This is based on the Hebrew Matthew from Shem-Tob (1200?), as translated by George Howard, including some suggested corrections to restore what had been altered or cut short.  Corrections are based upon the reportedly ancient evidence available from the Aramaic Matthew and the principles given in Deuteronomy 4, 12, 13, 15, and 18 to know a true prophet from a false prophet: one speaking on His behalf could not add to or take away from any of His Statements/Decrees; if prophecy is given.  The criteria are all common sense and reasonable to accomplish this task.  Basically, prophecies had to come true as told; and their teachings were not to lead anyone away from serving the equity, justice, and morality as presented in the Covenant Standards ( 10 Decrees).  As summed up by Isaiah, they "must speak according to the Law and the testimony."  In the ancient Aramaic English translation of Andrew Roth, Jesus said he came to RESTORE the Covenant - not give a new Covenant to set aside what was given by the Father to start with. 

Over history the name of God went from "El" to "Elohim" to "YHWH", and then further translated into English as "Jehovah" - the more ancient name of God where Abraham reportedly came from was Ahura Mazda (Zoroastrian).  Many ancient nations had one supreme God who was over all the other gods, and the most ancient record of the Sinai Covenant (The Moses Scroll, or, The Valediction of Moses) has El saying he is god of gods, not the only god.  Our records of Scripture have certainly evolved over time - they certainly are not what came before as the ‘inerrant word of God" as we were told to believe.  Our "Translations" and "Versions" are about five levels from the originals - at least, and further ‘versions' made to support various viewpoints have so far been unending and subjects of hot debates.

Had there been no significant inconsistencies, I'd have nothing to say.  Consider carefully the alignment of the teachings of Jesus to the "V" account of the Sinai Pact, and also note evidence of alterations in the Scripture accounts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Christians altered key Hebrew texts, but Judaism invented and then alteredi texts long before Jesus came along.  The Hebrew texts of their ‘Bible', or ‘Tanach,' were unknown until 250 BC and later.  Scholarship has shown much evidence that the lore of other nations were used to devise the "Hebrew Scriptures" (Tanachk).

The Valediction of Moses, by Idan Dershowitz, is the oldest account of the Covenant Standards known at this time, and supposed reasons to have rejected it in the 1880's have been thoroughly addressed by what has been learned from studies since it was rejected in the 1880's.  It deserves careful reconsideration for the Standards, but the narrative story of the Exodus is suspect since there was no king and city conquered as told in "V" (Sihon and Heshbon), and it shows early on that stories were being made to aggrandize Israel, which has morphed into Judaism since 444 - 200 BC and later.  Ample evidence exposes they were regularly updating their accounts to be more favorable - even making up stories about other nations and peoples, as well as their own origins.  See: The Origins of Judaism, by Yonitan Adler.  See: Yahwism Under the Achaemenid Empire, edited by Dr. Gad Barnea.  Our "Scriptures" are certainly not "The Inerrant Word of God."

(See: "Let's Get Biblical" volumes 1 and 2, by Tovia Singer for textual issues between Hebrew and Greek/Latin/English Christian alterations.  See: "The Atheist Bible," two volumes, by Dr. Joshua Bowen for major problems in Christian Bibles.)  Watch interviews on YouTube by Dr. Gad Barnea, Yonitan Adler, Jacob Wright, Joshua Bowen, Russell Gmerken, and Idan Dershowitz.  The number of scholars writing about this continues to grow.)

(Hebrew to English  texts considered:  Jewish Publication Society, Artscroll, multiple volume series published by Soncino Press, Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, and THE VALEDICTION OF MOSES; The Moses Scroll; and The Aramaic English New Testament, by Andrew Roth.) 

Anyone who is telling that the Bible is the inerrant word of God is showing their ignorance of textual, historical, and archological issues that prove such a thing did not exist in the days of Jesus - let alone after Rome perverted the texts, added books, and assumed the authority of God and Jesus to alter the texts further.  Evidence is nearly as damning to Jewish sources as well.  We all need to repent of believing lies against Elohim Almighty - because no one has the authority to invent words for God, and He will be true to what He really said, if He did say anything.

Although invented later, the account in Genesis of God, the Serpent, Adam and Eve clearly give us that message of warning in that the Serpent had altered what God said and then asked Eve if that is what He had said, and she overstated what God had told to Adam.  Given it is now known to have been invented by Judaism, we can see they are telling the truth on themselves and their account of the "Torah". 

The over-reaching message in the Bible is that Truth is known by observation with the intent of doing the Covenant Standards, including the Blessings and Curses - the Standards given by God whereby we may "choose life that Ye may live."  If it were made up by Moses or a later Israelite, it seems odd that the account is so concise and matches what most reasonable people would consider to be just principles to observe and live by; they are nothing like the added passages of rites, rituals, complexity of their priesthood and sacrificial system, or their defiance of the Standards in modern Judaism under the rule and guidance of the Rabbe, Talmud, Zohar, and Encyclopedia of Judaism. 

What is very telling is the harmony of the teachings of Jesus when compared to the ancient account in "V".  It could well be modern proof, based before the days of Jesus, that prove Jesus was restoring the Standards God gave to live by in the Sinai Covenant when the blessings and curses still accompanied each of the Statements/Decrees.  It's as though Jesus was ‘putting legs' to those ancient Teachings of Elohim, not establishing a "New Testament" that superseded the Teachings of God from Mt. Sinai. Keep this principle in mind as you read this account.  Below is a consolidated account of the Declarations, Blessings, and Curses for your review and careful consideration of this vital principle that has been lost, or hidden, for centuries, if not 2000 to 3000 years. I highly suspect that the disciples slumbering when they told Jesus they would watch with him - has resulted in a gap of knowledge that this may explain.

What did God say at Sinai about those who love Him and keep His commandments?  His words from Sinai are clear to define who He says who is blessed, as well as who He said are cursed.  This is my accounting of the consolidated Covenant Standards of the Ten Decrees, Blessed, and Cursed, reportedly 3000 years old and published in 2021.  Let's keep the words of God in mind as we review the teachings of Jesus.

(Appears to be in the form of an ancient Suzerainty Treaty, the opening being a statement establishing the Pact/Covenant)   I am Elohim, your god, who freed you from the land of Egypt, from the slave-house.  You shall not have any other gods.  You shall not make a carving or any image that is in the heavens above or the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth.  You shall not prostrate yourselves before them, and you shall not serve them.  Blessed is the man who has Elohim as his god, and who prostrates himself only to him, and who serves him alone.  Cursed is the man who does a carving or a casting, the handiwork of a craftsman.  I am Elohim, your god.

Sanctify the seventh day and rest on it.  For in six days I made the heavens and the earth and all that is in them, and I rested on the seventh day.  Therefore you too shall rest, along with your livestock and all that you have.  Blessed is the man who sanctifies the seventh day and rests on it.  Cursed is the man who does work on the seventh day   I am Elohim, your god.

Honor your father and your mother.   Blessed is he who honors his father and his mother.  Cursed is he who disgraces his father and mother.  I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not slay the soul of your brother.  Blessed is the man who does not avenge or exact retribution for the soul of his brother. Cursed is he who strikes down his fellow in secret.  I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not commit adultery with the wife of your fellow.  Blessed is the man who does not defile the wife of his fellow. Cursed is the man who approaches any of his kin, or who commits adultery with the wife (woman) of his fellow, or who copulates with any animal.   I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not steal the property of your brother.  Blessed is the man who does not cheat his fellow.  Cursed is he who moves the boundary marker of his fellow.   I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not swear in my name falsely, for I shall avenge the transgression of the fathers against the sons, grandsons, and great grandsons for those who bear my name falsely.  Blessed is the man who does not swear in my name falsely.  Cursed is the man who swears falsely in my name.  I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not submit against your fellow a false judgment. Blessed is the man who does not deceive or lie to his fellow.  Cursed is he who takes a bribe to give false judgment against his comrade.   I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not desire the woman of your fellow, his male servant, his female servant, or anything that is his.  Blessed is he who does not lust after anyone belonging to his fellow.  Cursed is the man who desires and lusts after the woman of his fellow, his daughter, his female servant, or anything that is his. I am Elohim, your god.

You shall not hate your brother in your heart. Blessed is the man who loves his fellow.  Cursed is the man who hates his brother in his heart.   I am Elohim, your god.

It is these ten pronouncements that Elohim uttered to you upon the mountain from amid the fire.  Blessed is the man who upholds all the proclamations of this teaching to perform them. Cursed is the man who does not uphold all the proclamations of this teaching to perform them.

Had Israel been infused with the knowledge of the Covenant, there is no way that the Ten Decrees could have been altered by the corrupted priesthood and scribes near the time of Ezekiel, and the obvious fact "V" tells is that they did, and all should repent to believe the unaltered words given by Elohim, which are now restored after almost 3000 years!!!!  Jesus did teach according to the Original Decrees - as we can note his sayings about what one calls another - such as "you fool!" to be a dangerous thing to do - which is in total accord with "You shall not hate your brother in your heart.  I am Elohim, your god." (a deleted commandment)

We should note who God declared "Blessed" or "Cursed", as we consider these things every day, in what we say and do.  As for me, I choose to believe God is true to His word - but not the alterations of the Pharisees or Rome.  Our hope should be that, as God reportedly told Cain, he was responsible and capable to repent and do rightly to be in proper relationship with both God and his brother (fellow humanity).  May Elohim be merciful towards those who did the best they could with what they were able to know, but surely, since we can now know how simple these things are - why not simply repent to believe His words as given?  As Isaiah 42 foretells: Restore!

...... "Be strong and resolute; do not fear and do not panic.  For Elohim, your god - he is the one who walks alongside you.  He will not let go of you; he will not abandon you.  Now write down this teaching, so that this teaching may be a witness before you, since it will not be forgotten from the mouths of your descendants, for I know the schemes that you devise."

 

Note passages of support from Old Testament, and particularly to the Hebrew Scriptures and records found in the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, which were the Scripture account in Jesus' days.  Per the account, Truth is known by doing the will of God and observing carefully who is teaching according to the unaltered words of God.  Those who teach against God, or  "that prophet" are not faithful to Elohim and do not "serve God" by defying His Teachings. 

 

The Hebrew and Aramaic Matthew provide compelling evidence that the teachings of Jesus were really Jesus telling the Jews to repent of the lies of the Rabbi's, and to return to serve God once again - according to His Covenant, as given - not as perverted near the days of Ezekiel and later.  The restored Covenant, with the Blessings, and the Curses, are evidently the Elohim given Standard for life and judgment and observing good from evil - telling all mankind who is blessed by God for what they do, versus, who has cursed themselves by what they do.  As Jesus taught, "By your words you will be judged, and by your deeds you will be convicted."

 

I've left out chapters 1 and 2 because they are suspect and have nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus.  Accounts show the original disciples had no belief in a virgin birth, which is why they were branded heretics by Rome.  Since the conclusion of Matthew is about teaching his disciples to be taught what he had first taught the 12, it seems wise to leave it out for now.

Chapter 3

1.     In those days came John the Baptizer preaching in the wilderness of Judah.

2.    He said: Turn in repentance, for the kingdom of heaven is about to come (at hand),

3.    To fulfill what was said by Isaiah the prophet: A voice of one crying in the desert prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness a path for our God.          ((Is. 40:3; then followed to Yeshua in chapter 42 - "Come, let us reason together" - and calling people back to do as God told them to live from the beginning.))

4.    Behold John was clothed with the hair of camels and black leather girded his loins and his food was pancakes and honey.

5.    Then they came out to him from Jerusalem, from all Judah, and from all the kingdom round about the Jordan,

6.    And at that time were confessing their sin and were baptizing in the Jordan because of his word.

7.    He saw that many of the Pharisees, and (Sadducees) came to his baptism and he said to them, (Offspring of serpents, who taught you) to flee from the wrath to come from God?

8.    Produce the fruit of perfect repentance.

9.    Do not say in your heart: Abraham is our father.  Truly I say to you that God is able to raise up his son Abraham from these stones. 

10.                    (Already the axe has reached the root of the tree; the one which does not produce good fruit will be cut down and burned in the fire.  The crowds asked him: if so what shall we do?  John answered them: He who has two shirts let him give one to him who has none.  So the people came to be baptized.) Many asked him: "What shall we do?  And he answered them: Be anxious for (no) man and do not chastise them, and be pleased with your lot.  And all the people were thinking and reckoning in their circumcised heart: John is Jesus (("that prophet" foretold by Moses in Deut. 18:15))(minor alteration?).

11.  John answered all of them: Behold I truly baptize you in the days of repentance; but another comes mightier than I, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to unfasten.  He will baptize you with the fire of the Holy Spirit.

12. His winnowing fork is in his hand to fan his threshing floor and he will gather the grain into his granary and the straw (he will burn with fire which is not quenched). ((Mal. 3:3))

13. Then came Jesus from Galilee the Jordan to be baptized by John.

14.But John was doubtful about baptizing him and said: I should be baptized by you, and you come to me?

15. Jesus answered and said to him: Permit it, because we are obliged to fulfill all righteousness; then (John baptized him).

16.Immediately when he came up from the water, the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove and it dwelt upon him.  Then behold a voice from heaven was saying: This is my son, my beloved, he is loved very very much and my pleasure is in him. ((Psalm 2:7; Isaiah 42:1))[[Jesus received the Spirit at baptism, a foretelling of the promise recorded in Acts 2:38 by Peter - that the disciples of Jesus would also receive the Spirit to comfort and guide them in the truth and righteousness God desires of "My people" - the Spirit and the Word work together to both elevate and create what God knows we can become - those who are truly His people who do His works as light and salt - to give and preserve life as God has always instructed from the beginning.  Jesus taught sanctification was by the word of God - not by his blood - his unjust death should cause us to repent to do justice and mercy;  to turn us from iniquity]

Chapter 4

1.     Then Jesus was taken by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan.

2.    He fasted forty days and forty nights and afterwards was hungry.

3.    The tempter drew near and said to him: if you are the Son of God say that these stones should turn into bread.

4.    Jesus answered and said to him "It is written that the son of man does not live by bread alone, but by all the words that proceed from the mouth of Elohim." (Deut. 8:3)

5.    Then Satan took him to the holy city, placed him on the highest point in all the temple

6.    ...6. And said to him, "If you are the son of Elohim, cast yourself down for it is written that his Messengers he commands concerning you, and upon their hands they will bear you up that your foot should not strike upon a rock.

7.    Jesus answered him again: You shall not tempt the Lord your God. [Deut. 6:16]

8.    So Satan took him to an exceedingly high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the earth and their glory

9.    And said to him: All these things I will give to you if you bare your head to me.

10.                    Then Y'shua said to him "Leave enemy, for it is written that you will worship Elohim and Him alone you will serve." Deut. 6:13]]

11.  Then Satan left him and behold angels drew near to him and (ministered) to him.

12. It came to pass in those days Jesus heard that John had been delivered up to prison, so he went into Gilgal.

13. He passed by Nazeral and dwelt in Capernaum-Raithah, that is Maritima, on the outskirts of the Land of Zebulun.

14.In order to fulfill that which Isaiah the Prophet said:

15. Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the Sea, beyond the Jordon, Galillee of the gentiles.

16.The people who walk in darkness have seen a great light, those who dwell in the land of deep darkness a light has shined upon them. [Isaiah 9:1 (8:23) 9:3 (9:2) 9:10] [[Some Jews claim Jesus only went to the Jews, but this proves early on that he went to the Gentiles.  Isaiah 42 also speaks of one who was to be a light to the Gentiles to show them it is honorable to keep the Torah (instruction in righteousness) of God - of which the Ten Declarations were given for all men - as were the standards of right and wrong;  justice and mercy; knowing who He shows kindness towards (My people VS My enemies) and knowing what God declared Holy VS common.]]

17. Henceforth Jesus began to preach and to say: Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near. [God was to be their King, but Israel spurned God and wanted an earthly king as the other nations.  God had told them when giving the Sinai Pact that His Kingdom was near them - not some distant place - if they would simply and faithfully seek to do His will, as did Abraham - recall the words of God on this vital point: Psalm 91 and Deuteronomy 30:14.] 

18.                    Jesus went along the shore of the sea of Galilee and saw two brothers, Shimon, who is called Simon, also called Petros, and Andrea his brother casting their nets into the sea because they were fishermen.

19.He said to them come after me and I will make you fish for men.

20.                   So they left their nets in that hour and went after him.

21. He turned from there and saw two other brothers, James and John, brothers who were sons of Zebedeel, and their father in a boat setting up their nets and he called them.

22.                    They hastened and left their nets and their father and followed after him.

23.                    Then Jesus went around the land of Galilee teaching their assemblies and preaching to them the good gift, that is, mavangeleo, of the kingdom of heaven and healing all the sick and every disease among the people.

24.                   So a report about him went into all the land Syria and they brought unto him all those who were sick from various kinds of deceases, those possessed by demons, those who were terrified by and evil spirit and those who shook, and he healed them. [Jesus did more works than all the previous prophets of God - healing physical decease, demon possession, control over nature, raising the dead, and raising from the dead himself, and finally, ascending to the Ancient of Days as he prophesied he would - the claim he made later in Matthew that the Jews considered blasphemy and who gathered false witnesses to say he claimed to be the Son of God - in Matthew was said to be the false charge - not the prophecy to be fulfilled. Jesus mainly came to call us from iniquity to do the will of God, which is why he emphasized his Teachings being from God, - Isaiah 42.  Pay very close attention to this - did Jesus teach the need for faithfulness to God through living rightly - or did he teach the Law was done away with because He fulfilled it and became to once for all human sacrifice to pay the price of sin for all men? (works of repentance, or faith alone)]

25.                    Many followed him from Kapoli and Galilee, from Jerusalem, Juda, and across the Jordan.

Chapter 5

1.     It came to pass after this when he saw the crowds that he went upon the mountain and sat down.  Then his disciples (came to) him

2.    And he opened his mouth and spoke to them saying:

3.    (Blessed are the humble of spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.) Is. 57:15; 66:2

4.    Blessed are those who wait for they shall be comforted. Is. 66:2; 66: 10-12

5.    (Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.) Ps. 37:11; 149:4

6.    [missing - AENT supplied]: Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness because they will be satisfied. Ze. 2:3; Ps. 11:3-7; Is 56:1-8; 66:11-12.

7.    [missing - AENT supplied]: Blessed are they who are merciful because mercies will be upon them. Ps. 18:25; 2 Sa. 22:6

8.    Blessed are the innocent of heart for they shall see God. Ps.24:4; 51:10-13; 15: 1-5

9.    Blessed are those who pursue peace for they shall be called sons of God. Is. 26:12; Ps:122:8;72:3-7.

10.                 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Ps.38:20; Is. 66:5

11.  Blessed are you when they persecute and revile you and say against you all kinds of evil for my sake, but speak falsely. Ps. 119:85-87; La. 3:22-23.

12. Rejoice and be glad for your reward is very great in heaven, for thus they persecuted the prophets. Ps. 37; 89:19-29.

13. At that time Jesus said to his disciples: You are salt in the world.  If the salt is neutralized in regard to its taste with what will it be salted?  It is fit for nothing but to b cast outside to be trampled under foot. Ps. 18; 37.

14.You are light in the world.  A city built upon a hill cannot be hidden.

15. They do not light a lamp to place it in a hidden place where it cannot shine; but they place it upon a lamp stand so that it might shine for all in the house.

16.Thus let your light shine before every man to show them your good deeds which are praised and glorified before your father who is in heaven. Ex. 10-20.

17. At that time Jesus said to his disciples: Do not think that I came to annul the Torah, but to fulfill it. Du. 4, 12, 13, 18, 34. Lev. Gen. Num. Ex. Nu. *Exodus 20; Is 42.

18.                  Truly I say to you that until heaven and earth (depart) not one letter or dot shall be abolished from the Torah or the Prophets, because all will be fulfilled. [[Ps. 89; Torah established as an eternal and everlasting covenant]].

19.He who shall transgress one word of these commandments (and shall teach) others, shall be called a vain person (in the) kingdom of heaven, but whoever upholds and teaches (them) shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

20.                At that time Jesus said to his disciples: Truly I say to you, if your righteousness is not greater than the Pharisees and the sages, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

21. Have you not heard what was said to those of old: You shall not murder and whoever murders is guilty of a judgment of death?

22.                 But I say to you, he who angers his companion is guilty of judgment; he who calls his brother inferior shall be guilty of judgment before the congregation; (he) who calls him a fool is guilty of the fire of Gehenna. [This closely mirrors the "deleted commandment" of the "V" Decrees account.  The principle is what leads to sin, and to cut off the practice before we trespass.  Note Jesus teachings about being angry without cause, as the aim is to not give cause for offence that could lead to murder among brothers, as was the case with Cain and Abel - to say we believe we have been offended and discuss it - work it out between parties, and if necessary to be established by witnesses when a brother is not being just, right, or fair.]

23.                 If you should offer your gift at the altar and remember that you have a quarrel with your companion and he is complaining about you because of this matter,

24.                 Leave your gifts there before the altar and go to appease him first and afterwards offer your gifts.

25.                 Then Jesus said to his disciples: See that you hasten to appease your enemy while you are walking with him in the way lest he deliver you to the judge and this judge delivers you to the servant to put you into prison.

26.                 Truly I say to you, you will not come out from there until the last piece of money is given.  (This is in context with the Torah of God - not man-made rulings.  If someone invents wrongs that are against the Instruction of God - this passage would be against them. See equity in justice in Leviticus telling ‘and so he shall be forgiven'.  Example is theft repayment was paying back double, not prison time.

