Luwqá's Glad Tidings

The Pure Glad Tidings According to Luwqá’

‫ַבּשֵּׂר לוּקַא‬ Chapter 1 Purpose: acknowledge the Word ¶ Since indeed many have put their hand to arrange a narration about the matters which have been fully carried out among us, Just as they delivered them to us, those who had from the beginning been eyewitnesses and assistants of the Word, It seemed important also to me, having been following Him near from the first, to write to you all things thereafter accurately, O excellent friend of ’Elohíym (mighty Ones), 1.

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In order that you might know well the reliability of the Word about Which you were indoctrinated.

The Announcement of the Birth of Yâhuwchânâ´n the Immerser ¶ There was in the days of Heródes, the king of Yâhuwthâ´h, a certain priest named ZkharYâ´hu from the priestly quotidian rotation1 of ’AviyYâ´hu [the eighth week after Phâ´çech, the eleventh week of the year, days 18-25 of the Third month (May 24-30, 5 BC)], and his wife was from the daughters of ’Aharón, her name ’Eliyshéva`.

And they were both righteous in the sight of the mighty Ones, walking by all the

Quotidian rotation of Lwiyyím priests’ service at the temple, as distributed to the families of the sons of ’Aharón (1 Chronicles 24: 1-19, 10). The lot of ’AviyYâ´hu was the eighth of 24, and these would serve a week twice a year.

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commandments and righteous acts of Yâhwéh, blameless ones.

Yet there was not a child to them, since ’Eliyshéva` was sterile, and both were advanced in their days.

Date: 20th day of the Third month, Shabbâ´th But it came to pass during his priestly service within the fixed succession of his priestly quotidian rotation before Yâhwéh, According to the custom of the priestly service, it fell to him by lot to burn incense, when he had entered into the temple building of Yâ-hwéh.

And all the multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of the incense.

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And an envoy of Yâ-hwéh appeared to him, standing at the right of the altar of incense2. [Chanówkh 40] And seeing him, ZkharYâ´hu was agitated, and terror gripped him.

But the envoy said to him: “Do not be terrified, ZkharYâ´hu, since your supplication has been heard, and your wife ’Eliyshéva` shall bear a son to you, and you shall call his name Yâhuwchânâ´n.

And he shall be a joy to you and an exultation, and many shall rejoice at his birth, For he shall be great in the sight of Yâhwéh, and in no wise shall he drink wine or an intoxicant, and he shall be filled of 14.

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Gavriy’Ë´l also stands at the left hand of the Father on His throne, according to the 40 th chapter of the scroll of Chanówkh.

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the spirit of the Pure One even from the womb of his mother.

And he shall return many of the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l to Yâ-hwéh their mighty Ones.

And he shall precede before Him, in the spirit and force of ’ËliyYâ´huw, to turn the hearts of the fathers against the children [Mal’âkhíy 4: 5-63] and the rebelliously unpersuadable, by the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for Yâ-hwéh a people thoroughly furnished.”

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And ZkharYâ´hu said to the envoy: “By what sign shall I absolutely know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in her days.”

Look here! I am sending to you ’ËliyYâ´huw the predicator before the Great and Dreadful Day of Yâ-hwéh is come: And he will return the heart of the fathers against children, and the heart of the children against fathers, lest I shall come and I will strike the earth with an extermination!

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And responding, the envoy said to him: “I am Gavriy’Ë´l who stands in the sight of the Power [Chanówkh 40: 2], and I was sent forth to speak to you and to announce these glad tidings to you, And look! You shall be mute and not able to speak until the day in which these things shall take place, because you did not believe my words which shall be fulfilled in their season.”

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And the people were anticipating ZkharYâ´hu, and they wondered about his delaying within the temple building.

Yet when he had come out, he was not able to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision within the temple building. And he was making signals to them, but continued dumb.

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And it came to pass, as the days of his priestly service were fulfilled, he departed unto his house.

Date: 5/3967-10/3967 ¶ Now after these days, ’Eliyshéva` his wife did conceive [5/14/3967 (7/18-19/5 BC)], and concealed herself five months, saying: 25.

“Thus4 has Yâ-hwéh done to me in the days in which He looked forward to removing my reproach among men.”

The Announcement of the Birth of Yâhuwshúa` Date: 10/3967 (12/5 BC) And within the sixth month, the envoy Gavriy’Ë´l was sent forth by Yâ-hwéh

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She is saying Yâ-hwéh concealed Himself from her before this pregnancy.

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unto a city of Gâlíyl whose name is Netsârówth, Towards a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Yâhuwçë´ph, from the house of Dâwíth, and the name of the virgin was Miryâ´m.

And entering before her, the envoy said: “Peace to you, O favored one! Yâ-hwéh immâ´kh (is with you): blessed one of mankind!”

But she, seeing him, was agitated with alarm, and was deliberating on whatever this greeting might mean.

And the envoy said to her: “Do not be terrified, Miryâ´m, for you have found favor with Yâ-hwéh, And look! You shall conceive in your womb and produce a Son, and you shall call His name “Yâhuwshúa`” (Yâ-hwéh is deliverance/wealth) 31.

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This One shall be great, and He shall be called the Son of the Highest, and Yâhwéh ’Elohíym (the mighty Ones) shall give Him the throne of Dâwíth, His father, And He shall reign over the house of Ya`aqóv for the ages, and there shall not be an end of His reign.”

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But Miryâ´m said to the envoy: “How shall this be, since I do not know a man?”

And responding, the envoy said to her: “The spirit of the Pure One shall be come upon you and the Force of the Highest to overshadow you, wherefore also the Pure One procreated shall be called the Son of the ’Ël (the Power).

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Also, look at ’Eliyshéva` your relative5: she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this one is the sixth month for her who was called ‘sterile’!

Because with Yâ-hwéh [He causes to be/exist] there shall not be anything impossible.”

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And Miryâ´m said: “Look, I am the bondmaid of Yâ-hwéh; so be it to me according to your saying.”

And the envoy departed from her.

And Miryâ´m, rising up in those days, went into the hill-country with haste, unto a city of Yâhuwthâ´h,

Miryâ´m’s genealogy is documented in Luwqá’ to have been from the tribe of Yâhuwthâ´h, from Dâwíth and ’Eliyshéva` was a daughter of `Aharón. This relation is not to say they came from the same line of fathers, rather it is possibly one by mothers, e.g. one of their mothers being a sibling to the other’s father. But even if not so, spiritually they were sisters. It is wrong to take this one word to construe that Miryâ´m was from the tribe of Lëwíy.

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And entered into the house of ZkharYâ´hu and bade peace to ’Eliyshéva`.

And it came to pass as ’Eliyshéva` heard Miryâ´m’s greeting, the unborn infant jumped within her womb, and ’Eliyshéva` was filled of the spirit of the Pure One; And she exclaimed with a loud voice, and said: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the Fruit of your womb! [11: 27-28] And from what Source is this, that the mother of my Sovereign might come to me?

For look! As the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the unborn infant within my womb jumped in exultation!

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And happy (’ashërâ´h6) is she who believed, for there shall be a completion to the things spoken to her from Yâhwéh!”

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And Miryâ´m said: “My self magnifies Yâ-hwéh, And my spirit jumped for joy at Yâhwéh, my Deliverer; For He has looked upon the humility of His bondmaid, for look! From henceforth all generations will call me happy (’ashërâ´h7)!

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Happy (’ashërâ´h) also happens to be the translation of the name of a female goddess worshipped by the heathen masses, and the continuation of her worship continues among apostate Christians through worship of the “Virgin Mary”.

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And His mercy is for those fearing it8 for generations of generations. [Luwqá’ 11: 28] He wrought power by His arm; He routed the haughty in their heart’s understanding!

He took down rulers from their thrones and exalted the lowly; He filled the hungry with good things, but He sent away the rich empty.

He helped Yisrâ’Ë´l, His servant, to remember His mercy Just as He spoke to our fathers: for ’Avrâhâ´m and for his Seed to the ages!”

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Date: 10/3967-13/39679 “him” refers to “name” here, not to Him. Otherwise don’t gods (demons) fear Him? Moreover, Yâhuwshúa` said in Luwqá’ 11:28 the reason Miryâ´m was blessed was because she listened to the Word of Yâ-hwéh and kept it.

9 The immaculate conception was during this time period, on 11/16/3967 (1/13-14/4 BC) assuming a 40 week term gestation.

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And Miryâ´m stayed together with ’Eliyshéva` about three months, and returned unto her house.

Date: 1/14/3968 (4/10-11/4 BC) Phâ´çech ¶ Now the time for ’Eliyshéva` was fulfilled that she should produce, and she bore a son.

And the neighbors and her relatives heard that Yâ-hwéh was magnifying His mercy with her, and they rejoiced together with her.

And it came to pass on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the infant, and they were going to call him after the name of his father, ZkharYâ´hu; And responding, his mother said: “No: he shall be called Yâhuwchânâ´n.”

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“No one exists among your relatives who is called by this name.”

So they spoke10 to his father as to what he might wish him to be called.

And having asked for a writing tablet, he wrote, saying: wms Nnxwhy (Yâhuwchânâ´n is his name).

And his mouth was opened up immediately with his tongue, and he spoke, blessing Yâ-hwéh! And they all wondered.11 And fear came upon all those who dwelled around them, and all these sayings were being talked of in the whole hill-country of Yâhuwthâ´h.

And all those having heard placed it within their heart, saying:

The Old Syriac Aramaic translation has this rather than the illogical Greek rendition “made signs to”, as ZkharYâ´hu was not deaf, just mute.

11 The Old Syriac has this phrase logically here rather than at the end of verse 63 as the Peshitta Aramaic translation mistakenly places it.

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“What then will this infant be?”

And the hand of Yâ-hwéh was with him.

And ZkharYâ´hu, his father, was filled of the spirit of the Pure One and foretold, saying: “Blessed be Yâ-hwéh, the mighty Ones of Yisrâ’Ë´l, because He has visited His people and shall work a Ransom for it, And shall raise up a horn of salvation for us within the house of Dâwíth, His servant, Just as He spoke through the mouth of His pure predicators since the ages began: Deliverance from our enemies and from the hand of all those who hate us, To work mercy with our fathers and to remember His pure covenant,

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The oath which He swore before ’Avrâhâ´m our father to give us, That being rescued without fear from the hand of our enemies, we should serve Him in correctness and righteousness in His sight all the days of our life.

And you, little boy, shall be called a predicator of the Highest, for you shall go before the face of Yâ-hwéh to prepare His ways; To give the knowledge of deliverance for His people by the release of their sins, Through the emotions of compassion of our mighty Ones, by which the Dawn from `Elyówn will come to see us, [Star of Bë´yth-Léchem, Títus 2: 11] 73.

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To shine upon those in darkness and sitting in the shadow of death, to direct our feet unto the Way of peace.”

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And the little boy grew and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the uninhabited lands until the day of his exhibition before Yisrâ’Ë´l.

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The Birth of Yâhuwshúa` And it came to pass in those days, a decree went out from Kæ´sar Áugustus that all the Land12 [of Yisrâ’Ë´l] should be registered.

This registration took place when first13 Quiriníus was governor of ’Arâ´m.

Mistranslated as “world” by Greeks, this registration of the Yâhuwthím resembles Hitler’s registration of the Jews (“Yehuwthím”) preceding his genocide of them. This is probably why Deeds of the Delegates 5:37 documents that Yehuwthâ´h, the Gliylíy instigated an insurrection at this time.

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And all traveled, each to his own city to be registered, And Yâhuwçë´ph also went up from Gâlíyl from the city of Netsârówth unto Yâhuwthâ´h, into the city of Dâwíth, which is called Bë´yth-Léchem due to his being from the house and paternal descent of Dâwíth, To register himself together with Miryâ´m who was betrothed to him as wife, she being pregnant.

Date: 7/15/3968 (First day of the Feast of Tabernacles) (10/6-7/4 BC) ¶ And it came to pass during the days they were there, the days for her bringing forth were fulfilled,14

If the registration had not been done, it is likely that Yâhuwshúa` would have been born in Yruwshâláim as it was time to go there for the Feast.

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And she produced her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in strips of cloth, and laid Him within the manger, because there was not a place for them at the lodge.

And shepherds were within the same region, camping in the fields, and keeping a watch by night over their flock; And look! An envoy of Yâ-hwéh stood by them, and the Honor of Yâ-hwéh illuminated around them, and they feared with great terror!

And the envoy said to them: “Do not be terrified, for look! I announce glad tidings to you, a great joy, which shall be for all the people!

Because today was born for you a Deliverer, Who is the Anointed of Yâhwéh, at the city of Dâwíth!

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And this is the sign for you: ye shall find an Infant wrapped in strips of cloth lying within the manger.”

And suddenly together with the envoy there was a multitude of the army of the heavens, praising Yâ-hwéh, and saying: 14.

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“Honor to ’Ël `Elyówn, and on earth peace, and a good hope for the sons of ’Âthâ´m!”

And it came to pass, as the envoys departed from them into the heavens, the shepherds said to one another: “Let us journey, at once, unto Bë´ythLéchem and let us see this saying that has come to pass which Yâ-hwéh made known to us!”

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And they came, having hurried, and found both Miryâ´m and Yâhuwçë´ph, with the Infant lying within the manger.

And having seen this, they made known abroad about the saying that had been told to them about this Infant.

And all those who heard wondered about the things that had been spoken by the shepherds to them.

But Miryâ´m conserved all these sayings, considering them within her heart.

And the shepherds returned, honoring and praising Yâ-hwéh for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was said to them.

Wondrous Predictions about the infant Yâhuwshúa` 8/25/3968 (40 days after birth) (11/16/4 BC)

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¶ And when eight days were fulfilled for the circumcising, the Infant was called His name, Yâhuwshúa`, which was called by the envoy before He was conceived within the womb.

And when the days for their cleansing were fulfilled according to the Law of Moshéh, they brought Him into Yruwshâláim to present Him to Yâ-hwéh, According to what has been written within the Law of Yâ-hwéh: “Qadésh (Dedicated) to Me is every one of the firstborn males: the firstling of every womb among the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l, whether by ’Âthâ´m or in the animal, he is for Me.” [Exodus 13: 2] And to make a burnt-offering, according to that which has been said within the Law of Yâ-hwéh: 23

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“But if she can not afford the price of the lamb, then she must bring two doves or two young pigeons: one for a burnt offering and one for a sin-offering so the priest will atone for her and she will be clean.” [Leviticus 12: 8] And look!

There was a man in Yruwshâláim whose name was Shim`ówn; and this one was righteous and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Yisrâ’Ë´l, and the spirit of the Pure One was on him.

And it had been revealed to him by the spirit of the Pure One that he should not see death before he might see the Anointed One of Yâ-hwéh.

And he came within the spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the infant Yâhuwshúa` that they might do about Him according to what had become customary by the Law,

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“Now my Sovereign, let Your bondman depart, according to Your saying, in peace; Because my eyes have seen Your Mercy, Which You have prepared before the face of all the peoples: A Light for disclosure to the heathen masses, and the Honor of Your people, Yisrâ’Ë´l!”

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And Yâhuwçë´ph and His mother were marveling at the things that were spoken about Him. Predictions ignored by the Establishment And Shim`ówn blessed them, but said to Miryâ´m His mother: 25

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“Look! This One is given over15 for a downfall [Yshá`Yâhuw 8: 14-15] and the resurrection of the many16 within Yisrâ’Ë´l, and for a sign being contradicted17. [Yshá`Yâhuw 7: 14] Even of you [Miryâ´m] also, a sword shall pierce through your self18, so that the reasonings of many hearts may be disclosed.”

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Also Channâ´h was there, a female predicator, the daughter of Pnuw’Ë´l from the tribe of ’Âshë´r: she was advanced by

The verb in `Ivríyth here would be a form of “nâthâ´n”, given granted, laid out, set, appointed, because this is referring to Yshá`Yâhuw 7:14, which says “my Sovereign will give Himself over to you [plural] for a sign: Look! The virgin is pregnant and is bearing a Son, and she will call His name `Immâ´nuw ’Ël (The Power with us)” 16 The many are those who enter the Kingdom via the broad gate of death and resurrection, the majority which is kept blind to deny His name and not be cured.

17 The virgin birth of the Sovereign (Yâhuwshúa`) which He foretold through Yshá`Yâhuw (7: 14) is contradicted by the nonbelievers.

18 Miryâ´m died this way in order that the Queen of Heaven worshippers be exposed when they read this and notice that she did not ascend into heaven per their Assumption.

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many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, And she was a widow for about eightyfour years who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fasting and prayers; And she, coming up at the same hour, in turn gave praise to Yâ-hwéh, and spoke about Him to all those in Yruwshâláim waiting for the ransoming.

And when Yâhuwçë´ph and Miryâ´m had completed all things according to the Law of Yâ-hwéh, they returned unto Gâlíyl, unto their city, Netsârówth.

And the little Boy grew and became strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the favor of Yâ-hwéh was upon Him. Yâhuwshúa` tarries at His Father’s house 27

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¶ And His parents traveled yearly unto Yruwshâláim to the Feast of the unfermented bread at Phâ´çech (Exemption [14 ’Âvíyv19 3977 (3/30/9 AD)]).

And when He was twelve years old, they went up unto Yruwshâláim according to the custom of the feast, And when the feast days had completed, as they returned, Yâhuwshúa`, the Boy, remained behind in Yruwshâláim, but Yâhuwçë´ph and His mother did not know; But having supposed Him to be in the caravan, they went a day’s journey, and sought Him among the relatives and among the acquaintances,

Phâ´çech had been celebrated on its proper date, the 14th, in Yruwshâláim until Arxélaos was removed as king of Yâhuwthâ´h in 6 AD and an aristocratic government of priests was set up in mid-7 AD When Yâhuwshúa` turned 12, the year was 8 AD, and He continued to keep it on the correct date, even after the Tsthuwqíym lost control of the celebration of the Phâ´çech to the Phrushíym.

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And not having found Him, they returned unto Yruwshâláim seeking Him. And it came to pass after three days they found Him within the temple, sitting in the midst of the instructors, both hearing them and questioning them.

And all the ones hearing Him were astounded at His understanding and His answers.

And seeing Him, His kinsmen were thunderstruck, and His mother said to Him: “My Son, why have You done thus to us? Look, we were anguished, searching for You.” And He said to them: “Why is it that ye had to search for Me? Didn’t ye discern that it is necessary for Me to be in the things of My Father?”

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But they did not understand the saying that He spoke to them.

Yet He went down with them and came into Netsârówth, and He was subject to them, and His mother kept all these words within her heart.

And Yâhuwshúa` advanced in wisdom and stature and in favor with the Power and men.

Chapter 3 Yâhuwchânâ´n’s ministry leveled the earth to prepare for the Way ¶ Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tibérius Kæ´sar, Póntius Pilátus being governor of Yâhuwthâ´h, and Heródes being the ruler of a fourth of the Land, of Gâlíyl; and Heródes20Phílippos his brother being the ruler of a 1.

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fourth part of the Land, the region of Yţúwr and of Traxonítis; and Lusanías being the ruler of a fourth part of the Land, of Abilené; During the high priesthood of ChananYâ´huw and Qayë´phâ’, the Word of Yâ-hwéh came to Yâhuwchânâ´n, the son of ZkharYâ´hu, within the uninhabited land.

And he went into all the region around the Yardë´n, proclaiming the immersion of repentance for release from sins, As it has been written within the scroll of the words of Yshá`Yâhuw the predicator, saying: “A voice of one calling is in the uninhabited land:

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“Prepare The Way of Yâ-hwéh! Make ye straight in the desert a public way to our mighty Ones!

Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made level, and the rugged as a plain!

And the Honor of Yâ-hwéh will be revealed and all of flesh together will see, as the mouth of Yâ-hwéh has spoken!”” [Yshá`Yâhuw 40: 3-5] 5.

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Therefore he said to the crowds coming out to be immersed by him:

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“Offspring of vipers, who forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Then produce fruits appropriate of repentance! And don’t start to say within yourselves:

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‘’Avrâhâ´m ’âvíynuw (is our father)’, For I say to you that the mighty Ones is able from ’avë´ynow (His stones) to raise up Bnëy (sons of) ’Avrâhâ´m!

But also the axe is already applied to the root of the trees – therefore every tree not producing good fruit is to be cut down and cast into fire!”

And the crowds asked him: “What then shall we do?”

And answering, he says to them: “He who has two Kthóneth (shirts), let him give one over to the one who doesn’t have, and he who has meat, let him do similarly.”

