus and his apostles observed Passover or not... This special word is 'bread.' By this very word you will be able to see that the three gospels were not written by Jews that observed Passover, thus meaning 'Matthew' did not write 'the Gospel of Matthew'. What I mean is this: The translators that translated the Greek text into English did not bother to give the full meaning of the word 'bread.' That is whether or not it was leavened or Unleavened, they simply wrote the word, "bread." The truth of the matter is this: If that night was the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Jesus is supposed to be the messiah and must never transgress the law, then that bread MUST be - and can only be - unleavened bread. If however, that day was not the first day of Unleavened Bread then it would be OK to eat bread that had yeast in it, even during the night and on the following day of the 14th. Such leavened bread just had to be gone or destroyed before sundown, which would be the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. So let us see what the gospels say regarding that word.
In Greek, the word for unleavened bread is 'azumos.'
And the word for regular, leavened bread is 'artos.'
In Hebrew, the word for unleavened bread is 'matzah.'
And the word for regular bread is 'chametz' or 'lehem.' Commentary: For those of you that do not know this, the word 'lehem' is used in the name of a special town in Israel called, "Bethlehem." When translated this would mean, "house (beth) of bread (lehem)."
As we know the gospels are written in Greek, so,' Why?' you might ask am I telling you the Hebrew words for the same word? I am telling you this now because after I am done telling you what the gospels actually say, I want to first take you to Paul's account, even though he was not there [Even though I prove Paul was a false apostle (though he did start off OK, but fell from the truth, as Solomon did and so invented a pagan religion), the story of the night Jesus was betrayed was nonetheless passed on to him]. Then I want to take you to the prophecy itself by David's own mouth that is found in the Tanakh. For what David said was in the name of Yehowah, Blessed be He, and He does NOT ever lie. For David prophesied that the one that dipped his 'bread' in the cup with Jesus would betray him or lift up his heel against him.
So let's move on:
You can use the verses I used already in this study for reference.
In Matthew 26:26 it says,
'While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to
his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body."'
In this verse the word, 'bread,' in Greek, is 'artos' (leavened/regular bread). This would make Jesus a sinner if this were the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This also testifies that this gospel was not written by a torah-observant Israelite named Matthew, because he would have seen the contradiction he was writing. In truth, we will see that this gospel was written by a Gentile who apparently did not care to know about the feasts, most likely a disciple of Paul who taught that you did not need to observe Jewish holidays. Thus, if this author never learned about the commands of the holidays, then he also would not pick up on his own errors. This goes also for Mark the Gentile, and Luke the Gentile. Let's see what they wrote.
And in Mark 14:22 it says,
'While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his
disciples, saying, "Take it; this is my body."'
In this verse the word 'bread' in Greek is also, 'artos' (leavened/regular bread.)
In Luke 22:19 it says,
'And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body
given for you; do this in remembrance of me."'
Luke also uses the word, 'artos' (leavened/regular bread) here. Thus making Jesus a sinner if this were truly the Feast of Unleavened Bread as stated by Luke, as well as accounts of Matthew and Mark.
Amazing!!, they have the holy and sinless moshiach eating leavened bread on the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Moving on:
I have not used the following verse before in this article because it did not apply to the points I wanted to make, so excuse me for that. Nonetheless, in John 13:18, John writes, Jesus said,
'"“I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the scripture may
be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
This word that John uses for bread is also, 'artos' (leavened/regular bread). However, with John's account of that night it is Okay and lawful. This is because according to John's gospel he does not portray Jesus as a sinner as the other gospels do by breaking the laws of the feast. This is because John tells us that this night of betrayal took place on the 14th of Aviv, the very day the Passover animal was to be sacrificed on, yet later on. John is consistent, therefore, throughout his writings. Thus, John is simply saying that this night was just a regular night, not a holiday. With John's accounting of that night the messiah is continually shown as a sinless person, unlike the other gospels.