27.                 Again he said to them: You have heard what was said to those of long ago: You shall not commit adultery.

28.                 But I say to you that everyone who sees a woman and covets her has already committed adultery with her in (his) heart.

29.                 If your right (eye) seduces you, put it out and cast is from you. [severe repentance and prevention - overstatement]

30.                Also, if your hand seduces you, cut it off.  It is better for you to suffer the loss of one of your limbs than all your body in Gehenna. [living justly on the narrow pathway - overstatement]

31. Again Jesus said to his disciples: You have heard what was said to those of long ago that everyone who leaves his wife and divorces (her) is to give her a bill of divorce.

32.                 And I say to you that everyone who leaves his wife is to give her a bill of divorce.  But concerning adultery, he is the one who commits adultery and he who takes her commits adultery. [Not giving a bill of divorce is to be not divorced, but committing adultery - because the Torah commanded the certificate be given - a matter of the Law of God given through Moses.  Note other conditions for divorce given in the Torah - it cannot be that only one cause is legal - this would be taking away from His Instruction - double check the conditions therein and be enlightened to what God declared - He will uphold the unaltered word.  Check the Hebrew account and the DSSB] [[Since Jesus taught "all will be fulfilled" of the Torah, Psalms and Prophets - and it has been proven and observed the words of God contained in the both the Jewish and Christian Bibles have been altered - all need to go back to ensure what God had said by Jesus' days in the DSSB and yet untranslated]] (What is sin per Lev. 18)

33.                 Again you have heard what was said to those of long ago: You shall not swear by my name falsely, but you shall return to the Lord your oath. [Exodus 20 and supporting passaes]***Isaiah 66:1; Psalm 48:2; Ecclesiastes 5:4-5))

34.                 But I say to you not to swear in vain in any matter, neither by heaven because it is the throne of God,

35.                 Nor by earth because it is the footstool of his feet, nor by (Jerusalem) because it is the city of God, (Lev. 19:12; Deut. 23:23; Deut. 23:23; Is 66:1; Ps. 48:2)

36.                 Nor by your head for you are not able to make one hair white or black.

37.                 But let your words be yes yes or no no.  Everything in addition to this is evil.  [Being true to your word is the pathway of God - be very careful what you say you will or will not do - honor your word, fully intending what you say you will do.  This also has to do with the prohibition of deceit, lies, and false testimony or bribery.]

38.                 Again you have heard what is said in the Torah: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. (Ex. 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21) [read all of Leviticus 19 as God enlightens what it means to "You shall be holy, for holy am I, YHWH your God.*******]

39.                 But I say to you, do not repay evil for evil; but he who smites your right cheek provide from him the left. [Torah restitution was never noted to be literal eye for eye - but just restitution.  Turning the other cheek is about doing justly - even under persecution]

40.                He who wishes to oppose you in judgment and to rob your shirt, leave to him your garment.

41.He who askes you to go with him a thousand steps, go with him two thousand.

42.                 To him who asks from you give and from him who wishes to borrow from you do not hold back.

43.                 Again Jesus said to his disciples: You have heard what was said to those of long ago that you shall love the one who loves you and hate the one who hates you.

44.                 But I say to you, love your enemies and do good to the one who hates you and vexes you and pray for those who persecute you and oppress you

45.                 In order that you might be sons of your father who is in heaven who causes his sun to shine of the good and evil and causes it to rain on the bad and the just. [In review of the Torah the principle was just restitution - not actually knocking out teeth  "Just" being what God had declared to be just, not what we imagine and not what others might twist it into, but what can be clearly observed to be within the just restitution of handling the words of God uprightly  Matters of going the second mile or giving our  shirt might be examples of doing what God has required of man in "loving mercy" in Micah 6:7-8 - not just living by the letter of the Law that we might demand.] [[Later distinction is made - they were to go from town to town preaching, but if they were not received - if their peace was not returned to them - that they were to shake the dust off their feet as testimony against them - the principle is of peace first, but not obligated to endure those who reject their peace.]]

46.                 If you love those who love you what is your reward?  Do not the impudent love those who love them?

47.                 And if you greet in peace only your brothers, what more are you doing?  Do not even the publicans do this? [[[[Jesus teaching that if our peace is not returned to us that we are to dust off our feet as a testimony against them]]]]

48.                 Be you (perfect) as your father is perfect. [passages associated with Ex. 20 and Lev. 19, note these are simple matters, not matters of extremes.]

Supporting passages for teachings in Chapter 5 to show his teachings are according to the Torah, Psalms and Prophets.

Chapter 6

1.      Beware lest you do your righteousness before men that they might praise you; if you do, you will have no reward from your father who is in heaven.

2.    Again Jesus said to them; When you do righteousness do not wish to make a proclamation or (sound) trumpets before you as the hypocrites, who do their righteousness in the streets and in the marketplaces in order that men might see them.  Truly I say to you, they have received their reward already.

3.    But you, when you do righteousness, let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

4.    In order that your gift might be in secret and your father who sees hidden things will reward you.

5.    At that time Jesus said to his disciples: When you pray do not raise your voice and do not be like the sad hypocrites who love to pray in the synagogues and in the corner of the courtyards and pray with haughty speech that men might hear and praise them.  Truly I say to you,k they have received their reward already.

6.    But you, when you pray, go to your couch, close your doors upon you, and pray to your father in secret, and your father who sees in secret will reward you.

7.    So you, when you pray, do not multiply words as the heretics who think that by the multitude of words they will make them heard.

8.    Do you not see that your father who is in heaven knows your words before you ask from him?'

9.   But thus you shall pray: Our father, may your name be sanctified.

10.                May your kingdom be blessed; may your will be done in heaven and on earth.

11.                 Give our bread continually.

12.                Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us,

13.                And do not lead us into the power of temptation but keep us from all evil, amen.

14.                If you forgive men their sins your father who is in heaven will forgive your sins.

15.                 But if you do not forgive them he will not forgive you your sins.  [Since Jesus taught to live by the words of God, we need to realize when God says we must forgive, as well as knowing who has not done as God said to do to be forgiven.  Our forgiveness should match His justice and mercy.  Grow in understanding this, as others may take advantage of you if you do not understand this. Don't be ignorant of the justice God said we should observe to do.]

16.Again he said to them: When you fast do not be as the sad hypocrites who make themselves appear sad and who change their faces to show their fasting before men; truly I say to you, they have received their reward already

17. But you when you fast, wash your heads

18.                  That you might not appear to men to be fasting but (to) your father who is in secret, and your father who is in secret will reward you.

19.Again he said to them: Do not keep on heaping up treasures on earth so that decay and the grub devour it or thieves dig through and steal them.

20.                Make for yourselves treasures in heaven where the worm and the grub do not devour them and where thieves do not dig through and steal.

21. In the place where your treasure is (there will be your heart).

22.                 The lamp of your body is your eyes. If your eyes look straight ahead your body shall not be dark.

23.                 (If your eyes grow dim your whole body will become dark)  and if the light which is in you becomes dark, all your ways will be dark.

24.                 At that time Jesus said to his disciples: No one is able to serve two masters except he hates the one and loves the other, or he honors the one and despises the other; you cannot serve God and the world.

25.                 Therefore I say to you; do not be anxious for the food of your souls nor for the clothing for your body, because the soul is more precious than food and the body than clothing.

26.                 Behold the birds of the sky which sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but your exalted Father feeds (them).  Are you not more precious than they?

27.                 Who among you of those who are anxious is able to add to his height one cubit?'

28.                 If this is the case, by are you anxious for clothes?  Behold the lilies of Sharon, in sowing they neither spin nor weave).

30.                If God clothes the straw which is left in the standing grain, that is, penon, which is fresh today and tomorrow is dried up and is placed into the oven, so much more (will he clothe) (you) who are little of faith.

31.  If God so thinks of you, do not be anxious saying what shall we eat and what shall we drink, because all these things the bodies seek.  But your Father knows that you need all these things.

32. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you.

33. Do not be anxious for tomorrow because tomorrow will be anxious for itself.  Sufficient for itself is today with its trouble.

 

Chapter 7

1.     Judge not lest you be judged.

2.    With what judgment you judge and with what measure you use, it will be measured to you. [God already gave standards for living and justice and commanded "My people" to live by them.  In proper context, this teaching deals with judging by your own standards being placed above what God Declared, in effect to either add to or take away from His given standards.  To deny this principle would be to reject the Declarations and standards of Truth and Grace.]

3.    Why do you see the straw in the eye of the other person but not see the beam in your own eyes?

4.    How is it that you say to the other person: Wait for me a while and I will cast the straw out of your eyes, (and) behold the beam in your own eyes?

5.    Hypocrite, first cast the beam out of your eyes and afterwards you will cast the straw out of the eye of your fellowman.

6.    Again he said to them: Do not give holy flesh to dogs nor place your (pearls) before swine lest (they) chew (them) before you and turn to rend you.

7.    Ask from God and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.

8.    Everyone who asks will receive, by the one who seeks it will be found, and to the one who calls it will be opened.

9.    Who is there among you whose son asks him for a piece of bread and he gives him a stone?

10.                    Or if he should ask for a fish, he gives (him) a snake?

11.  But if you being evil come to place good gifts before yourselves, so much the more your father who is in heaven will give his good spirit to those who seek him.

12. Everything you wish that men should do to you, do to them; this is the Torah and the words of the prophets. [This is the principle taught in the Torah and Prophets - since Jesus upheld every word of God and said to live by every word of God - this should not be twisted to think we can set aside what God said and then just do what we see expedient - God is Judge, and He already declared what His standards and judgments are - from the first of the Ten Declarations.] 

13.   At that time Jesus said to his disciples: Enter in the narrow gate because the gate of destruction is wide and deep and many are going through it.

14.How narrow is the gate and grievous the way (that leads straight) to life and few are those who find it.

15. Again he said to them: Beware of false prophets who come to you in wool clothing like sheep, but inside are tearing wolves.

16.By their deeds you will know them.  Does a man gather grapes from thorns or figs from briars?

17. Every good tree makes good fruit and every bad tree makes bad fruit.

18.                   The good tree cannot make bad fruit, nor can the bad tree make good fruit.

19.                   Every tree which does not make good fruit ( is to be burned by fire).

20.                 Therefore it is according to fruits, that is, by their deeds, you will know them.

21.                   Because not everyone who says unto me, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven will enter the kingdom of heaven.

22.                  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name cast out demons and do many signs in your name.

23.                    Then I will say to them: I never knew you.  Depart from me all you workers of iniquity.

24.                  Again he said to them: Everyone who hears these words and does them is like a wise man who built (his) house on a rock.

25.                  The rain came down against it and the winds beat it and it did not fall because its foundation was a rock.

26.                  Everyone who hears these my words and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.

27.                   The rains came down, the floods came and fell against it, (and it fell) with a great fall.

28.                  While Jesus was speaking these words all the people were greatly astonished at his conduct,

29.                  Because he was preaching to them with great power, not as the rest of the sages. 

Chapter 8

1.     It came to pass when Jesus came down from the mountain that a great crowd (came) after him.

2.    Then behold a leper came and worshipped him saying: Lord, are you able to heal me?

3.    Jesus stretched forth his hand and touched him saying: I wish that you be cleansed, and in that hour the leper was cleansed from his leprosy.

4.    Then Jesus said to him: Be careful lest you tell any man, but go to the priest to offer your gifts as Moses commanded in your law.

5.    It came to pass when he entered into Capernaum - hamartha that a captain of hundreds came to him and implored him,

6.    Saying, Lord, my son lies in my house with the sickness of contraction, and he is weak with the illness.

7.    Jesus said to (him): I will go and heal him.

8.    The captain of hundreds answered and said to him: Lord (I) am not worthy that you should come under my roof; only make the decision that he might be healed.

9.    I am a sinful man and I have authority under the Pharisees and (I have) horses and riders and I say to one of them go and he goes, come and he comes, and to my servants do this and they do it.

10.                    Jesus heard and was amazed and said to those who were following him: Truly I say to you, I have not found a great faith in Israel (like this).

11.  (I say) to you that many will come from the East and from the West and will rest with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;

12. But, the sons of the kingdom (will be cast) into the darkness of Gehenna; there will be weeping and (gnashing) of teeth.

13. Then Jesus said to the captain of hundreds: Go; as you have believed, it will be done to you.  So the lad was healed at that time. [God answers prayers of those whose life and trust reside with Him, but each of us is appointed a time by God - even Jesus died.  My experiences with Lynne's trials showed many answered prayers at dire times, but the mercy and love of God is to do what is best for us - body, soul and spirit - not to sustain us to the point of destruction of our heart and soul or beyond the ability of the body to function - God preserves the life of His saints till His time - whether we recognize it at that time or not.  The LORD giveth, and the LORD taketh away.]

14.At that time, Jesus went into the house of Peter and behold his mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever.

15. He touched her hand, and the fever left her.  Then she arose and ministered to him.

16.At the time of evening they brought to him those seized by demons and (he) healed them by his word alone and he healed every sickness.  [The works of Jesus show that God was with him, the teachings of Jesus show that he was giving the Doctrine (Teachings) of God.  Many people followed him because of the miracles, but his teachings all had to do with the kingdom of God and the life lived that gives hope in the promises and faithfulness of God.]

17. To complete what was said by Isaiah the prophet, of blessed memory: Surely our sicknesses he bore and our pains he suffered.  (Is. 53:4)  [Carefully note the prophecy is about his ministry of healing - not his death of the cross - being unjustly "cut-off" from among the living and being without descendent.]

18.                    It came to pass after this Jesus saw many crowds around him and he commanded to go across the sea.

19.Then a sage came to him and said to him: Master I will follow you wherever you go.

20.                   Jesus answered him: The foxes have holes and the birds have nests, but the Son of Man, has no place to enter his head.

21. One of his disciples said to him: Allow me to go and bury my father.

22.                    Jesus said to him: Follow me and let the dead bury their dead.

23.                    It came to pass when Jesus entered a boat, his disciples followed him.

24.                   A great storm came on the sea, and the waves were coming on excessively, and the boat was thought to be breaking up.

25.                    His disciples came to him and begged him saying: O our master save us lest we perish.

26.                   He said to them: Why do you look at one another, O you little of faith?  He arose and commanded the sea and the winds that they should be quiet and immediately they became quiet.

27.                    When the men who were there saw, they marveled and said: Who is this that the winds and the sea do his will? (Reportedly, Jesus was unique to speak the word of God - so directly that even the winds and waves obeyed - see Psalm 89:9; 107: 28-29)

28.                   It came to pass when he crossed over the sea and passed by the region beyond the sea into the realm of the Gaderi, there met him two demon possessed men coming out of the tombs, raging until no man could pass by that way.

29.                   They cried out to him saying: What is between you and us, Jesus son of God?  Have you come before the time to grieve us and to destroy us?  Jesus said to them: Come out of them, evil host.

30.                   There near them were herds of many swine feeding.

31. So the demons entreated him: Since we have to go out from here, grant us authority to go into these swine.

32.                    He said to them: Go.  The demons went out from the men and entered the swine, and all the herd went in sudden haste, slipped off into the sea and died in the water.

33.                    Those who were feeding (them) feared, fled, and told everything in the city.  So the whole city was frightened.

34.                    They went out to meet Jesus.  They saw them and entreated him not to pass over into their border.

Chapter 9

1.     Then Jesus entered a boat; they set sail and returned to his city.

2.    They brought to him one who was sick with contractions, lying upon his bed.  Jesus saw their faith and said to the sick man: Have courage my son.  It is by the faith of God that your sins have been forgiven.

3.    Some of the sages were saying in their heart: This one blasphemes.

4.    Jesus saw their thoughts and said to them: Why do you think evil in your heart?

5.    (Which) is easier to say: Your sins are forgiven, or, rise walk?

6.    But to inform you that the Son of Man is able to forgive sins on earth, then he said to the sick man: Arise and take your bed and walk.

7.    He arose and went to his house.

8.    The crowds saw, feared exceedingly, and praised God who had given power to men to do such things.

9.    It came to pass when Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man sitting at the table of exchange; Matthew was his name, and he said to him: Follow me.  So he arose and followed him.

10.                    (He) brought him to his house to eat.  I came to pass while he was eating, that behold many violent and evil men were at the table and behold they were dining with Jesus and his disciples.

11.  The Pharisees saw (this) and said to his disciples: Why does your teacher sit and eat with violent and evil men?

12. Jesus heard (this) and said: The healthy have no need (for) healing, but the sick.

13.                   Go and learn that which is written: I desire kindness and not sacrifice; I have not come to restore the righteous but the wicked.

14.Then the disciples of John came to him and said to him: Why do we and the Pharisees fast often but your disciples do not fast?

15. Jesus answered them and said: The friends of the bridegroom cannot weep and fast while he is with them.  The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then the will fast.

16.No man wastes a piece of new garment on an old garment (because) the force of the piece (stretches) the worn-out garment and it tears more.

17. Nor do they put a new wine into old vessels lest the vessels break, and the wine spills out and the vessels perish.  But new (wine) is for new vessels and both of them are preserved. [[Context is joy VS fasting/grieving the soul in some way - the two don't mix together, therefore in the joy of Jesus' presence with them they were not yet fasting.]] [[[There is no reason, in context, to see this as the age of Law VS Grace]]]

18.                    It came to pass when he had spoken to them, a captain approached and bowed down to him saying: Master, my daughter just died.  Please come and place your hand upon her and restore her life.

19.Jesus arose and went, he and his disciples with him.

20.                   Behold a woman with a flow of blood for twelve years came behind him and touched the fringe of his garment.

21. She was saying in her heart: If only I touch his garment, I will immediately be healed.

22.                    He turned and said to her: Courage my daughter, through God, blessed be He, your healing is because of your faith.  In that very hour she was healed.

23.                    It came to pass when he entered the house of the captain, he saw many people weeping.

24.                   He said to them: Go outside all of you and stop weeping because the girl is asleep and not dead.  But in their eyes he was as one who jests.  They were saying: Have we not seen that she is dead?

25.                    When he had put them outside, Jesus went to her, touched her hand, and the girl arose.

26.                   This report went out in all that land.

27.                    Jesus passed on from there and behold two blind men were running after him and crying out to him: Have mercy on us, Son of David.

28.                   He came to the house, and the blind men drew near to him.  He said:

29.                   Your faith will heal you.

30.                   The eyes of the two men were immediately opened and they saw.  He commanded them saying: Be careful lest the matter be known.

31. As for them, they went out and made him known in all that land.

32.                    Jesus went out from there, and they brought before him a dumb man who was demon possessed.

33.                    He cast out the demon so that the dumb man spoke.  The crowds were amazed and said: We have not seen it like this in Israel.

34.                    He went around all the cities and towers teaching in the synagogues and preaching the good tidings and healing every illness and every sickness.  [It would be very reasonable to presume his teachings would be the same as, or akin, to what he taught in the Sermon on the Mount in chapters 5-7.]

35.                    Jesus saw the crowds and had pity on them because they were weary and lying (around) like sheep without a shepherd.

36.                    Then he said to his disciples: The standing grain is much but the reapers are few.

37.                    Entreat now the Lord of the standing grain that he send many reapers to harvest his grain.

Chapter 10

1.     Then Jesus called his twelve disciples and gave them power over every unclean spirit to cast them out from man and to heal every sickness and every plague. 

2.    These are the names of the twelve apostles, called Apostolos: Simon, called Petros, and Andrea his brother,

3.    Philipos, and Bortolameos, and James, called Jimi, and John, his brother, sons of Zebedeel, Thomas and Matthew, that is Matio, who by reputation was a lender of (money) for interest, James Aluphei and Tereos,

4.    Simon the Canaanite, that is, Simon Cananayos, and Juda Ascareyotah, who after this betrayed him.

5.    These twelve Jesus sent; he commanded them saying: To the lands of the Gentiles do not go and into the cities of the Samaritans do not enter. [Recall Jesus had already been there.]

6.    Go to the sheep who have strayed from the house of Israel.

7.    Preach to them that the kingdom of heaven will be fulfilled.

8.    Heal the sick, restore life to the dead, (cleanse) the lepers, and cast out demons from men.  Do not take wages.  Freely you received, freely you shall give.

9.    Do not heap up silver and gold, nor (have) wealth in your purse,

10.                    Nor changes of clothes, nor shoes, nor a staff in your hand.  The workman is worthy to receive enough for his food.

11.  In every city and in every tower that you enter (ask) who is the good man among them and there remain until you go out.

12. When you enter into the house, give to them a shalom saying: Shalom to this house; shalom to all who dwell in it.

13. If that house should be worthy, your shalom will come upon it, but if it is not worthy, your shalom will return to you.

14.(When) one does not receive you or listen to you, you shall go out from that house and (shake off) your feet from the dust.

15. Truly I say unto you, it will be better for Sodom and Gomorrrah in that day than for that city.

16.Behold I send you like sheep in the midst of wolves.  Be crafty as serpents and humble as doves.

17. Beware of men.  They will not deliver you up in their congregations and houses of assembly,

18.                    But to governors and kings.  You will be able to bear witness on my behalf to them and to the Gentiles.

19.When they seize you, do not consider what you will say, because in the hour that you are in need an answer will come to you.

20.                   It will not be you who speak, but the Holy Spirit of my Father will speak through you.

21. Brother will deliver up brother to death and a father his son; the sons will rise up against (their) fathers and lead them unto death.