And the tax-collectors came also to be immersed, and they said to him: “Instructor, what shall we do?”

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“Exact nothing more beyond that which is appointed to you.”

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Message ignored by conscientious objectors And those who were soldiers asked him also, saying: “And we, what shall we do?”

And he said to them: “Do not oppress nor extort21 from anyone, and be satisfied with your wages.”

But, as the people were in expectation and were all reasoning within their hearts about Yâhuwchânâ´n, whether or not he might be the Deliverer, Yâhuwchânâ´n answered all, saying: “…Indeed I immerse you in water unto repentance; but the One coming after

Another meaning of Greek sukophanteo is to be an informant as regards an unjust oppressive law.

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me is mightier than I, of whom I am not fit to loosen His sandal’s thong: He will immerse you into the Fire22 of23 the spirit of the Pure One [1 Qorinthíym 3: 13, Yshá`Yâhuw 4: 4, Márquwç 9: 49] Whose pitchfork is in His hand, so He will thoroughly purge His floor [1 Këph 4: 4], and He will gather His wheat into His granary; but the chaff He will burn up with fire not to be quenched!”

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And then indeed imploring many other things, he announced the Glad Tidings to the people.

But Heródes, the ruler of a fourth of the Land, being reproved by him concerning

Fire of Judgment which tests our works for what they are as per 1 Qorinthíym 3: 13 on the Day He comes. Those blameless and built on the Foundation which is Yâhuwshúa` will be saved. Those denying Him will be burned.

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Herodiás the wife of Heródes-Phílippos his brother, even on top of all the evils which Heródes had done, Added also this upon to all those: he shut up Yâhuwchânâ´n within the prison!

The breath of Yâ-hwéh testifies as to His Son [1 Yâhuwchânâ´n 5: 6-10] ¶ Now it came to pass, when the people had all been immersed, when Yâhuwshúa` also had been immersed and was praying, the heavens were opened, And the spirit of the Pure One descended in the form of the body of a dove upon Him, and a voice from the heavens came [inside Him], saying: “This One is My Son, the Beloved One, in Whom I have found delight!”

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Genealogy: Yâhuwshúa` the Son of ’Âthâ´m, the Son of Yâ-hwéh And Yâhuwshúa` was himself about beginning to be thirty years old24, as lawfully deemed Son of Yâhuwçë´ph, [but being the Son of Miryâ´m, daughter] of ’Ëlíy, The son of MattithYâ´huw, the son of Lëwíy, the son of Malkíy, the son of Yânâ´h, the son of Yâhuwçë´ph, The son of MattithYâ´huw, the son of ’Âmówts, the son of Nachúwm, the son of ’ElYâhuw`ë´ynay, the son of Nóğahh, The son of Máchath, the son of MattithYâ´huw, the son of Shim`íy, the son of Yâhuwçë´ph, the son of Yâhuwthâ´h, The son of Yâhuwchânâ´n, the son of RphâYâ´hu, the son of Zrubâvél, the son Sh’alttiy’Ë´l, the son of NëriyYâ´huw,

Numbers 4 states that this is the age when men start serving Yâ-hwéh.

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The son of Malkíy, the son of `AthâYâ´huw, the son of Qâçám, the son of ’Almowthâ´th, the son of `Ër, The son of Yâhuwshúa`, the son of ’Eliy`ézer, the son of Yâhuwrâ´m, the son of MattithYâ´huw, the son of Lëwíy, The son of Shim`ówn, the son of Yâhuwthâ´h, the son of Yâhuwçë´ph, the son of Yâhuwchânâ´n, the son of ’Elyâqíym, The son of MillëyYâ´huw, the son of Mânówn, the son of MattithYâ´huw, the son of Nâthâ´n, the son of Dâwíth, The son of Yisháy, the son of `Owvë´th, the son of Bó`az, the son of Samlâ´h, the son of Nachshówn, The son of `Ammíynâthâ´v, the son of Râm, the son of Chetsrówn, the son of Phérets, the son of Yâhuwthâ´h,

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¶ And Yâhuwshúa`, full of pure spirit, returned from the Yardë´n and was led within the spirit into the uninhabited land forty days, to be tested by the Adversary; and He did not eat anything during those days, and when they were ended, afterwards He hungered.

And the Accuser said to Him: “If You are the Son of the Power, speak to this stone in order that it become bread.”

And Yâhuwshúa` responded to him, saying: “It has been written: ‘…that the human lives not on the bread by itself, because the human lives on every thing come from the mouth of Yâ-hwéh:’ [Deuteronomy 8: 3]” And the Adversary, leading Him up unto a high mountain, showed Him all the

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kingdoms of the earth during a moment of time25.

And the Accuser said to Him: “To You will I grant all this authority and their honor, because it has been given over to me and to whomsoever I wish to give it. [Disclosure 13: 2] You, therefore, if You might prostrate Yourself in homage before me, all things shall be Yours!”

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And responding to him, Yâhuwshúa` said: “You go after Me, Adversary, for it has been written: ‘Yâ-hwéh is your mighty Ones you shall fear, and Him you shall serve’!”

[Deuteronomy 6: 13]

At the moment of time which the 8th head of the “Holy Roman Empire” shall have control of all the world. That moment is right before the Day of Yâ-hwéh.

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And he led Him into Yruwshâláim and set Him upon the edge of the temple, and said to Him: “If You are the Son of the Power, throw Yourself down from here, For it has been written: ‘That He will command His envoys concerning you, to guard you [in all of your ways:] [Psalms 91: 11] And, ‘In their hands shall they lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone’ [Psalms 91: 12]!”

And answering, Yâhuwshúa` said: “Again, it has been written, ‘You shall not test Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones.’” [Deuteronomy 6: 16] And having completed every trial, the Adversary departed from Him for a season.

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Yâhuwshúa` is the Anointed One of Yâ-hwéh And Yâhuwshúa` returned by the force of the spirit into Gâlíyl, and talk about Him went out into the whole surrounding country.

And He taught within their assemblies, being honored by all, And He came into Netsârówth where He had been brought up, and entered according to His custom on the day of the Shabbthóth into the assembly, and He stood up to read.

And there was given to Him the scroll of Yshá`Yâhuw the predicator, and having unrolled the scroll, He found the place where it was written: “The spirit of Yâ-hwéh is upon Me because Yâ-hwéh has anointed Me to 18.

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preach the Glad tidings to the humble ones, He has sent Me to cure the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight for the blinded: To proclaim the year of Yâ-hwéh’s goodwill! [(Not read:) But the Day of Vengeance is for our mighty Ones to comfort all that mourn,]” [Yshá`Yâhuw 61:1-2] 19.

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And having rolled up the scroll, having delivered it to the assistant, He sat down, and the eyes of all within the assembly were fixed upon Him. And He began to say to them: “Today, this scripture in your ears is fulfilled.”

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And all who were testifying about Him also marveled at the words of favor that issued forth from His mouth, but they were saying: “Isn’t this One the Son of Yâhuwçë´ph?”

And Yâhuwshúa`26 said to them: “Surely ye will say to Me this parable: ‘Physician, cure Yourself!’

‘Whatsoever we have heard being done in Kâphâ´rnachúwm (Kapernaoúm), perform also here within Your homeland!’”

But He said: “’Âmë´n, (certainly) I say to you that there is no predicator approved within his own homeland.

Note the italics. Scribes heeding the name-censoring tradition went as far as to replace His name with the masculine pronoun in many places in Greek scripture translations, and when the Aramaic has it in these places, we are italicizing it, to expose the shameful deeds of the scribes.

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But in truth I say to you in the days of ’ËliyYâ´huw, many widows were in Yisrâ’Ë´l, when the heavens were shut up for three years and six months, while there was a great food shortage on the whole Land, Yet ’ËliyYâ´huw was sent to none of them except to Tsârpháth of Tsiythówn, to a widow woman; And in the time of ’Eliyshúwa` the predicator, many lepers were in the house of27 Yisrâ’Ë´l, but none of them were cleansed except Na`amâ´n the ’Arâmíy!”

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According to the Old Syriac. It is interesting to note that Yâhuwshúa` was here speaking out against anyone relying on racial bloodlines for approval, and the phrasing of this statement says that this foreigner was yet a member of the house of Yisrâ’Ë´l, as the widow was one from the promised Land also. This is a profound indictment of those who believe they are Yisrâ’Ë´l by bloodlines and remain apostate in their persuasion.

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And having risen up, they threw Him out of the city, and brought Him unto the ridge of the hill on which their city had been built, for throwing Him off the precipice, But He, passing through the midst of them, went away.

The unclean gods identify Yâhuwshúa` as the Pure One, the Anointed One. ¶ And He went down into Kâphâ´rnachúwm (Kapernaoúm), a city of Gâlíyl, and was instructing them on the Shabbthóth.

And they were astonished at His doctrine, because His Word had authority.

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And within the assembly was a man having a spirit of an unclean god28, and he cried out with a loud voice, Saying: “Permit to be ours what is also Yours, Yâhuwshúa` the One of Netsârówth! Are You come to destroy us? I discern You, Who You are: the Pure One of the Power!”

And Yâhuwshúa` rebuked him, saying: “Be muzzled, and come out from him!”

And the god, having thrown him into the midst, it came out from him, not having hurt him in any way.

And astonishment came upon all, and they spoke to one another, saying:

“God” in `Ivríyth (Hebrew) means Fortune-distributor, a false mighty one of Bâvél whose followers are condemned in Yshá`Yâhuw 65:11-16. Fortune-distributor in Greek is DEMON; therefore “God” shall be a curse-word for Yâ-hwéh’s servants when they speak pure `Ivríyth (Hebrew), as per Yshá`Yâhuw 65: 15.

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“What is this One, the Word? Because by authority and force He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

And rumors about Him went out into every place of the surrounding countryside.

And rising up from the assembly, He entered into the house of Shim`ówn. But Shim`ówn’s mother-in-law was oppressed with a great fever, so they begged Him concerning her.

And standing over her, He rebuked the fever, and it left her, and arising immediately, she served them.

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And also gods went out from many, screaming and saying: “You are the Anointed, the Son of the Power (’Ël)!”

And censuring, He did not permit them to speak because they discerned Him to be the Anointed One. The Glad Tidings which Yâhuwshúa` Announced: ¶ And day being come, having left, He traveled into an uninhabited land, and the crowds sought Him, and came up to Him, and were holding Him up that He might not go from them.

But He said to them: “It is necessary for Me to also announce the glad tidings to the other cities: the reign is of Yâ-hwéh! Because I have been sent forth for this.”

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And He was proclaiming it within the assemblies of Gâlíyl.

Chapter 5 Yâhuwshúa` recruits his delegates And it came to pass during the while the crowd pressed on Him to hear the Word of Yâ-hwéh, and He was standing by the lake of Kinnrówth [earlier name of the sea of Gâlíyl], That He saw two ships standing by the lake, and the fishermen, having disembarked from them washed their nets.

And having entered into one of the ships which was Shim`ówn’s, Yâhuwshúa` asked him to put out a little from the land. And having sat down, He instructed the crowds from the ship.

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And when He ceased speaking, He said to Shim`ówn: “Put off into the deep and let down your nets for a haul.”

And responding, Shim`ówn said to Him: “Rabbíy, having labored through the whole night, we have caught not even one, but at Your saying, I will let the net down.”

And having done this, they caught a great throng of fishes, and their net was breaking!

And they beckoned to those their partners within the other ship, so that they, coming, should help them, and they came, and filled both the ships so much that they were sinking!

And when he saw it, Shim`ówn Këph fell before the feet of Yâhuwshúa`, saying:

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“O my Sovereign, depart from me, because I am a sinful man!”

For astonishment gripped him and all of those together with him, at the haul of the fishes which they had caught, And similarly also Ya`aqóv and Yâhuwchânâ´n, sons of Zavdíy, who were partners with Shim`ówn.

And Yâhuwshúa` said to Shim`ówn: “Do not fear; from now on, you shall fish29 humans unto life.”

And having moored the sailing vessel to the land, abandoning everything, they followed Him. Yâhuwshúa` encouraged compliance with the Law ¶ And it came to pass, as He was at one of the cities, that look! A man completely

The Aramaic word here (‫ )צידא‬can be understood as either fisher or catcher.

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covered with leprosy came, and seeing Yâhuwshúa`, falling upon his face, he begged Him, saying: “O my Sovereign! If You wish, You can cleanse me.”

And having extended His hand, Yâhuwshúa` touched him saying: “I wish to; be cleansed.”

And immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was cleansed.

And He charged him: “Do not tell anyone; instead, having gone, show your self to the priest, and offer concerning your cleansing just as Moshéh ordered, for their testimony.”

But the word about Him was spread even more, and great crowds were gathering to hear Him, and to be cured from their infirmities by Him.

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But He was quietly retiring into the uninhabited lands and praying.

Yâhuwshúa` demonstrates He is Yâ-hwéh ¶ And it came to pass on one of the days that He was instructing, though there were Phrushíym and Law-teachers sitting by who were come from every village of Gâlíyl and of Yâhuwthâ´h and of Yruwshâláim, yet the Force of Yâ-hwéh was there for curing them, And look! Men were carrying a man upon a cot who was paralyzed, and they sought to bring him in and to place him before Him. But not having found via what way they should bring him in due to the crowd, going up upon the edifice, they let him down through the tiles together with the 55

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cot into the midst of the crowd, in front of Yâhuwshúa`!

And Yâhuwshúa`, seeing their persuasion, said to that man: “Your sins have been released from you.”

And the scribes and the Phrushíym began to question it, saying: “Who is this One Who speaks scorn?

Who is able to liberate from sins, except ’Elohíym (the mighty Ones30) alone?”

[Yshá`Yâhuw 43: 25] But Yâhuwshúa`, recognizing by His spirit their questionings within themselves, said responding to them: “Why do ye question this within your hearts?

Which is easier to say?

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“Your sins have been released from you.”

Or to say: “Arise and walk around.”

But in order that ye may discern that the Son of ’Âthâ´m is Who possesses authority to release sins from upon the earth,” He says to the paralytic: “To you I say: Arise, and having picked up your cot, go to your house.”

And having immediately stood up in their sight, he picked up the cot upon which he was lying, and he departed unto his house, praising Yâ-hwéh!

And ecstasy seized all, and they praised Yâ-hwéh, yet they were filled with fear, saying: “We have seen incredible things today!”

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MattithYâ´huw recruited ¶ And after these things, Yâhuwshúa` went forth and observed a tax collector named Lëwíy sitting at the tax office, and said to him: “Follow Me.” And having left everything, he arose, and he followed Him. And Lëwíy made a great reception for Him at his house, and there was a great multitude of tax collectors and others who were reclining to eat with them.

And the Phrushíym and their scribes discontentedly complained in a low tone to His pupils, saying: “Why do ye eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

And Yâhuwshúa` responding, said to them:

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“Those who are well have no need of a Physician, rather those who are ill.

I have not come to call righteous ones to repentance, rather to call sinning ones to repentance.”

And they said to Him: “Why do the pupils of Yâhuwchânâ´n fast often and make supplications, similarly also those of the Phrushíym, but those of Yours eat, and drink wine?”

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them. Then they will fast in those days!” [Howshë´`á 5: 15-6: 331] 36.

And He also spoke a parable to them: “No one sews a piece from a new garment onto an old garment32, otherwise he also rends the new garment, and the piece that is from the new garment does not match with the old!

And no one sews a patch of unpreshrunk cloth onto an old garment, for its shrinking

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Page: 60 “I shall go, I will return to My place until when they admit their guilt and they in their misery will seek My Face, they shall earnestly seek Me.” Come and let us return to Yâ-hwéh because He is Who tore to pieces and He will cure us, He injured but He will bind our wounds!

After two days [2,000 years] He will revive us, on the third day, He will restore us so we may live in His presence.

So let us acknowledge, let us eagerly hurry to acknowledge Yâ-hwéh! His coming will appear like a daybreak, and He will come to us like the winter rain, like the spring rain which watered the earth.

32 The connection between v. 34-35’s allegory here is that fasting is a part of the future behavior to renew the persuasion which was inappropriate for that situation; for Yâhuwshúa` then being present, He was the original garment being fitted onto them, the original Wine accustoming them. This was no time to renew their way, when the Way was leading them!

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up pulls away the new from the old, and a worse rent takes place. [MattithYâ´huw 9: 16] And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the new wine bursts the wineskins and the wine will be spilled out and the wineskins will be destroyed.

Instead, new wine is to be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved together.

Also no one having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says: ‘The old wine is better!’”

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Chapter 6 Yâhuwshúa`, the Sovereign of the Shabbâ´th And it came to pass on the second-first Shabbâ´th [the Shabbâ´th immediately after 1.

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the Phâ´çech week], He crossed through the grain fields, and His pupils were plucking the heads and were eating, rubbing out kernels from their husks with their hands.

But some of the Phrushíym said to them: “Look! Your pupils are doing what is not lawful to do on Shabbâ´th!

[MattithYâ´huw 12: 2] Why do they do that which is not lawful on the Shabbâ´th?

[Márquwç 2: 24] Why do ye do what is not lawful to do on the Shabbthóth?33 So responding to them, Yâhuwshúa` said:

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“Haven’t ye ever read this, that which Dâwíth did when he hungered, himself and those who were with him?

How he entered into the house of ’Elohíym and took of the loaves of the proposition, of the table of Yâ-hwéh, and

The including of all the things these accusing Phrushíym said illustrates the hysteria and the anger which characterizes accusers, and explains Yâhuwshúa`’s response.

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ate, and gave also to those who were with him that which is not lawful to eat, except to the priests alone?

[1 Shmuw’Ë´l 21: 1-5] Or have ye not read in the Law that on the Shabbthóth the priests in the temple trespass the Shabbâ´th, yet are blameless34? Yet I say to you that the One greater than the temple is here! And if ye had recognized what this means: “…mercy I desire, and not slaughter…”

[Howshë´`á 6: 6], ye would not have condemned the guiltless;” [MattithYâ´huw 12: 5-7] 5.

And He said to them: “The Shabbâ´th was made for the sake of ’Âthâ´m35, not ’Âthâ´m for the sake of the

Due to Yâ-hwéh’s permission, Dâwíth ate, and the priests worked. Yâhuwshúa` IS Yâhwéh!

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Shabbâ´th; so too [Márquwç 2: 27] the Sovereign, even of the Shabbâ´th, is the Son of ’Âthâ´m.36” The Phrushíym do evil and plan murder on the Shabbâ´th And it came to pass, also on another Shabbâ´th, He entered into the assembly and instructed, and a man was there, and his right hand was withered.

And the scribes and Phrushíym were observing Him whether He will cure on the Shabbâ´th, in order that they might find an accusation against Him. And they asked Him, saying:

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Shabbâ´th. When he fell, he became subject to the Law of sin and death. Yâhuwshúa` did not carry ’Âthâ´m’s sin, being the Seed of Woman, born of a virgin. Thus also He was sovereign over the Shabbâ´th, and He never fell. We who are within Him are also free from the Law of sin and death, and sovereigns over the Shabbâ´th.

36 This means Yâhuwshúa` is the Sovereign, and is the One who determines what constitutes Shabbâ´th violations, AND that He is also the Sovereign King during the Shabbâ´th millennium, in which a Human will rule, Yâhuwshúa` qualifying for this also.

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“Is it lawful to cure on the Shabbthóth?”

[MattithYâ´huw 12: 10] But He discerned their reasonings, and said to the man who had the withered hand: “Come and stand in the midst of the assembly.”

And having come, he stood.

Then Yâhuwshúa` said to them: “I will ask you whether it is lawful on the Shabbthóth to do good, or to do evil? To save a life (soul), or to kill it?37 What man shall there be from you, who shall have one sheep, and if this should fall into a pit on the Shabbthóth, won’t grab hold of it and will raise it out? Then how more important is a human than a sheep? So, too, it is lawful to do virtue on the Shabbthóth.”

Yâhuwshúa` was not only asking this because they were going to plot His murder on that Shabbâ´th, but also because His murder by hanging on the gallows-cross was also committed on a high shabbâ´th, the true day of Phâ´çech!

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[MattithYâ´huw 12: 11-12, Yshá`Yâhuw 56: 1-2] But they were silent. [Márquwç 3: 4] And having looked around on all of them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their heart, [Márquwç 3: 5] He said to the man: “Extend your hand.”

And he did so, and his hand was restored, intact as the other.