Now let us move on to Paul, the false apostle, to see what was handed down to him by word of mouth (or by 'revelation' ('received from the Lord')) as he puts it (this might be true), since he obviously was not there. In Paul's writings, namely 1 Corinthians 11:23-24, he writes,
'For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the
same night in which he was betrayed took bread; and when he had given thanks, he broke
it and said, “Take, eat; this is my body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of me.”'
Even here in Paul's writings the word in Greek is 'artos' (leavened/regular bread) for bread. Yet Paul never mentions what night this was. Paul being a Pharisee he would have easily picked up any discrepancy as is mentioned in the first three gospels. Thus, John and Paul's accounts are different from the three gospels.
Moving on.
Let us say we did not have any of these above writings that I have used so far. If that were the case we can still find out the truth by actually using the very prophecy that the LORD gave to King David about that night. This prophecy of that night is located in Psalm 41 verse 9. It says,
'Even my own common friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.'
This word, 'bread' that the LORD Himself gave to David is 'lehem' (bread that contains yeast or is fermented). Therefore, we can know for sure by the LORD Himself, [without needing to know man's account of things] that this night of betrayal was NEVER going to be during the holidays. Thus, Yehoshua/Jesus and the apostles are righteous and not sinners, as the way the three gospels portray them. Thus, he was crucified on the 14th of Aviv in the morning, and he died just hours before the Passover lamb/goat needed to be sacrificed as John states in his account/gospel. Again, John wrote in John 18:28, "that they [the priests and Pharisees] might eat the Passover." In fact, according to the law, the Pharisees saw to it that he was taken down and buried before sundown seeing that he was already dead somehow. 'Somehow,' by this I mean that a criminal usually survived awhile after being crucified on a cross, even days. The criminal would eventually die, however, due to starvation and dehydration. Yet, when Yehoshua died so quickly, it was not because of the battered and horrible treatment to his precious body, but because it was a 'sign' of who he was. For if a sinner or criminal who does not the Lord with him, as the thieves, can last on a cross for several days, how much more so should the Father's only begotten son, the vigorous messiah, who obviously has Yehowah with him and in him? Yet the Father took his life as a 'sign.' For all prophets give 'signs' to give credence to what they are saying is from Yehowah, the God of Israel. This is also why Pilate was so shocked when he heard that he had died so quickly (for he crucified many, thus he knew how long people were able to survive). This is also why the soldier took his evil spear or lance and thrust it through his side to see if he would grunt or not... For they did not want to take him down before knowing he was dead, just in case people were trying to have him removed so that they could save him from death.
The Pharisees saw to it he was buried before sundown in order to keep the commandment found in Deuteronomy 21:22-23 that says,
If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you
hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall
surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God
is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.
This was fulfilled even though Yehoshua was not exactly hanging by a noose on some tree limb, for all to see, for being 'guilty of blasphemy' by calling himself 'the son of the Blessed One.' He was murdered, for that prophet told the truth, he is the Moshiach/Messiah/Christ of Israel. He sits at the right hand of the God of Israel. And a day is coming when they will once again see the one whom they pierced. Amen.
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NOTE 1: This little reference tells us that this occurred many times, meaning that ALL of the Torah was NOT
received on Mt. Sinai - in regards to every circumstance and the "what ifs."
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By using the very prophecy itself which King David said, we see that the fateful night of the moshiach's betrayal was never going to take place during the festival of Unleavened Bread. John - the only real eyewitness of that night - inline's perfectly to that holy prophecy. And, to the credit of Paul, he also does the same thing. The three gospels, however, point to the fact that the 'gospels' are not inerrant as the ignorant and blind preachers constantly proclaim from their satanic pulpits. Thus, we must always be studious so that we do not accidentally call Yehoshua a sinner, nor one that transgressed against the laws of heaven. For that is what the first three gospels do, they have Yehoshua eating leavened bread during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Keep one thing in mind, it is not necessarily the accounts and writings about Yehoshua ha-moshiach that are inerrant - it is the man himself that is inerrant.
Thank You
Maregaal Ben Yaakov