22.                    You will become a derision and a fright to all the nations because of my name.  Whoever endures, however, until the time of the end will be saved.

23.                    Again Jesus said to his disciples: When they pursue you in this city flee to another, truly I say to you, you will not have completed for yourselves the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes. [Possible addition? Or alteration?  Likely about  the destruction of the temple and the scattering to the nations of the diaspora - 70 AD.]

24.                   No disciple is greater than his teacher, nor is the servant greater than his master.

25.                    It is sufficient for the disciple to be like his teacher, and for the servant to be like his master.  If they call the master of the house Baalzebub, so much the more the sons of his house.

26.                   Do not fear them, because there is nothing which will not be seen, nor hidden (which will not be made known).

27.                    (That which) I say to you in darkness, say it in the light, (that which you hear by the ear, tell it in the gate).

28.                   Do not fear those who kill (bodies) who have no power to kill souls, but fear the one who has power to destroy the soul and the body in Gehenna.

29.                   Are not two sparrows (sold for a small coin and not one of them will fall to the earth except by the will of your Father who is (in) heaven?

30.                   Are not all the hairs of your head numbered?

31.    Do not fear, because (you) are better than the sparrows.

32.                    He who praises me before man I will praise before my Father who is in heaven.

33.                    Not in text - missing completely. [Whoever denies him he will deny to the Father]

34.                    In that hour Jesus said to his disciples: Do not think I have come to put (peace) on the earth, but a sword.

35.                    I have come to separate mankind, the son from his father and the daughter from her mother.

36.                    The enemy is to be loved ones.

37.                    He who loves his father and his mother more than me, I am not suitable for him.

38.                   Not in text - completely missing. [he who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me]

39.                    He who loves his life will lose it, he who loses (it) for my sake will find it.

40.                   He who receives you, receives me and he who receives me, receives the one who sent me.

41.He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive the reward of the prophet; he who receives a righteous one in the name of a righteous one will receive the reward of the righteous one. [Economy of God]

42.                   He who gives a vessel of cold water to one of my little disciples in the name of my disciple, truly I say to you that he will not lose his reward.

Chapter 11

1.     It came to pass when Jesus finished commanding his twelve disciples that he passed on from there and commanded them to teach and reprove in their (own) cities.

2.    John, when he was in captivity, heard of the work of Jesus and sent two of his disciples

3.    Saying to him: Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect another.

4.    Jesus answered them: Go and tell John that which you have seen and that which you have heard:

5.    The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are revived and the poor are acquitted.

6.    Blessed is he who is not perplexed in me.

7.    It came to pass as they were going that Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John.  You went out into the wilderness to see what?  A reed cast about by the wind?

8.    Or what did you go out to see?  Do you think that John was a man clothed in noble garments?  Behold those who wear noble garments are in king's houses.

9.    If so, what did you go out to see, a prophet?  Truly I say to you that this one is greater than a prophet.

10.                    This is he about whom it is written: Behold I am sending my messenger and he will make the say clear before me. [Mal. 3:1] [[Partial quote - judgment upon his return]]

11.  Again, Jesus said to his disciples: Truly I say to you, among all those born of women none has arisen greater than John the Baptizer.

12. From his days until now the kingdom of heaven has been oppressed (and senseless persons) have been rending it. 

13. For all the prophets and the law spoke concerning John. [Mal. 4:4-6.  By foretelling the coming Anointed One of God, they also spoke of John, who precedes him, example review Isaiah 41 - 42, 56.]

14.If you wish to receive it, he is Elijah who is going to come.

15. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

16.Again, Jesus said: I will liken this generation to lads who sit in the market placxe calling to one another,

17. Saying: (We sang to you), and you did not (dance, and we wailed) to9 you, and you did not weep.  [Consensus views do not prove truth.]

18.                    Because John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say concerning him: He is possessed of demons.

19.But the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and no one says concerning him: He is a glutton, a drunkard, and a friend to violent men and sinners.  So fools judge the wise.

20.                   Then Jesus began to curse (the cities in which) his signs were done, for they did not turn in repentance.

21. Woe to you (Corozim) and woe to you Beth Saida, for if in Tyre and Sodom, the signs had been done which were done in you, they would have turned in repentance at that time in sack cloth and ashes.

22.                    Truly I say to you, it shall be easier for Tyre and Sodom (than for you).

23.                    You Capernaum, will you ascend to heaven?  From there you will be brought down.  Because if in Sodom the signs which were done in you had been done, perhaps she would have remained.  Unto Sheol you will be brought down.

24.                   Truly I say to you that it shall be easier for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.

25.                    At that time Jesus raised himself up and said: Be praised (my Father) creator of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these words from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to the humble. [Recall the blessings of the beatitudes and passages noted]

26.                   Truly this is because it was upright before you, my Father.

27.                    All has been given to me from my Father.  There is none who knows the son, but the Father alone, and the Father no one knows, but the son and to whomever the son wishes to reveal him.

28.                  Come unto me all you who are weary and who are enduring labor, and I will help you to bear your yoke.

29.                  (Take) my yoke as your yoke and learn of me that I am humble and good and pure of heart and you shall find rest for your souls,

30.                 (because my yoke is soft) and my burden light.

Chapter 12

1.     At that time Jesus passed through the standing grain on the Sabbath day, and his disciples being hungry began to pluck the ears and to crush them between their hands and to eat them.

2.    The Pharisees saw it and said to him: Behold your disciples are doing that which is not proper to do on the Sabbath day. [based on whose instruction/rules?]

3.    Jesus answered them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry and his men

4.    In the house of God when they ate from the bread of the Presence, which is not to be eaten except by the priests alone?

5.    Also in the Torah have you not read that the priests in the Temple sometimes profane the Sabbaths and are without sin?

6.    Truly I say to you that the temple is greater than this.

7.    If you had known what this is: I desire kindness and not (sacrifice), you would not have convicted the innocent.

8.    For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath. (God expects us to use common sense reason with His Instructions, not the overbearing interpretations of men who have no good understanding of what God meant about desiring mercy, rather than sacrifice. How we live, versus some ritual or rite of Judaism.  Observe the Decrees to do them.)

9.    It came to pass at the end of the days that Jesus passed on from there and entered into their Synagogues.

10.                    A man was there with a withered hand; so they asked him saying: Is it permissible to heal him on the Sabbath?

11.  He said to them: Who among you has a sheep that falls into a pit on the Sabbath day and does not raise it up?

12. So much the more is man better than that sheep.  Therefore it is permissible and (necessary) for man to do better on the Sabbath.

13. Then he said to the man: Stretch out your hand.  He stretched out his hand, and it returned as the other.

14.Then the Pharisees took counsel and plotted to put him to death. [***note motivation, Jesus taught to focus on what God said, instead of the rites and rituals invented by those in charge of Judaism.]

15. It came to pass after this that Jesus knew it; so he turned aside from there.  Many sick followed him and he healed all of them.

16.He commanded them saying not to reveal him,

17. In order to establish what was spoken by Isaiah:

18.                    Behold my servant whom I have selected, my chosen one with whom my soul is pleased; I will put my spirit upon him, and he will declare justice to the nations.

19.He will not fear nor will he run nor shall one hear (his voice) in the street.

20.                   A crushed reed he will not break and a dim wick he will not quench until he establishes justice forever,

21. And in his name the gentiles hope.  [[Isaiah 42: 1-4.  Note the chapter also says he will cause the gentiles to honor the Torah - not think to cast it aside as done with - this is why it is so important that the words of Jesus and prophecy not be ignored because you think Paul had the authority to alter the eternal and everlasting word of God Almighty, and Pauls own words prove he was a wicked servant because he taught away from what God and Jesus taught us.]

22.                    Then there was brought to him a blind and dumb man who was demon possessed; he healed him.  The crowds saw it

23.                    and marveled and said: Is this not the Son of David? [Prophecy about the one to come of the Davidic line prophesied of in the Hebrew Scrpture - beware of altered or mistranslated passages in the Christain and Hebrew Scripture - such as Is. 15; 42]

24.                   The Pharisees were quick to hear (this) and said: This one does not cast out demons except by Baalzebub, the lord of demons.

25.                    Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them in a parable: Every kingdom among you divided shall be made desolate, and so every city or house upon which division shall fall shall not stand. [Note divisions of Jewish scholarship - which remain faithful to hold every word of God uprightly? (Karaite Jews?)  Jesus warnings of the scribes and Pharisees unfaithfulness to the greater Teachings of God in their Holy Scripture - such as viewpoints of the Law being for them alone, or even their belief that the faith is a matter of Democracy of following men -instead of ensuring they ignore or believe someone based on the clear instruction of God in Deut. 4, 12, 13, 18 and 34] [The clearest instruction of God is the Doctrine of God as taught by Jesus in Matthew.]  [[If Jesus taught proper interpretation and application of the Covenant Standards,- have they judged Jesus and all true Christians unjustly and wickedly in the Talmud?]]]

26.                   (If) Satan casts out another satan, there will be divisions among (them), how will his kingdom stand?

27.                    If I cast out demons by Baalzebub, why do your sons not cast them out?  Therefore, they will be your judges.

28.                   But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God truly the end of (Satan's) kingdom has come.

29.                   How shall a man be able to enter the house of the strong man to take his goods unless he bind him first?  Then he shall plunder his house.

30.                   Whoever is not with me is against me.  (Whoever) does not join himself to me denies me.  [Therefore pay close attention to his instruction to see how, and what the fruits {works} are; the works of the Spirit always are in accord with the Words of God.]

31. (Therefore) I say to you that every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven the sons of men, but blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven. [Contrasted with the Decree of God that those who take His NAME in vain will not be absolved, or in "V", that those who falsely testify will not be absolved? - relationship of the two? Or an alteration? - or is the deeper meaning that the two go hand in hand?]  [[To be a true prophet - how could Jesus add to the Decrees at Sinai and be true?  This is the main reason I question this account - hold it in reserve and be careful to observe to do what the Teachings were to start with.]]

32.                    Everyone who says a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him.  But everyone who says a word against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him either in this world or in the world to come.

33.                    Make the tree good according to the good fruit, or the tree bad according to bad fruit, because the truth is; from the fruit the tree will be known.

34.                    Family of vipers, how can you say good things when you are evil?  Surely the mouth awakens, the heart speaks.

35.                    A good man from the treasure of a good heart brings forth good; an evil man from the treasure of an evil heart brings forth evil.

36.                    I say to you that for all the words which a man shall speak will he be obliged to give an account on the day of judgment.

37.                    According to your words you will be judged and according to your deeds you will be convicted.  [I have yet to have proof that Jesus taught against the Law or word of God, so why does Judaism teach him to be a liar or false prophet?]

38.                   At that time, some of the Pharisees and sages came to Jesus saying: We wish to see a sign from heaven by you.

39.                    He said to them: An evil and wicked generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.  [In Jonah, in 40 days the city would be destroyed - Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed 40 years after they killed Jesus.  I suspect this may have been the original meaning and when Jesus foretold of the event, but have no proof aside from the general principle of prophecy being a day for  a year, or a week for seven years, and the historical event taking place 40 years thereafter.]

40.                   For as he was in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the belly of the earth, (buried) for three days and three nights.

41.The men of Nineveh will rise up in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, because they turned in repentance at the words of Jonah and I am greater than Jonah.

42.                   The queen of Sheba, will rise up in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold I am greater than Solomon. [[Given there is no evidence there ever was a David and Solomon as told in the Bible - to date - I don't think this was actually said by Jesus.]]

43.                    When the unclean spirit goes out from the man, he goes through waterless places seeking rest, but does not find it.

44.                   Then he says: I will return to my house from which I came out, and he goes and finds it empty, safe, and ready.

45.                    Then he takes seven spirits more, evil than himself, and they go with him and dwell there, and the later state of the man is worse than his first.  Thus it will be to this evil generation.

46.                   While he was speaking to all the crowds, behold his mother and his brothers were standing outside seeking him to speak with him.

47.                    A man said to him: Behold your mother and your brothers are seeking to see you.

48.                   He answered the one who spoke (to him): Who are my brothers and who is my mother?

49.                   He stretched out his hands to his disciples and said: These are my mother and brothers.

50.                  Everyone who does the will of my Father who is in heaven are my brothers, my sisters, and my mother.

Chapter 13

1.     On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat on the shore of the sea.

2.    Crowds joined themselves to him until he needed to enter a boat; the whole crowd was standing (on the shore).

3.    He spoke to them many things in parables and said to them: A man went forth from his house in the morning to sow his seed.

4.    In his sowing some of it fell on the road, and the birds ate it.

5.    Some of it fell among rocks where there was no density of soil, and when it sprang up it withered because there was not much soil there. [Soil sufficient to hold enough of the water of life from the word of God within to sustain growth until receiving more water to maintain growth appropriate for itself - Rabbi's spoke of Israel starting to complain against God only three days into the wilderness to be the point that we need to maintain sufficient spiritual life to maintain our walk with God through the wilderness of life.  One aspect is to regularly hear the words of God, the other is to put them into action in our life by observing His instruction to do it - which is also the role God said He would send His spirit to accomplish - the Spirit and the Word work together to cause elevation in our life that leads to life eternal and is faithful to do His will.]

6.    When the sun above it became warm, it was burned and dried up because it had no root.  [Root is somewhat a representation of our faith - which is one of the greater matters of the Torah - the root takes the moisture of the soil and brings it into the life of the plant.] [[The reality is any house of faith that doesn't adopt the whole Instruction of God as given, and also noting the distinctions He made in the Instructions, then put  into practice, cannot sustain the growth God desires of "My people", because "My people" are those who do His will.  We cannot know His will apart from His Instruction.  If we fail to note His Instruction we are in danger of only living out imaginations of men.  Distinction must also be made between milk and meat - both age and spiritual growth appropriate. ]]

7.    Some of it fell among the thorns, and the thorns (grew and darkened it).

8.    Some fell on good ground and made fruit and produce, the first a hundred, the second sixty, and the third thirty.

9.    Whoever has ears to hear let him hear.

10.                    Then his disciples drew near to him and his disciples said to him: Why do you speak in parables?

11.  He said: To you it has been given to know the kingdom of heaven, but not to them.

12. Whoever has, it will be given (to him) again, but whoever has nothing, that which he thinks (he has) will be taken from him.  [This is why some Churches wither and die - are "taken away" - they failed to sustain growth in their life due to lack of the life imparted by observing and doing  the  Instructions of God and Jesus - they relied upon the words of men, rather than the life sustaining words of God.  This is why it is of utmost importance to first know the Teachings of Jesus in Matthew before thinking you can judge others words without knowing what Jesus reportedly first taught his disciples (this gospel of Matthew 23).  As with counterfeit money, one has to know the genuine money to be able to identify a counterfeit. The Hebrew Gospel of Matthew is the closest we can know to the unadulterated Teachings of Jesus.  These Teachings, when understood in context with the stated words of God in the Torah, Psalms and Prophets will show us who we are to hear or ignore - based totally on the Instruction of God, not our feelings, or what we might pretend "expedient," or to have accepted by undue trust in questionable suspected altered or invented scriptures, or anyone who taught us wrongly.  Thereby we can know the will of God just as the twelve disciples of Jesus did. We can also know those who pretend "authority" that is not according to the Commandments of God and the Testimony of Jesus are not to be believed.  Later, Jesus teaches that the ungodly Gentiles have rulers over them, but that is not so of him (chapter 23).  Jesus is to be master for all his disciples - even the twelve were not in subjection to any other authority than the Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus.]

13.                   For this reason I speak in parables because they see but do not see, hear but do not hear,

 

14.  in order to fulfill what was said through Isaiah the Prophet: God and say to this people, hear but do not comprehend, see but do not (understand). [Isaiah 6: 9-10; Job 15:8; Proverbs 3:32; Amos 3:7; Isaiah 45:7.]

 

15.  Make the heart of this people fat and make their ears heavy and blind their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes. [Isaiah 6: 9-10.]

 

16.  Blessed are your eyes that see and your ears that hear.

 

17.  Truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see but did not see it, and hear what you hear but did not hear it.  [To be in the presence of "that prophet" to hear and do "whatsoever he sayeth to you." Deut. 18:15 and Isaiah 42, 53, 56.]

 

18.  But hear you the parable of the sower.

 

19.  The Sower is the Son of Man and the seed which fell on the road is everyone who hears the kingdom of heaven and does not understand it.  Satan comes and snatches away from his heart everything which was sown in it.  This is the seed which fell on the road.

 

20.  That which fell upon the rocks is the one who hears the word of God and receives it immediately with joy.

 

21.  But he is without root and is in confusion and when a little trouble and distress come to them, Satan causes them to forget from their heart.

 

22.  That which fell among the thorns, this is the one who hears the word and in his desire to gather wealth, Satan causes him to forget the word of God, and he makes no fruit.

 

23.  That which fell into the good earth is the one who hears the word and understands it and makes fruit, that is, from good works.  [*]He brings forth from the first a hundred, from the second sixty, and from the third thirty.

 

24.  He set before them another parable.  The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sows good seed in his field.

 

25.  It came to pass when the men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares over the wheat, that is, beriyagah, and he went away.

 

26.  It came to pass when the herb grew up to make fruit, he saw the tares.

 

27.  The servants of the master of the field drew near to him and said to him: Master did you not sow good seed? Then whence came the tares?

 

28.  He said to them: My enemy did this.  His servants said to him: We will uproot the tares.

 

29.  He said to them: No, lest you uproot the wheat.

 

30.  But let them remain together and grow up until the harvest and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather the tares first and bind them into individual bundles for burning and the wheat put into the granary.  [This clearly foretold the false accounts of the gospel of the kingdom of heaven and to not tear out the tares for the sake of the wheat, but "tearing out" was done by those who followed the gospel of the tares to have been done by those who did not know or follow Jesus [see historical accounts of the Roman Church and even Martin Luther in his actions against Servantus or any Church that would teach keeping the commandments of God is not a requirement for all disciples of Jesus.  The attacks against the Truth of God are from those who are His enemies - not those that love Him indeed and according to provable truth, justice and mercy.  There is a huge distinction between "come out from among them" and killing those who don't believe Jesus to be "that prophet."]

 

31.  He set before them another parable.  The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard which a man takes and sows in the field.

 

32.  It is smaller than all garden herbs, but when it grows up it is greater than all the herbs and is made into a great tree until the birds of heaven withdraw into its branches.

 

33.  He spoke to them another parable.  The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which (a woman puts) into three measures of flour and it leavens all of it.

 

34.  All of these parables Jesus spoke to the crowds and without a parable did he not speak to them,

 

35.  to fulfill what was said according to the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter riddles from ancient times. [Psalm 78: 1-8 (2)  Stone Edition Psalm 78, as the DSSB is incomplete; A maskil by Asaph. Listen, my people, to my teaching, incline your ear to the words of my mouth.  I will open my mouth with a parable, I will utter and explain riddles from antiquity. That which we have heard and know and our fathers told us, we shall not withhold from their sons, recounting unto the final generation the praises of Elohim, His might and His wonders that He has wrought.  He established a testimony in Jacob and set down a Torah in Israel which He commanded our fathers, to make their sons.  So that the final generation may know; children yet to be born will arise and tell their own children; so that they may place their trust in God, and not forget the works of God, and they will safeguard His commandments. ["safeguard" His commandments is not in the DSSB - likely added by Pharisees and allowed by scribes]  That they not become like their fathers, a wayward and rebellious generation; a generation that did not dedicate its heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.]

 

36.  Then Jesus was parted from the crowds and went into the house.  His disciples came to him and asked how to explain for them the parable of the tares.

 

37.  He who sows the good seed is the "son of man." - alteration in HGOM.]

 

38.  the field is this world, the good fruit is the righteous, and the tares are the evil. [AENT; And the field is the world, and the seed are the good sons.  And the tares of the Kingdom are the sons of the evil one.]  [[The AENT account better fits the narrative of Matthew of Jesus being "that prophet" that all men are to hear,]]

 

39.  The enemy who sowed it is Satan, the standing grain at the end is the world to come, and the reapers are the angels. [satan means deceiver]

 

40.  As the reapers gather the tares to burn, so will it be at the end of the days. 

 

41.  The Son of Man will send his angels to uproot from his kingdom all evil and all who do iniquity.

 

42.  They will cast them into the pyre of fire; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 

43.  Then the righteousness will shine like the sun and the kingdom of their father.  Whoever has ears to hear let him hear.

 

44.  Again Jesus said to his disciples: The kingdom of heaven is like a man who finds a treasure which had been hidden and in gladness over the value he sells all which he has and buys the field from himself.

 

45.  Again the kingdom of heaven is like a certain merchant seeking precious stones.

 

46.  When he finds a good one, he sells all which he has and buys it.

 

47.  The kingdom of heaven is like a net in the midst of the sea in which are gathered all kinds of fish.

 

48.  When it is full, they draw it out, and the fishermen go forth and choose the good for their vessels and the bad they cast away.