So they were filled with unminding rage (zeal38), and having gone out immediately with the Heródians, consulted with one another what they should do to Yâhuwshúa`, how they might destroy Him. [Márquwç 3: 6]

The Aramaic has here “envy”, which also means zeal. The Greek has anoia here, which is here expressed as “unminding rage”, based on what the Strong’s says for #454 and #3563. It is interesting to compare “zeal” with “unminding rage”, as these have common meanings.

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And when it became day, He summoned His pupils, and picked out from them twelve, whom also He named delegates: Shim`ówn, whom also He named Këph, and ’Andréas, his brother; Ya`aqóv and Yâhuwchânâ´n the sons of Zavdíy; Phílippos, and Bar-Talmáy, MattithYâ´huw, and Tâ’ówm, and Ya`aqóv the sons of Chë´lphëy, [Márquwç 2: 14] 15.

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and Shim`ówn who was called the Zealot, Yâhuwthâ´h [Thaddáy](the brother39 of Ya`aqóv), and Yehuwthâ´h ’Iy-Çkriy’ówţuw40, who also became a traitor.

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The Sermon on the Shore And descending with them, Yâhuwshúa` stood upon a plain, with a crowd of His pupils and a great multitude of the people from all Yâhuwthâ´h and Yruwshâláim and the seashore of Tsowr and Tsiythówn, [18.] who came to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases, And the ones oppressed by unclean spirits, they also were cured.

See Yâhuwthâ´h verse 1. He was the half brother of Yâhuwshúa`. The Peshitta Aramaic translation incorrectly says “the son of”.

40 It is possible this traitor’s name was Yâhuwthâ´h, as the original version. However, this is post-Maccabean times when scribes were already censoring names starting in Yâ´huwto “Yehow-” or “Yehuw-”. It wouldn’t be distinguishable except in original unavailable scripture, so, considering this man’s nature, I assume he used the corrupted name.

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Whom Yâ-hwéh blesses “Happy are you, the cringing in spirit, because yours is the Kingdom of Yâhwéh.

Happy are you who hunger now, because ye shall be filled abundantly. Happy are you who weep now, because ye shall laugh.

Happy are ye when men shall detest you, and when they shall exclude you, and shall reproach you, and give you a bad name [bad reputation] on account of the Son of ’Âthâ´m: 69

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Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For look, your reward is great in the heavens, for their fathers did according to these things to the predicators!

Woe to the “fortunate” Moreover, for the rich: Hówy to you, because ye have received in full your consolation.

Hówy to you who have been filled, for ye shall hunger! Hówy to you who laugh now, because ye shall mourn and weep!

Hówy to you when all the men speak well of you, for according to these things their fathers did to the predicators of the Lie. 24.

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Nevertheless to you who hear, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who detest you, Bless those who curse you, and pray for the ones who threaten you.

To the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other, and from the one, who takes away your garment, do not hinder the kthóneth (shirt) also!

And to everyone who asks you, give!

And from him who takes away what is yours, do not demand its return, And just as ye wish that men should do to you, do ye also to them similarly.

And if ye affectionately love the ones who affectionately love you, what is your kindness? For even the sinners love those who love them!

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And if ye do goodness to those who do goodness to you, what is your kindness?

For even those sinners do the same!

And if ye lend to those from whom ye expect to receive in full, what is your kindness? For likewise the sinners lend to sinners in order that they may receive the same in full.

Moreover affectionately love your enemies, and do them goodness, and lend, fully expecting nothing, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the sons of `ElyĂłwn (the Highest), for He is kind upon the ungrateful and harmful ones.

Therefore be ye merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

And do not pass judgment, that ye be in no wise judged; do not condemn, that ye

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be in no wise condemned. Release, and ye shall be released.

Give, and it shall be given to you: they shall give a virtuous measure, packed down and settled, and overflowing into your bosom; for with the same measure with which ye measure out, it shall be measured in return to you.”

Wannabe religious authorities, fix yourselves first And He spoke a parable to them: “Is a blind person able at all to lead a blind person? Wouldn’t both fall into a pit?

A pupil is not over his Instructor, yet every one shall be made complete as his Instructor.

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Yet why do you look at the splinter that is in the eye of your brother, but you do not perceive the beam that is in your own eye?

Or how able are you to say to your brother: “Brother, let me extract the splinter that is in your eye”, when look, you do not discern the beam in your own eye? Role-faker, first extract the beam from your eye and then you will see clearly to extract the splinter that is in your brother’s eye!

Recognize yourself by your fruit For there is not a virtuous tree producing corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree producing virtuous fruit, For each tree is recognized from its own fruit: for they do not gather figs from 43.

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thorns, nor do they gather a bunch of grapes from a brier shrub!

The good man, from the good treasure of his heart, brings forth that which is good; but the harmful man, from the harmful treasure of his heart, brings forth that which is harmful; for one’s mouth speaks from the surplus of the heart!

Acknowledgers of His Word will enter His Kingdom in that Day And why do ye call Me: “’Athonâ´y! ’Athonâ´y! (My Sovereign!

My Sovereign!)” yet you do not do what I say?

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shall enter into the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh, rather he who does the will of My Father Who is in the heavens. [Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 6: 40, 1 Yâhuwchânâ´n 3: 23] 22. Many will say to Me in that Day, “’Athonâ´y, ’Athonâ´y (My Sovereign, My Sovereign), didn’t we eat and drink by Your name, preach by Your name, and by Your name cast out gods, and perform many works of power by Your name?”

23. And then I will profess to them, ‘Never did I acknowledge you: even if you are in My bosom and do not do the will of My Father Who is in heaven, out of My bosom will I cast you away! Depart from Me, all ye workers of Lawlessness!’

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Everyone who is coming towards Me and heeding My Words and doing them41, I will show to you to whom he resembles: He is similar to a man building a house who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the Rock, and a flood having come, the stream tore against that house, and could not topple it, for it had been founded upon the Rock.

But he who heard and did not do them is similar to a man having built a house upon the earth without a foundation, and when the stream tore against it, and it immediately fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

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Chapter 7 Proper persuasion displayed by a Roman ¶ And when He had completed all His sayings in the hearing of the people, Yâhuwshúa` entered into Kâphâ´rnachúwm (Kapernaoúm).

And a certain bondman of a captain of a hundred, who was esteemed by him, being ill, was about to die.

And having heard about Yâhuwshúa`, he sent forth before him the elders of the “Yehuwthím” to beg Him that He, having come, might rescue his bondman.

And they, having come before Yâhuwshúa`, implored Him diligently, saying: 1.

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For he loves our people, and he built the assembly-house for us!”

And Yâhuwshúa` went together with them, but when He was not far distant from the house, the captain of a hundred sent friends towards Him, saying to Him:

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“My Sovereign, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy in order that You should come under my roof, Which is why I did neither count myself worthy to come before You, instead, say the word, and my servant shall be cured, For also I am a man subject to Your42 authority, having soldiers under myself, and if I say to this one:

This centurion calls Yâhuwshúa` his Sovereign, accepting His authority. Then logically “Your” should be here, even contextually, because Who would give the order? Of course many earthly authorities influencing the scribes would wish to censor this. The centurion’s admission of His being King over the Kæ´sar who was over him is what amazed Yâhuwshúa`, not merely his feeling unworthy to be visited by his Sovereign.

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‘Go!’ Then he goes; and to another: ‘Come!’

Then he comes; and to my bondman: ‘Do this!’

Then he does it.”

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And Yâhuwshúa`, having heard these things, marveled at him, and turning to the crowd following Him, said: “’Âmë´n (Certainly) I say to you, not even within Yisrâ’Ë´l did I find so great a persuasion! But I say to you that many shall come from east and west, and shall recline at table with ’Avrâhâ´m, Yitschâ´q and Ya`aqóv within the Kingdom of Yâhwéh; But the sons of the Kingdom43 shall be thrown out into the darkness outside: there

Christians who deny His name, who are apostate Yisrâ’Ë´l. Sons of the Kingdom, like sons of a city, are the citizens, the natives, as in “natural branches” who will be stripped off because they are not from Yâ-hwéh. Yet these will be grafted in again.

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shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.” [MattithYâ´huw 8: 11-12] And those sent, having returned to the house, found the sick bondman in good wellness.

Yâhuwshúa` shows compassion on the desolate And it came to pass on the next day, He went into a city called Nâ`íym, and His pupils and a rather large crowd went together with Him. But as He drew near to the gate of the city, look! Also one who had died was being carried out, an only-kin son of his mother, and she was a widow, and quite a large crowd of sons of the city [citizens] was together with her.

And Yâhuwshúa`, seeing her, was moved with compassion on her, and said to her: “Don’t cry.”

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And approaching, He touched the coffin, and those bearing it stood still. And He said: “Young man, to you I say: Arouse!”

And the dead one sat up and began to speak, and He gave him to his mother.

And terror seized all, and they honored Yâ-hwéh, saying: “A great Predicator has risen up among us!”

And: “The mighty Ones has visited His people!”

And this word went out into all Yâhuwthâ´h about Him, and in all of the surrounding country, Even to Yâhuwchânâ´n, his pupils brought word about all these things.

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Yâhuwchânâ´n asks if Yâhuwshúa` is Yâhwéh And Yâhuwchânâ´n, having summoned a certain two of his pupils, sent them before Yâhuwshúa`, saying: “Are You the coming One, or are we to look for another?”

And those men, having come before Yâhuwshúa`, said: “Yâhuwchânâ´n the Immerser has sent us forth towards You, saying: ‘Are You the coming One, or are we to wait for another?’”

And in the same hour He did cure many of diseases and scourges and harmful spirits, and He did grant to many blind to see.

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“Having gone, relate to Yâhuwchânâ´n what ye have seen and heard: that blind ones receive sight, lame ones walk about, leprous ones are cleansed, deaf ones hear, dead ones are raised, poor ones are announced the glad tidings, And happy is he, whoever might not be caused to distrust in Me!”

Yâhuwshúa` on Yâhuwchânâ´n the Immerser And the envoys of Yâhuwchânâ´n having departed, He began to speak to the crowds about Yâhuwchânâ´n: “What did ye go out into the uninhabited land to look at? A zealot, shaken by the spirit?

Instead, what did ye go out to see? A man dressed in soft garments? Look!

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garments are living among the royals!

They are dressed in soft clothes, yet they cannot discern Truth. [Tâ’ówm 78] Instead, what did ye go out to see? A predicator? Yes, I say to you, yet one greater than the predicators!

This one is he, about whom it has been written: 26.

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least one within the Kingdom of Yâhwéh is greater than he.

Yet from the days of Yâhuwchânâ´n the Immerser even until now, the kingship of Yâ-hwéh is being seized, and it is plundered!44 [Dâ´niyyË´’l 9: 26] For of all this foretold Predicators and the Law, even concerning45 Yâhuwchânâ´n.

And if ye are willing to accept it, he is ’ËliyYâ´huw, who is yet to come.

The one having ears to understand, let him heed it. [MattithYâ´huw 11: 12-15] And all the people who did heed him, even the tax collectors, regarded Yâhwéh to be just, when they were immersed with the immersion of Yâhuwchânâ´n.

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45 `Al in the `Ivríyth (Hebrew) Shem Tob text, before the scribal error changing it to `Ad (until).

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But the Phrushíym and the scribes reject the will of Yâ-hwéh for their lives [souls], because they were not immersed by him!

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This age’s hardened are a hard audience Therefore, to what shall I compare the men of this stock? And to what are they similar?

They are similar to little children, sitting in a town-square and calling out to their friends, and saying: “We played the flute for you, but ye did not dance; we lamented to you yet ye did not weep!”

For Yâhuwchânâ´n the Immerser has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say:

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“He has a god46 within him!”

The Son of ’Âthâ´m has come eating and drinking and ye say: “Look! A gluttonous man and a wine bibber, a friend of tax collectors and of sinners!”

But Wisdom was to be shown just by all her children.”

Why we were permitted to sin before coming to Him ¶ And one of the Phrushíym asked Him that He should eat with him, and having entered into the house of the Phârushíy, He reclined to eat, And there was a wife in the city who was a sinner. When she had recognized that He had reclined to eat at the house of the

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Phârushíy, having taken an alabaster flask of oil, And standing behind Him, at His feet, weeping, she began to shower His feet with tears, and she was wiping them with the hairs of her head, and she was ardently kissing His feet, and anointing them with the oil.

And having seen it, the Phârushíy who invited Him spoke within his self, saying: “This One, if He were a predicator, would have known who and what the woman is who touches Him, because she is a sinner.”

And responding, Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “Shim`ówn, I have something to say to you.”

And he says: “Speak, Rabbíy.”

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“There were two debtors in debt to a certain Creditor; the one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

But since they did not have any way to pay it back, He forgave both. Now then, tell Me which of them will affectionately love Him most?”

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And responding, Shim`ówn said: “I take it that he to whom He forgave the most.”

And Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “You have judged correctly.”

And having turned towards the woman, He said to Shim`ówn: “Do you see this wife? I entered into your house, you did not give water for My feet, but she showered My feet with

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tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

You did not give a kiss to Me, but she, since the time that I entered, has not ceased to ardently kiss My feet.

You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with oil.

On account of which, I say to you: because her many sins have been released from her, much did she affectionately love; but to whom little has been released, little does he affectionately love.”

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And He said to her: “Your sins have been released from you.”

But those reclining to eat together with Him began to say within themselves: “Is this One Someone even to release from sins?”

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And Yâhuwshúa` said to the wife: “Your persuasion has delivered you. Go in peace.”

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The Parable of the Sower And when a great crowd assembled, with those from each city who were coming towards Him, He spoke through a parable: “The Sower went out to sow His Seed [Chanówkh 61: 10-11], but as He sowed, some fell beside the way and it was trampled upon, and the birds of the skies devoured it.

And others fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it dried up, because it did not have moisture, And others fell in the midst of the thorns, and when they had sprung up, those thorns choked it, Yet others fell upon the good earth, and when they had sprung up, they produced fruit a hundredfold.”

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When He had said these things, He called out: “He who has ears to understand, let him heed it!”

And His pupils asked Him, saying: “What might this parable mean?”

And He said to them: “To you it has been granted to recognize the secrets of the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh, but for the rest, in parables, who when ‘they see, they do not perceive, and hearing they do not understand’. [Yshá`Yâhuw 6: 9] [MattithYâ´huw 13: 14-17]

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Do you not understand this parable? So how will ye recognize all the parables?47 [Márquwç 4: 13] Now the parable means this: the Seed is the Word of Yâhwéh [“Yâhuwshúa`” (Disclosure 19: 13)].

[1 Këph 1: 23] The Sower sows the Word [Márquwç 4: 14], And those beside the way are those who hear the Word, then the Accuser comes and takes away the Word from their hearts, lest having believed, they should be saved.

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Recognizing the meaning of the parable, that the Seed of the Kingdom is the Living Word of Yâ-hwéh, Yâhuwshúa`, is the key to understanding all parables, as well as scripture!

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immediately caused to lose their trust [Márquwç 4: 17], deserting it.

And that Seed which fell among the thorns, these are those who having heard the Word of Yâ-hwéh, [MattithYâ´huw 13: 22], go forth and are completely strangled by the distractions, and the lust for the delusion of Fortune (God)48 [MattithYâ´huw 13: 22], and the sensual pleasures of life, so they do not bring fruit to maturity.

And that Seed that fell in the virtuous earth, these are they who, having heard the Word and understand [MattithYâ´huw 13: 23] and accept it [Márquwç 4: 20], firmly retain it in a 14.

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virtuous and good heart, and they bring forth fruit by perseverance.

So no one having lighted a Lamp [Psalms 119: 10549] covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a couch, rather, one puts it upon a lampstand, in order that those who enter in may see the Light.

For the Word isn’t something concealed which shall not become apparent, nor is It a secret, which won’t be well-known or come out for display.

Therefore, beware how ye hear It! By what measure ye mete the Word it shall be measured to you, and shall be added to you who heed it; [Márquwç 4: 24] for whoever may retain the Word, to him shall be given, but whoever may not maintain the Word, even what he 16.

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supposes to have shall be taken away from him!”

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And His [natural] mother and brothers came towards Him but were not able to get to Him due to the crowd.

And it was told to Him, saying: “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside50, wishing to see You.” And He, having looked around on those who were sitting around Him in a circle [Márquwç 3: 34], extending His hand over His pupils, responding, said to them: “Look! My mother and My brothers! For whosoever also shall do the will of My Father [Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 6:

Per Márquwç 3: 21, they had come to take custody of Him because they said He was insane.

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[MattithYâ´huw 12: 49-50] My mother and My brothers are those who are hearing the Word of Yâ-hwéh and working it. They are the ones who will enter My Father’s kingdom.” [Tâ’ówm 99]52

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Márquwç 3: 35 52 Yâhuwshúa`’s natural kin thought He was insane and were outside seeking to take charge of Him. Yâhuwshúa` saw the parallel between His Day when He comes and will be surrounded by His true spiritual brothers, though those natural kin will be outside, seeking to force their way in.

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And they sailed out.

And as they sailed, Yâhuwshúa` fell asleep, and a squall of wind came down on the lake, and they were being swamped and were in danger.

And having approached Him, they aroused Him, saying: “¡Rabbíy, Rabbíy, we are perishing!”

And He, having awakened, rebuked the wind, and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there was a calm.

And He said to them: “Where is your trust?”

And being afraid, they wondered, saying to one another: “Who then is this One, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?” Yâhuwshúa` evicts a legion of gods

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And they sailed down unto the land of the Gdârâthíy, which is on the opposite side of Gâlíyl.

And at His having gone forth upon the land, a certain man from the province met Him, who had gods for quite a long time, and was not wearing a garment, and did not stay in a house, rather among the tombs.

But having seen Yâhuwshúa`, and having cried out, he prostrated himself down before Him, and said with a loud voice: “What is mine is also Yours, Yâhuwshúa`, Son of ’Ël `Elyówn!

Are You come here to torment us before the season? [MattithYâ´huw 8: 29] I beg of You, do not torment me!”

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For He was charging the unclean spirit to exit from the man, for it had seized him a long time. And he had been bound, being imprisoned with chains and fetters, but breaking the bonds he was driven by the god into the uninhabited lands.

And Yâhuwshúa` asked him, saying: “What is your name?”

And he said: “Legion, because we are many within him.”

And he implored Him in order that He would not command them to go away into the abyss.

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And the gods, having exited from the man, they entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the cliff and fell into the lake, and were drowned.

And those who fed them, having seen what had taken place, fled, and having departed, reported it unto the city and unto the country.

And they went out to see what had taken place, and came towards Yâhuwshúa`, and found the man from whom the gods had exited, seated, clothed, and of a sound mind, by the feet of Yâhuwshúa`, so they were afraid.

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had oppressed them, so He, having entered into the ship, returned.

But the man from whom the gods had exited was begging Him to be together with Him, but Yâhuwshúa` sent him away, saying: “Return unto your house and describe all that Yâ-hwéh has done for you.”

And he departed, proclaiming through the whole city all that Yâhuwshúa` had done for him.

And it came to pass, on Yâhuwshúa` returning, the crowd gladly received Him, for they were all looking for Him. 39.

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Yâhuwshúa`, he implored Him to enter into his house, Because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying; and as Yâhuwshúa` went with him, the crowds thronged Him. And a wife, who was with a flux of blood since twelve years, who having spent her entire means of living on physicians, could not be cured by anyone, When she had approached behind Him, she touched the tassel of His garment, and immediately the flux of her blood stopped!

And Yâhuwshúa` said: “Who is the one who was touching Me?” But all denying, Këph and those with him said: “Rabbíy, the crowds throng You and crowd You on every side, yet You say: 105

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“Who is the one who was touching Me?” Yet Yâhuwshúa` said: “Someone touched Me, for I recognized that Force went out from Me.” And the wife, seeing that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and having prostrated herself in supplication to Him, she declared for what cause she touched Him in the sight of all the people, and how she was cured immediately.

And He said to her: “Have courage, My daughter, your persuasion has delivered you. Go in peace.”

And as He was yet speaking, one comes from the house of the chief of the assembly, saying to Him: “Your daughter has died. Don’t bother the Instructor.”

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But Yâhuwshúa`, having heard, responded to the father of the girl, saying: “Do not fear; only believe, and she shall be restored.”

And when He had entered into the house, Yâhuwshúa` did not permit anyone to enter except Shim`ówn Këph, and Ya`aqóv, and Yâhuwchânâ´n, and the father and the mother.

And they all were weeping and beating their breast in grief about her. But Yâhuwshúa` said: “Do not weep; she is not dead, rather, she sleeps.53” But they laughed at Him, discerning that she was dead.

Yâhuwshúa` is teaching us also the proper reaction to deaths of loved ones. The statement that the dead sleep is noticeably made only in scripture about believers, though these also may and do awaken e.g. Shmuw’Ë´l, and the fifth seal events.

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So He, having thrown all them out and having grabbed her hand, called her, saying: “Girl, arise!”

And her spirit returned, and she rose instantly! And He directed that food should be given to her to eat.

And her parents were astounded, and He charged them to tell no one what had happened.

Chapter 9 The twelve sent forth on missions And having called together His twelve delegates, He gave to them Force and authority over all the gods, and to cure diseases, And sent them forth to proclaim the reign of Yâ-hwéh, and to cure those being sick.

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“Do not take anything for the way; neither a rod, nor a provision bag, nor bread, nor silver, nor to have two Kthóneth (shirts54) each.

And remain there in whatever house ye may enter, and depart from there.

And as many as may not accept you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet, for a testimony against them!”

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And going forth, they traversed each of the villages, announcing the glad tidings and curing everywhere.

Heródes wishes to see Him

Some words in the Greek translation were words transliterated from the `Ivríyth (Hebrew), such as this one. More evidence for an `Ivríyth (Hebrew) original.

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Even Heródes, the ruler of a fourth part of the Land, heard of all the things being done by His hand and was thoroughly perplexed, because it was said by some that Yâhuwchânâ´n has been raised from among the dead, And by some that ’ËliyYâ´huw had appeared, and by others that a predicator of the ancients had arisen.

But Heródes said: “Yâhuwchânâ´n I beheaded, but Who is this One about Whom I hear such things?”

And he sought to see Him. And the delegates, having returned, reported to Him everything they had done. And having received them near, He quietly retreated privately by ship [Márquwç 6: 32] into the uninhabited land of a city called Bë´yth-Tsëythâ´h.

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5,000 fed with 5 loaves and 2 fishes ¶ But those crowds who had recognized that followed Him, and having received them, He spoke to them about the reign of Yâ-hwéh; and He cured those having need of curing.

But the day began to decline, and the twelve, having approached, said to Him: “Dismiss the crowd in order that, having gone into the surrounding villages and country, they may stop for the night, and may find provisions, because here we are in an uninhabited place.”

But Yâhuwshúa` said to them: “Give ye food to them to eat.”

[Yshá`Yâhuw 58: 6-755]

The kind of fast that Yâ-hwéh has chosen is what He was practicing – not physical selfdenial, but spiritual self-denial, ignoring ones’ natural emotional reactions and correcting injustices, sharing food with the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, and not to turn away from one’s kin.

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But they said: “There are not more than five loaves and two fishes to us, unless indeed having gone back, we should buy food for all this people!”

For they were about five thousand men.

But He said to His pupils: “Make them recline in groups of fifty.”

And they did so, and made all recline.

And when He had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up unto the heavens, He blessed them and broke them, and gave them to the pupils to set before the crowd.

And they ate and all were stuffed; and that which was taken up of their fragments was over and above twelve hand baskets!56

The Old Syriac (Curetonian) adds here: “and these people that ate of that bread were about five thousand besides women and children.”

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He did not come to announce that He was the Anointed One ¶ And it came to pass, as He was praying separately, the pupils were together with Him, and He questioned them, saying: “Who do the crowds pronounce Me to be?”57 And they, answering, said: “Yâhuwchânâ´n the Immerser, and others, ’ËliyYâ´huw, and others, that some predicator of the ancients has arisen.”

And He said to them: “But ye, whom do ye pronounce Me to be?”

And responding, Këph said: “The Anointed One of Yâ-hwéh!”

This happened after Heródes pronounced Him to be Yâhuwchânâ´n the Immerser resurrected.

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And He honored them [MattithYâ´huw 16: 17-19]58, but commanded them to not tell this to anyone, Saying: “It is necessary for the Son of ’Âthâ´m to suffer many things, and to be disapproved by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed off, yet on the third day He is to be raised.”

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What it takes to survive the coming And He said before all:

This rendition accurately portrays what actually happened, as the translation rendering “honored” as “rebuked”, or otherwise, is ludicrous. This reference in MattithYâ´huw proves He honored them rather than rebuked them for saying He was the Anointed One. Who might have made such an alteration?

59 Page: 114 And He spoke the matter outspokenly. But Këph, having taken Him to himself, began to admonish Him. But He, turning and seeing His pupils, censured Këph, saying: “You go after Me, Adversary, because your interests are not in the things of Yâ-hwéh, rather in the things of the sons of ’Âthâ´m.”

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“If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny his self, and let him pick up his gallows-cross daily, and let him follow Me; For whoever might wish to save his self shall lose it; but whoever might lose his life [self] on account of Me, this one shall make it live!

For what is a human benefited, having gained the whole world, but having destroyed or suffered the loss of his self?

For whoever may have been ashamed of Me and of My Words60 in this adulterous and sinful age, [Márquwç 8:38] this person will the Son of ’Âthâ´m be ashamed of when He shall come within the Honor of His Father with His pure envoys. For the Son of ’Âthâ´m is about to come in the Honor of His Father, with His

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envoys, and then61 He will render to each according to his deeds. [MattithYâ´huw 16: 27] But I say to you truly, standing here are some of those62, who in no wise shall taste of death until they shall have seen the Reign of Yâ-hwéh having come by Force!”63 [Márquwç 9: 1]

The transfiguration to His royal appearance And it came to pass about eight days after these words that Yâhuwshúa`, having taken Këph and Yâhuwchânâ´n and

At the sixth seal/ Great and Terrible Day of Yâ-hwéh; this is not a description of the seventh trumpet resurrection/rapture!

62 Two meanings: 1) The event 8 days later, when 3 chosen delegates saw the royalty of the Sovereign Yâ-hwéh, Yâhuwshúa` in His true appearance. 2) The remnant which lives to see the reign of Yâ-hwéh without dying are of the same little flock which Yâhuwshúa` led.

Yâhuwchânâ´n the delegate was not the same Yâhuwchânâ´n the elder who saw the Kingdom shown to him by revelation, documented as the scroll of Disclosure.

63 It is interesting to contrast these new findings in these translations: then, the Kingdom was being offered to them. But in the next coming, the Reign of Yâ-hwéh comes by Force!

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Ya`aqóv, He went up on the mountain [Tsiyyówn, 2 Këph 1: 18] to pray.

And it came to pass, as He prayed, the appearance of His face altered, and His clothing became irradiant white!

And look! Two men talked with Him, who were Moshéh and ’ËliyYâ´huw, Who, appearing within honor, spoke of His departure, which He was about to fulfill in Yruwshâláim.

But Shim`ówn Këph and those together with him were weighed down with sleep; but remaining awake, they saw His Honor and the two men who stood together with Him. And it came to pass, as these departed from Him, Këph said to Yâhuwshúa`: “’Athonâ´y (my Sovereign), it is good for us to be here, so let us make three tents:

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one for You, and for Moshéh one, and one for ’ËliyYâ´huw…”

Not understanding what he was saying.

But when he was saying these things, a cloud generated and overshadowed them, and they feared when they saw that ’ËliyYâ´huw and Moshéh entered into the cloud, And a voice generated from the cloud in Him [2 Këph 1: 17], saying: “This One is My Son, the Chosen One64 in Whom I have found delight [MattithYâ´huw 17: 5, Yshá`Yâhuw 42: 1]: heed ye Him.” [Deuteronomy 18: 15, 1965]

Per 3 of the Greek translations, Tischendorf, Tregelles, and Alford, though not in the Aramaic translations. When supplemented with the phrase in MattithYâ´huw, it is apparent this is a derivation of Yshá`Yâhuw 42:1, and that Yâhuwshúa` is the same Chosen (Elect) One referred to repeatedly in the Scroll of Chanówkh. Since the Father calls Yâhuwshúa` His Beloved at His immersion, it is doubtful He would repeat Himself, rather that He would make His identity more clear. Thus all references to this event have been corrected per this rendition.

65 “A predicator from among you, from your brothers, like me Yâ-hwéh your mighty Ones will raise up for you, TO HIM YOU MUST LISTEN.” “And it shall be that the man who 64

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And during the time the voice generated, Yâhuwshúa` was found alone; and they kept silent, and in those days they related to no one anything of what they had seen.

Yâhuwshúa` returns to care for the unbelieving and twisted “Yehuwthím” ¶ And it came to pass on the next day, on their having come down from the mountain, a great crowd encountered Him. And look! A man from the crowd cried out, saying: “Instructor! I beg You; look over at my son, for he is the only kin to me, And look!

A spirit seizes him and suddenly he screams, and it throws him into convulsions with foaming, and

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will not listen to My words that He speaks in My name, I, I shall call him to account for it.”

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departs from him with difficulty, crushing him!

And I begged Your pupils in order that they might cast it out, but they were not able.

And responding, Yâhuwshúa` said: “O stubbornly unbelieving and deviant stock, until when shall I be with you?

And until when shall I put up with you?

[MattithYâ´huw 17: 17] Bring your son here.”

But as he yet was approaching, the god convulsed him and he suddenly screams out, and it convulsed him violently. And Yâhuwshúa` rebuked the unclean spirit, and cured the child, and gave him back to his father.

And all were astonished at the greatness of Yâ-hwéh. And, as all were marveling

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“Put ye these words into your ears, for the Son of ’Âthâ´m is about to be given over into the hands of men.”

But they did not understand this saying, and it was veiled from them in order that they should not perceive it, and they feared to ask Him about this saying.

Who enters and who becomes the greatest in His Kingdom But a question entered among them, this: who might the greatest of them be?

And Yâhuwshúa`, having seen the reasoning of their heart, having taken hold of a little child, He set it by Him, And said to them:

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“’Âmë´n (For certain) I say to you, unless ye turn completely around and become as little children, indeed ye shall not even enter into the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh!

[MattithYâ´huw 18: 3] Whichever one of such little children shall accept Me by My name, accepts Me, and whoever shall accept Me does not accept Me, rather he [Márquwç 9: 37] accepts the One Who sent Me; for he who shall become least among all of you, this one shall be great.”

And responding, Yâhuwchânâ´n said: “Rabbíy, we saw someone casting out the gods by Your name, and we withstood him, because he does not follow with us.”

And Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “Do not forbid it, for whoever is not against us is for us.”

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¶ And it came to pass when the days for His being received up were being fulfilled, that He resolutely turned His aspect to travel unto Yruwshâláim.

And He sent forth envoys before His face, and having gone, they entered into a village of the Shomroníym, so as to make ready for Him. Yet they did not receive Him, because His aspect was to travel to Yruwshâláim.

And seeing this, His pupils Ya`aqóv and Yâhuwchânâ´n said: “O Sovereign, do You wish we should call fire to come down from the heavens and consume them as also ’ËliyYâ´huw did?”

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For the Son of ’Âthâ´m did not come to destroy the lives (souls) of men, rather to save!”

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Devotion is required And it came to pass, as they traveled in the way, someone said to Him: “I will follow You wherever You might go, O my Sovereign!”

And Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the skies have nests; but the Son of ’Âthâ´m does not have where He might lay the head.”

And He said to another: “Follow Me.” But he said:

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“O my Sovereign, allow me first, to go off to celebrate funeral rites for my father.”

But Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “Leave the dead to celebrate funeral rites of their own dead, but you go off, announce the reign of Yâ-hwéh!”

And another also said: “I will follow You, O my Sovereign, but first, allow me to dispose of those at my house.”

But Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “No one, having applied his hand on the plow, but looking on the things behind him, is well suited for the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh.”

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Now after these things, the Sovereign Yâhuwshúa` appointed also seventy others, and sent them two by two before His face, into every city and place where He was about to come Himself.

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“The harvest is indeed great, but the workmen are few. Therefore supplicate the Sovereign of the harvest, so that He may send out workmen for His harvest.

Go ye, look! I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves!

Neither carry a purse nor a provision bag, nor sandals, and join no one along the way; And at whatever house ye shall enter, first say: “Peace to this house!”

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And if a son of peace were indeed there, your peace shall settle on it; but if not so, it shall return onto you.

And stay at the same house, eating and drinking what they offer with them, for the workman is worthy of his food. Do not change place from a house unto another house.

And also, whatever city ye may enter into, and they receive you, eat whatever is set before you, And cure the sick within it, and say to them: “The Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh is offered to you.”

But whatever city ye may enter into, and they do not receive you, having gone out into its streets, say:

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“Even the dust that clung to us on our feet from your city we shake off against you! Moreover know this absolutely: that the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh was offered to you!”

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And I say to you that it shall be more endurable for Çthóm on that Day than for that city!

Hówy to you, Choratsín! Hówy to you, Bë´yth-Tsëythâ´h, because if the works of Force that have been taking place within you had taken place within Tsowr and Tsiythówn, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes!

Moreover it shall be more endurable for Tsowr and Tsiythówn in the Judgment than for you.

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And you, Kâphâ´rnachúwm (Kapernaoúm), who has been exalted unto the heavens66, you shall be brought down unto Sh’ówl! Because if the works of Force that have taken place in you had taken place in Çthóm, it would have remained until today! But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for Çthóm in Judgment Day than for you!” [MattithYâ´huw 11: 23-24] He who hears you hears Me, and he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me, rejects Him Who sent Me.” 15.

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And the seventy whom He had sent returned with joy, saying: “O our Sovereign! Even the gods are subject to us by Your name!”

And He said to them:

MattithYâ´huw 4: 13 says He dwelt at this place, calling it His own city in 9:1. For Yâhwéh Yâhuwshúa` to make it His base of operations is exalting it to the level of the heavens.

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“I was a Spectator of the Adversary falling out of the heavens like lightning.

Look: I grant you the authority to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and on all the force of the enemy, and nothing shall injure you in any way.

Yet, do not rejoice within this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice more so, because your names are written within the heavens!”

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things from the experts and the scholars, and did reveal them to the untaught!

Yes, ’Avíy [My Father], because thus was Your desire.”

And He turned towards His pupils, and He said to them: “All things were given over to Me by My Father, so no one acknowledges Who is the Son except the Father, or Who is the Father, except the Son, and to the one whomever the Son may intend to reveal Him.” And having turned towards His pupils privately, He said: “Happy are those eyes which see what ye see; For I say to you that many predicators and kings wished to see what ye see, and did not see; and to hear what ye hear, and did not hear!”

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Justification by the Law (Romans 10: 5) ¶ And look! A certain scholar of the Law stood up to examine Him, and said: “Instructor, having done what shall I inherit endless life?”

And Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “What has been written within the Law? How do you read it to say?”

And he, responding, said: “You shall affectionately love Yâ-hwéh, your mighty Ones, with all your heart and with all of your self67, and with all of your effort; [Deuteronomy 6: 4-5] and you shall affectionately love your fellow as yourself. [Leviticus 19: 18]” And Yâhuwshúa` said to him:

This could be translated as “for all your life”

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“You have answered correctly; perform this, and you may live.”

The definition of a fellow is spiritual not racial But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Yâhuwshúa`: “But who is my fellow?”

And taking it up, Yâhuwshúa` said: “A certain man was going down from Yruwshâláim unto Yriychów, and fell among robbers, leaving him effectively half dead.

And by coincidence, a certain priest went down by that way, but when he had seen him, he passed by on the opposite side; And similarly also a Lëwíy was at the place, when he had come and had seen him, also passed by on the opposite side.

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But a certain Shomroníy was journeying who came to him, and when he had seen him, he was moved with compassion; And having approached him, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine [Phílippos 117 (111)], and having put him upon his own donkey, he brought him into an inn, and took care of him.

And departing at the dawn, taking out two denarii, he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him: “Take care of him, and whatsoever you might spend more, I will repay you at my return.”

Which, therefore, of these three seems to you to have been a fellow of the one who fell among the robbers?”

And he said: “He who showed compassion towards him.”

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Therefore said Yâhuwshúa` to him: “Go and you do likewise68.”

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Learning His Word is superior to menial service ¶ And it came to pass, as they traveled and He entered into a certain village, and a certain wife named Mar’thâ´h received Him into her house.

And she had a sister called Miryâ´m, who also having sat down at the feet of Yâhuwshúa` was listening to His Word.

But Mar’thâ´h was being distracted about attending many, and coming over she said: “O my Sovereign, doesn’t it matter to You that my sister left me to attend

As every word of Yâ-hwéh gets fulfilled, it is very likely that Yâhuwshúa` predicted he was going to encounter a similar opportunity to help a victim.

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alone? Therefore speak to her, that she might help me!”

Yet responding, Yâhuwshúa` said to her: “Mar’thâ´h, Mar’thâ´h, you are anxious and disturbed about many things, Yet there exists a necessity of one thing: and Miryâ´m chose the good part which shall not be removed from her.”

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The model prayer ¶ And it came to pass, as He was in a certain place praying; as He ceased, one of His pupils said to Him: “Our Sovereign, instruct us how to pray, just as also Yâhuwchânâ´n instructed his pupils.”

And Yâhuwshúa` said to them: “When ye pray, speak this way:

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“Our Father, Who is within the heavens, may Your name continue being pure. Let Your reign come, let Your determination become done also upon the earth as within the heavens.

Grant us daily the bread for our subsistence, And release from us our sins, for also ourselves, we set free everyone indebted to us; and do not let us be led into testing, rather rescue us from all evil.””

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Since now a friend of mine has arrived to me from a journey, but I do not have a thing which I might set before him!”

And he from within responding might say: “Don’t cause me trouble! The door has already been shut, and my children are in bed with me, I cannot get up to give to you!”?

I say to you, even if he wouldn’t want to give it to him, because of being his friend, yet, having risen he will give him as many as he needs due to his unabashedness.

So I say to you: ask, and it shall be granted to you; seek, and ye shall find; [YirmYâ´huw 29: 13] knock, and it shall be opened to you!

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For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, it will be opened.

And which of you who is a father, whose son shall ask for bread, will give a stone to him? Or if he asks for a fish, instead of a fish, he will give a serpent to him?

Or also, if he might ask for an egg, he will give scorpion to him?

Therefore if ye, being harmful, understand to give good gifts to your sons, how much more so will your Father, Who is in the heavens, grant a pure spirit69 to those who ask Him?”

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Yâ-hwéh reigns, the Adversary has been overcome Yâhuwshúa` is speaking of purification, not of how we receive the spirit of the Pure One. The spirit of Truth is defined by Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 14:26 as being sent by the Father by the name of Yâhuwshúa`.

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¶ And He was casting out a god, and he was mute, and it came to pass, at the god’s having gone out, the mute one spoke!

And the crowds marveled.

But some [Phrushíym (MattithYâ´huw 12: 24)] from them said: “By Bá`al-Zvúwv (Lord of the stinging fly) the chief of the gods He casts out the gods!”

And others, testing, were seeking a sign from Him from the heavens.

[MattithYâ´huw 12: 38-45 makes it clear these are scribes and Phrushíym] But Yâhuwshúa`, discerning their thoughts, said to them: “Every king divided against his self is brought to ruin, and a house that is divided against itself falls.

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So if the Adversary were divided against his self, how shall his reign be established, because ye say I cast out the gods ‘by Bá`al-Zvúwv’?

Yet, if I do cast out the gods by Bá`alZvúwv, by whom do your sons cast them out? Due to this, they shall be your judges.

But since I cast out the gods by the finger of the Power, then the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh has been offered to you!

When the strong man who is armed guards his own dwelling, his goods are in peace.

But as soon as He Who is stronger than him, coming upon him shall overcome him, He removes all his armor on which he had trusted, and He divides his spoils.

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He that is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me indeed scatters70! [YchezqË´’l 34: 12]

What happens if an unclean spirit is cast out without Him entering [MattithYâ´huw 12: 45] When the unclean spirit exits from the man, he goes through waterless places, seeking refreshment, and not finding any, he says: “I will return to my house where I came out from.”

And having come, he finds it swept and adorned.

Then he goes and associates with seven other spirits more harmful than himself, and having entered, they reside there; so

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the final state of that man becomes worse than the former!”

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Why Miryâ´m was blessed And it came to pass, as He spoke these things, a certain wife, lifting up her voice from the crowd, said to Him: “Happy (’Ashërâ´h) is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which You did suck!”

But He said to her: “Yea, rather because happy are those who listen to the Word of Yâ-hwéh, and keep it.”

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“This stock is wicked: it seeks after a sign, but a sign shall not be given to it except the sign of Yownâ´h the predicator!

For just as Yownâ´h became a sign to the men of Níynwëh, thus shall the Son of ’Âthâ´m also be a sign to this stock.

A queen of the south shall rise up during the judgment against the men of this stock, and shall condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shlómoh, and look!