 

49.  Thus it will be at the end of days, the angels will go forth and separate the evil from the midst of the righteous

 

50.  Then they shall cast them into the pyre of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 

51.  He said to them: Have you understood this?  They said: Yes.

 

52.  Every wise man in the kingdom of heaven, therefore, is like a certain father of children who brings forth from his treasure things new and old. [There is a somewhat parallel passage in the OT and also God making a book of remembrance for those who would be careful to return to Him through faithfulness to His word.  This is why I've taken the time and effort to try to reveal to the reader that the pathways given by God to mankind has been consistant throughout human history - rather than pretending in "Dispensational Theology", whose viewpoint is reletively new - only 200 years or so - not thousands of years as the Hebrew Scriptures tell us of - from the accounts of Moses, through the testimony of Johsua's disciples in the Hebrew Matthew.  It's not as though Hebrew is magical, as it can be reasonably translated to our language, that we also might understand the great beauty and value of the Teachings of Elohim.  Due to alterations in the Hebrew rocords, we need to pay all the more attention to matters of the Ten Decrees, the Blessings and the Curses, as well as the warnings to Israel from the Prophets.  To date, the Hebrew Matthew has found complete accord to those vital records from God.  Evidently, Judaism has been derailed from God since the time of Ezekiel when they altered His Covenant.  This is the same thing God told through Jeremiah 6:16: "Thus saith the LORD: Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therin, and ye shall find rest for your souls."  But the Jews of Jeremiah's days said "We will not walk therein."  Is this not the same response most "Christains" give when trying to tell them to keep the Covenant as God Taught, and as Joshua (Jesus) taught likewise?  Recall, the message is about the Kingdom of God - those who obey the King - the Father of mankind!  His Teachings are eternally true and able to do what He gave them for.]

 

53.  It came to pass after this, when Jesus finished these words, he passed on from there.

 

54.  He came to his own country and was teaching the people in the synagogues.  The Pharisees were amazed and said in their heart: Whence came to this one the wisdom and power to do these deeds?

 

55.  Is this not the son of the smith and Mary?  Do you not know all these: his mother Mary, his three brothers: Joseph, Simon and Judah,

 

56.  and his sisters?  Do you not know all these who are with us?  Whence came to this one all these things?

 

57.  So they were confused about him.  Jesus answered them: A prophet is not without honor except in his own land, city and house. 

 

58.  Then he did not wish to do there any sign because of their little faith. [Not that he was unable to do any works there because of their lack of faith.]

 

 

 

Chapter 14

 

1.      At that time Herod the Tetrarch heard reports about Jesus.

 

2.      He said to his servants: Behold I believe that John the Baptizer is doing these miracles.

 

3.      This happened because Herod had seized John in those days and had bound him in prison because he was reproving him that he should not take Herodias for a wife because she was the wife of his brother. 

 

4.      John was saying to him: She is not permissible to you.

 

5.      Then behold Herod wished to kill him, except for fear of the people who believed he was a prophet among them.

 

6.      On the feast of Herod's birthday, he called the nobles of the kingdom to eat with him, and while they were eating, his daughter danced among them and it was pleasing to Herod.

 

7.      He swore to give her whatever she asked from him. [Note later accounts embellish the tale.  In many things the Hebrew Matthew is a simpler account - proof of origin.]

 

8.      The girl, being instructed by her mother, asked for the head of John the Baptizer in a bowl.

 

9.      The king was very sad because of the oath which he had made before those invited.  But he commanded to do so

 

10.  and sent to kill John in prison.

 

11.  They brought the head of John in a bowl and gave it to the girl and the girl gave it to her mother.

 

12.  Then the disciples of John came and took the body and buried it and the disciples told the matter to Jesus.

 

13.  When Jesus heard it, he departed from there in a boat and went into the wilderness of Judea.  When the crowds heard they followed him from all the cities.

 

14.  When they came out he saw behind him a numerous people; so he extended kindness to them and healed all of their diseases. [One consistant attribute of Jesus was his kindness and care for others, truly embodying what he taught, which is what God had taught in the Torah.]

 

15.  At evening time his disciples came to him and said to him: This place is limited and the time is advancing.  Let the crowds go into the towers that they might take the necessities for themselves.

 

16.  Jesus answered them: They have no need to go; give them to eat.

 

17.  They answered: We have nothing here except five loaves and two fish.

 

18.  He said to them: Bring them to me.

 

19.  Then he commanded that the people should sit on the grass.  When they sat he took the five loaves and two fish and as he looked into heaven he blessed them, divided them, gave them to his disciples and the disciples made distribution to the groups.

 

20.  All of them ate and were satisfied.  They also ate the fish according to what they desired.  After they had finished, they took the fragments which remained and filled twelve seahs with them.

 

21.  The number of those eating was five thousand men apart from women and children.  [I've seen some videos on YouTube where magicians immitate Jesus - including pulling fish from a bucket.  How did they get the power to do such things?  Deeper study revealed they invoke the powers of demons.  As with the story of Moses and the Pharoah's magicians - they could do similar acts, but God prevailed over them.  I find much evidence Jesus was a witness and prophet for God, indeed, "that prophet" foretold.  It's taken almost 2000 years for demons to aid replicating some of his miracles.  This is also why God said not to listen to what people say just because they work miracles.  The important thing is if they speak completely according to the Covenant Teachings of Elohim.]

 

22.  After this, he commanded his disciples to assemble in a boat that they might go before him to the city to which the crowds were going.

 

23.  After he left the crowds, he went upon a mountain and prayed alone.  At the time of evening he was standing alone.

 

24.  The boat was in the midst of the sea and the waves of the sea were driving it because the wind was contrary.

 

25.  At the fourth watch of the night Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

 

26.  When his disciples saw him walking on the sea they were alarmed, thinking he was a demon, and from the greatness of their fear they were crying out.

 

27.  Then Jesus answered them and said to them: Let faith be among you because it is I; do not fear.

 

28.  Peter answered and said to him: Master, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.

 

29.  Jesus said to him: Come.  So Peter came down from the boat, walked on the sea and came to Jesus.

 

30.  But when he saw the strength of the wind he feared exceedingly and as he began to sink he cried out and said: Master, save me!

 

31.  Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took him, and said to him: Man of little faith, why did you doubt?

 

32.  When they went up into the boat, the wind became quiet,

 

33.  and those in the boat worshipped him and said: Truly you are the Son of God.

 

34.  When the people of the place recognized him they sent into all that kingdom and brought to him all who were sick with various kinds of diseases.

 

35.  They implored him that he might be pleased to allow them to touch the skirt of his garment; and each one who touched him was healed.

 

Chapter 15

 

1.      Then the sages and the Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him:

 

2.      Why do your disciples transgress the ordinances of antiquity by not washing their hands before eating? [The is no "ordinance" in the Torah from God commanding this practice, and Jesus was upholding the true "ordinances" by not demanding submission to ordinances added by men.  "Ordinances of antiquity"?  Recall that the Jews had altered their records massively during the first temple period.  I have no reason to doubt Jesus' responses to them considering the evils they have done to him, to those before him, and their hatred towards all mankind who are not "Jews". Anyone who wants proof that Orthodox Judaism has remained corrupted, and grown even worse since those days, should read the facts of their beliefs as written about by Michael Hoffman, of Independent History and research.  www.revisionisthistory.org    I'd venture to say he is the greatest scholar on Judaism of our generation!  See: "Judaism Discovered"]

 

3.      Jesus said to them: Why do you transgress the words of God because of your ordinances?

 

4.      For God said: Honor your father and your mother and he who smites his father and mother will surely be put to death.

 

5.      But you say that whatever word a man should say to his father and mother in regard to any donation he might give for him as a sinner, this iniquity itself will be make void to him.

 

6.      So he does not honor his father and his mother, and you despise the words of God by your ordinances.

 

7.      Woe, hypocrites; behold Isaiah prophesied concerning you and said:

 

8.      Thus the Lord said: because this people has come near with their mouth and has honored me with their lips, but their heart is far from me

 

9.      and their reverence toward me, which is taught, is the commandments of men.  [Isaiah 29:13-14 DSSB; ] "And the LORD said, Inasmuch as this people draw near to honor me with their mouth and with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from me, and fear of me has been like a human commandment that has been taught them; therefore, see, as for me I am about to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the insights of their prudent men will be hidden.] [[The upcoming marvelous work among them might well be Jesus' crucifixion by false testimony against him - AND - God raising him from the dead - AND - his ascending to the Ancient of Days as prophesied by Daniel - plus the miracles and works he was already doing amongst them (Israel). Those of Israel should read through the end of Isaiah chapter 30. Christians need to ponder whether they observe the word of God - or not.  Who trusts more in Paul than YHWH and Jesus?  All organized "Christianity" from Romans to Greeks to all Protestants and Evangelicals - even the Church of Christ, Seventh Day Adventists and Messianics!!!!  Who has believed God?  or Jesus?  As Elohim said: "Because you have rejected knowledge (knowledge He gave to Teach us), I will also reject you." ]]

 

10.  Jesus called to the crowds and said to them: Hear and consider.

 

11.  That which enters through the mouth does not soil the man, but that which goes out of the mouth soils the man.

 

12.  Then his disciples came to him and said to him: Know that the Pharisees were perplexed by this word.

 

13.  Jesus answered them: Every plant which my Father who is in heaven did not plant will be destroyed.

 [This is why I'm confident the evils of Israel will be doubly paid back upon Zionist Israel and all who follow the "oral torah's of Judaism - whose sign is the star of Remphan and invoking demons - not the light of the Menorah.]

14.  Leave them alone because the blind are leading the blind, and if a blind man leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit. [Isaiah 42 speaks to prisons they dug for themselves?]

 

15.  Peter answered him: Lord explain to us this riddle.

 

16.  Jesus answered and said to them: Are you still without knowledge?

 

17.  Do you not understand that every thing that enters through the mouth goes into the belly and all of it goes on to the natural place?

 

18.  But that which goes out through the mouth is moved by the heart; this is what soils the man.

 

19.  Because the defiled heart brings forth deceitfulness, murder, adulteries, robberies, the witness of liars and curses. [[[Saul, as was "Judaism", was guilty of each of these.  No record of Luke tells of a single mite being given to "the poor" in Jerusalem - see Acts 20-21 - Paul was enriching himself.  See: "Not Paul, but Jesus" by Jeremy Bentham.]]]  [[[[[If Jesus was teaching as Isaiah 42 foretold, to consider keeping the Decrees of God to be honorable for all mankind, so how can those who reject him believe he was condemned to hell because Paul lied? (Talmud and other damnable writings of the Pharisees.)]]]]]

 

20.  All these things are what (soil) the man.  Indeed eating without washing the hands does not soil the man.

 

21.  After Jesus had said this, he went into the regions of Tyre and Sodom.

 

22.  Then there came to him a certain Canaanite woman, who came from the lands of the East, crying out to him: Master, son of David, have mercy on me because my daughter is possessed by demons.

 

23.  Jesus did not answer (her) a word.  So his disciples approached him and said to him: Our master, why do you abandon this woman who is crying out after us?

 

24.  Jesus answered them: They did not send me except to the lost sheep from the house of Israel. [[Curious verse, as in other places Jesus spoke of taking the message to the gentiles - should be considered in context to this instance? or is this proof this event was inserted to the text?  Hadn't Jesus already healed the child of the Captain, who was not a "Jew"?  I think it may be added to add to the confusion Judaism sews about Jesus to this day?]]

 

25.  Then the woman worshipped him and said: Lord help me.   [If the original word was "worshipped", this would lend proof the text was added, otherwise, "worshipped" was a mistranslation, as Jesus certainly knew, as did his disciples, that Jesus taught to only worship Elohim, and not any man.]

 

26.  Jesus said to her: It is not good that a man should take the bread from his children and give it to the dogs. [No where else does Jesus say such a thing, and given the stance he took to take the same message to men of all nations, this just does not fit at all, and I highly suspect this account is a perversion of the original Hebrew Gospel account, added, and oddly added to convey some of the errant self worshipping beliefs of Rabbinical Judaism, who would not have had issue with such a statement.  This defies the fact that God created man in His image - not Jews are the only ones who are real humans, and all others are of no more concern than an animal!]

 

27.  The woman answered: Often the dogs eat the pieces of bread that fall from the table of their master.

 

28.  Jesus answered her: Woman, great is your faith, be it done to you as you asked.  So from that time on her daughter was healed.

 

29.  When Jesus moved on from there, he went in to the region across Galilee to a mountain.  As he stood there

 

30.  he saw many people (among whom) were many lame, leprous, those who limped, and many others; they fell at his feet and he healed them.

 

31.  The people were amazed at how the dumb were speaking and the lame were walking and the blind were seeing, all of them were praising God. [They were not praising Jesus to be God manifest in the flesh, as John implies.]

 

32.  Then Jesus said to his disciples: I have compassion on them because they have remained with me these two days since they came across and they have nothing to eat.  I do not want to lead them fasting (lest) they grow faint in the way.  ***

 

33.  His disciples answered him: Whence will we be able to find bread in this wilderness to satisfy the people?

 

34.  Jesus answered and said to them: How many loaves of bread do you have?  They answered: Seven and a few fish.

 

35.  So Jesus commanded the people to sit upon the grass.

 

36.  He took the seven loaves and broke them and gave them to his disciples and they gave to the people.

 

37.  All of them ate and were satisfied and (from that which was remaining they filled) seven seahs.

 

38.  Those who were eating were by number four thousand men besides women and children.

 

39.  After this Jesus entered a boat and came to the land of Macedonia.

 

Chapter 16

 

21. Henceforth Jesus began to reveal to his disciples that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and to suffer the injustice of many, from the priests and the elders of the people, until they should kill him; then on the third day he would arise.

 

22. Peter took him aside privately and began to rebuke (him) saying: Far be it that it should be like this to you, Lord.

 

23. Jesus turned, looked at him, and said to him: Go away Satan; do not disobey (me), because you do not regard the word of God but the words of man. 

 

25.  Everyone who wishes to save his soul will lose it for my sake, and he who loses his life in this world for my sake will save his soul for the life of the world to come.

 

26.What profit is there for a man if he should gain the whole world (but) lose his soul forever; what good exchange does the man make if for present things that are spoiled he should give his soul to the judgment of Gehenna?

 

27. Because the Son of God will come in the glory of his Father who is in heaven with his angels to reward each man according to his work.

 

28. Truly I say to you there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of God coming in his kingdom. ["See", not "be in".  Note some saw the glorified Jesus via a vision soon after this.]

 

Chapter 17

 

1.      After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother and brought them to a high mountain where he might pray.

 

2.      While he was praying he was changed before them and the skin of his face shone like the sun and his garments (became) white like snow.

 

3.      (Then) Moses and Elijah, while speaking with him, (were revealed) to them and they told Jesus all which would happen to him in Jerusalem.  Peter and his companions were asleep.  Asleep but not asleep; awake but not awake.  They saw his body and the two men with him. [Seems to be modified to raise questions of fact, whereas the AENT is clear to say it was a vision VS physical reality - a wide-awake vision.]

 

4.      When they went away, then Peter said to Jesus: It is good to be here.  Let us make here three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah, because he did not know what he was saying.  [Christian comments have been Moses and Elijah appeared to represent the passing of the Law and Prophets upon his pending death.  This cannot be right because Jesus affirmed all the Law and Prophets to be needful.  Rather it would appear to relate to Moses having foretold of him (Deu. 18:15, and Elijah because he had a major role to call Israel to repent and had also ascended to heaven with the chariot of fire - both likely comforting and encouraging Jesus for what was soon to come, and the hope of what was ahead of him, upon his ascending to the right hand of the Power on High.  One might also search through the writings of Moses and Elijah considering what they had to say about the one that God had anointed, "This day have I begotten you."  One can even observe the DSSB and Isaiah 53, that Isaiah was altered, as the one who was to be cut-off would again see the light of day, foretelling he would be resurrected?  Sure looks that way to me!  No wonder Judaics altered Isaiah in the Masoretic text of 900 CE!]

 

5.      While he was still speaking, behold a cloud covered them, and they were greatly alarmed; while they were under the cloud they heard from the midst of the cloud a voice speaking and saying: Behold, this is my son, my beloved, my delight is in him, and you shall obey him. [This also seems to fit well with comments throughout to support that God declared Jesus the "unique" son of Israel prophesied of by Moses (Deut. 18:15 and Genesis 49:10) that all men must hear (and obey) or be "cut off".  Declared by God in word and deed and by His Decree, witnessed according to the Torah and standards of witness (two or more witnesses).]

 

6.      The disciples heard (this), fell on their faces to the ground, and feared exceedingly. [The account likens to YHWH/Elohim at Mt. Sinai - only His voice was heard from the cloud.]

 

7.      When the voice ceased, Jesus said to them: Arise, do not fear.

 

8.      They lifted up their eyes and saw no one except Jesus alone.

 

9.      Jesus came down from the mountain and commanded them saying: Tell no man the vision you have seen until the Son of Man has risen from death. [As with the AENT - this event was said to be a vision.]

 

10.  His disciples asked him saying: Why do the sages say that Elijah will come first?

 

11.  He answered them and said: Indeed Elijah will come and will save all the world.

 

12.  I say to you, he has already come, they did not know him,  [John taught repentance and immersion to then do the will of God faithfully.] and they did to him according to their desire.  So will they do to the Son of Man.  [Since the words of God through prophets are added "line upon line, and precept upon precept", this is why immersion upon repentance is a Christian rite, as Jesus even submitted to it, but not in the sense of "baptismal regeneration" taught by some churches?  The focus here is about "saving all the world."  Obviously there were those who rejected John, as there are those who rejected Jesus/Joshua, but those who were saved were those who followed them and repented to serve God in truth and deed.]

 

13.  Then the disciples understood that regarding John the Baptizer he was saying this.

 

14.  It came to pass when he approached the crowds, a man came to him, bowing on his knees.

 

15.  He said: Have mercy on me, Lord, and pity my son because he is terrified of an evil spirit and is very sick.  He grinds his teeth, (foams) at his mouth, falls from his place to the ground, and falls sometimes into fire and sometimes into water.

 

16.  I brought him to your disciple(s), but they were unable to heal him.

 

17.  Jesus answered and said: Evil generation, woe to you who deny; how long will I be with you, how long will I bear your trouble?  Bring him to me.

 

18.  And  Y'shua rebuked it, and the demon went out from him.  And the boy was healed from that moment.

 

19.  Then the disciples drew near to Y'shua while he was alone and said to him: "Why were we not able to heal him?"

 

20.  Y'shua said to them, "Because of your unbelief.  For truly I say to you that if you had faith in you like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, move away from here, and it would move.  And not a thing would be able to prevail over you.  [Jesus was clearly speaking to the twelve disciples, to whom he had already granted authority over such things.  Due to the number of proofs against those who claim such powers today to have done such miracles in Jesus name, and his comments about those he said he never knew - working miracles cannot be more important than teaching what Jesus taught - the proper interpretation and application of the Torah, Psalms and Prophets.  Also keep in mind that Jesus said an evil generation seeks a sign.]

 

21.  But this kind of demon does not come out except by prayer and fasting.

 

22.  They were in Galilee and Jesus said: The Son of Man will be delivered into the hand of men.

 

23.  They will kill him and on the third day he will arise.

 

24.  They came to Capernaum-Martha and the tax collectors drew near to Peter and said to (him): your teacher does not follow the custom to pay tax.

 

25.  Thus they spoke.  (He) went into the house and Jesus anticipated him saying to Peter: What is your judgment, Peter, the kings of the earth, from whom do they take tribute, from their sons or from foreigners?

 

26.  He answered him: From foreigners.  Jesus said to them: If so the sons are (free).  Then he said: Do not be dismayed because of this.

 

27.  He said to Peter: Go to the sea and cast a fishing hook and fish with it because in the mouth of the one you will catch first you will find a silver coin.  That you will give for us.  [Don't be dismayed by taxes.]

 

Chapter 18

 

 

 

1.      At that time the disciples drew near to Jesus and said to him: Whom do you think is great in the kingdom of heaven?

 

2.      He called a (small) lad (and placed him in their midst).

 

3.      He said: I say if you do not turn to become like this lad, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

 

4.      [Missing in the HGOM. Somewhat redundant.]

 

5.      He who receives a lad like this in my name receives (me).

 

6.      He who causes one of the small lads who believe on me to stumble, it would be good for him to tie a millstone upon his neck and be cast into the depth of the sea.  [Of all the sins Jesus spoke about, child abuse was second only to blaspheming God? Especially abusing a child who believes in Jesus.  Who dares identifying these sinners?  And are there those who fain belief in Jesus? (child abusers in organized religion who have not received justice and the perpetrators were protected from the judgment as commanded by Elohim.)]

 

7.      (Woe to the inhabitants of the world because of confusion, because confusion must come) He also said: Woe to the man who come because of it. 

 

8.      If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble cut it off and (cast it)  from you; it is better for you to enter into life (blind) or lame than having two hands and two feet for you to be given to everlasting fire.

 

9.      If your (eye) should cause you to stumble, pick it out and cast it from you.  It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be given to Gehenna. [Teachings in the Sermon on the mount covered this? And the point was that sin requires severe repentance, not that sin comes from our eyes, but our hearts.]  [[There is no record that his disciples took these to be literal.]]  [[[It is a very hard thing to do, if one dares to spurn the lies told by those who came before us.  One believes God will serve and obey Him.  One who obeys God will use His Instruction to determine who spoke on His behaf, from those who testify against Him or His anointed one.]]]

 

10.  Take heed lest you judge one of the small lads.  I say to you, their angels always see the sons of my father who is in heaven,

 

11.  and the Son of Man has stopped saving the enemy.  [[[ *** Marked departure from current texts - it would fit that the text needs to be refocused to delete the questionable cutting off hands and feet and gouging out eyes, to then continue the context with what Jesus was saying about the little ones who believe in him?]]]  [This is also quite different to say he has stopped saving the "enemy" - which God identifies in the Ten Declarations to be those who reject and do not observe and do His Commandments as their manner of life.  Dare we believe Elohim in the Standards He gave us in the Covenant, per the "Valediction of Moses" account, and the records of the Prophets in the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible?  If we are not willing to cast aside a proven liar, the not-apostle Paul/Saul, how can we say we believe God or Jesus????]