A One greater than Shlómoh is here!

The men of Níynwëh shall stand up during the judgment against this stock, and shall condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Yownâ´h, and look! A One greater than Yownâ´h is here!

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Yâhuwshúa`, the Word, is our Lamp [Psalms 119: 10571] No one having lit a Lamp sets it in a hidden place, not under a bushel; rather one sets It upon the lampstand, in order that those who enter in may see the Light.

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His Word, Yâhuwshúa`, is our vision source The lamp of your body is your vision source72. Therefore, when your vision source might be intact73, also your whole body is Light! But when it might be harmful, also your body is darkened.

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“Your Word is a Lamp for my feet and a Light for my path:” 72 “Eye” in `Ivríyth (Hebrew) means vision source. The Word of Yâ-hwéh is our Lamp, and the source of spiritual vision (eye) of the body of believers, as well as each individual.

Examine ZkharYâ´hu chapter 5 which shows that the Wickedness is within the EYE of all the Land, because their scriptures (the flying scroll) were erased and altered. Those with a corrupt lamp are still in great darkness.

73 The `Ivríyth (Hebrew) word here is based on Strong’s #8549 which means entire, integrity, undefiled. The Greek terms used mean single/clear/simple. The word “intact” was chosen as it means all this. The Lamp is His Word, and by means of His name we can see.

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Therefore watch it closely, lest the light that is within you is darkness!

Therefore, if your entire body is Light, not having any part darkened, it shall be entirely enlightened, as when the Lamp may have illuminated you with Its brightness!”

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Religious role-fakers who prioritize appearances over obedience And as He was speaking, a certain Phârushíy asked Him so that He would dine with him, so having entered, He reclined Himself to eat.

But the Phârushíy, seeing it, wondered, because He did not first wash before the dinner.

But Yâhuwshúa` said to him:

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“Now ye Phrushíym, ye cleanse the outside of the drinking-vessel and of the plate, but the inner side of you is full of pillage and depravity.

Senseless ones! Didn’t He Who made the outer side also make the inner side?

Additionally, pay respects to the things that are within, and then look! All of your things are cleansed!

Nevertheless, hówy to you, to the Phrushíym! Because ye pay tithes of the mint, and the rue, and of every herb; yet ye bypass the judgment and the affectionate love of Yâ-hwéh! These are things that ought to be being done, and these are not to be rejected.

Hówy to you, to the Phrushíym, for ye affectionately love the foremost seat in the assemblies and the greetings in the town-squares!

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Hówy to you, scribes and Phrushíym, role-fakers: because ye are like the unmarked graves, and the men who walk around over them do not discern them.”

3 Hówys to the Scribes And responding, one of the scribes says to Him: “Instructor, in saying these things, You also insult us!”

And He said: 1) For piling on more rules “Also to you scribes, Hówy to you, because ye load up oppressively difficult tasks on the men, yet ye yourselves do not use one of your fingers to push the burdens!

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2) For prosecuting the righteous Hówy to you, because ye build the tombs of the predicators, those that your fathers also killed off.

Thus do ye testify and agree with the works of your fathers, because they indeed did kill them off, and ye build their tombs!

Due to this, also the Wisdom of Yâhwéh did say: ‘I will send unto them predicators and delegates, and some from them they will kill off and drive out.’

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Chronicles 24: 20-21], whom ye murdered between the Temple and the altar, yea, I say to you: it shall be required from this stock!

3) For censoring His name Hówy to you, to the scribes and Phrushíym, role-fakers, because ye shut up the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh in the faces of humans [MattithYâ´huw 23: 13], because ye took away the Key of acknowledging74! Ye yourselves did not enter, and ye prevented from entering those who were entering!”

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And as He was saying these things to them, the scribes and the Phrushíym began to intimidatingly pressure Him, and to drill Him about many things,

Acknowledging His name. This is the Key of Dâwíth, which is one of the Keys to the doors of the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh, the one of the Narrow Gate.

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Watching Him and seeking to catch something75 from His mouth in order that they might accuse Him, [Yshá`Yâhuw 29: 19-21]

Chapter 12 Message to us: don’t fear man; profess His name: He will protect us At which, when the ten thousands of the crowd were gathered together such as to trample on one another, He began to say, primarily towards His pupils: 1.

“Pay attention to yourselves to stay away from the ferment of the Phrushíym, which is role-fakery76.

Particularly, the name of Yâ-hwéh, in order that they might accuse Him of scorn, as He was criticizing their name-censorship tradition.

76 The Phrushíym faked reverence for His name by censoring it, concealing and hiding it, which is what He is talking about contextually.

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And nothing has been concealed which shall not be disclosed, nor hidden which shall not be absolutely known; Wherefore, that name77 ye said in the darkness shall be heard in the light; and that name which ye spoke in the ear in the closets shall be proclaimed upon the buildings!

But I say to you: my friends, ye should not be in terror of those who kill off the body and after these things aren’t able to do anything more.

Yet I will show you Whom ye should fear: fear the One Who after having killed has authority to cast into the GëyHinnóm (Valley of Hinnóm78); yea, I say to you: fear Him.

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The Word, see context: the Phrushíym were those who had outlawed professing the name, and His friends who feared them were professing Him in hiding.

78 The Fire which consumes His enemies at the Valley of Hinnóm occurs after the Second Resurrection and before the Great White Throne of Judgment. This is why here He says it is after having been killed.

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Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assarion? Yet not one from them is forgotten in the sight of Yâ-hwéh!

Instead, even the hairs of your head have all been numbered! Therefore, do not fear – ye are more important than a multitude of sparrows.

So I say to you: every one, whoever, might profess Me before the sons of ’Âthâ´m, the Son of ’Âthâ´m will also profess him before the envoys of Yâhwéh!

But he who has denied Me in the sight of the sons of ’Âthâ´m will be denied in the sight of the envoys of Yâ-hwéh; Yet everyone who shall say a word against the Son of ’Âthâ´m, it shall be released from him; but to the one who has slandered against the spirit of the 6.

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Pure One, it shall not be released from him.79 So when they bring you before the assemblies and the chiefs and the authorities, do not worry how or what ye shall say in defense, or what ye should say, For the spirit of the Pure One will instruct you in that same hour what it is necessary to say.”

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Avarice is vain: wealth won’t give one life And one from the crowd said to Him: “Instructor, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

But He said to him:

Here is a special warning which applies to today’s rebelliously unpersuadable Christians who slander the spirit which calls to them through us. Their deceased fathers who never heard the calling did not do this, who ignorantly spoke a word against the Son of ’Âthâ´m, and it shall be released from them, but not these others. This is why scripture says Yâhwéh has reserved the worst of His people to be in this last generation.

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“O man, who appointed Me a judge or an apportioner over you?”

He turned to His pupils and said to them, “I’m not an Apportioner (Meníy, “Money” [Fate, a false mighty one]), am I?” [Yshá`Yâhuw 65: 11, Tâ’ówm 72] And He said to them: “Discern clearly and keep yourselves from avarice, because for anyone, it is not by the abundance from that which he possesses that his life is from.”

And He spoke a parable before them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

And he was reasoning within himself, saying: “What shall I do? Because I do not have somewhere to collect my fruit!”

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“This is what I will do: I will demolish my granaries and I will build larger ones, and I will collect there my produce and my goods, And I will say to my self: “My soul, you have accumulated many good things for many years! Relax, eat, drink, and be happy!””

But Yâ-hwéh said to him: “Senseless one, this is the night they require your life (soul) from you; and for whom shall what you prepared be?”

Thus is he who treasures up for himself, but is not rich for Yâ-hwéh.”

His little flock shouldn’t be anxious for material needs And He said towards His pupils:

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“Due to this, I say to you: Do not be anxious as to your self, what ye should eat, nor as to the body what ye should put on.

The self is more than the food, and the body more than the clothing.

Consider the crows, because they do not sow nor reap, for which there is not a dispensary nor a repository, yet Yâhwéh feeds them! How much more important are ye than the birds?

Yet who from you, being anxious is able to add one cubit onto his stature?

Therefore if ye are not even able to do the least, why are ye anxious about the rest?

Consider the lilies, how they grow: they do not labor, nor do they spin, yet I say

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to you: not even Shlómoh in all of his honor was arrayed as one of these!

Yet if Yâ-hwéh thus clothes the grass which is today in the field, and tomorrow is cast into an oven, how much more so will He clothe you, ones of little persuasion?

And do not seek ye what ye may eat or what ye may drink, and do not be in anxiety, For all the heathen masses of the world seek after these things, and your Father discerns that ye have need of these things.

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What the pupils should be concerned about Moreover, seek ye the Kingdom of Yâhwéh and all these things shall be added to you.

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Do not fear, little flock, because your Father approved of giving you the kingdom.

Sell your possessions and give beneficences, make for yourselves depositories that do not grow old, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where a thief does not draw near, nor may a moth decay it.

For where your treasure exists, there also will your heart be.

Let your loins be girded about and the lamps80 be burning; So shall ye be similar to men waiting for their Sovereign, whenever He shall return from the house of the wedding feasts, in order that when He may have come and may have knocked, they might immediately open to Him. 32.

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Happy are those bondmen who when their Sovereign comes, He shall find them keeping watch. ’Âmë´n (certainly), I say to you: that He will fasten on His belt and will make them recline, and coming near will serve them!

And if He might come during the second watch, or in the third watch He might come and find them thus, happy are those bondmen!

But this know ye, that if the lord of the house81 had known in what hour the thief is coming, he would have kept vigil, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

So therefore ye, be ye ready! Because in the hour ye do not think, the Son of ’Âthâ´m comes!”

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The Judgment of the people of Yâ-hwéh: 1) The distributors of the Bread of Life in this drought And Këph said to Him: “Our Sovereign, do You speak this parable towards us, or also towards all?”

And the Sovereign Yâhuwshúa` said:

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“Who, then, is the trustworthy and prudent house manager whose Sovereign will set over the service of His household to supply the ration of grain during the season [of His return]?

Happy is that bondman whom His Sovereign, having come, will find doing thus.

Truly I say to you that He will set him over all His possessions!

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But if that bondman should say within his heart: “My Sovereign delays to come!”

And he should begin to beat the male servants and the female servants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,82 The Sovereign of that bondman will come on a day that he does not anticipate, and He will cut him in two, and He will appoint his allotment among the unbelievers.

And that bondman who knew the will of his Sovereign, but did not prepare and performed against His will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

But he who did not know much, but did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. So everyone to whom much 46.

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Spiritually speaking this means “to wound and kill those who truly are His servants, to join with the unclean in their apostasy [see Letter of Bar-Nâvíy chapter 10], and to drink and get drunk with the wine of the fornication of Bâvél”.

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was given, much will be sought from him; and to whom much was deposited, more abundantly it shall be required of him.

3) Yâhuwshúa` will immerse in spirit and in Fire which divides the earth (believers) And I shall83 come to cast Fire onto the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

So I have an immersion to be immersed in, and how I am pressured until it might be accomplished!

[Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 19: 30] Do ye think that I came to grant peace on the earth? No, I say to you, instead rather division!

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For there will be, from now on, five in one house, divided: three against two and two against three.

A father will be divided against his son, and a son against his father; a mother against her daughter, and daughter against her mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-inlaw.”

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4) Recognize the season, and make reconciliation before the Day of Judgment!

And He also said to the crowds: “When ye see the cloud rising up from the west, ye immediately say: “A shower is coming!”

And it happens thus.

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And when a south wind is blowing, ye say: “There will be heat.”

And it happens.

Role-fakers! Ye understand how to recognize the aspect of the earth and of the skies, but how do ye not recognize this season?

And why do ye not decide what is fair from yourselves?

For as you go with your opponent before a magistrate, give diligence on the way to be released from him, lest he should drag you away before the judge, and the judge should give you over to the official collector, and the official collector should throw you into prison!

I say to you, in no wise shall you exit from there until you shall have paid even the last leptón!”

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Chapter 13 5) Mass deaths are foreshadows of the annihilation of the unbelieving And there were some nearby, during the same season, telling Him about the Gliylíym, whose blood Pilátus mixed amid their slaughter-offerings.

And responding, Yâhuwshúa` said to them: 1.

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“Do ye think that those Gliylíym that have suffered such things were more errant than all of the Gliylíym?

No, I say to you. Nevertheless if ye do not repent, all ye shall perish in the same way.

Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Shillóach [a fountain of Yruwshâláim] fell and killed them off, do ye think that

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these were more debtors than all of the men who resided in Yruwshâláim?

No, I say to you. Nevertheless if ye do not repent, all ye shall perish in the same way.”

6) Yâ-hwéh is fertilizing the earth shortly prior to the annihilation And He spoke this parable:

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“A certain Man had planted a fig tree within his vineyard, and He came seeking fruit on it but did not find any.

So He said to the Vinedresser: “Look, I have been coming three years, seeking fruit on this fig tree, and did not find any. Cut it down! Why even let it render the ground idle?”

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“My Sovereign, also this year let it be, until I shall dig around it and throw manure there, And it might indeed bear fruit; but if not, at that point You may cut it down.””

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Good works legal on Shabbâ´th ¶ And Yâhuwshúa` was teaching in one of the assemblies on the Shabbthóth.

And look! A wife was there, having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was completely bent over and entirely incapable of straightening up.

And seeing her, Yâhuwshúa` called to her and said to her: “Woman, you have been released from your infirmity.”

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And He imposed His hand upon her, and immediately she was straightened up, and she praised Yâ-hwéh!

But responding, the chief of the assembly, aggravated because Yâhuwshúa` cured on the Shabbâ´th, said to the crowd: “There are six days in which it is necessary to work; therefore be cured coming in these days, and not on the day of the Shabbâ´th!”

Therefore Yâhuwshúa` responded to him, and said: “Role-faker, doesn’t each one of you on the Shabbâ´th loose his ox or donkey from the manger, and having led it away give it to drink?

And this woman, being a daughter of ’Avrâhâ´m, whom the Adversary has bound, look, eighteen years, mustn’t she 16.

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be loosed from this bond on the day of the Shabbâ´th?”

And at His saying these things, all who were opposed to Him were ashamed, but all the crowd were rejoicing at all the honored things that were being done by Him. The seemingly insignificant Seed with great ramifications And Yâhuwshúa` said:

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It is similar to a seed kernel of mustard, which a man, having taken, threw into his garden, and it grew and it became into a great tree, and the birds of the skies roosted within its branches.”

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The small Investment with huge yield And again Yâhuwshúa` said: “To what shall I compare the reign of Yâ-hwéh?

It is similar to yeast, which a wife, having taken, hid in three çe’íym [about 20 quarts] of meal until the whole was leavened.”

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The remnant few versus the many (6th seal Day of Yâ-hwéh) And one said to Him:

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“Strive earnestly to enter in the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in but will not have the strength.

From the time the Sovereign of the House shall have risen up and shall have shut the door, then ye will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying: “’Athonâ´y85, ’Athonâ´y! Open to us!”

But He, responding, will say to you: “I do not recognize you, from what origin are ye?”

“And it shall be, everyone who shall have called on the name of Yâ-hwéh, he shall be delivered! For on the Mountain of Tsiyyówn and in Yruwshâláim shall the escaped remnant be; just as Yâ-hwéh said, even among the survivors whom Yâ-hwéh is calling.”

85 “My Sovereign” is a translation of Kúrie in Greek, though sometimes it is used to substitute “Yâ-hwéh”, here it likely is not, since in that Day, he who shall have called on the name of Yâ-hwéh shall be delivered. It is also possible that these shut-out ones are saying “Lord, Lord!” That meaning Bá`al in `Ivríyth (Hebrew), that certainly would not work.

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Then ye will begin to say: “We ate in Your sight and drank, and You did teach on our streets!”

And He will say to you: “I told you, I do not recognize the origin ye are from86. Go ye away from Me, all those who are workers of the Lie87!

There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye see ’Avrâhâ´m and Yitschâ´q and Ya`aqóv and all the predicators within the 28.

“…recognize the origin ye are from” means Yâ-hwéh does not accept, condone, or endorse the Lie on which these lost sheep have founded themselves. Establishment translations suggest an impossibility, that He does not know where they come from. In verse 25 it is a question, which gives them a chance to profess the Truth, but they cannot as they forgot His name.

87 In the Peshitta Aramaic translation, the word here corresponds to the `Ivríyth (Hebrew) shéqer, meaning the Lie, the anointed falsifier and all false elohíym posing as Yâ-hwéh.

The `Ivríyth (Hebrew) in MattithYâ´huw has ’´wen, which is translated “lawlessness”.

Both are accurate, perhaps Yâhuwshúa` said both, as these are separate speeches He gave.

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Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh, but yourselves being thrown out!”88 29.

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And they [the Gowyím] shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall recline to eat within the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh.

Yet look! There are last ones who shall be foremost, and there are foremost ones who shall be last.”

Fruitless Old Yruwshâláim (Judaism) cursed like the fig tree to be divorced, for not recognizing His being Yâ-hwéh ¶ On the same day, certain Phrushíym approached Him, saying to Him: “Go and get out of here, because Heródes wishes to kill You off!”

This is part of the quote He says He will say to those who are built on the wrong foundation. At the 7th trumpet when these name-denying Christians resurrect, however, they will be granted a pure language, and they will remember this warning, and they will turn to Yâ-hwéh and be cured.

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And He said to them: “When you go, say to that fox: “Look! I will throw out gods and I accomplish curings today and tomorrow and the following day, and the third day I will be finished; Moreover, it is necessary for Me to proceed today and tomorrow and the following day, because it is not possible that the Predicator perish outside of Yruwshâláim.

Yruwshâláim, Yruwshâláim! She who kills off the predicators and who stones those who have been sent forth towards her; how often would I have gathered your children, in the way a hen gathers her brood under her wings, yet ye did not wish it!

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Look! Your divorced house is deserted to you!89 I say it to you, because90 ye will not discern Me, until when ye shall say: “Bâ´ruwkh há-bâ’ be-shë´m Yâ-hwéh!

(Blessed is the One coming by the name of Yâ-hwéh!)’” [We from the House of Yâhwéh bless You! (Psalms 118: 26)]

Chapter 14 Yâhuwshúa` teaches in a chief Phârushíy’s house ¶ And it came to pass at His having gone into a house of one of the chiefs of the 1.

The house of tribal Yâhuwthâ´h, having rejected Yâ-hwéh, is now divorced and the Phrushíym became their leaders by default. This is reflected in their calling their religious leaders “Rabbi”. Adulterous Yisrâ’Ë´l (Hellenist Christianity) will also be forsaken when they all reject Him before the 6th seal judgment.

90 The daleth clause used in the Peshitta Aramaic translation here could also theoretically be translated “that”, however the context logically indicates that “because” is what was meant. The reason for the divorce from the “Yehuwthím” is because they refuse to discern Who He is, the Anointed, Who comes by the name of Yâ-hwéh. Yâ-hwéh Yâhuwshúa`.

Whenever one of them does discern Him and accepts Who He is, He ceases to be from that divorced house, and becomes part of the House of Yâ-hwéh as seen in Psalms 118: 26.

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Phrushíym on a Shabbâ´th to eat bread, that they were insidiously observing Him; And look! A certain hydropsical man was in front of Him. And responding, Yâhuwshúa` spoke to the scribes and Phrushíym, saying: “Is it lawful to cure on the Shabbâ´th?”

But they kept quiet. And grabbing him, He cured him, and released him.

And responding to them, He said: “Which of you whose donkey or an ox falls into a hole in the ground on the Shabbâ´th day won’t immediately pull him up and lift him out?”

Yet they were incapable to dispute against these things with Him. And He spoke before those who were invited a parable, pertaining to how they were selecting the foremost places, saying to them: 177

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“When you are invited by anyone unto wedding feasts, do not recline at the foremost place, lest one more honorable than you may have been invited by him, And he who invited you and him, having come shall say to you: “Give a place to this one.”

And then you begin with shame to take the last place.

Instead, when you are invited, when you go, recline at the last place, in order that when he who has invited you might come, he might say to you: “Friend, ascend farther to a more conspicuous place.”

Then honor shall be yours in the sight of the ones who recline together with you,

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Because everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.”

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And He said also to the one who had invited Him: “When you might make a luncheon or a dinner, do not call your friends nor your brothers, nor your kinsfolk, nor rich neighbors, lest they should also invite you in return, and this recompense be made to you.

Instead, when you might make a feast, call beggars, crippled ones, lame ones, blind ones, And you shall be happy, because they do not have anything to recompense to you: for it shall be recompensed to you at the

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resurrection of the righteous ones.”