 

12.  What is your opinion?:  If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them (runs off), will he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains and go seek the one which has strayed?

 

13.  If he should find it, truly I say to you he will rejoice over it more than the ninety-nine which did not go astray.

 

14.  Thus (my) Father who is in heaven does not wish that any of these lads should be lost.

 

15.  At that time Jesus said to Simon: If your brother sins against you, reprove him privately.  If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 

 

16.  If he does not listen to you, reprove him before another; if by every oath he does not listen to you, add still one or two (in order that your words might be before) two or three witnesses, because by two or three witnesses a word will be established.

 

17.  If by every oath he does not listen, tell it in the assembly; and if he does not listen to the assembly consider him as ostracized, an enemy, and cruel.

 

18.  Truly I say to you that every oath which you shall bind on earth is bound in heaven and every (oath) which you shall loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.  [Doing the will of God on earth, as it is in heaven, is to be judging per the Instructions of God in the Torah.  Recall the instructions in "The Lord's Prayer - that the will of God be done on earth as it is in heaven.]

 

19.  Also I say to you, if two of you wish to make peace on earth, everything which (you) ask will be yours from (my Father) who is in heaven.  [Given the lack of peace on earth, and prophecy of God judging the earth and its inhabitants, the number of peaceful souls who have perished throughout history, and that evil continues to multiply, and the dullness of mind that God is not concerned until bad times come to America (ignoring the plight of Christians in Africa, or of the poor during the dark and middle ages), I really don't believe this is that peace will come when two people on earth agree to want peace.  It seems to fit well with the concept of judgement in a matter where the Law standards of Justice give us the right to show mercy to another, and that forgiveness is granted when two agree.  An example would be the one who owed much and they and their children were to be sold to pay the debt.  Mercy should beget mercy, but as we can observe in the parable, and in life, mercy towards some does not of necessity beget mercy towards others.  (As in the song of the woman who takes in a poisonous snake, which then bites and kills her upon his recovery from nearly freezing to death = you already knew I was a snake.)]

 

20.  In every place where two or three are joined together in my name there am I in (their) midst. [Context is judgment according to the instruction of God.  God is with the individual, as seen in the crucifixion narrative, and in Daniel.]

 

21.  Then Peter drew near to him saying: Lord, if my brother sins against me, shall I forgive him unto seven times?

 

22.  Jesus said to him: I do not say to you unto seven, but unto seventy-seven.

 

23.  At that time Jesus said to his disciples: The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who sat to make a reckoning with his servants and ministers.

 

24.  As he began to reckon one came who owed about ten thousand pieces of gold.

 

25.  But he had nothing to give and his master commanded to sell him and his children and all which was his to repay the value.

 

26.  The servant fell before his master and implored him to have pity on him and to be patient with him because he would repay everything.

 

27.  Then his master had pity on him and forgave him everything.

 

28.  But that servant went out and found one of his comrades who owed him a hundred pieces of money and he grasped him and struck him saying:

 

29.  ...trust me and be patient with me and I will repay everything.

 

30.  But he was not willing to listen to him; so (he) brought him to the prison until he repaid him everything.

 

31.  The servants of the king saw that which he did and they were very angry and went and told their master.

 

32.  Then his master called him and said to him: Cursed servant, did I not forgive you all your (debt) when you placated me?

 

33.  So why did you not forgive your servant when he supplicated you as I forgave you?

 

34.  His master was angry with him and commanded to afflict him until he should repay him all the debt.

 

35.  Thus will my Father who is in heaven do to you if you do not forgive each man his brother with a perfect heart.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 19

 

 

 

Chapter 19 is redundant and confusing when compared to the ser mon on the mount, and many who have left families for their loss of friends and family due true Jesus.  I never received many more in return for my loss for the truth.  Most every member of my preacher family has shunned me, as did the congregations of the Church of Christ, Methodists, Baptists, and others.  The chapter seems to have been added IMO.  Topics therein were already clearly delt with elsewhere in Matthew.  Also, we now know there were not 12 tribes of Israel as told to be from the Exodus, they were nonexistent until about 200 BC, and nothing has been substantiated from from Genesis through 2^nd Samuel and 1 Kings.  Bogus?

 

Chapter 20

 

 

 

1.      After this Jesus said to his disciples: The kingdom of heaven is like a certain individual who was master in his house (who arose early) in the morning to hire laborers (for his vineyard).

 

2.      He hired them for one dinar a day and sent them into his vineyard.

 

3.      He went out at the third (hour) of the day and saw others standing idle in the market place.

 

4.      He said to them: Go also you into my vineyard and that which is suitable I will give to you.

 

5.      So they went.  Then (he) came out again at noon and also at the ninth hour and did the same.

 

6.      At the eleventh hour he went out also and found others standing and he said to them: Why do you stand idle all day?

 

7.      They answered him: No man has hired us.  So he said to them: Go also you into my vineyard (AENT: "and you will receive what is right").

 

8.      It came to pass at evening, the master of the vineyard said to the officer over the laborers: Call them that I might give to them their wages.  He began with the last and finished with the first.

 

9.      The last received on dinar.

 

10.  So the first thought they would receive more, but he gave only a dinar to each of them.

 

11.  Then the first murmured against the master of the vineyard

 

12.  saying: These last worked one hour and you have made them like us who have worked all day (in) the heat.

 

13.  He answered one of them and said to him: My friend, I have done you no injustice.  Did I not hire you for one dinar?

 

14.  Take it and go.  If I wish to give to this last like you

 

15.  may I not do according to my desire?  (Is there evil) in your eyes when I am good?

 

16.  So the last shall be first and the first last.  Many are called but few are the chosen. [Those who were chosen were working in the vineyard, not waiting around for crumbs from the table.  What works does God require?  "Live justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God."  All of these are given perfectly reasonable and doable instructions in the Law and the Testimony, and finally in the Teachings of Jesus being in alignment to the Teachings and Covenant of Elohim.]  [[See Ezekiel 18, as this teaching should be considered - that if one repents later in life to do the will of God faithfully, that their previously done evils will not be accounted against them.  Also consider that those who are righteous, but later act wickedly, that their previous righteousness will not be accounted to them because they became evil.  This proves that "once saved, always saved" is a false doctrine and has nothing in Elohim or Joshua.]

 

17.  Jesus drew near to Jerusalem and took his twelve disciples secretly and said to them:

 

18.  Behold we are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief sages and priests and they will condemn him to death. [Recall that Moses and Elijah had told him what was to come.  Which other editions or versions of Matthew tell this? Or not?]

 

19.  Also they will deliver him to the Gentiles to smite and destroy him, but on the third day (he will arise).

 [Isaiah 53 was altered to remove the account that the one spoken of was to see the light of day again - foretelling his resurrection?  See the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible account of Isaiah.  The gospel account is that it was Moses and Elijah who had told him what was going to happen in Jerusalem.]

20.  Then came the wife of Zebedeel with her sons bowing down and making a request from him.

 

21.  He said to her: What do you wish?  She said: That you command these my two sons to sit the one on your right and the others on your left in your kingdom.

 

22.  Jesus answered them: You do not know what you are asking.  Are you able to endure the suffering and the death that I am going to endure?  They said: We are able.

 

23.  Then he said to them: Drink my cup, but (that you should sit) on my left or my right is not for me to grant to your but to the one who is prepared before my Father.'  {Is it not to be "the kingdom of God", not '"the kingdom of Jesus"?]

 

24.  The ten heard (this) and it was a matter of anger in their eyes in regard to the two brothers.

 

25.  Jesus (brought them near) to him and said to them: Know that the princes of the Gentiles have dominion over them and their great ones seek (to subdue them).

 

26.  It will not be so among you, because he who wishes to be great among you (will serve) you.  [Note that Jesus call  that we are all brethren, not that he was setting up a  Pope after Peter, or that there are to be "Elders" to rule over a congregation of believers.  Note who Jesus did say he will send?]

 

27.  He who among you wishes to be first will be your servant, {Not lord over others as a "Pope, Priest, Preacher, or Elder".]

 

28.  (just as) the Son of Man did not come that they might serve him, but that he might serve and give himself as a ransom for many. [Ransom, not sacrifice.] [[Ransom price to set the prisoner free - we cannot be set free from falsehoods until we are willing to observe and do the truth of God.  "Salvation" is of him, and it was freely given to us to know if we believe him and what he said is the Doctrine of God.  Jesus certainly fully illuminated "The Holy Way" of Isaiah 35.  The will and standards God gave about living were not set aside by Jesus, as they are what he was teaching about - to set aside the teachings of men.)]]

 

29.  They entered into Jericho and a crowd followed him.

 

30.  Behold two blind men came out beside the road.  They heard the noise of the multitude and (asked) what this might be.  It was said to them: The prophet Jesus from Nazareth is coming.  Then they cried out saying: Son of David, have mercy on us!

 

31.  But the crowd rebuked them (saying: Be silent; ) they nevertheless were crying out and saying: Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!

 

32.  So Jesus stopped, called them and said: What do you want (me) to do for you?

 

33.  They said: Lord that our eyes might be opened.

 

34.  Jesus had pity on them, touched their eyes and said to them: Your faith has healed you.  Immediately they saw, praised God, and followed him.  Then, all the people praised God because of this.

 

 

 

Chapter 21

 

 

 

1.      They drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethpage on the Mount of Olives, and Jesus sent two of his disciples.

 

2.      He said unto them: Go into the fortress which is opposite you and immediately you will find a she ass and her colt (with her).  Untie them and bring them to me.

 

3.      If a man should say anything to you, tell him the master has need of them and immediately he will let them go.

 

4.      All this was to fulfill the word of the prophet saying:

 

5.      Say to the daughter of Zion: behold your king comes to you, just and victorious is he, humble and (riding) upon a she-ass and upon a colt the foal of a she-ass. [Zechariah 9:9, Stone Edition; Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem! For behold, your king will come to you, righteous and victorious is he, a humble man riding upon a donkey, upon a foal, a calf of she-donkeys.  10. I will eliminate any (battle) chariot from Ephraim and any (war) horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of warfare will be eliminated; and he will speak peace to the nations.  His dominion will be from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth."  [***Note the coming king, but God said He would eliminate battle chariots and war horses from Jerusalem - not the one identified as "he will speak peace to the nations" and whose dominion would be to the ends of the earth.  They falsely judged and murdered Jesus, so as to set aside the words spoken in the prophecy.  Those words are among those which are yet to be fulfilled - and considering the evils growing on the face of the earth that can be traced back to include those who killed Jesus in the first place - I must pray "Come quickly, Lord Jesus (Joshua)".  God will not remain silent forever.  Read Psalms 1 and 2.  Have not the kings of the earth set themselves against Elohim and His anointed one (Joshua/Yeshua/Jesus)?  Evidence is all around us that God is holding them in derision - and they are cursed by God, who laughs at their thoughts to separate the chord He maintains over all.]

 

6.      Then they went and did as Jesus commanded them.

 

7.      They brought the she-ass and the colt, and Jesus rode upon it while the others placed their garments and clothes upon them.  Then they made the ascent. (General rule of interpretation is the last mentioned is the subject - that he rode on the colt - not both.  Some made a big issue of this text, but it seems easily understood to me.)

 

8.      Many of the crowd spread out their garments in the way, and others (cut) branches from the trees and cast them before him and behind him,

 

8.    calling out saying: Hosanna, savior of the world, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna, our savior, may you be glorified in heaven and on earth. [Psalm 118:26 - 27, note DSSB 27, "The cords of the festal procession are with branches" which notes Judges 16:11; 15:13; Ezekiel 3:25.] [[There are significant differences between the DSSB, the MT, and LXX - which is obviously a development of Christians, and are not completely faithful to the Hebrew account of the scripture, (Torah, Prophets, Psalms and Writings).  Use extreme care to not put invented words into the mouth of God or any of His true Prophets. This can be easily seen in Psalm 110, which will be upcoming shortly.  One of the biggest problems we have is realizing most of the Hebrew records are not much better than lore or myth.  What is true? If any?]]

 

10.  It came to pass afterwards, when Jesus entered Jerusalem, all the city quaked saying: Who is this?

 

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. [At the Festivals it was required to come to Jerusalem for the "rehearsals" as noted  in the Torah, so many were present that had not been there previously.]

11.  The people said to one another: Jesus the prophet from Nazareth which is in Galilee. 

12.  Jesus entered the house of the Lord and found there those who buy and sell.  He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

 

13.  He said unto them: It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations, but you have made it a cave of violent men. [Isaiah 56: 7; Jeremiah 7:11.  Isaiah 56: 6-8, DSSB; "Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to be his servants, and to bless the LORD's name and observing the sabbath without profaning it, and who hold fast my covenant: these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer.  Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will rise up to be accepted on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.  Thus says the Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel; I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered."  Jeremiah 7: 3 - 11 (11), Stone Edition; "Thus said Elohim, Master of Legions, God of Israel, Improve your ways and your deeds and I will cause you to dwell in this place.  Do not trust the false statements that say, ‘The Sanctuary of HASHEM, the Sanctuary of Hashem, the Sanctuary of HAHSHEM are they! ‘ Only if you truly improve your ways and your deeds; if you truly do justice between man and his fellow; do not oppress stranger, orphan and widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place; and do not go after the gods of others, to your own harm - then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your forefathers, forever and ever.  Behold you trust in the false statements that are of no use.  Can one steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely and burn incense to the Baal and go after the gods of  others that you never knew, and then come and stand before Me in the Temple, upon which My Name is proclaimed, and say, "We are saved!' - in order to continue these abominations? (11)  Has the Temple, upon which My Name is proclaimed, become a cave of criminals in your eyes?  Moreover - behold, I have seen it - the word of HASHEM.] [["Improve your ways" was the same commanded God gave to Cain before he murdered his brother Abel.  It has always been the pathway God commanded of man.]]

 

14.  Then the blind and lame came to him in the temple and he healed them.

 

15.  The chief sages and priests came to see the wonders which he did.  The young boys were calling out in the temple saying: Let the Son of God be praised.  The sages mocked

 

16.  and said to him: Have you not heard what these are saying.  He answered them and said: I heard them.  Have you not read: From the mouth of children and babes You have established strength? [Psalm 8:2, Stone Edition; "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have established strength, because of Your enemies, to silence foe and avenger."  It's interesting to note the points of what things do, as in this verse, "to silence foe and avenger".]

 

17.  He left and went out to Bethany and (spent the night) there and there he was explaining to them the kingdom of God.

 

18.  It came to pass in the morning that he returned to the city hungry.

 

19.  He saw a fig tree near the road and drew near to it but found nothing on it except leaves.  He said to it: May fruit never come forth from you.  Immediately the fig tree dried up.

 

20.  The disciples saw, were amazed, and said: How is it the fig tree dried up immediately?

 

21.  Jesus answered and said to them: If you have faith without doubt, not only to the fig tree will you do (this), but should you say to this mountain that it should depart and go (into the sea), it will be done.

 

22.  Everything which you shall ask in prayer while believing, you will receive.  [The point at hand had to do wtih the upcoming rejection of him, the unjust trial, and his execution on the cross.  I have yet to hear of such miracles by prayer of devout Christians - and this seems too close tho other gospel's assurances of prayers that were inventions and have caused some to loose their faith because sincere, devout, and anguished of heart prayers were not answered as prayed.  I've had a number of prayers answered immediately, or nearly so, but what seems to flow from the account is the impending judgment upon Jerusalem because they rejected him, and they have been cursed of God ever sinse - who else could cause their plights or evils for the last 2000 years but God Himself????  And they accuse Jesus of putting them to the sword or seeking their destruction, when it was he who tried to get them to repent and obey God!!!!]

 

23.  He went into the temple to teach and there came to him the sages, the priests, and the rulers of the people saying: By what power do you do this (and who gave you) this strength?

 

24.  Jesus answered them and said to them: I also will ask you a question and if you tell me I also will tell you by what power I do (this).

 

25.  The baptism of John when was it, from heaven or from men?  They grieved among themselves saying: What will we say.  If we say from heaven, he will say to us: Why did you not believe him?

 

26.  If we say from men, we fear the crowd because all of them believe John was a prophet. {Note the role of prophets was to call people to repent from evil, to do good - as God Declared what is good - and that they do no evil -  God has said what is evil in His sight.  Evidently the leadership was as unbelieving as any today have shown themselves to be - whether Jew or Gentile.]

 

27.  So they said: We do not know.  He said: Also I will not tell you by what power I do (this).  [Note comments that John was believed to be "from heaven" - meaning he gave a Divinely inspired message - to return to God indeed - which is the same thing Jesus was Teaching - but in a way that even John the Baptist didn't - and no other prophet in Jewish history ever has to date - and it's been about 2000 years.  Only Jesus (Yeshua) came within the timeline shown in Daniel, as was noted by the "wise men" from the east.  Jesus being "from heaven" might be understood to be the same as John being from heaven - and John was the one who came to prepare the way, as foretold of Elijah, and might well be parred to "that prophet" foretold by Moses.  Judging by the divisions of faiths that center on Jesus and those who deny Jesus as "that prophet", the standards given by God would best be understood by all men to be the standards taught by God, the true prophets and Jesus.  Following Jesus is to be following God because Jesus illuminated His word in the Pact teachings to be everlasting, reliable and just.  The reason Jesus died was to fulfill Isaiah 53 - he was bearing upon himself the iniquity - unjust and sinful anti Law practices done against him - NOT that he died as a sin sacrifice for to take away the sins of those who unjustly charged, tried, falsely convicted, and had him executed.  He died as a result of their iniquity - not a sin sacrifice.  See comments later related to this important matter.  Back to the subject at hand, it should have been obvious to them who was behind doing the miracles, as God did miracles through the prophets to show He was with them.  Had they ever questioned Moses by whose authority he was working miracles? ]

 

28.  In that evening Jesus said to his disciples: What is your opinion?  A certain man had two sons; he approached (one) and said to him; Go my son today to work in my vineyard. 

 

29.  He said to him: I do not wish to.  But afterward he repented and went.

 

30.  He said to the other likewise and he answered him: Here I am, Sir, but he did not go.

 

31.  Which of two did the will of the Father?  They said to him: The first.  Jesus said to them: Truly I say to you, violent men and harlots will precede you into the kingdom of heaven

 

32.  because John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not (believe him. But) violent men and harlots believed him and you saw it and did not turn in repentance.  Also afterward you did not repent to believe him.  To the one who has ears to hear let him hear in disgrace. 

33.  At that time Jesus said to his disciples and to a company of the Jews: Hear now the parable of the sower.  A certain honorable man planted a vineyard, walled it up on every side, built a tower in its midst, and also dug a vat in it, entrusted it to servants, and went on his way. [The possiblity exists that the previous question could be addressed by understanding that conversation was also with his disciples while in the company of unfaithful Jewish leaders, as the AENT says.]

 

34.  It came to pass at the time of the gathering of the produce, he sent his servants to those  who were working to receive his produce.

 

35.  But the workers took his servants, smote the first, killed the second, and the third they stoned with stones.

 

36.  Again he sent many  more servants than the first and they did to them likewise.

 

37.  Finally, he sent them his son saying: Perhaps they will honor my son.

 

38.  The workers saw his son and said to one another: This is the heir.  Come let us kill him and we will inherit his estate.

39.  So they took him, cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 

40.  Now when the lord of the vineyard comes what will he do to them?

 

41.  They answered him saying: As for the wicked he will destroy them in misery and his vineyard he will give to other workers who will immediately give to him the portion of his produce.

 

42.  Jesus said to them: have you not read the Scripture, the stone the builders rejected has become the head of the corner, this was from the Lord, it is a marvel in our eyes.  [Psalm 118:22]

 

43.  Therefore I say to you the kingdom of heaven will be torn from you and given to a nation producing fruit. [[Isaiah 42 and 56 - did Jesus teach it is honorable for ALL men to do the will of God in the Torah (Covenant) - that keeping the Torah is honorable?  Yes.]] 

 

44.  He who falls upon this stone will be cast down; he who falls upon it will be broken apart.

 

45.  The chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables and understood that he was speaking in regard to them.

 

46.  They sought to kill him, but they feared the crowds to whom he was a prophet.

 

Chapter 22

 

 

 

1.      Jesus answered and spoke to them again in the words of a parable.

 

2.      The Kingdom of heaven is like a king who made a wedding ceremony.

 

3.      He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the wedding ceremony, but they did not wish to come.' He again sent other servants saying: Tell those who are invited, behold I have prepared a feast.  I have killed oxen and fowl, and all is ready.  Come to the wedding ceremony.

 

4.      But they scorned and went away, some into the city and some to their businesses.

 

5.      Others took his servants, abused them, and killed them.

 

6.      The King heard this, was angry, sent those murderers away, and burned their homes with fire.  [Dare we recall the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem in 70 AD?]

 

7.      Then he said to his servants: The marriage ceremony is ready, but those who were invited were unworthy.

 

8.      Now go out unto the roads and all whom you find invite to the marriage ceremony. 

 

9.      His servants went out unto the ways and assembled all those who were found, good and bad, so the marriage ceremony was filled with those who were eating.