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And one of those reclining to eat together with Him, having understood these things, said to Him: “Happy is he who shall eat bread within the Kingdom of ’Elohíym!” [Compare Disclosure 19: 9]

The invitation to Marriage Dinner of the Lamb (Which “Yehuwthím” and Christians refuse to accept) Yet He said to him:

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“A certain Man made a great dinner, and invited many.

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And He sent His Bondman at the hour of the dinner, to say to those who had been invited: “Come, because all is now ready!”

But all began one by one, to excuse themselves. The first said to Him: “I have bought a field, and I have a necessity to go out and to see it; I ask You, have me excused.”

And another said: “I have bought five pairs of oxen, and I am going to test them; I ask You, have me excused.”

And another said: “I have married a wife, and due to this, I am unable to come.”

The call of the remnant And that Bondman, having arrived, reported these things to His Sovereign.

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Then the Houseowner, being enraged, said to His Bondman: “Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the beggars and crippled ones and lame ones and blind ones!”

And the Bondman said: “My Sovereign, it has been done as You did command, yet there is still room.

The call of the Great Multitude of the heathen masses And the Sovereign said to the Bondman: “Go out into the ways and the fences, and necessitate them to enter, in order that My house might be filled!”

For I say to you that not one of those men who had been invited shall taste of My dinner!”

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The cost of being His uncompromising pupil ¶ And great crowds were traveling together with Him. And having turned, He said towards them: 26.

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“If anyone comes towards Me, and does not esteem less his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and besides, also himself [his life], he cannot be My pupil.

And whoever doesn’t carry his gallowscross and come after Me cannot be My pupil.91 For, which from you wishing to build a tower doesn’t first, having sat down,

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count the cost, whether he possesses the things towards its completion?

Lest when he has laid its foundation and isn’t not able to finish, all those who see should begin to jeer at him, Saying: “This one man began to build a building, but was not able to finish it.”

Or what king, proceeding to engage with another king at war does not first, having sat down, take counsel whether he is capable with ten thousand to meet the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

And if not, he still being far off, having sent off ambassadors, he asks the terms for peace.

Therefore, thus everyone from you who doesn’t renounce all that he possesses himself cannot be My pupil.

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The salt is virtue; but if the salt might become blandness, with what shall it be preserved?

It is neither fit for the Land nor for manure; they throw it outside92. He who has ears to understand, let him heed it.”

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Chapter 15 Having many doesn’t mean He forsakes the lost And all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to Him to hear Him; But the Phrushíym and the scribes were murmuring throughout the crowd, saying: “This One accepts sinners and eats together with them!”

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And Yâhuwshúa` spoke before them this parable, saying: 4.

“What man from you who has a hundred sheep, and who has lost one from them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine within the uninhabited land and goes after that which has been lost until he might find it?

And when he should find it, he lays it upon his shoulders, rejoicing, And having come into the house, he calls together her friends and her neighbors, saying to them: “Rejoice together with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!”

I say to you that joy shall be thus within the heavens over one sinner repenting, than over ninety-nine righteous ones, who have no need of repentance.

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Or what wife having ten silver coins, if she might lose one silver coin, doesn’t light a lamp and sweeps the house and seeks carefully until she might find it?

And having found it, she calls together her friends and her neighbors, saying to them: “Rejoice together with me, because I have found my silver coin which I lost!”

I say to you, there is joy in this manner in the sight of the envoys of Yâ-hwéh over one sinner repenting!”

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The son who returned (Christianity’s apostasy, taking their inheritance, and restoration by resurrection) And Yâhuwshúa` said to them, responding:

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And the younger one of them said to the Father: “My Father, give to me the portion of the property which befalls me.”

[YchezqË´’l 22: 16] So He distributed to them His means of life. [YchezqË´’l 47: 13-14] And after not many days, having gathered it all together, the younger son went abroad into a distant country, and there he wasted his property, living wastefully.

And when he had spent all what was his, a violent food shortage happened throughout that country, and he began to be deficient.

And having moved, he joined himself to one of the townsmen of that country, and he sent him into the fields to feed swine.

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And he was longing to fill his belly from the carob tree pods that the swine were eating, but no one gave it to him.

And having come to himself, he said:

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“How many hired workers of my Father have abundance of bread, yet I am dying of a food shortage?

Having stood up, I will travel towards my Father, and I will say to Him: “Father, I have sinned against the heavens and in Your sight, And am no longer worthy to be called Your son. Make me as one of Your hired workers.”

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vigorously embraced his neck, and ardently kissed him.

And his son said to Him: “Father, I have sinned against the heavens and in Your sight, and I am no longer worthy to be called Your son.” [YirmYâ´huw 3: 22-25] But the Father said to His bondmen: “Bring out the foremost long-fitting robe and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet!

And having brought the grain-fed [fattened] calf, slaughter it, and eating, let us celebrate, Because this one, My son, was dead, and is restored; and he was lost, and is found!”

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And they began to celebrate.

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And His son, the elder one, was within a field, and as he drew near coming to the house, he heard singing and dancing.

And having summoned one of the servants, he inquired what these things might mean.

And he said to him: “Your brother has come, and your Father has had the grain-fed calf killed, because He received him in sound condition!”

But he was angry and was not willing to enter. Therefore his Father, having gone out, implored him.

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a kid in order that I might celebrate with my friends, But when this one, Your son, came, who consumed Your means of life with prostitutes, for him You did kill the grain-fed calf!

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But He said to him: “My son, you are always with Me, and all the things which are Mine are yours.

But we ought to celebrate and to rejoice, because this one, your brother, was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found!””

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The prudent unrighteous house-manager: a message for the unrighteous “Yehuwthím” – be kind to believers And He also said a parable before His pupils:

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“There was a certain rich man who had a house-manager, and this one was accused to him as having wasted his property.

And having called him, he said to him: “What is this I hear about you?

Render me the account of your administration of the house, for you cannot be house-manager any longer for me.”

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of the house away from me? I am not able to dig; and I am ashamed to beg!

I know what I will do, in order that when I shall have been removed from the administration of the house, they may receive me into their houses!”

And summoning each one of the debtors of his sovereign, he said to the first: “How much do you owe to my sovereign?

And he said: “A hundred battíym [`Ivríy liquid measure] of olive oil.”

And he said to him: “Take your bill, and sitting down, quickly write, ‘fifty’.”

Then he said to another: “And you, how much do you owe?”

And he said: 4.

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“A hundred koríym [`Ivríy dry measure] of wheat.”

And he says to him: “Take your bill and write, ‘eighty’.”

And the sovereign commended the unrighteous house-manager, because he had performed cleverly. For the sons of this age are craftier than the sons of the Light for their own generation.

So I say to you [sons of this age]: make friends [of the sons of the Light] for yourselves from the fortune of unrighteousness, in order that when it shall be absent, you may be received into the perpetual dwellings [of the sons of the Light].

He who is trustworthy for the least thing is also trustworthy for abundance.

And he who is unrighteous in the least thing is also unrighteous in abundance.

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Therefore if ye have not been trustworthy with the unrighteous God ([`Ivríyth (Hebrew):] Fortune), Who will entrust the Truth to you?

And if you have not been trustworthy with the God ([`Ivríyth (Hebrew):] Fortune) of another, Who will give to you your own?

No house-servant is able to serve two sovereigns, for either he will hate the one, and he will affectionately love the other, or he will cleave to one and he will despise the other. Ye cannot bondserve Yâ-hwéh and God ([`Ivríyth (Hebrew):] Fortune)” 11.

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“Ye are those who justify their selves in the sight of the sons of ’Âthâ´m, [Romans 10: 3] yet Yâ-hwéh knows your hearts; because that which is exalted by men [Fortune], is a detestable worshipped image in the sight of Yâ-hwéh.

Since the time of the Law and the predicators until Yâhuwchânâ´n, when the reign of Yâ-hwéh is gladly announced, everyone treats it violently.

Yet it is easier for the heavens and the earth to pass away than for a single accent mark of the Law to fail.

Every wife of His who is dismissed and marries another commits adultery [compare YirmYâ´huw 3: 1, Deuteronomy 24: 2-4], but everyone who marries a 16.

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wife divorced from a husband commits adultery. [Mal’âkhíy 2: 1193]94

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True story95: Fortune doesn’t reflect spiritual wealth ’El`âzâ´r and the Rich man ¶ And there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and buwts ([`Ivríyth (Hebrew):] white linen), celebrating daily in splendor.

Page: 198 “Yâhuwthâ´h has broken faith and a detestable thing has been committed in Yisrâ’Ë´l and in Yruwshâláim, because Yâhuwthâ´h has profaned the Pure place of Yâ-hwéh that He loves, and he has taken as Lord a daughter of a foreign mighty one!

May Yâ-hwéh cut off from the tents of Ya`aqóv anyone who gives testimony in behalf of the man who does this, though he brings offerings to Yâ-hwéh of Hosts!”

94 The context shows that Yâhuwshúa` was speaking spiritually about His divorce from the “Yehuwthím” because of their adultery with God (Fortune) et al. Yet here He includes a threat against the anointed falsifier fraud who will be their future husband. The establishment translations’ gender mix-up in the first half of this verse does not fit any applicable spiritual allegory in this context, and contradicts Páulus in Qorinthíym 7.

YirmYâ´huw 3: 1 helps clear this up.

95 Yâhuwshúa` never uses a name in a parable, and this is not identified as one either.

Many denominations fiercely contend this to be fiction due to its disagreement with their teachings. But they also are unable to provide a reasonable allegorical interpretation because that is impossible.

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And there was a certain beggar named ’El`âzâ´r, who lay strewed before his doorway, being full of ulcers, And he was desiring to be filled from the crumbs that fell from the table of the rich man, instead, even the dogs, coming, licked clean his ulcers.

And it came to pass, the beggar died, and he was carried off by the envoys into the lap of ’Avrâhâ´m [in Sh’ówl96 (Compare Yownâ´h 2: 2)]. And the rich one died also, and was buried.

Then having raised up his eyes97 within Sh’ówl, coming to be in the bottom, he

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’Avrâhâ´m is in Paradise (Pardë´ç, meaning orchard-park, specifically `Ë´then), which is underground in Sh’ówl, per YchezqË´’l 31:16-18. Traditional translations translate `Ivríyth (Hebrew) Béţen (Greek kólpos) as “bosom”, but it can also mean “lap” or “bay”.

But since the concept of ’Avrâhâ´m in Sh’ówl violates establishment tradition, Sh’ówl was omitted by a scribe, or at least by Yâhuwshúa` because His audience knew where he is.

Moreover, ’Avrâhâ´m is not dead, since Yâhuwshúa` said Yâ-hwéh is the mighty One of the living, and his soul spoke in Sh’ówl, though his body sleeps and his flesh saw corruption, and his spirit returned to the Father.

97 This is no reference to resurrecting, as SDA and some allege, since the rich man’s five brothers were still alive on earth (unless they will then be at least 2,000 years old!).

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sees ’Avrâhâ´m afar off, and ’El`âzâ´r within his lap.

And he, calling out, said: “Father ’Avrâhâ´m, be compassionate to me, and send ’El`âzâ´r, in order that he might dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in intense pain within this blaze.”

But ’Avrâhâ´m said: “My son, recollect that you received in full your good things during your lifetime, and ’El`âzâ´r similarly the bad things; but now look, he is consoled, but you are in intense pain.

And on top of all these things, a great chasm has been set fast between us and you, such that those who wish to cross from here towards you are unable, nor

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those from there can cross towards us.” [Chanówkh 22: esp. vv 9-14] 27.

And he said to him: “Then, I beg you, my father, that you might send him unto the house of my father, For I have five brothers, so that he might earnestly testify to them in order that they may not also come unto this place at the bottom!”

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’Avrâhâ´m says to him: “They have the scrolls of Moshéh and the Predicators: let them heed them.”

But he said: “No, father ’Avrâhâ´m, rather, if one from the dead might traverse towards them, they will repent!”

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And he said to him: “If they do not heed Moshéh and the Predicators, they will not be persuaded even if One98 might rise from the dead.””

Chapter 17 Woe to misleaders, but patiently forgive And Yâhuwshúa` said towards His pupils: 1.

“It is not supposable that the snares should not come, but hówy to him by whose hand they come!

It is advantageous to him if the millstone of a donkey were laid around his neck and he were flung into the sea, than that he might cause one of these little ones to distrust.

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Beware for your selves: and if your brother might sin against you, rebuke him, but if he might repent, release it from him, Even if he might sin against you seven times in the day, and seven times in the day he might return to you, saying: “I repent.” You shall release it from him.”

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The Power of the persuasion doesn’t depend on size or numbers, and it grows by one’s own effort invested in His materials And the delegates said to our Sovereign: “Grant for us additional persuasion.”

And [Yâ-hwéh] said:

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“You be uprooted and planted in the sea!”

Yet it would obey you.

But which from you, having a bondman plowing or shepherding who comes in from the field, will immediately say: “Come near, recline to eat”?

Instead won’t he say to him: “Prepare something I may dine, and fastening on your belt, attend to me while I eat and drink, and after these things, you may also eat and drink”?

Is he grateful to that bondman because he did the things commanded to him? I think not.

Thus also ye, when ye may have done all the things commanded to you, say ye: “We are lazy bondmen, because we have performed merely that which we owed to do.””

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One out of ten cleansed lepers is grateful to Yâhwéh ¶ And it came to pass, during His traveling unto Yruwshâláim, that Yâhuwshúa` crossed through the midst of Shomrówn and Gâlíyl.

And on His entering into a certain village, ten leprous men encountered Him, who stood afar off.

And they raised their voice, saying: “Rabbíy, Yâhuwshúa`, have pity on us!”

And seeing them, He said to them: “Go, show your selves to the priests.”

And it came to pass, they were cleansed during their going.

But one from them, seeing that he was cured, returned, praising Yâ-hwéh with a loud voice,

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And fell on his face at the feet of Yâhuwshúa`, giving thanks to Him, yet he was a Shomroníy.

And responding, Yâhuwshúa` said: “Weren’t the ten cleansed? And where are those nine?

Weren’t there found any returning to give honor to Yâ-hwéh except this foreigner?”

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And He said to him: “Arise, go; your persuasion has cured you.”

The King incognito ¶ And when He had been asked by the Phrushíym when the reign of ’Elohíym (the mighty Ones) is coming, He responded to them and said:

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“The reign of Yâ-hwéh does not arrive with visual evidence, Nor shall they say: “Look here!”

Or “Look there!”

For look! The Royalty of Yâ-hwéh is in the midst of you!”

The disclosure of Yâ-hwéh to the world (when He does come to them) And He said towards His pupils:

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“Days will come when ye will desire to see one of the days of the Son of ’Âthâ´m, but shall not see it.

So they will say to you: “Look here!”

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“Look there!”

Do not depart nor pursue; For exactly like the lightning which flashes from clouds under the skies radiates brilliancy unto the other clouds under the skies, thus will also be the Son of ’Âthâ´m during His Day. But first it is necessary for Him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this stock.

And just as it happened during the days of Nóach, thus it shall also be during the days of the Son of ’Âthâ´m.

They were eating, they were drinking, they were taking wives, they were being given to husbands, until the day Nóach entered into the box (ark), and the inundation came and destroyed all.

And it will happen similarly as during the days of Lówţ. They were eating, 24.

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they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; But on the day Lówţ exited from Çthóm, Yâ-hwéh rained fire and sulfur from the heavens, and destroyed all of them.

Thus shall it be like, in the Day the Son of ’Âthâ´m is disclosed99.

In that Day, he who shall be at the building, and his equipment is at the house, let him not come down to pick them up, and he who is within the field, similarly let him not return unto the things behind.

Remember the wife of Lówţ!

Whoever may seek to save his self shall lose it, and whoever might lose it shall engender it alive!

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I say to you, in that night, there shall be two men on one bed: the one shall be taken, but the other one shall be left.

Two women shall be grinding together; one shall be taken, but the other shall be left.

Two men shall be within a field, the one shall be taken, but the other one shall be left.”

And responding, they say to Him: “Where shall they be taken, our Sovereign?”

And He said to them: “To where the body is. There will those eagles be gathered together.”

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“There was a certain judge at a certain city, not fearing Yâ-hwéh and not respecting man.

And there was a widow within that city, and she was coming before him, saying: “Avenge me of my adversary!”

But he would not for a time, but afterwards, he said within himself: “Even if I do not fear ’Elohíym and do not respect man, Yet due to the trouble this widow causes to me I will avenge her, lest she bothers me, coming continually.””

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And our Sovereign said: “Listen what the unrighteous judge said: So shall Yâ-hwéh not execute the avenging of His chosen, who cry towards Him day and night, or will He be long-suffering about them?

I say to you that He will execute their avenging speedily! However, when the Son of ’Âthâ´m has indeed come; will He find the persuasion upon the earth?”

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“Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Phârushíy, and the other a tax collector.

The Phârushíy, standing by himself, was praying thus: 10.

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“O ’Elohíym, I thank You because I am not the same as the rest of the men, predatory, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this one, the tax-collector!

Instead, I fast twice in the week; I tithe all things as many as I gain.”

But the tax collector, standing afar off, would not even raise up his eyes unto the heavens; instead, he was thumping at his chest, saying: “O Yâ-hwéh, be propitious to me, the sinner!”

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I say to you: this one went down unto his house justified, rather than that one!

Because everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted!”

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And Yâhuwshúa`, having summoned them, said:

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a little child might in no wise enter into it!”

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Justification by Law – impossible for us And a certain ruler asked Him, saying to Him: “O Instructor Goodness, having performed what shall I inherit endless life?”

And Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “Why do you call Me “Goodness”? No one is Goodness except One, the Power.

[To the `Ivríym 9: 11] You know the commandments: You shall not be murdering, you shall not be committing adultery, you shall not be stealing, you shall not be heeding a testimony of a lie by your neighbor, honor your father and your mother…”

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And he said to Him: “All these I have kept since my youth.”

And having heard these things, Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “Yet one thing to you is deficient: sell all, as much as you have, and distribute it to the destitute, and you shall have a treasure within the heavens, and come follow Me.” But he, having heard these things, became intensely grieved, for he was very rich.

And Yâhuwshúa`, seeing him having become intensely grieved, said: “How difficultly those having riches shall enter into the Kingdom of Yâhwéh!

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For it is easier to enter a large rope100 through the eye of a needle than to enter a rich man into the Kingdom of Yâhwéh.”

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And those who heard said: “Then who is able to be saved?”

But He said: “The impossible things for men are possible with Yâ-hwéh.”

And Shim`ówn Këph said to Him: “Look! We did forsake all and followed You.” And Yâhuwshúa` said to them: “’Âmë´n (certainly) I say to you that there is no one who has left a house or parents or brothers, or sisters, or a father,

The word in Aramaic meaning camel also means large rope. This was mistranslated into the Greek from this point.

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or a mother, or a wife, or children, or lands for the sake of Me and of the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh Who might not receive in full very much more now, during this season, and endless life during the age that is coming! Yet many foremost ones shall be last, and those last ones foremost.”

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they will condemn Him to death, and [Márquwç 10: 33] He will be given over to the heathen masses, and will be jeered at, and will be violently abused, and will be spit upon.

And having flogged Him, they will kill Him off, yet on the third day He will rise again.”

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And having heard a crowd traveling through, he asked what this might mean.

And they told him: “Yâhuwshúa` the Nëtsríy is approaching.”

And he cried out, saying: “Yâhuwshúa`! Son of Dâwíth, have mercy on me!”

But those preceding Yâhuwshúa` rebuked him in order that he might be quiet, but he screamed out much more: “Son of Dâwíth! Have mercy on me!”

And having stopped, Yâhuwshúa` commanded him to be led before Him. And when he had drawn hear, He asked him, Saying: “What do you wish I should do for you?”

And he said:

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“My Sovereign, that I may receive sight.”

And Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “Receive sight. Your persuasion has delivered you.”

And he immediately received sight, and followed Him, praising Yâ-hwéh! And all the people having seen it gave praise to Yâ-hwéh.

Chapter 19 Zakkáy’s repentance and salvation And having entered, He traversed Yriychów, Where there was a man that was named Zakkáy (Cleansed101), and he was a chief tax collector, and this one was rich.

And he was seeking to see Who Yâhuwshúa` is, but he was not able from 1.

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the crowd, because he was small in stature.

And having run forward in front of Yâhuwshúa`, he went up onto a Shiqmâ´h tree in order that he might see Him, because He was about to pass through that place.