 

10.  The king entered to see those who were eating and saw there a man who was not clothed in wedding garments.

 

11.  He said to him: My friend how did you come in here without wedding garments?  He was silent.

 

12.  Then the king said to his servants: Bind his hands and feet and cast him to the nether most and lowest hell; there will be weeping and gnashing of feet.

 

13.  Many are called but few are chosen.

 

14.  Then the Pharisees came and took counsel to take him in speech.

 

15.  They sent to him some of their disciples, with violent men from Herod saying: Rabbi, we know that you are faithful, you faithfully study the way of God, you fear nothing, and are impartial.

 

16.  Tell us your opinion: Is it right to give tribute to Caesar or not?

 

17.  Jesus recognized their deceit and said: Why do you entice me hypocrites?

 

18.  Show me a tax coin.  They brought a plain one to him.

 

19.  He said to them: Whose form is this and whose impression?

 

20.  They said: Caesar's.  Then Jesus said to them: Return to Caesar that which is Caesar's and to God that which is God's.

 

21.  They heard and were amazed.  They left him and went away.

 

22.  On that day, the Sadducces and those who deny the resurrection of the dead met him.  They asked him

 

23.  saying: Rabbi, Moses surely said to us: When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, his brother should take his wife to raise up the seed of his brother.

 

24.  Behold there were seven brothers among us.  The first one took a wife, died without seed and his brother married his wife.

 

25.  Likewise the second and third unto the seventh.

 

26.  After them the woman died.

 

27.  Since she had already belonged to all of them, to which of the seven will she be a wife?

 

28.  Jesus answered and said to them: You err and do not understand the writings or the power of God.

 

29.  In the day of resurrection men will not take women nor women men, but they will be like the angels of God in heaven.

 

30.  Have you not read concerning the resurrection of the dead that the Lord spoke to you saying:

 

31.  I the Lord am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?  If so, he is not the God of the dead but the God of the living. [Exodus 3: 6, 15]

 

32.  The crowds heard and were amazed at his wisdom.

 

33.  When the Pharisees saw that the Sadducces  had no answer, they joined his servants.

 

34.  Then a sage asked him tempting him:

 

35.  Rabbi, tell us which is the greatest commandment in the Torah.

 

36.  He said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and all your strength.

 

37.  This is the first.

 

38.  The second is like it: Thou shalt love your neighbor as yourself. [Deut. 6:5; 10:12; 30:6] [[This also fits very well to the account in the Shapira scrolls.]]

 

39.  Upon these two commandments the whole law hangs and the prophets. [see the Covenant account in "V".  This is true, but each condition/Commandment gives clarity to define observable love - not an imaginary love taught by Paul in 1st Corinthians 13, which defies and denies the Covenant.  Jesus was teaching the point that the whole of the Covenant is indivisible - he was citing the first commandment and the last of the blessings as the key principle, properly framing the whole.]

 

40.  The Pharisees assembled and Jesus asked them

 

41.  saying: What is your opinion concerning the Messiah, whose son will he be?  They said to him: The son of David.

 

42.  He said to them: How is it that David by the Holy Spirit called him saying: Lord,

 

43.  as it is written: The Lord said to my Lord sit at my right hand until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.  [[[This is a very important text reference, Psalm 110, which was giving the only "Oracle of the Lord" in the Psalms.  If David referenced God (Elohim) as the first "Lord", who was the other one spoken of as "my Lord"?  The focus point is exactly where Joshua (Jesus) quoted - that this "Lord" was to sit at "my right hand".  If the  Christian perspective of this text is correct, as it goes along with the prophecy in Daniel of the one who was "like unto the son of man" that would ascend to the throne on the right hand of "The Power on High" - Elohim/YHWH/The Father in heaven.  This should be seen as a prophecy that Joshua was saying he would ascend to the throne on the right hand of God until God declares "Until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool."  Who are the enemies of Joshua, but Orthodox Judaics who had him crucified by Rome??  See "The Trial of the Ages" link, which proves the hatred and rank biggotry of fallen leadership of Judaism culminated with the murder of Joshua first, then the murder of those who have even altered belief that he was the subject of this verse, as told by God, the Pslams, and finally by Joshua.  No where and at no time did Joshua equate himself to be part of a "Trinity", as he said to worship Elohim only.   Orthodox Judaism has been observed by many to be little more than self worship or worship of Rabbi in their "Oral Torah."  One of the most "Orthodox" study editions of Judaism that is translated into English, the Soncino volume on the Psalms, identify this passage in context to Christianity, and also note that this is the only Psalm that is expressly an "Oracle of God."  All the disciples of Joshua testified via Matthew to this.  Which of the other "gospels" address this passage reference?]]]

 

44.  If David called him Lord, how is he his son? 

 

45.  They were not able to answer him a word and from then on they feared to ask him anything.

 

Chapter 23

 

1.      Then Jesus spoke to the people and to his disciples

 

2.      saying: Upon the seat of Moses the Pharisees and the sages sit. [A seat at the head of the Synagogues]

 

3.      Now all which [he said] to you keep and do; but according to their ordinances and deeds do not do because they say and do not.

 

4.      They demand and set forth great burdens which the shoulders of men are not able to bear; but they themselves even with their finger are unwilling to move. 

 

5.      All their actions they do for the sake of appearances, they wear expensive garments and large tassels,

 

6.      they love to recline first in the banquet halls, to be seated first at the synagogues,

 

7.      to prostrate themselves in the streets, and to be called Rabbi

 

8.      But as for you, do not desire to be called Rabbi.  One is your Rabbi and all of you are brothers.  [Jesus did not claim the title Rabbi for himself, but taught as a prophet of God.  Hebrew Scripture says God is our Teacher. Exodus 4:15; Deut. 4:36; Psalm 25:12; 32:8; 71:17; 94:10; Isaiah 2:3; 28:26; 48:17; 54:13; Jeremiah 32:33; Micah 4:2]

 

9.      Call no man upon the earth father. One is your father who is in heaven.

 

10.  Do not be called Rabbi, because one is your Rabbi, the Messiah.  [Noted previously, one coming to teach the Torah as honorable - even to the Gentiles - Isaiah 42; Deut. 18:15.  Note in the Hebrew Matthew when Jesus (Yeshua) was said to be declared "Messiah" or the one who would return when the Father said it was time - figuring of event as the "marriage feast" of tradition in his day.]

 

11.  The greatest among you will serve you. [Elders were the invention of Paul, and there is ample proof that Elders often exercise authority to silence truth and justice - Paul was added because without the authority of establishing an eldership at Rome, the entire Papal authority - and its evils - disappears into the thin air of fantasy and fake news.  Only those that believe the truth of God can be set free from the lies of Satan and dreamers and evil men who defy the word of God and count it as unable to do that for which God gave it.]

 

12.  He who exalts himself will be humbled; he who is humbled will be exalted.

 

13.  Woe to you Pharisees and sages, hypocrites because you close up the kingdom of heaven before men, you yourselves do not enter and those who wish to enter you do not permit to enter. [Reminds me of the Eldership at a Church of Christ in Canton that read "One Disciple To Another - The Original Jesus" and gave a special presentation to "their" congregation to NOT read it.  Even Elders run in fear when they don't know God and fail to understand what Jesus DID teach.  Two of my own brothers who are preachers asked me not to publish it and have basically "shunned" me ever since - without true cause.  The primary focus of this passage is towards the rabbi, pharisees and scribes who first altered the words of God, then invented stories and rules that require following their teachings to be superior to doing the obvious stated will of Elohim Almighty - placing themselves above God - that they must be followed - whatever they say.  (example is of commanding ritual washing of hands, or taking a couple of sentences from Elohim to then say you have to follow their rules - over 500 pages of instruction to keep the Sabbath according to their rules.  Their greatest perversion is the issue invented near 1200 - the 613 Commandments and the 7 Noahite Laws - both defy the Covenant Standards of Elohim.] ]

 

14.  Woe to you Pharisees and sages, hypocrites, because you devour and divide the wealth of certain widows with lengthy exposition; for this you will suffer a long punishment.

 

15.  You encompass sea and land to bind the heart of the one man to your faith and when he is bound he is doubly worse than before.

 

16.  Woe to you, council of the blind, who say that he who swears by the temple is not obligated, but he who vows by anything which is consecrated to the structure of the temple is obligated to pay,

 

17.  - mad and blind men, which is greater, the temple or that which is consecrated to the temple? -

 

18.  and whoever swears by the altar is not obligated but he who swears that he will make an offering is obligated to give it.

 

19.  Woe blind men, which is more, the gift or the altar, the temple or the gift?

 

20.  He who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything which is on it.

 

21.  And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and He who dwells in it.

 

22.  He who swears by the throne of God swears by it and by the one  who sits upon it.

 

23.  Woe to them, the sages and Pharisees, who tithe mint, dill and pomegranate, but who commit robbery and leave undone that which is weightier, that is, the judgments of the Torah which are: kindness, truth and faithfulness.  These are commands worthy of doing, one should not forget them.

 

24. Offspring of blind leaders, who are strict in the manner of the gnat and swallow the camel.

 

25.  Woe to you Pharisees and sages because you cleanse cups and platters on the outside but inside them is full of wickedness and uncleanness.

26.  Hypocrite, cleanse first that which is inside in order that that which is outside might be pure.

 

27.  Woe to you sages and Pharisees, hypocrites, who are like whitened sepulchers which appear on the outside to be beautiful to men, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and the filthy.

 

28.  Thus you appear on the outside to be righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

 

29.  Woe to you, hypocrites, Pharisees, and sages because you build the tombs of the prophets and glorify the monuments of the righteous.

 

30.  You say: If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have permitted them to put the prophets to death.

 

31.  In this you bear witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets.

 

32.  You behave according to the deeds of your fathers.

 

33.  Serpents, seed of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna if you do not turn in repentance?

 

34.  At that time Jesus said to the crowds of Jews: Therefore, behold I am sending to you prophets, sages, and scribes.  Some of them you will kill, some of them you will afflict in your synagogues and you will pursue them from city to city

35.  in order to place upon you the blood of every righteous one which has been poured out upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zechariah the Son of Barachiah whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

 

36.  Truly I say to you that all these things will come upon this generation,

 

37.  and upon Jerusalem who kills the prophets and removes those who are sent.  How many times I wished to gather your children as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings and you would not.

 

38.  Therefore you will leave your houses desolate. [Jeremiah 22:5]

 

39. Truly I say to you, you will not see me henceforth until you will say: Blessed is our savior. [Psalm 118:26] {resources available to do a word search for "savior" in the Bible - double check all the references - God had repeatedly raised up men who were to be a savior - the primary singular foretold is of "that prophet" in Deut. 18:15]  [AENT: "Blessed is he who comes in the name of Master YHWH."  Once again, refer to Psalm 118, as in 21:9 and the procession with branches, this Psalm shows a distinction in the DSSB at verse 29 to not just be a generic "he" who comes in the NAME of the LORD, but "Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD."  This Psalm declares God is God, and also expresses the light He gives.  Jesus had been enlightening the pathway to God and doing as He had instructed, directing to live by every word of God, as no other prophet in Jewish history.  "Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD.  We bless you by your name from the house of the LORD.  The LORD is God, and he has given us light.  The cords of the festal procession are with branches up to the horn of the altar.  You are my God, and I will give thanks to you, you are my God, I will exalt you. O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!"  Psalms 22 and 118 speak directly to what Jesus  knew he was about to endure, and his quoting smidgens of them before hand begs that we read them well and stop imagining otherwise.  6 - 12; The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.  What can mortals do to me?  The LORD is on my side among those who help me; I will look in triumph on those who hate me.  It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in humans.  It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.  All nations surround me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.  They surround me like bees, but they burned out like a fire of thorns, for in the name of the LORD I cut them off! "  [As "that prophet" - this totally fits]   16 "The right hand of the LORD is lifted high.  I will not die, but  live, and I will recount the deeds of the LORD.  The LORD has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.  Open for me the gates of righteousness that I may enter them and give thanks to the LORD.  This is the gate of the LORD, through which the righteous will enter.  23: "This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.  This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.  Please save us now, O LORD! O LORD, please give us now success!  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD.  We bless you by your name from the house of the LORD.  The LORD (Elohim) is God, and he has given us light.  The cords of the festal procession are with branches up to the horns of the altar.  You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God, I will exalt you.  O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!"]]  {{{Jesus never claimed to be God, but clearly said that only God is good."  [The Trinity Doctrine has no support in the Torah, Psalms, Prophets, Writings or the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.  As Catholic scholars have said - it is a Papal decree and has no basis in Scripture and must be "accepted by faith" in the Pope and Roman Catholic Church authority.]

Chapter 24

 

 

 

1.      It came to pass when Jesus went out from the temple, as he was going, his disciples drew near to show him the buildings of the temple.

 

2.      He said: You see all these: truly I say to you that all will be destroyed and there will not be left there one stone upon another. 

 

3.      As he sat on the Mount of olives opposite the temple, Peter, John and Andrew asked him secretly: When will be all these things be [destruction of the Temple], and what will be the sign when all these matters will take place [to know when the Temple is about to be destroyed], or [and] when will they begin [signs to look for to know the "time" of the "end"] and when will be the end of the world and your coming? [This chapter is very important to understand, as most take Luke 21 and Matthew 24 and whip them up into doctrines that are often not in accord with reason, the words of the true Prophets, or the prophesies and teachings of Joshua in Matthew.  I'm a little suspicious of this verse as between the main thoughts "or" is inserted, when the two halves do not seem to be a good reflection of what they asked to start with.  I tend to view this question as a logical extension of what Jesus had said - and that the "or" might better be "and".]

 

4.      Jesus answered them: beware lest anyone should lead you astray, [Pay attention to what he is telling them, as well as about unfulfilled prophecy in the OT that he said had to be fulfilled before hand.  Look at Joel 2 and 3 - 'after those days' there would be another dispersion of Israel - took place after the Temple was destroyed.  Note the 1 Kings words of God, given just above this.  Also note the prophecy in Jeremiah 16 about people having inherited lies - all the Hebrew Scripture accounts, and all the Christian Scripture accounts - BOTH have been altered!!!  Who has dared to tell this to you?!  Not your preachers or the Pope, or the Pharisees of Orthodox Judaism?  Let God be true - so we are the ones who need to repent to observe and do His will as taught by the greatest Prophet in the history of Israel!  Base your foundation of the gospel on the teachings of Jesus in Matthew.  As the Temptations teaching tells, don't use scripture in a way that opposes itself.  When properly understood and applied, it will make good sense and not be in opposition to the words of God.]

 

5.      because many will come in my name saying I am messiah, and they will lead you astray.  [Paul, Hebrews and John?]

 

6.      As for you, when you hear of wars and a company of hosts, beware lest you become foolish, because all of this will occur, but the end will not be yet. [Speaking to the disciples about 30 AD]

 

7.      Nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom, there will be great tumults, grievous famine, and earthquake in various places.

 

8.      All of these are the beginning of suffering. 

 

9.      Then they will bind you over for tribulation and will kill you, and you will become a reproach to all the nations for my name.  [Roman rule, also as extended through the Roman Church and the Church of England, have greatly corrupted our records and have greatly persecuted those desiring to hear and obey Elohim and Jesus.  These things are expanding today, so much that in some places it is a crime to point out the evils of Zionist Israel.  Check out Revisionisthistory.com  or DavidDuke.com or "The Talmud Tested".]  [[Note how the KJV has been promoted by Christian leaders  -  when the book was sponsored by a demon worshiping king, whose first pubication was "Demonology" -  the poor deluded souls should be asking their Pastors and Church Councils why no one ever pointed this out to them before!]]

 

10.  Then many will be perturbed, deal treacherously with each other, and be enraged among themselves.              [ Maybe history is repeating itself?  Look at the blind loyalty Evangelical Christians have towards Israel, when they have openly said it is a crime to try to convert a Jew in Israel, and believe God will not forgive them until they destroy Christianity from the face of the earth!  To them, Jesus was the most evil false prophet in the history of Israel - and all based on false charges - simply for teaching against the rules of the Rabbi.]

 

11.  False prophets will arise and lead many astray.  [And false books put in the NT by Rome]

 

12.  When wickedness multiplies, the love of many will grow faint.  [Love is a verb, not a feeling.  Love for Elohim, and love for our fellow human if they will accept our peace towards them.  Continue to pray for those who persecute or oppress you if you believe the Teachings of Jesus are from Elohim.]

 

13.  Whoever waits [endures] until the end will be saved.  [Note well the passage sited about God saving some as a man would his own son that serves him.  Malichi 3:17]  

 

14.  And this gospel, will be preached in all the earth for a witness concerning me to all the nations and then the end will come. [This internet page is going out to the whole earth.  China took over my web domain in China - in spite of my protest - but I'm not aware if they have done anything with it, but to perhaps ban it?  The fact is the truths expressed herein have gone out to the world.  A web crawler called "MJ-12" has been web crawling my site for over a decade.]

 

15.  This is the Anti-Christ and this is the abomination which desolates which was spoken of by Daniel as standing in the holy place.  The the one who reads understand. [per AENT: Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11]

 

16.  Then those who are in Judah, let them flee to the mountains. [Obviously speaking about the Temple destruction and getting out of town safely - which did happen.]

 

17.  He who is upon the house, let him not come down to take anything out of his house.

 

18.  He who is in the field, let him not turn back to take his garment.

 

19.  Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse children in those days.

 

20.  Pray to God that your flight will not be on the Sabbath day.

 

21.  Because then there will be great distress which has not been from the creation of the world unto now and as will not be. [Joel 2:2; Daniel 12:1]

 

22.  Except those days were few, no flesh would be saved; for for the sake of the chosen those days will be few.        [Those left at Massada were reported to have been eating their children]

 

23.  At that time, if one should say to you: Behold the Messiah is here or there do not believe it.

 

24.  Because false messiahs and false prophets will arise and they will give signs and great wonders so that if it can be they will come to lead the chosen astray.  [Dare we mention Paul, or any number of false Messiah's.  Recently a book was written about 50 failed Messiah's since Jesus.  I noted how their beliefs have been morphing to expectations of being an expert in Kaballah, not the Covenant of Elohim - they have completely forsaken their Master's trough - as He said long ago.  We should all realize the Kingdom of God is not a Democracy - yet the Rabbi think themselves so great as to be the supreme authority  who will vote him in?!]

 

25.  [verses 25 and 26 are reversed in the HGOM - another direct alteration of our texts]  Then if they should say to you: Behold he is in the wilderness, do not go out, and: Behold he is in the chambers, do not believe it. {note the testimony about Paul's meeting Jesus on the Damascus Road in Acts - the accounts vary widely (against themselves), and he claims to have seen Jesus in the wilderness - and where was he when receiving his visions that the gospel is a mystery of faith alone?  Also note a cave is like a chamber - where did the founder of Islam receive his revelation? In a cave?]

 

26.  Behold I tell you before it happens.

 

27.  Again Jesus said to his disciples: As the lightning [lightning is a flash that goes in all directions, because of this, it may be incorrect?  as daylight comes from the east and goes to the west?] comes from the east and is seen in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

 

28.  Wherever the body is, there will be gathered the vultures. [not eagles] [Hosea 8; Jeremiah 4: 7-13; Ezekiel 1:10; 10:14.]

 

29.  At that time, after the tribulation of those days, the sun will grow dark, the moon will not give forth its light, the stars will fall from heaven, and the host of heaven will be shaken. [Isaiah 34:4; Haggi 2:6, 21]

 

30.  Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven and all the families of the earth will weep and [mourn? Zechariah 12: 10, 14] will see the Son of Man on the clouds of heaven  [ Daniel 7: 13,14] with a great host and with dreadful appearance [AENT great power and glory; Danial 7: 13,14] .

 

31.  He will send his angels with a trumpet and with a great shout to gather his chosen from the four winds of heaven, from one end of heaven unto the other. [Isaiah 7:13?] [Deuteronomy 30:4; Jeremiah 31:7 - 12; Zechariah 2:6; 10: 7 - 12]

 

32.  From the fig tree learn the parable; when you see its branches and leaves sprouting know that he is near [AENT notes the parable of the fig tree has to do with the false judges of Israel, and as we should easily see, they falsely convicted Jesus to death for daring to tell the truth of God, some in Orthodox Judaism hate him even more today, and falsely ascribe the lies of Paul to Jesus.   It is not possible that the "oral torah" is superior in wisdom and knowledge of God than Jesus was.  Read Matthew in context - the Covenant and the Prophets warnings - Matthew makes more sense of God and the Prophets in 28 chapters than all the writings of the "Sages of the Ages", such as Hillel and those who followed after him.  They would have been better off to first understand what Jesus taught -  comparing his teachings to the Covenant and Testimony of God, as if they did, the real truth is that Jesus is who he claimed to be, and Elohim was working wonders through him as a testimony to them, as the works done by God through Jesus were even greater than those done by Moses, or any other prophet in the history of Israel.  "know that the end is near" certainly had to do with the destrouction of Jerusalem and the Temple and the next diaspora mentioned in Joel 3 as "after those days", when Peter preached at Pentecost in Jerusalem.]

 

33.  to the gates.

 

34.  Truly I say to you: this generation will not pass away until all these things shall be done. [The destruction of the Temple and the rescattering of Israel out of the Land to the nations of the earth.]