And as He came to the place, looking up, Yâhuwshúa` saw him, and said to him: “Zakkáy! Hurry, come down, for today it is right that I stay at your house!”

And hurrying diligently, he came down and received Him as a Guest cheerfully!

And all of them, having seen it, complained throughout the crowd, saying: “He has entered to lodge with a sinful man!”

But standing, Zakkáy said before Yâhuwshúa`:

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“Look! The half of my possessions, my Sovereign, I will give to the poor, and if I took anything of anyone by false reporting, I will return fourfold!”

And Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “Today deliverance is come to this house, because he is a son of ’Avrâhâ´m; For the Son of ’Âthâ´m came to seek and to save that which has been lost.”

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“A certain great Man102, born of nobility, traveled unto a distant region to accept for Himself kingship and to return.

And having called ten of His bondmen, He gave to them ten minas [1 mina = 10 1/3 oz.], and said to them: do business until I come.

But his townsfolk hated Him, and commissioned an embassy after Him, saying: “We do not wish this One to reign over us.”

And it came to pass at His arrival, having received the kingship, that He ordered these bondmen to be called to Him, to whom He gave the silver, in order that He might know what each one had earned in business.

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And the first approached, saying: “My Sovereign, Your mina has gained an additional ten minas.”

And He said to him: “Well done, good bondman! Because you were trustworthy with very little, you shall be having authority over ten talents!” [Gold: 91 kg/talent, silver: 45 kg/talent] And the second came, saying: “My Sovereign, Your mina has rendered five minas.”

And He said also to this one: “And you, be over five talents!”

But another came, saying:

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“O Sovereign, here is Your mina, which I had laid away in a linen cloth.103 For I feared You, because You are a rough Man: You pick up that which You did not place, and You reap that which You did not sow.”

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And He says to him: “I will judge you from your mouth, harmful bondman: you discerned that I am a rough Man, picking up what I did not place and reaping that which I did not sow; So why didn’t you give My silver to the bank, so I might have collected it, coming together with interest?”

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And He said to those standing by: “Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas.”

And they say to Him: “O Sovereign, he has ten minas.”

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“For I say to you that to everyone who has [My testimony – the deposit], shall be given; but from the one who doesn’t have [My testimony – the deposit], even that which he has shall be taken from him.

Moreover, those My haters who were unwilling for Me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them in front of Me.”

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And having said these things, He went on in front, going up unto Yruwshâláim.

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The Lamb’s Festal Procession 10 ’Âvíyv104 ¶ And it came to pass, as He drew near unto Bëyth-Phaggéy and Bëyth-`Aníy, towards the mount called “of Olives”, He sent forth two of His pupils, Saying:

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Thus shall ye say to him:

Exodus 12: 3 says this date is when the Lamb is taken to them, and to be cared for with them until the 14th, the day it is killed and eaten. This was the same day 10 when Yâhuwshúa` was taken into Yruwshâláim.

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“Yâ-hwéh105 has a need for it.”

And immediately he will send them.”

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And having departed, those who had been sent out found it just as He had said to them.

And at their loosing the colt, its sovereigns said towards them: “Why do ye loose that colt?”

And they said: “Because Yâ-hwéh has a need for it.”

And they led it before Yâhuwshúa`, and having cast their garments upon the colt, they put Yâhuwshúa` on it.

And as He traveled, they were strewing their garments on the way.

The name had to have been used here. Had it been “’Athonâ´y” He ordered for them to say, then they would have been arrested as servants stealing for any master. Yâ-hwéh knows who are His, and who would gladly give Him their colt.

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And as He drew near, already before the descent of the mount of the Olives, all the multitude of the pupils began, rejoicing, to praise Yâ-hwéh with a loud voice about all the works of Force which they had seen, Saying: “Blessed is the King Who has come by the name of Yâ-hwéh! Peace with the heavens and honor by the Highest!”

And some of the Phrushíym from the crowd said towards Him: “Instructor, rebuke Your pupils!”

And responding, He said to them: “I say to you that if these ones should be quiet, the stones will scream out!”

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“O that you, even you, would have recognized, even at least on this your day, the things for your peace, but now they are hidden from your eyes!

For days shall come on you that your enemies shall throw a rampart around you, and shall besiege you and keep you in on every side, And they shall raze you level with the ground with your sons within you, and shall not leave a stone upon a stone within you, because you did not recognize the season of your inspection.”

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‘…My house shall be called “BëythTphillâ´h” (a house of prayer) for all of the peoples.’

[Márquwç 11: 17, Yshá`Yâhuw 56: 7] But ye have made it a “M`âráth Pâritsíym” (cavern of robbers)!”

[YirmYâ´huw 7: 11] And He was instructing day by day within the temple, and the chief priests and the scribes and the foremost ones of the people kept seeking how to destroy Him, But they did not find what they might do, for all the people hung around Him to listen.

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¶ And it came to pass on one of those days, as He was instructing the people within the temple and announcing the glad tidings, the chief priests and the scribes together with the elders came against Him, And spoke to Him, saying: “Tell us with what authority You perform these things, or Who it is Who gave this authority to You?” And responding, Yâhuwshúa` said towards them:

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“I also will ask you one question, so tell Me: The immersion of Yâhuwchânâ´n: was it authorized from the heavens, or from the sons of ’Âthâ´m?”

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“If we should say: “From heaven”, He will say: “Why then did ye not believe him?”

But if we should say: “From the sons of ’Âthâ´m”, all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that Yâhuwchânâ´n was a predicator.”

And they responded to Him: “We do not know from where.”

And Yâhuwshúa` said to them: “Neither do I tell you by what authority I perform these things.”

[MattithYâ´huw 21: 28-32]

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Yâ-hwéh’s vineyard And He began to speak this parable towards the people: “A certain Man planted a vineyard and leased it out to farmers, and went abroad for quite a long time.

And during the season, He sent forth a bondman towards the farmers, in order that they might give to him from the fruit of the vineyard, but the farmers, having beat him, sent him away empty.

And in addition, He sent another bondman, but they also sent him away empty, having beat and dishonored him.

And in addition, He sent a third, but they also threw him out, having wounded him.

Yet the Sovereign of the vineyard said:

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“What should I do? I will send My Son, the Beloved; perhaps having seen Him, they will respect Him.” But having seen Him, the farmers reasoned among their selves, saying: “This One is the Heir! Come, let us kill Him off, in order that the inheritance may become ours!”

[Compare First Book of ’Âthâ´m and Chauwâ´h 48: 7-8] And having thrown Him out, outside the vineyard, they killed Him off.

Therefore, what will the Sovereign of the vineyard do to them?

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to others, who will give over the fruits in their seasons!”

Yâhuwshúa` says to them: “Due to this I say to you that the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh shall be taken from you, and it shall be given to a heathen-mass106 producing its fruits.” [MattithYâ´huw 21: 41-43]107

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And when they understood it, they said: “May it not be!”

But He, fixedly looking at them, said: “What therefore does this mean, which has been written?

‘A Stone the builders rejected has come to be for the Chief Cornerstone:

Tribal Yisrâ’Ë´l was at that time a heathen mass spiritually. Moreover, at the coming of the Kingdom, only 144,000 of this group will enter alive. Then the Kingdom will be open to the heathen masses who will fear His name, having seen the slaughter of unbelieving Yisrâ’Ë´l (Christianity), to provoke them to jealousy as they provoked Him with their false elohíym.

107 Much of this passage is reorganized based on the other synoptic Glad Tidings scriptures. This one here is the most logical.

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this Stone has been from with Yâ-hwéh, it is a marvelous One in our eyes:’ [Psalms 118: 22-23]” Everyone who falls upon this Stone shall be shattered, but whomever It might fall on, It will pulverize him!”

[Dâ´niyyË´’l 2: 34, 35108]

And the chief priests and the scribes sought to throw their hands upon Him within that hour, but they feared the people, for they recognized that He was speaking this parable against them.

Taxes are legal So having insidiously watched Him, they sent forth secret agents, feigning

While you were gazing, a Rock was cut out but not by hands, and It struck on the statue on its feet of the iron and the clay and It shattered them. And then were pulverized the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and they became like chaff from the threshing floors of harvest, and the wind swept them away, and there was not found any traces of them.

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themselves to be righteous, in order that they might grab onto a word of His, and to give Him over to the chief priest and to the authority of the governor.

And they questioned Him, saying: “Instructor, we discern that You speak and instruct correctly, and You do not accept anyone’s aspect, rather, You teach the Way of ’Elówâhh (the Mighty Being) in Truth!109 Is it lawful for us to give taxes to Kæ´sar, or not?”

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But fully comprehending their trickery, He said towards them: “Why do ye test Me?

This demonstrates that the Phrushíym indeed knew the proper name of our persuasion, The Way of Yâ-hwéh, though they gave it a derogatory name “sect of the Në´tsríym” later.

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Show a denarius to Me. Whose image and inscription does it have?”

And responding, they said: “Kæ´sar’s” And He said to them: “Then give over, accordingly, the things of Kæ´sar to Kæ´sar; and the things of Yâ-hwéh to Yâ-hwéh.”110 And they were not able to take His message against the people; and marveling at His response, they were quiet.

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Antiresurrectionists pose a ridiculous question Yet when some of the Tsthuwqíym had approached Him, those who deny that

Some consider this merely a clever comeback. There is more to it than that. Note that Yâ-hwéh cannot lie, and the cash or gold or silver which bears the inscriptions of the organization which puts it into circulation actually belongs to that organization. This was so, even later with gold certificates, and with Federal Reserve paper. Thus the concept of ownership of this currency is invalid and when we are gathered into His Kingdom, we leave that behind.

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there is a resurrection, they questioned Him, Saying: “Instructor, Moshéh wrote to us: ‘If anyone should die not having children, his brother shall marry his woman, and shall raise up seed to his brother.’ [paraphrase of Deuteronomy 25: 5-6111] Therefore there were seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife died childless; And the second took the wife, but this one died childless; 29.

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‘If brothers are living together and one of them dies and there is no son to him, the widow of the dead one must not marry outside to a stranger; her husband’s brother must come to her and he must take her for him as wife, and he must do the duty of her brother in law. And it shall be that the firstborn male that she bears shall carry on the name of his dead brother, so his name is not blotted out from Yisrâ’Ë´l.’

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And the third took her; and likewise also those seven did not leave children, and died off.

And last of all, the wife also died off.

Therefore, in the resurrection, of which of them does she become a wife? For those seven had her as a wife.112” 32.

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And responding, Yâhuwshúa` said to them: “Don’t ye err due to this: not understanding the scriptures, nor the Force of Yâ-hwéh?

[Márquwç 12: 24] The sons of this age procreate and bear children,113 and take women and women are given to men.

The Tsthuwqíym’ strategy was to, by means of this ridiculous hypothetical construct, to ridicule the resurrection teaching, ignorantly threatening to barge into secrets of the Shabbâ´th Millennium which is fodder for debate among the carnal. The information they requested was obsolete to their ends, except to ensnare Yâhuwshúa` in debate and then look good to the onlooking public when they pulled out, ridiculing resurrection.

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But those judged worthy to reach that age with the resurrection which is from among the dead, neither take a woman, nor are women given to men; For neither can they die any more, for they are equal to envoys, and are Sons of Yâ-hwéh, being sons of the resurrection.

And He even showed Moshéh that the dead are raised at the bush, when He said Yâ-hwéh is: “…the mighty Ones of ’Avrâhâ´m, the mighty Ones of Yitschâ´q, and the mighty Ones of Ya`aqóv.” [Exodus 3: 6] So He is not the mighty Ones of the dead, instead, of the living, for all do live to Him! Therefore ye do greatly err.”

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“Instructor, You have spoken virtuously.”

And they did not dare any more to ask Him anything.

The Anointed is not merely the Descendant of Dâwíth; He is his Foundation So He said towards them:

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“How do the scribes say the Anointed One is the Son of Dâwíth?

For Dâwíth himself says in the scroll of Psalms: “An oracle of Yâ-hwéh for ’Athníy (my Foundation)114: ‘Sit at My right hand

ynda ’Athníy, meaning my ’Athén in `Ivríyth (Hebrew), means a basis (of a building, a column, etc.): ---foundation, socket, [Strong’s #134]. And per other lexicons, a pedestal or any foundation. Yâhuwshúa` was both the Descendant and the Foundation of Dâwíth!

This was mistranslated from the `Ivríyth (Hebrew) in establishment texts because of its similarity to ’Athonâ´y (my Sovereign), which if so, would not have stumped the Phrushíym.

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Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.’” [Psalms 110: 1] Therefore Dâwíth calls Him: “my Foundation”, so how is He his Son?” 43.

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And as all the people were listening, He said to His pupils: “Watch out for the scribes who like to walk around in the courtyards115, and love greetings at the town-squares, and the foremost seats at the assemblies, and the being the first to recline to eat at the dinners, Those who consume the houses of widows, and pray long periods of time

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for outward appearances! These ones shall receive more abundant condemnation.”

[Vv. 45-47 are a partial account of events described in all of MattithYâ´huw Chapter 23] Chapter 21 1.

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How He sees donations ¶ And having looked up, Yâhuwshúa` saw the rich ones throwing their offerings into the treasury, And He also saw a certain poor widow throwing two lepton coins [a seventh part of one piece of the brass coin, which is a fourth part of an Assárius Roman coin] therein.

And He said: “Truly I say to you that this pauper widow threw in more than all!

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For all these ones threw into the offerings of Yâ-hwéh out of that which was abounding to them, but she did throw from her poverty all the means of life which she had.”

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What the pupils will see in the times preceding His coming (6th seal) And as some were speaking about the temple, that it was decorated with beautiful stones and votive offerings, Yâhuwshúa` said: “To these things which ye are considering, days shall come in which a stone shall not be left upon a stone which shall not be torn down!” [70 C.E.] 6.

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And as Yâhuwshúa` was sitting at the Mount of the Olives opposite of the temple, Këph and Ya`aqóv and Yâhuwchânâ´n asked Him privately, [Márquwç 13: 3] saying: “Instructor, when, then, shall these things be? And what is the sign of Your coming and of the conclusion of the age116, [MattithYâ´huw 24: 3] when these things are about to take place?”

And He said: “Beware ye not be caused to wander astray, for many will come against My name, yet saying that I am the Anointed One, [MattithYâ´huw 24: 5] and: “The season is drawn near!”

The term being the same as that of Dâ´niyyË´’l 12:6-7, this refers to the 7th trumpet/1st Resurrection which marks the end of the age and the beginning of the world Shabbâ´th millennial reign of Yâhuwshúa`, Whose Kingdom shall have covered the Land of Yisrâ’Ë´l from the Nile to the Euphrates Rivers since His arrival at the 6th Seal until that point.

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Yet they will cause many to wander astray.

Do not consequently follow after them.

And when ye shall hear of wars and disturbances and rumors of wars [MattithYâ´huw 24: 6], do not be scared; for it is necessary for these things to happen first, nevertheless, the final event is not next.”

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Then He was saying to them: “People shall rise up against people, and kingdom against kingdom, Also great earthquakes in every place and food shortages and riots, and disease epidemics, and there shall be fears and terrors [Deuteronomy 32: 25] and signs from the heavens and there shall much foul weather117. Yet all these are the 11.

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commencement of labor pains.

[MattithYâ´huw 24: 7] Yet before all these things, they will throw their hands upon you and will persecute you, giving you over unto assemblies and prisons, leading you before kings and governors on account of My name; Yet the outcome for you shall be for the testimony.

Therefore set ye in your hearts not to premeditate a defense to make, instead whatever may be given to you in that hour, speak that, for ye are not the ones who speak, rather the spirit of the Pure One. [Márquwç 13: 11] For I shall give you a mouth and wisdom which all those opposing you shall not be able to contradict, nor even to stand against.

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But then the many118 shall be caused to lose trust, and they will deliver up one another and will hate one another, [MattithYâ´huw 24: 10] and brother will give over another brother unto death, and father his son, and children will stand up against their parents, and will put them to death; [Márquwç 13: 12] And ye will be given over, even by parents and brothers and kinfolk and friends, and they will put some to death from among you, And ye will be hated by all, due to My name.

Yet in no wise may a hair from your head perish!

And by your perseverance, you shall acquire your lives (souls).

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The flock of the slaughter, the name-denying “Christians”, referring to the many of verse 5.

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Christians, led by Rome (Kittíym) launch last crusade for retribution against the Lie, having allied with Islam against him (YirmYâ´huw 13: 21), and precipitate the Great Oppression (Tribulation). ¶ And when ye see Yruwshâláim being encircled by armies [YirmYâ´huw 1: 1416], then recognize that her119 despoilment has drawn near.

Then those within Yâhuwthâ´h120, let them flee unto the mountains [YchezqË´’l 7: 16], and those within her midst, let them depart out, and those in the countries, let them not enter into her, 20.

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Although “her” refers to Yruwshâláim, and this event was foreshadowed by the events at the Bar-Kochba revolt in 135 ACE, this is an end-time event in its context, and refers mainly to spiritual Old Yruwshâláim, all those under the old covenant who do not discern Yâhuwshúa`, including Christianity, though their armies are the ones encircling Yruwshâláim.

120 Though in the Greek, this seems only to refer to those now in Palestine (the nation of “Israel”), here it is seen to refer to all of us who call on His name. This is a true test of trust in Him, to leave without provisions!

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Because these are the Days of Retribution, that all things that have been written may be fulfilled.

[YirmYâ´huw 13: 19-26, 50: 41-43, Dâ´niyyË´’l 11: 30, Psalms 69: 22121] But Hówy for those pregnant and for those that breastfeed in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the earth and wrath on this people.

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into every place, and Yruwshâláim shall be trampled by heathen masses until the seasons of the heathen masses be accomplished. [42 months between 6th seal and 7th Trumpet – Disclosure 11: 2] 22.

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[MattithYâ´huw 24: 15-28] “May their table before them become as a snare, and for their retributions to become for a noose, may their eyes be darkened so as to not see and bend their backs continually!”

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Days of vengeance, 4th seal Oppression, 6th Seal Day of Yâ-hwéh, then the Sign of His presence ¶ And there shall be signs in the luminary orb and moon and stars, and the restraint of communities on the earth in a state of confusion (“the raging seas and tumult…”) [Yshá`Yâhuw 17: 1213)] Men exhausted from trembling fear and apprehension of what is coming onto the habitable earth (Roman Empire), for the forces of the heavens shall be agitated.

Instead, immediately after the crowdoppression of those days, the luminary orb shall be turned to darkness, and the moon shall not give her light, and those stars shall fall out from the heavens, with the forces of the heavens, they shall be toppled122.

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[Chanówkh 89: 32-33] And then shall the Sign of the Son of ’Âthâ´m appear in the skies [Disclosure 7: 2], and then shall all the races of the earth beat their breasts in grief123, and then they shall see the Son of ’Âthâ´m, coming in a cloud with Force and great Honor and great radiance.

[MattithYâ´huw 24: 29-32] And then He will send forth His envoys [Márquwç 13: 27] with the sound of a great trumpet [MattithYâ´huw 24: 31], and will assemble upon Tsiyyówn124 His selected ones from the four winds, from the extremity of the earth unto the extremity of the skies. [Márquwç 13: 27] Another parallel between Yâhuwshúa` and His people Yisrâ’Ë´l as in Yshá`Yâhuw 53.

After Yâhuwshúa` was killed, the “Yehuwthím” beat their breasts in grief and recognized Who He was, having seen the signs at His death. He died so we who believe in Him might live. Yisrâ’Ë´l also will die, with great signs accompanying, for their apostasy, so the heathens might live seeing the consequences of rebellion. It will be our chance to reach them before they harden again as the “Yehuwthím” did.

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So when these things begin to come to pass, take heart and raise up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

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“Look at the fig tree, and all the trees: When they already germinate, looking for yourselves, ye recognize that the qáyits (harvest)125 is already near.

Likewise also ye, when ye see these things coming to pass, recognize that the reign of Yâ-hwéh is near126. ’Âmë´n (certainly) I say to you that this age will in no wise have passed away until all shall have taken place.

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The heavens and the earth shall pass away, but My Words in no wise may pass away.

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But be attentive to yourselves, lest your hearts be burdened by a hangover and drinking, or the distractions of life, so that Day might come upon you unexpectedly; For it shall come as a trap upon all those dwelling upon the face of all the earth.

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And He was within the temple instructing by day, and going out by night, He lodged at the mount called “of Olives”, And all the people came at dawn before Him within the temple to hear His Word.