 

35.  Heaven and earth will pass away,  [Another important distinction here is the absence of the "but my word shall not pass away" as found in other gospel account.  As we have seen in the "V" document, the Covenant Standards as given by Elohim were most certainly lost from about the time of Ezekiel, and were recently retold as they were from the days of Ezekiel.  This also gives much evidence that Ezekiel was also altered to put the Temple prophecy at the end, when it was given near the beginning - if one just dares to put the contents of the prophet chronologically!  If the teachings of Jesus were so sure as to be preserved to us because by no means could they be altered or pass away - the common viewpoint is shown to be lacking.  If, however, the phrase simply means that what was taught is forever secure in heaven, as  it was based totally on what God really said, and the Jews of his day were altering things to pretend they were equal or superior to what Elohim had already told mankind via Moses and other prophets - the matter is that the Truth of Elohim is not subject to change - by no means, or by no pretended authority, could the Standards given by Elohim be altered.  An example is that when the Serpent caused man (Adam and Eve) to doubt what Elohim had told them - they paid the consequence of disbelieving God, and the one who had deceived mankind was cursed by God.  Thus it has been so from the beginning, as told us  via the story of Adam and Eve.  How can those who seek Elohim by what He said is His pathway, then turn to defy what He gave as the Standards we are to live by, that we accept His Teachings, goodness, righteousness, and true justice?  How can anyone think Elohim to hate or love anyone solely based on race, when He created all mankind in His image?  The trouble has been we have been following men, rather than God, and pretending the old lies are true.  Return to Elohim and He will return to you.  Love God, love others as yourself.  Love is a verb.  Thankfully Elohim does search the hearts of men.  Thankfully He tells of His mercy and calls us to like standards.]

 

36.  but of that day or that time there is none who knows, not even the angels of heaven, but the Father only.

 

37.  Again Jesus said to his disciples: As in the days of Noah so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

 

38.  Just as before the flood, they were eating, drinking, being fruitful, and multiplying until the day when Noah entered the ark.

 

39.  They did not know until the flood came upon them and destroyed them; so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

 

40.  Then if there shall be two ploughing in a field, one righteous and the other evil, the one will be taken and the other left.

 

41.  Two women will be grinding at a mill; one will be taken and the other left.  This is because the angels [mesangers] at the end of the world will remove the stumbling blocks from the world and will separate the good from the evil.

 

42.  Then Jesus said to his disciples: Therefore watch with me because you do not know at what hour your lord is coming.

 

43.  This you know, if one knew what hour the thief was coming, he would watch and not allow him to dig into his house. 

 

44.  So you should be prepared, because you do not know at what hour the Son of Man is going to come.

 

45.  What do you think of the faithful and wise servant whose lord places him over his children to give them food in its time?

 

46.  Blessed is that servant whose lord finds him doing this when he comes.

 

47.  Truly I say to you that he will place him over his children.

 

48.  But if that servant should be evil and should say in his heart: My lord is late in coming,

 

49.  and should begin to beat the servant of his lord and should eat and drink with gluttons,

 

50.  his lord will come in a day for which he does not wait and a time which he does not know.

 

51.  He will divide him and place his portion with the hypocrites, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

 

Chapter 25

 

1.      Again Jesus said to his disciples: The kingdom of heaven is like ten virgins who took their lamps and went forth to meet a bridegroom and a bride.

 

2.      Five of them were lazy fools and five of them were alert and wise.

 

3.      The five foolish brought their lamps, but they brought no oil with them.

 

4.      The wise brought oil in their vessels with their lamps.

 

5.      The bridegroom was late and behold all of them lingered and slept.

 

6.      It came to pass at midnight that behold a voice was heard: Behold the bridegroom is coming, come to meet him.

 

7.      Then all those virgins came and trimmed their lamps.

 

8.      The foolish virgins said to the wise: Give us some of your oil because our lamps have gone out.

 

9.      The wise answered saying: Go now to those who sell and buy for yourselves because there is not enough oil for us and you.  We fear that it will be lacking for us.

 

10.  It came to pass when they went to buy, the bridegroom came; those who were ready went with him into the marriage ceremony and the gate was closed.

 

11.  Afterwards, the foolish came and called at the gate saying: Our lord, open for us.

 

12.  He answered them: Truly I say to you, I do not know who you are. 

 

13.  Be careful, therefore, because you do not know the day nor the hour when the bridegroom will come.

 

14.  Again Jesus told his disciples another example: The kingdom of heaven is like a man going on a far journey; he called his servants and dispersed to them his money.

 

15.  To one he gave five coins of gold, to the second he gave two coins of gold and to the third one, to each according to what was suitable for him he gave.  Then he went on his journey.

 

16.  The one who received five coins of gold went and gained five others.

 

17.  Likewise the one who received two went, bought, sold, and gained two others.

 

18.  But he who received the one went, dug in the earth, and hid the money of his lord.

 

19.  After many days the lord of those servants came and sought from them an accounting of the money.

 

20.  The one who received five coins of Gold came near and said to him: My lord, you gave me five coins of gold and behold for you are five others which I have gained.

 

21.  His lord said to him: Truly you are a good and faithful servant.  Because you have been faithful in a little, I will appoint you over much; enter into the joy of your lord.

 

22.  ‘Also the one who received two coins of gold drew near and said: My lord, you gave me two coins of gold; here are two others which I have gained.

 

23.  His lord said to him: Truly you are a good and faithful servant.  Because you have been faithful in a little, I will appoint you over much; enter into the joy of your lord.

 

24.  Then he who received the one drew near and said: My lord, I know that you are firm and hard and that you reap what you did not sow and gather what you did not scatter.

 

25.  So in fear of you I went and hid your coin of gold and behold you have what is yours.

 

26.  His lord answered and said: Wicked and lazy servant, since you knew that I reap what I did not sow and gather what I did not scatter,

 

27.  therefore, you should have given my wealth to my money-changers so that at my coming I would have received what is mine with profit.

 

28.  Therefore, take from him the coin of gold and give it to the one who gained five coins of gold.

 

29.  To the one who has it will be given, but to the one who does not have that which was intended for him will be taken from him.

 

30.  As for the lazy servant, cast him into the darkness of the lowest places, there shall be for him weeping and gnashing of teeth

 

31.  Again Jesus said to his disciples: When the Son of Man comes in his revelation with his angels, then he will sit upon the throne of his glory.

 

32.  All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them as the shepherd separates the sheep and the goats.

 

33.  He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

 

34.  Then he will say to those on his right: Enter blessed of my father and inherit for yourselves the kingdom of heaven prepared for you from the creation of the world until now.

 

35.  Because I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me to drink, I was a wayfarer and you took me in,

 

36.  naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.

 

37.  Then the righteous will answer: O our Lord, when did we see you hungry and satisfied you, thirsty and gave you to drink,

 

38.  naked and clothed you,

 

39.  sick and visited you, in prison and came to you?

 

40.  The king will answer and say to them: Truly I say to you that every time you did it to one of the needs of these my brothers, even the little ones like these, you did it to me.

 

41.  Also he will say to those on his left: Depart from me you cursed and go into the eternal fire, to the place prepared for you, with Satan and his angels,  [Too often overlooked are the passages noted in Scripture of "The blessings and the Curses", and further definition provided by the Prophets.  Jesus was teaching nothing new, and nothing against what God had instructed!  Those who do things that God said are "cursed" - can they participate equally in the kingdom of God with those who were/are faithful?  Certainly not - but who is going around teaching everyone about what God said is cursed?  Rather than the famous sermon of "Sinners in the hand of an angry God", we should be accepting the knowledge that God said is required to know, so that we are not cursed because of our ignorance to have been following liars in the NAME of God!!!  Do the scriptures record ‘because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you"?]

 

42.  because I was hungry and you did not give me to eat, I was thirsty and you did not give me to drink,

 

43.  I was a wayfarer and you did not take me in, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.

 

44.  Then they also will answer and say to him: When did we see you, O our Lord, hungry, thirsty, or a wayfarer, naked, sick, or in prison and were not with you serving you?

 

45.  He will answer them and say: I say to you that whenever you did not do this to one of these needy, even the little ones like these, you did not do it to me.

 

46.  Then these will go into eternal abhorrence but the righteous into eternal life.  [A simple and obvious point of the Covenant is the association of the Blessings and the Curses,  as Elohim said: "Blessed are you in your coming, and blessed are you in your going."  We arrive in this life at birth, we leave at death - so wasn't Elohim speaking of this, as when He had them expelled from the Land, they were not blessed in their going - look at the big picture as well as the small details of daily life.]

 

Chapter 26

 

1.      It came to pass when Jesus finished speaking all these things, he said to his disciples:

 

2.      Do you not know that after two days will be the Passover and the Son of Man will be delivered into the hand of the Jews for the cross.

 

3.      Then the rulers of the priests and the great ones of the people were gathered together in the court of the chief priest whose name was Caiaphas.

 

4.      They took counsel together to seize Jesus by craftiness and to kill him.

 

5.      But they said it should not be at the feast lest there be a tumult among the people.

 

6.      It came to pass when Jesus was in Cephar-hananyah in the house of Simon the jar maker.

 

7.      a woman drew near to him with a flask of costly ointment; she poured it upon his head while he was reclining at table.

 

8.      But this waste was very displeasing to them.

 

9.      It would have been possible to have sold it for a great price and to have given it to the poor.

 

10.  Jesus said to them: Are you making accusation against this woman? Truly she has performed a good and wonderful deed toward me.

 

11.  Because the poor will be with you always, but I will not be with you always.

 

12.  Her placing this on my body refers to my burial.

 

13.  Truly I say to you, everywhere this gospel, that is, evangel, is proclaimed in all the world, that which this one has done will be said in reference to my memory. [It would seem Jesus considers this a universal matter - a matter which should be told as an integral account of the telling that was to go along with making disciples of him, but how many of the other gospel accounts mentions this but Matthew - also which other account is so explicit of his teachings in the Sermon on the Mount - the fullest accounts of his teachings about righteousness and justice and mercy?  What is happening here in the account is the woman is anointing the body of Jesus for his burial.  Recall he had just told them he was to be killed, and then resurrect from the dead [and that Moses and Elijah had told him this earlier].  He had been teaching this to the disciples since the vision of Moses and Elijah appearing to them at the "transfiguration" account.  If "John" was there, as one of the disciples of Jesus, why in the account "he" wrote later is this account denied, and also inserts testimony against the Matthew account of the angel telling the women Jesus had resurrected and they were to go and tell the disciples about it?  "John" defies Matthew in many regards of doctrines and facts - therefore "John" should not be considered to be reliable, and is nothing but a later invention to pretend some harmony between the Jesus of Matthew and the Jesus of Paul.  What reasonable conclusion can one come to, but that "John" is faked?  Use the wisdom of God as given in the Ten Teachings - Which books in the Christian New Testament find accord with the Teachings of God and the Testimony of all the Prophets before Jesus???  "If they speak not according to the Law and the Testimony, there is no light in them."]

 

14.  Then one of the Twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests.

 

15.  He said: What will you give me that I should deliver Jesus over to you?  They settled with him for thirty pieces of silver. [It has been documented in Christian Bibles the prophecy this relates to.  Regarding justice, as given by Elohim through the Prophets:  Jeremiah 49:23 says that those who take bribes will not be forgiven for any price.  If those who take bribes to pervert justice are to be found guilty by Elohim, are not those who devised such evil and corrupting others with their bribes to also be found at least as guilty as the one receiving the bribe?  Surely God will judge all equally.  So Judas may well have believed he could not be forgiven for taking a bribe, and those who gave the bribe were equally guilty of an unforgivable sin?  What did Elohim say is just and justice?  Those who have taken bribes and those who give bribes, that are related to perverting justice, have a sure time appointed for them by Elohim, and non of their righteousness will save them.  Is this is why we find that Judas was condemned, but Peter forgiven and prayed for by Jesus.  Judas believed he'd just as well commit suicide.  Those who think it was just to bribe to pervert justice have a mind that is totally against Elohim and His anointed one - as to this day they seek to break their bonds asunder (Psalm 2)

 

16.  From then on he sought a context for delivering him over.

 

17.  On the first day of the festival of unleavened bread the disciples  came to Jesus saying: Where shall we prepare for you to eat the Passover?

 

18.  He said to them: Go into the city to a certain man who will be a volunteer for the task and say to him: Thus says the teacher, my time is near; with you I will observe the Passover with my disciples.

 

19.  Missing in HGOM.

 

20.  It came to pass at the time of evening, he was sitting at table with his twelve disciples. [Still the first day of the Festival Week of Unleaven Bread?]

 

21.  As they were eating he said to them: I say to you that one of you will inform against me.

 

22.  They were very sad and spoke each one to him saying: Lord, is it I?

 

23.  He answered them: He who dips his hand with me in the dish will sell me.  All of them were eating from one dish.  Therefore, they did not recognize him; because if they had recognized him, they would have destroyed him.

 

24.  Jesus said to them: Truly the Son of Man goes as it is written concerning him; woe to that man for whose sake the Son of Man is betrayed.  Good would it be for that man to not to have been born. [Psalm 41:9, which the whole Psalm is absent from the DSSB.  Present in Jewish and Christian current editions - compatible with quote.  Not referenced here in my Christian study Bible by Nelson, but Jesus claimed later to be the one to ascend to the right hand of the ancient of Days in the book of Daniel, so that fits with is saying "the Son of Man goes as it is written of him."]

 

25.  Judas, who sold him, answered and said to him: Rabbi am I this one?  He said: You have spoken.

 

26.  They were eating and Jesus took bread, blessed it, divided it, gave it to his disciples and said: Take and eat; this is my body.

 

27.  He took the cup, gave praise to his father, gave it to them, and said: Drink from this, all of you.

 

28.  This is my blood of the [renewed] covenant which will be poured out for many for the atonement of sins. [AENT says "renew" not "new."  This is a critical matter, and even the 160 CE AENT has "renew", whereas later Christian texts were changed or mistranslated to "new."  As "that prophet", Jesus gave the restored standards of life, faith and behavior (retelling the Covenant Teachings in a new way, to open the eyes and ears of those to whom he taught, that they be freed from the false teachings of the Rabbi, in keeping with the Psalm which says "My ears you have opened", not "a body thou hast prepared for me", just one proof "Hebrews" is false testimony) - all of which were in total accord with the previous Torah instructions about living life.  The gospel taught by Jesus was one that a fully faithful Jew could keep and remain faithful to the Everlasting Covenant reportedly given by Elohim at Sinai.  What is the proper understanding of "atonement" or as the AENT records "forgiveness of sins."  It says many, not all.  This may be the most critical text in the Hebrew Matthew to grasp and understand the harmony between what Jesus said here, as compared to the long standing Teachings of Elohim in all the Hebrew Scriptures!  This is the common thread throughout the Scripture, that of our personal responsibility towards God, ourselves, and our fellow human!  Recall the account of Elohim and Cain, recall the account of what He said through the prophets in Isaiah 1 and Ezekiel 18, not to set aside through Daniel to the non-Jew leader to do good works, or through Jonah, that they repent and cease evil!  That is the same thing God told Isreal to do: "Cease evil and learn to do good!"  The redemption God requires is that we turn to Him by keeping the Covenant Instructions in righteousness.  Is this not what Jesus had been teaching all through the Matthew account?  Since this is what he was teaching, where have we added to those things to then believe forgiveness comes by the blood he shed on the cross, rather than by his teachings from Elohim to have "opened our ears" to the will of Elohim, that we understand He has always had grace, peace,  and forgiveness towards those who will return to Him and also exhibit that their love for Him is reflected in their view of themselves and their fellow mankind?!!!  One of the passages in Isaiah that I believe expresses and is a prophecy about Jesus is the one that says it was by his wisdom that he taught others to also live rightly as Elohim has always Instructed to mankind!, especially through the Covenant, and the multitude of nations Elohim preserved to also be freed from Egypt and present at Mount Sinai with Isreal - that all nations be blessed??!!!  See Psalm 51:10: "Renew a right spirit within me"; Lamentations 5:2; "renew our days as of old."  The same word is used in Isaiah 61:4 to be "repair the waste places".  Elohim also spoke of this in Jeremiah 31: 31-37 that He would "put my Torah in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts... the seed of Israel also shall never cease from being a nation before me for ever... says YHWH.  While Israel has been scattered to the nations for nearly 2000 years, I would pray they realize Hillel and other Rabbi lied about Jesus and what he taught.  We must all return to God by observing His Covenant, as given, and to carefully observe His will to do it - no matter if you are of the Children of Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob - all who open their eyes and ears and who are willing to repent to serve Elohim as God must live their lives according to His Instructions and reject those who have testified against Him or His anointed one (Psalm 2).  Jesus said he had to die to fulfill Scripture - not to be a human sacrifice to pay for the sins of those who are the enemies of God!!!! (Recall the passage from Paul?  "if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God, through the death of His Son, much more being reconciled shall we be saved by His life."  Pure nonsense if you understand Jesus, or God, or the other prophets.]]]]

 

29.  I say to you I will not drink henceforth from the fruit of this vine until the day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of heaven.

 

30.  They returned and went out to the Mount of Olives.

 

31.  Then Jesus said to his disciples: Come, all of you, be grieved because of me tonight because it is written: Smite the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. [Zech. 13:7.  Although missing in the DSSB, notes to other Quamran materials to the setting of the "two anointed sons" of Zech 4:14 - to trace to the blessing of the sons in Genesis 49: 8 - 12.  The two sons are of those anointed of Aaron and anointed of Israel (of David) - two messiah figures.  We can see in the NT that John the Baptist was a son of the High Priest - anointed of Aaron, and Jesus (Yeshua) was reportedly descended from David and anointed by the Spirit of God - as mentioned in the text of Matthew to have been called "Son of David" repeatedly.  Jews tend towards the negative view that the stricken ones were false prophets in Zech. 13:7; however, their scholars say many things in Zechariah are too hard to understand and will only be understood after the coming of Elijah the Prophet.  Jesus said John was Elijah - which was previously noted where Jesus spoke this.  In the text of Zechariah it may be that the Jewish leaders and priests viewed both John and Jesus to be worthy of death (but not convicted by the standards given by God for capital offences - as this is what they did to both - but Jesus and John were both true to God and their respective roles in total submission to preach repentance to Israel and Jesus commanded repentance be taught to those of all nations - not just Israel - but that all would have the opportunity to participate in the kindness, blessings and promises of God as had always been towards those who will turn in repentance to then love and obey Him according to His gracious instructions in righteousness, justice and mercy.  Before the Temple was rebuilt, God said he would  "once again" have mercy on Zion (Zechariah 1:17).  He did, the Temple was rebuilt and the Land was once again inhabited till Jesus' days, but the great dispersion took place about 70 - 120 CE, as did the destruction of the Temple.  Jesus said the kingdom would be torn from them and given to others who would give God what was due Him.  Jesus also said they would see him no more till they say "Blessed is he who comes in the NAME of YHWH.  The later (70 CE) dispersion can also be noted in Joel 2 to prophecy the start of the Church (good news to those of all nations at Pentecost) and a later time in Joel 3 of the return of Israel to the Land  - "after those days".  So the regathering of Israel since 1947, and more particularly the seven day war in 1967, may be found in prophecy, as was the date Joshua entered Jerusalem, but the fact remains that we cannot be faithful to Elohim if we spurn His gracious Instructions in Righteousness as can be found in the total harmony of the Teachings of God being reflected and told in the Doctrine of Elohim that was preached by Jesus (Joshua) in Matthew!  God never said 613 Commandments are "The Covenant".  God never said the 7 Noahite Laws invented by Jewish Rabbi in the 1200's is valid either.  God said the 10 Decrees given at Sinai are the Covenant, and that men of all nations who serve God, and whom God would spare His destruction, are those who serve Him as God, keep the Sabbath, and grasp His Covenant tightly - that is in essense to totality of what God gave from Mount Sinai to Israel and the "multitude of nations" who were freed from Egypt (false gods) to serve the One Singular God, Elohim YHWH.  Jesus taught according to the Covenant as given by God, but not according to the teachings of the Pharisees and Sages, who developed into Orthodox Judaism submission to the views and teachings of the Rabbi and Sages of Judaism and Babylon that rapidly grew in the centuries following their having Jesus killed with the aid of Rome.  Those who rejected Jesus made up all the lies about him.  Has it  been a great fault of Christianity to have followed and accepted the "Canon" as given by Rome, or the changes made to the Hebrew Scripture from the days of Ezekiel, or after the days of Joshua, when they altered their texts to the Masoretic Text of 900 CE.]

 

32.  After my resurrection from death, I will be revealed to you in Galilee. [The resurrection from death can be observed in the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible in chapter 53.]

 

33.  Peter answered and said to him: If all of them are grieved because of you, I will never be grieved.

 

34.  Jesus said: Truly I say to you, this night before the cock-crow you will deny me three times.

 

35.  Peter said to him: If it is arranged for me to die with you, I will not deny you.  Likewise all the disciples said to him.

 

36.  Then Jesus came with them to the village of Geshemonim and said: Sit now until I go there and pray.

 

37.  He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedeel and began to be sad and troubled.

 

38.  Then he said to them: My soul is grieved unto death; support me and watch with me.

 

39.  He slowly went forward a little, fell on his face, prayed and said: My father, if it is possible, take this cup from me.  Indeed, let it not be at I will, but according to your will.

 

40.  He came to the disciples and found them sleeping.  He said to Peter: So you are unable to watch with me one hour?

 

41.  Watch and pray lest you enter into temptation, because truly the spirit is ready to go to its creator, but the flesh is weak and sick. [Joshua 1:8.  AENT note 255; "The spirit of man is vested with power by the Spirit.  By studying Torah and worshipping Elohim, the spirit of man disciplines the mind, and, in turn, the mid disciplines the body, providing lasting success.The lower level of consciousness "mind over matter" operates on willpower, which has many limitations.]