Chapter 22 Sâţâ´n himself enters Yehuwthâ´h ¶ And the Feast of the unfermented bread, which is called Phâ´çech drew near, And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking the manner how they might put Him to death, for they feared the people.

And ha-Sâţâ´n (the Adversary) entered into Yehuwthâ´h, the one surnamed ’IyÇkriy’ówţuw, being from the number of the twelve.

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And having departed, he discussed with the chief priests and the captains of the temple guard the manner how he might give Him over to them.

And they rejoiced, and agreed to give him silver.

And he promised and sought opportunity to give Him over to them, away from a crowd.

Phâ´çech, 14 ’Âvíyv ¶ And the day of Phâ´çech127 came, in which the Phâ´çech ought to be killed.

And Yâhuwshúa` sent forth Këph and Yâhuwchânâ´n, saying: “Go, prepare for us the Phâ´çech in order that we may eat it.”

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“Look: on your having entered into the city, a man will encounter you, carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house where he enters, And ye shall say to the owner of the house: “Our Instructor says to you: “Where is the lodging-place where I might eat the Phâ´çech with My pupils, so for you I will do the Phâ´çech (Exemption)?’” [MattithYâ´huw 26: 18] And He will show you a large furnished upper room: prepare there.”

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And having departed, they found it just as He had said to them; and they prepared the Phâ´çech.

The Memorial Dinner ordained And when the hour was come, Yâhuwshúa` and the twelve delegates together with Him came and reclined to eat.

And He said before them: “With longing I longed to eat this Phâ´çech with you before I suffer, For I say to you that I will not eat no more from it until it is fulfilled128 within the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh.”

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[19.] And having taken [fermented] bread, having given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying: “Take, eat; [Márquwç 14: 22] this means My body, which is given for your sake.

Perform this for the remembrance of Me.” [17.] And having received a cup, having given thanks, He said: “Take ye this and distribute among yourselves, [18.129] For I say to you that I will not drink at all from the produce of the vine until the Kingdom of Yâ-hwéh might be come.

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Likewise also, He having taken the cup after having dined, said: “This is the cup of the New Covenant within My blood, which for your sake concerning many is poured out for liberation from sins. [MattithYâ´huw 26: 28] But ’âmë´n (certainly) [Márquwç 14: 25] I say to you that I will not drink at all henceforth of this, the fruit of the vine, until that Day when I drink it with you anew in the Kingdom of My Father.”

[MattithYâ´huw 26: 29, Yshá`Yâhuw 25: 6] Moreover, look! The hand of the one giving Me over is with Me upon the table!

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And indeed the Son of ’Âthâ´m is led away according as it has been determined [Yshá`Yâhuw 53: 7], moreover hówy to that man through whose hand He is given over.

And they began to question this together among their selves, who then it might be from them who was about to undertake this.

How hierarchy is determined in the Kingdom ¶ And there was also a quarrel among them, this: which of them was thought to be greater.

And Yâhuwshúa` said to them: “The kings of the heathen masses rule over them, and those controlling them are called philanthropists.

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Yet ye are not thus, instead, the greater one among you, must become as the least, and the leader, as the attendant.

For which is greater, he who reclines to eat, or he who attends? Isn’t he who reclines to eat greater? But I am within your midst as an Attendant.

Yet ye are those who have continued with Me during My provings.

And I set apart for you, just as My Father set apart for Me, a reign, In order that ye may eat and may drink at My table within My kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Yisrâ’Ë´l.”

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“Shim`ówn, look: the Adversary demanded to try you, for sifting you as the wheat.

Yet I prayed concerning you, in order that your persuasion might not fail, and in time you will have returned, and establish your brothers.”

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But he said to Him: “My Sovereign, I am ready to go both into prison and unto death with You!” Yet Yâhuwshúa` said to him: “I tell you, Këph, in no wise shall a cock crow today [twice (Márquwç 14: 30)] before you will thrice claim to not know Me.” Pupils now told to be prepared and armed130

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And He said to them: “When I sent you forth without a purse and provision bag and sandals, did ye lack something?”

And they said: “Nothing.”

Therefore He said to them: “Nevertheless now, he who has a purse, let him take it, similarly also a provision bag; and he who does not have one, let him sell his cloak and buy a sword, For I say to you that yet this that has been written must be accomplished within Me: “…and He was reckoned with the rebels [apostates]…” [Yshá`Yâhuw 53: 12] For also the things concerning Me have to be accomplished.”

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And they said: “Our Sovereign, look: here are two swords.”

And He said to them: “They are sufficient.”

Yâhuwshúa`’s suffering in anticipation And going forth, He went according to the custom unto the mount of the Olives, and His pupils also followed Him. And when He had arrived at the place, He said to them: “Pray to not enter into testing.”

And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and falling on His knees He prayed, Saying:

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“Father, if You are willing, remove this draught from Me; moreover, not My will, instead Yours be done.”

And an envoy from the heavens appeared to Him, strengthening Him. And being in anguish, He prayed more intently. And His sweat became as great drops of blood, and He fell down onto the ground.

And having risen up from His prayer, coming before the pupils, He found them sleeping from the grief, The betrayal and arrest And He said to them: “Why do ye sleep? Having risen up, pray in order that ye may not enter into testing.”

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And those around Him, seeing what was about to happen, said to Him: “Our Sovereign, shall we strike them with the sword?”

But a certain one from them [Këph] struck the bondman of the high priest and removed his right ear. And the bondman’s name was Mélekh. [Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 18: 10] Therefore Yâhuwshúa` said to Këph: “Return your sword into its place; for all those having taken a sword shall perish by the sword. Or do you think that I am unable

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[Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 18: 11] How, then, should the scriptures be fulfilled that have written that it must be in this way?” [MattithYâ´huw 26: 54]

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And having touched his ear, He cured him.

And Yâhuwshúa` said to those who were come against Him, chief priests and wardens of the temple and elders:

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“Have ye come out with swords and clubs against Me as if against a robber, to seize Me? Daily when I was with you within the temple, ye did not extend your hands against Me; nevertheless this is your hour, with the authority of the darkness, and all this is come to pass in order that the scriptures of the predicators may be fulfilled.” [MattithYâ´huw 26: 56]

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But a certain servant-girl131, having seen him sitting before the light, and having stared at him, said: “This one also was together with Him!” But he denied it, saying: “Woman, I don’t know Him.” And he exited outside into the forecourt, and a cock crowed. [Márquwç 14: 68] But after a short time, again the servantgirl seeing him said to the bystanders [Márquwç 14: 69]: “You also are from them!”

But Këph said: “I am not!”

And about one hour having elapsed, a certain other strongly asserted, saying: “In truth, this one was also with Him, for he is also a Gliylíy!”

Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 18: 24 (16) documents that Yehuwthâ´h, within whom was the Adversary, spoke to this doorkeeper female servant just prior to her question.

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But Këph said: “I don’t know Who you are talking about!”

And instantly, as he was yet speaking, the cock crowed the second time! [Márquwç 14: 72] And having turned, Yâhuwshúa` looked at Këph, and Shim`ówn Këph remembered the word of our Sovereign that He said to him: “Before a cock crows twice [Márquwç 14: 30], you will deny Me thrice.”

And having exited outside, Shim`ówn Këph wept aloud bitterly.

The interrogation And the men who were restraining Yâhuwshúa` jeered at Him, beating Him,

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And having blindfolded Him, they were punching His face, and were asking Him, saying: “Predicate! Who is it who hit You?” And many other things they scornfully said against Him. And as it became day, the elderhood of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led Him into their joint session, saying: “If You are the Anointed One, tell us.”

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“If I should tell you, ye would not believe Me at all; And if I should ask you also, ye would not respond to Me at all, nor let Me go.

From now on, the Son of ’Âthâ´m shall be sitting at the right hand of the Force of Yâ-hwéh!”

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And they all said: “Then You are the Son of the Power?”

And He said before them: “Ye say it, because ’E-hyéh (I always shall be)” And they said: “What need do we have of any more witnesses? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth!”

Chapter 23 Pilátus believes Him and declares Him innocent, and transfers Him to Heródes And all the multitude of them, having stood up, led Him to Pilátus.

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Kæ´sar, alleging Himself to be anointed a King!”

And Pilátus questioned Him, saying: “You are the King of the Yâhuwthím?”132 [Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 18: 34-37]

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And Pilátus said towards the chief priests and the crowds: “I find no legal cause against this Man.” Yet they kept strongly insisting, saying: “He incites the people, instructing it throughout the whole of Yâhuwthâ´h, beginning from Gâlíyl even to here!”

Having come as one of our brothers, Yâhuwshúa` had an extremely average physical appearance, which could blend indistinguishably into the crowds, and required the Phrushíym who saw Him daily to use one of His pupils to positively identify Him (see Yshá`Yâhuw 53:2). Pilátus here seems to find His Royal position difficult to reconcile with His (then) Joe Average physical appearance.

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But Pilátus, when he had heard “Gâlíyl”, asked whether the Man is a Gliylíy.

And having recognized that He is from the jurisdiction of Heródes, he sent Him up before Heródes, he also being in Yruwshâláim during those days.133 And Heródes, seeing Yâhuwshúa`, rejoiced greatly, for he had been wishing for quite a while to see Him, due to hearing many things about Him; and he was hoping to see some sign done by Him. And he questioned Him with quite a few words, but Yâhuwshúa` responded nothing to him.

And the chief priests and the scribes had stood up, stridently accusing Him. And Heródes together with his army, having considered Him as being nothing

Heródes was celebrating the Feast. This was no pagan, and this shows he would not have known of or honored “Easter” as the KJV says.

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and having jeered at Him; having thrown about Him splendid purple apparel, he sent Him back to Pilátus.

And both Pilátus and Heródes became friends with one another on that same day, for previously they were in hostility between themselves.

And Pilátus, having called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, He said before them:

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“Ye have brought to me this Man, as subverting your people, but look! When I had examined Him in your sight, I found no legal cause within this Man, of all that ye accuse against Him. Nor even Heródes, for he sent Him back to us, and look! There is nothing worthy of death committed by Him! 279

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Therefore having disciplined Him, I will release Him.”

“Yehuwthím” force Pilátus to hang Yâhuwshúa` and release a murderer [18.] But they screamed out en masse, saying: “Away with this One, and release to us Bar-Rabbâ´h!”

[19.] (Who was thrown into prison due to a certain uprising made within the city and murder); [17.] Now it was a custom for Pilátus to release to them one at the Feast.

Therefore, Pilátus again addressed them, wishing to release Yâhuwshúa`.

But they were shouting at him, saying: “Hang Him on a gallows-cross; hang Him on a gallows-cross!”

Yet he said a third time before them:

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“For what? Did this One do a bad thing? I did not find even one legal cause worthy of death within Him. Therefore, having disciplined Him, I will release Him.” Yet they kept imposing with loud voices, demanding Him to be hanged on a gallows-cross; and the voices of them and of the chief priests overpowered him.

So Pilátus decided for their demand to be done.

So he released to them the one who had been thrown into the prison due to insurrection and murder, whom they asked for, and he gave over Yâhuwshúa` to their will.

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Misplaced pity And following Him were a great multitude of the people, and of wives who were beating their breast in grief and bewailing Him. And turning towards them [the wives], Yâhuwshúa` said:

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That is when you

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‘…shall begin to say to the mountains: “Fall upon us!”

And to the hills: “Conceal us!”’ [Howshë´`á 10: 8134, Disclosure 6: 16] Because if during the rain-watered tree [YchezqË’´l 17: 1-6] they do these things, what may take place during the dried tree?” [YchezqË’´l 17: 22-24]

And two other criminals were also led together with Him to be put to death.

And when they had gone out onto the place called “the Skull”, there they hanged Him on a gallows-cross, and the criminals, the one on the right and the other on the left.

And Yâhuwshúa` said:

And the elevations of Vanity [image worship], the sin of Yisrâ’Ë´l, will be destroyed, and thorn and thistle will grow up upon their altars; then they will say to the mountains: “Conceal us!” And to the hills: “Fall on us!”

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“Father, release it from them, for they do not discern what they do.”

And dividing His clothing, they cast a lot.

[Psalms 22: 19] And the people stood watching, and the rulers together with them were also scoffing, saying: “He rescued others; let Him save Himself, if this One is the Anointed One, the Chosen One of the Power.”

And the soldiers also jeered at Him, approaching and offering Him vinegar, And saying: “If You are the King of the Yâhuwthím, save Yourself!”

And there also was an inscription written over Him in Greek and Latin and `Ivríyth (Hebrew): “This One is Yâhuwshúa` the Nëtsríy: the King of the Yâhuwthím.”

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Yet one of the criminals who had been hanged, reviled Him, saying: “If You are the Anointed One, save Yourself and save us also!”

But the other one, responding, rebuked him, saying to him: “Might you not even fear the mighty Ones, because you are within the same condemnation?

But we, indeed fairly so, for we receive in full a due recompense of what we committed; but this One has not committed even one thing out of place!”

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“’Âmë´n (certainly) I say to you, that today you shall be with Me within Pardë´ç (the Garden of `Ë´then135)” [YchezqË´’l 31: 16-18136, Nikódemos 10: 2, 26: 1] And it was about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole earth until the ninth hour; Even the luminary orb was darkened!

And the veil of the temple building’s separate place was split in the midst.

And having shouted with a loud voice, Yâhuwshúa` said: “Father, into Your hand I commit My spirit.” [Psalms 31: 6]

The Old Syriac translation says this instead of Pardë´ç, which means orchard-park, and does refer to this. It is the best part of Sh’ówl presently. Those unable to accept this argue that He meant that He said it that day, and that some other time he would be in Paradise with Him, to accommodate their doctrine of no life until resurrection. But following that line of illogic, after resurrection, there is no time the Kingdom is called Paradise in scripture, and this is a JW false teaching for not knowing where it is nor what it is.

136 Page: 286 These are two verses which demonstrate that the Pardë´ç of Yâ-hwéh is presently located underground in Sh’ówl.

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And having said these things, He expired.

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He was assigned His grave with wicked ones But a rich man’s one at His death…

(Yshá`Yâhuw 53: 9) And the captain of a hundred, having seen that which took place, honored Yâ-hwéh saying: “Indeed, this One human was righteous.”

And all the crowds who were gathered at this spectacle, perceiving the things that took place, returned, beating their chests.

[Yâhuwchânâ´n’s Glad Tidings 8: 28] And all those who acknowledged Him were standing afar off, even the wives who followed with Him from Gâlíyl, staring at these things.

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And look, a man named Yâhuwçë´ph, being a councilman in the joint session, a man good and just, (This one had not voted together with their volition or action) was from the Râmâtháyim, a city of the Yâhuwthím, and who was also himself waiting for the reign of Yâ-hwéh.

This one, having approached Pilátus, had requested the body of Yâhuwshúa`, So having taken it down, he wrapped it in a white bleached linen cloth, and placed it within a tomb quarried in stone, in which no one was ever yet laid.

And it was their Preparation Day [14 ’Âvíyv], and the Shabbâ´th was setting.

And wives also having followed, who were come together with Him from the Gliylíym saw the tomb, and how His body was laid.

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18 ’Âvíyv Feast of Firstfruits, Dawn 1st day of the week ¶ But on the first of the week, at early dawn, they came upon the tomb, bringing aromatics that they had prepared, with some others together with them.

But they found the stone was rolled away from the tomb; And having entered, they did not find the body of Yâhuwshúa`.

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And it came to pass, as they were perplexed about this that look! Two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

And becoming terrorized, they bowed their faces unto the earth. And they said to them: “Why do ye seek the Living among the dead?

He is not here, rather is risen!

Remember how He spoke to you, when He was yet within Gâlíyl [17: 11 above], Saying: “It is necessary for the Son of ’Âthâ´m to be given over into the hands of sinful men, and to be hanged on a gallows-cross, yet on the third day to arise”?” [18: 31-33 above] 6.

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Firstfruits, 18 ’Âvíyv ¶ Now it was Miryâ´m, the Miğdâlâ´h and Yâhuwchannâ´h and Miryâ´m the mother of Ya`aqóv, and the rest together with them, who told these things to the delegates, But their words appeared in their sight as if nonsense, and they disbelieved them.

But Shim`ówn Këph, having got up, ran to the tomb, and having stooped down, he sees the linen bandages lying alone, and he departed, wondering to himself what had happened.

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(1 Qorinthíym 15: 5) And look! Two from them were traveling on the same day unto a village being sixty furlongs [~6.9 miles] distant from Yruwshâláim, whose name is `Ema’úwç [probably Colonia Amasa]; And they were conversing with one another about all these things that had taken place.

And it came to pass as they conversed and discussed, that Yâhuwshúa` Himself, having joined them, walked together with them.

But their eyes were restrained from recognizing Him. And He said to them: “What are these words which ye exchange with one another as ye walk around, and are looking sad?”

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And the one whose name was Kleópas, responding, said to Him: “Are You the only sojourner in Yruwshâláim Who has not known the things which are come to pass within it during these days?”

And He said to them: “What things?”

And they said to Him: “The things about Yâhuwshúa` the Nëtsríy, a Man Who was made a Predicator, powerful in work and word before Yâ-hwéh and all the people; But also how the chief priests and our rulers gave Him over unto the condemnation of death, and hanged Him on a gallows-cross.

But we were hoping that it is He Who is about to ransom Yisrâ’Ë´l. Yet instead,

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together with all these things, today brings this third day since these things came to pass.

Yet nevertheless, certain wives from among us astounded us, who had been at the tomb very early in the morning, And not having found His body, came, alleging to have seen a vision of envoys, who say He is living!

Also, some of those went together with us to the tomb and found it thus, just as also the wives said, but they did not see Him.” 22.

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Then Yâhuwshúa` said towards them: “Oh ones senseless and slow of heart to believe on all which the predicators spoke!

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Wasn’t it necessary for the Anointed One to suffer these things, then to enter into His Honor?”

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And beginning from Moshéh and from all the predicators, He thoroughly explained to them within all the scriptures the things about His Self.

And they drew near unto the village where they were traveling, and He made them think He was traveling farther.

And they compelled Him, saying: “Stay with us because it is towards evening, and the day has declined.”

And He entered in to stay together with them.

And it came to pass, as He reclined to eat with them, having taken the bread, He blessed, and having broken it, He gave it to them.

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And their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him! But He disappeared from them.

And they said towards one another: “Weren’t our hearts inhibited137 within us as He was speaking to us on the way, and as He was explaining the scriptures to us?”

And rising up the same hour, they returned unto Yruwshâláim, and they found the eleven gathered together, and those gathered with them, Saying: “Our Sovereign is risen indeed, and has appeared to Shim`ówn!”

And they related the things on the way, and how He was made known to them during the breaking of the bread.

The word in the Old Syriac differs by one letter from the word read as “burning” in the Peshitta and reflected in the Greek translations. ryqy means “heavy” (from Strong’s #3355), and can mean to inhibit.

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And as they were telling these things, Yâhuwshúa` Himself stood in their midst, and says to them: “Shâlówm `immâkhém! (Peace be with you) It is I, do not be afraid.”

And they were frightened and terrified, for they thought they saw a spirit!

But Yâhuwshúa` said to them:

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“Why are ye agitated? And why do questionings come up within your hearts?

Look at My hands and My feet, because I am He. Handle Me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones just as ye see Me having.”

And as He said this, He showed His hands and His feet to them.

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But yet while they were unbelieving for the joy and were marveling, He said to them: “Do ye have anything edible here?”

And they gave to Him part of a broiled fish and from a honeycomb.

And having taken it, He ate in their sight.

And He said to them: “These are the words which I spoke to you, when I was yet together with you: that it is necessary for all things that have been written in the Law of Moshéh and the Predicators and psalms about Me to be fulfilled.”

Then He expanded their understanding to comprehend the scriptures, And He said to them: “Thus it has been written, and thus it was necessary for the Anointed One to

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suffer and to rise from among the dead on the third day; [1 ’Âthâ´m and Chauwâ´h 31: 11, 49: 9] And ‘repentance unto release from sins

by His name’ should be proclaimed unto all the heathen masses, beginning from Yruwshâláim, And ye are witnesses of these things.

And look! I will send forth the promise of My Father upon you; but ye shall remain within the city of Yruwshâláim until that ye shall be invested with Force from `Elyówn.”

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And He led them outside as far as unto Bëyth-`Aníy; and having raised His hands, He blessed them.

And it came to pass during the blessing; He was separated from them and was carried up into the heavens.

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And they, having prostrated themselves in reverence to Him, returned unto Yruwshâláim with great joy, And were continually within the temple, praising and blessing Yâ-hwéh. ’Âmë´n (certainly).

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