 

42.  He went again to pray saying: If you are not able to remove this cup except I should drink it, let it be done according to your will.

 

43.  Afterwards he returned and found them sleeping because their eyes were heavy.

 

44.  He left them and went to pray a third time according to the first words.

 

45.  Then Jesus came to where the disciples were and said to them: Sleep and be at rest; behold the time has come near when the Son of Man will be delivered into the hand of sinners.

 

46.  Arise, let us go, for behold he who will betray him is near.

 

47.  While he was speaking, behold Judas Iscariot, one of his twelve disciples, came.  With him was a large crowd with swords and whips sent from the chief priests and the princes of the people.

 

48.  He who betrayed him had given them a sign: The man whom I kiss is the one whom you are to arrest.

 

49.  Immediately he drew near to Jesus and said to him: Greetings Rabbi; then he kissed him.

 

50.  Jesus said to him: My friend, what have you done?  They came, stretched out their hand against him, and arrested him.

 

51.  Behold, one who was with Jesus stretched out his hand, drew his sword, struck one of the servants of the priests, and cut off his ear.

 

52.  Jesus said to him: Return your sword to its sheath, for those who draw the sword will fall by the sword.

 

53.  Do you not understand that I can meet my enemies and indeed there will be for me at once more than twelve legions of angels?

 

54.  But how will the Scriptures be fulfilled?  Because thus it is intended to be done. [Zecheriah 11:12]

 

55.  Afterwards Jesus said to the crowd: As if we were thieves have you come to take me with swords and whips?  Was I not with you every day in the temple teaching you without you hindering me?

 

56.  Surely all this was done because the writings of the Prophets were being fulfilled.  Then all his disciples left him and fled.

 

57.  They led Jesus to the house of Caiaphas the high priest.  Then all the scribes and Pharisees were gathered together.

 

58.  Peter was following him at a distance unto the house of the high priest.  He entered the house and sat near the craftsmen until he could see the end.

 

59.  The chief priests and the Pharisees wished to find false witnesses against Jesus in order to put him to death.

 

60.  But they did not find even one, though they provided many false witnesses against Jesus.  Finally two false witnesses came forward.

 

61.  They said: This one said I have the power to destroy the temple of God and after three days to repair it.

 

62.  The high priest arose and said to him: Do you not answer anything against the testimony that these are bearing against you?

 

63.  But Jesus answered him: You say it; but again I say to you, you have yet to see the son of God sitting at the right of the power of God coming on the clouds of heaven. [Daniel 7:13 - 14 is missing in the DSSB.  Stone Edition: "I was watching in the night visions and behold! With the clouds of heaven, one like a man came; he came up to the One of Ancient Days, and they brought him before Him.  He was given dominion, honor and kingship, so that all peoples, nations and languages would serve him; his dominion would be an everlasting dominion that would never pass, and his kingship would never be destroyed."] [[Jesus ascended to the Ancient of Days (God) and at this time he was given authority - his word remains to be obeyed by all nations and men until his return to his kingdom at the appointed time - likely just after the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled and Israel repents to hear him as "that prophet" foretold by Moses.]] [[[Christians need to repent of false scripture to believe the true account of the Teachings (Testimony) of Jesus (Yeshua) and stop trusting in those God commanded to be ignored  ) Note the commandments of God about how to know a true prophet from a false one.  Paul fails the tests that God gave, as do the authors of Hebrews, Mark, Luke/Acts and John.]]]

   [[[Carefully note Daneil 7:13 to Psalm 110:1]]]

64.  Then the high priest tore his garments and said: This one has cursed God.  What need do we have for other witnesses?  Behold all of you have heard how he cursed God.  [If noting or quoting Daniel is cursing God, why is Daniel still in the Jewish Holy Book in the "Writings" section?  They still don't count Daniel as a prophet = maybe because it is so obviously pointed to show Jesus DID fulfill what was written - and will yet fulfill what is yet undone (his return to rule).]

 

65.  Then the high priest tore his garments and said: This one has cursed God.  What need to we have for other witnesses?  Behold all of you have heard how he cursed God. 

 

66.  What do you think can be done?  They answered: He is guilty of death.

 

67.  Then they spit in his face and struck him on the back, and others slapped him in the face

 

68.  saying: Tell us, Messiah, who struck you.

 

69.  Peter was standing at the entrance of the courtyard, and there came near to him a maid who said to him: Were you not standing with Jesus the Galilean? [Isaiah 11: 1-4.]

 

70.  Peter lied to her before all and said to her: Woman I do not know what you are saying.

 

71.  When he passed through the gate another maid saw him and said to those who were standing there: This man was standing with Jesus in Nazareth.

 

72.  Again he denied Jesus with and oath saying that he did not know him.

 

73.  After a little while, those who were standing in the courtyard drew near to Peter and said to him: You are from this prophet's group; it is clear from your speech you are one of them.

 

74.  Then he began to deny and to swear that at no time had he known him.  Immediately the cock crowed.

 

75.  Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him, that before the crowing of the cock he would deny him three times.  Then he went outside and wept with bitterness of soul.

 

Chapter 27

 

1.      It came to pass in the morning all the chief sages and elders took counsel against Jesus that they should surely put him to death. [[[From the "Trial of the Ages" link, we find this hateful quote from Jewish Rabbi who rejected Jesus (Joshua) and seek to have long since destroyed Jesus and you who believed him:  For such is the remarkable plan contrived by a man who is envious and querulous. He will strive to kill his enemy and to save his own life, but when he finds it impossible to attain his objective, he will devise a scheme whereby they both will be slain."

"The first one to have adopted this plan was Jesus the Nazarene, may his bones be ground to dust.

"All the Prophets foretold that the Messiah would redeem the Jews, help them, gather in the exiles and support their observance of the commandments.  But he (Jesus) caused Jewry to be put to the sword, to be scattered and to be degraded; he tampered with the Torah and its laws; and he misled most of the world to serve something other than God" (Hil. Melachim 11:4)." "The first one to have adopted this plan was Jesus the Nazarene, may his bones be ground to dust. He was a Jew because his mother was a Jewess although his father was a Gentile. For in accordance with the principles of our law, a child born of a Jewess and a Gentile, or of a Jewess and a slave, is legitimate. (Yebamot 45a). Jesus is only figuratively termed an illegitimate child. He impelled people to believe that he was a prophet sent by God to clarify perplexities in the Torah, and that he was the Messiah that was predicted by each and every seer. He interpreted the Torah and its precepts in such a fashion as to lead to their total annulment, to the abolition of all its commandments and to the violation of its prohibitions. The sages, of blessed memory, having become aware of his plans before his reputation spread among our people, meted out fitting punishment to him."  It is fitting that as we review the Jewish record of the gospel Jesus taught that we can all see Jesus was teaching to be faithful to Elohim and the Covenant - and that the Covenant as given was given for all mankind - not just the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - as Isaiah 56 and 57 and 42 testify, God desires that all mankind come to Him, and that observing the Covenant as given by Elohim is the "choose life that you might live!"  Why has Judaism rejected and lied about Jesus?  As we can observe in the Hebrew account - Jesus said nor taught any such thing as the Rabbi charged him of.  Den of vipors, liars against Elohim and His anointed one, who also seek to kill everyone if they cannot be "god" of this world.  It appears to me that Orthodox Judaism is steeped in "Rabbi worship" as they continue to reject Elohim.  This also fits with contemporary beliefs that their history starts about 300 BC with the beginning of the Rabbinical Age.

2.      They led him bound to the house of Pontius Pilate who was commander.

 

3.      When Judas Iscariot saw that he had been judged, he began to turn in repentance.  He returned the thirty dinars to the high priest and to the elders of the people. 

 

4.      He said: I have sinned because I have shed innocent blood.  But they said to him: What is that to us?  You see to it.

 

5.      He threw the coins in the temple, went and took a rope and hanged himself. [Zechariah 11:11 - 12]

 

6.      When the chief priests received the coins they said: It is not possible for us to place these coins in the temple because they are the fruit of blood since they were given for the blood of Jesus. 

 

7.      So they took counsel and gave them for a field of a certain potter of clay that they might bury strangers there.

 

8.      Therefore that field is called the tent of blood unto this day. [Minor evidence of alteration - "to this day" likely not in original, but added later?]

 

9.      Then was fulfilled the word of Zechariah the prophet: And I said to them: if it is good in your eyes, multiply my wages, but if not, forbear.  To they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.  Then the Lord said to me: Cast it unto the potter.  This is from the man who forms clay, [Zechariah 11: 11, 12.]

 

10.  as the Lord commanded. [[Proof the Greek was altered - the wrong prophet was cited in the Christian editions, which says Jeremiah said this, when it was said by Zechariah in 11:12 - 13. See Zechariah foretelling events that were given as a sign of prophecy.  This chapter also speaks: "Also you, through the blood of your covenant I will have released your prisoners from the pit in which there is no water."  Jewish editions note this to be the blood of circumcision and the blood of the covenant at Sinai - but note what Jesus said about his blood when instituting "the Lord's Supper" or what some call "Sacrament" - the matter is he shed his blood willingly to meet what God had decreed - "not my will, but Thine be done."  God had given Israel and the nations a covenant that He declared everlasting.  Israel had denied God his due - repeatedly - and God sent the unique Son of Man to call all His people to repent and free themselves from the pit of believing men more than God.  "He will speak peace to the nations.  His dominion will be from sea to sea and from river to river to the ends of the earth."  Which other faith in God, but Christians, might we seen in this work of God foretold by Zechariah 12:10 - 12: DSSB; "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitant of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness, for his firstborn.  In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the balley of Megiddon."  Looks to me that this was fulfilled at Pentecost as noted in Acts 2, upon the realization of who Jesus was declared to be by his resurrection and ascending to the Ancient of Days in the clouds of heaven, and it may likely be fulfilled again if and when people return to God to do His will and reject false scripture, false prophets, false apostles, and those who have added to or taken away from any word that can be shown to be established of God.  Jesus came to shed light on the word of God and make keeping His word honorable - not to set it aside and pretend whatever you imagine in your heart is the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit will always seek to work with the word of God to create in us what God knows we can become with His help.  According to God, we are capable and we are responsible to "improve" ourselves - if we believe in Him and trust His instruction is good, true and reliable.  The biggest lie of Satan is that we are helpless and worthless in the eyes of God - mere worms - but God decreed otherwise, and those who say keeping the Law is impossible defy that God said His word is not too hard to do or too hard to understand.  It's no wonder it seems hard to understand when we believed those who disagreed with God and also ALTERED His word (Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud (oral torah's), and Rome, who added all the rest of the "New Testament" after the altered account from Jesus' disciples - the Hebrew Matthew..]]

 

11.  Jesus was standing before Pilate who asked him: Are you the king of the Jews?  Jesus said: You say it.

 

12.  When Jesus was harassed by the chief priests and elders of the people in regard to some word which they spoke against him, he did not reply. [Prophecy of being silent to accusations against him.  Isaiah 53?  Also revisit "The Beatitudes" supporting passages.]

 

13.  Pilate said to him: Do you not see how much testimony there is against you?

 

14.  But Jesus did not answer him a word and Pilate was exceedingly amazed by this. [ Isaiah 53.  Also consider Psalm 22 as we review the crucifixion account.]

 

15.  On the day of the honored feast of Passover, it was their custom for the commander of the city to give to the people one of the prisoners whom they wished.

 

16.  Pilate had a prisoner who was almost crazy; his name was Barabbas.  Taken in a case of murder, he had placed him in the dungeon.

 

17.  When they were gathered together Pilate said to them: Which of these do you wish that I should release, Barabbas or Jesus who is called Messiah?

 

18.  This was because Pilate knew that due to hatred without cause he had been taken. [Note this well, as it also defies the charges against Jesus by the Jewish leadership then, and since, up to this very day!   Denial of obvious facts - denial of what is easily observed by most everyone else on earth - but Jewish leaders, sages, scribes and Rabbi of record in their variious rabbinical works they believe are superior to the records of Moses - the unaltered records  This is why Judaism has records of their "Oral Torah, Zohar, and other writings of the rabbe..]

 

19.  While he was sitting upon the throne his wife sent to him a messenger saying: I implore you that in no matter should you speak a word against this righteous man because in this night I have suffered many things in a vision because of him.

 

20.  The chief priests and the elders of the law assembled the people that they might ask for Barabbas and that Jesus might die.   

21.  Pilate answered them: Which of them do you wish that we should release? They said Barabbas.

 

22.  Pilate said to them: If so, what shall I do with Jesus who is called Messiah?  All of them answered that he should be hung. [Cricified? - hung on a cross?]

 

23.  Pilate said to them: What evil has he done?  Then they vigorously cried out: Let them hang him, let them hang him, let them hang him!

 

24.  Pilate, when he saw that he had no power of resistance and was unable to make any peace with them, before a great dispute among the people might arise because of this, took water and washed his hands before the people and said: I am innocent of the blood.  Be careful what you do.  [The "power of resistence"?  I think Elohim had defined the matter to be that Israel was a "stiff necked" and "rebellious" children.  Do recall, Elohim told them from the beginning what their end would be.  See "The Song of Moses" Deuteronomy 32: 1 - 43.  For that matter see Zechariah  7 and 8.  7:15 is one HUGE "IF".  Since Jerusalem is not seen by the world to be a bastion of truth and justice and peace - but quite the opposite in treatment of the "Palastinians" injustice for decades - there is no justice present in the current regathering of Israel to this date!!!  See the writings of the non-Zionist Jews from Monsey, NY.  The lack of faithfulness to God and their fellow man can also be seen in the history told in "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews" volume 1, published by NOI.  It has only been since near 1900 that any feigned returning to God, and any impartial person can read the book and know the truth on them!]]

 

25.  All the people answered and said: His blood will be upon us and upon our seed.

26.  Then he released Barabbas to them, and delivered to them Jesus for beating and affliction that they might hang him.

 

27.  Then the horsemen of the court took Jesus under guard and came together before a great company of many people.

 

28.  They clothed Jesus with silk garments and covered him with a greenish silk robe.

 

29.  They made a crown of thorns and placed it on his head and set a reed in his right hand and were bowing down mocking him saying: Peace be upon you, king of the Jews. 

 

30.  They spit in his face and took the reed and struck his head.

 

31.  When they had mocked him much, they stripped the robe from him, dressed him in his own clothes, and gave orders to hang him.

 

32.  As they were going out from the city, they met a man whose name was Simon the Canaanite.  They compelled him to carry the gallows, that is, "The Cross." [[Psalm 22, Soncino Psalms edition: "For the Leader; upon Aijeleth ha-Shahar.  A Psalm of David.  "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my lelp at the words of my cry?  O my God, I call by day, but Thou answerest not; and at night, and there is no surcease for me.  Yet Thou art holy, O Thou  that art enthroned upon the praises of Israel.  In Thee did our fathers trust; they trusted, and Thou didst deliver them.  Unto Thee they cried, and escaped; in Thee did they trust, and were not ashamed.  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.  All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head; "Let him commit himself unto the LORD!  let Him rescue him; let His deliver him, seeing He delighteth in him."  For Thou are He that took me out of the womb; Thou madest me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts.  Upon Thee I have been cast from my birth; Thou are  my God from my mother's womb.  Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.  Many bulls have encompassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.  They open wide their mouth against me, as a ravening and a roaring lion.  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is become like wax; it is melted in mine inmost parts.  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my throat; and Thou layest me in the dust of death.  For dogs have encompassed me; a company of evil-doers have enclosed me; like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet.  I may count all my bones; they look and gloat over me.  They part my garments among them, and for my vesture do they cast lots.  But Thou, O LORD, be not far off; O Thou my strength, hasten to help me.  Deliver my soul from the sword; mine on only one from the power of the dog.  Save me from the lion's mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen do Thou answer me.  I will declare Thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise Thee: Ye that fear the LORD, praise Him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify Him; and stand in awe of Him, all ye the seed of Israel.  For He hat not despised nor abhorred the lowliness of the poor; neither hath He hid His face from him; but when he cried unto Him, He heard."  From Thee cometh my praise in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear Him.  Let the humble eat and be satisfied; let them praise the LORD that seek after Him; May your heart be quickened forever!  All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the LORD; and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee.  For the kingdom is the LORD'S; and He is the ruler over the nations.  All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall kneel before Him, even he that cannot keep his soul alive.  A seed shall serve Him; it shall be told of the Lord unto the next generation.  They shall come and shall declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that He hath done it."]]

 

33.  They came to a place called Gulgota, that is, Mount Calvary,

 

34.  and gave him wine mixed with gall.  But when he began to drink it he perceived what it was and would not drink it.

 

35.  When they placed him on the gallows they divided his garments by lot.

 

36.  [Missing in HGOM.  Here is a passage taken out that does relate to prophecy and the Matthew account.  NKJV has "preceeding "Then they crucified him, and divided his garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet: 'They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.'", refering to Psalm 22:18., which is also in the Soncino Edition quoted above.  Perhaps Sehm Tob deleted it because it was so foretelling?]

 

37.  Afterward, they set for him over his head a writing which said: This is Jesus of Nazareth, the king of Israel.

 

38.  Then two thieves were hung with him, one on his right and one on his left.

 

39.  Those who were passing by mocked him and shook their heads

 

40.  saying: See how you would lay waste the temple of God and in yet three days build it; save yourself; if you are the Son of God come down from the gallows.

 

41.  The chief priests and the elders of the people mocked him saying:

 

42.  Others he saved; himself he cannot save.  If he is the king of Israel let him come down from the tree and we will believe.  [How is this not in alignment with what Psalm 22 told, and foretold?]

 

43.  Since he trusted in God, let him save him now if he wishes, because he said he is the Son of God. 

 

44.  The thieves who were hung with him said to him these very same words.

 

45.  At the sixth hour, darkness came in all the world and it remained until the ninth hour. (Ancient Chinese record of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus can be found on several Youtube videos:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWLSX04Upig

 

46.  Jesus cried in a loud voice saying, in the holy language: My God, My God, why have you forsaken me. [Likely Jesus was quoting the opening of Psalm 22, which is very descriptive of his situation on the cross and it also points out that God did not forsake him if you read to the end of the Psalm.  Note the Hebrew to English translation as given above.  It is a little different than the "Christian" based Greek translation.  God does not forsake His own.  See: Psalm 9:9-10; 37:25; 71:11; Isaiah 49:14-16.]

 

47.  One of those standing there said: This one is calling for Elijah.

 

48.  Immediately he took spongy-bread, filled it with vinegar and gave it to him to drink.

 

49.  Others were saying: We will see if Elijah will come and deliver him.

 

50.  Jesus cried another time in a loud voice and sent his spirit to his father ["the Father"?].

 

51. Immediately the curtain of the temple was torn into two pieces, from the top downwards; the earth shook and the rocks were broken.

 

52.  The graves were opened and many of those asleep in the dust arose.

 

53.  They came out of their graves and after this they entered the holy city and were revealed to many. [Note the testimony in the HGOM to the resurrection and who were eye-witness to Jesus being resurrected.  Luke and Paul testify of far more than Matthew did, but Matthew and the disciples recorded the witnesses.  Did Luke mistakenly say more were eye-witnesses?  Paul was not there...] [[This may be an addition?  Is there any record of others raising from the dead at the death of Jesus - when Jesus had not yet resurrected from the dead? - makes no difference to the Teachings of Jesus being the Standard to live by, as his teachings fully supported observing the will of God, as given by God, and his warnings were no more worse than accepted prophets who preceeded him.]]

 

54.  The captain of the hundred and those standing with him watching Jesus saw the earthquake and the things which were done and were very afraid saying: Truly this was the Son of God.

55.  Many women were standing there at a distance from among those who served Jesus from Galilee unto that time.

 

56.  Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedeel.

 

57.  At evening time, a rich man from Karnasiah came.  His name was Joseph and he was a disciple of Jesus.

 

58.  He came to Pilate and asked him for the body of Jesus.  Pilate commanded that they should give it to him.

 

59.  Joseph took it and wrapped it in a very fine silk garment.

 

60.  He placed him in his own tomb which had been freshly hewn from stone and placed a large stone over the entrance of the tomb. [Isiah 53:9]  Isaiah 53: Toviah Singer's Criticism Uses Unheard of Reading that Materially Mismatches JPS & Leeser (youtube.com)

 

61.  [Missing in the HGOM.  Doesn't affect doctrine - added to appear to go along with the account of another gospel?]

 

62.  On the morrow of the Passover the chief priests and the Pharisees came to Pilate.

 

63.  They said to him: Sir, we remember that this liar said while still alive that at the end of three days he would arise and come to life. [So now they testify he spoke about being raised from the dead - and not rebuilding the Temple?! And they also called him a liar?! - yet here we find they finally told the truth of what Jesus did teach?!  Is this typical, or not? (note also they made no point to tell the people they supported false testimony about Jesus, as this would be admitting their evil.) (note the Covenant in "V", and they had deliberately given false judgment - in the name of God, to this day who has told the truth on Jesus or of Jesus to Isreal or the Nations?  We have all certainly inherited lies from our "fathers"]]

 

64.  Therefore command his tomb to be guarded until the third day, since perhaps one of his disciples might come and steal him.  Afterwards they might say to the people that he arose from death.  If they should do this, the last perversion will be greater than the first. [Perversion?!  Jesus was simply teaching the proper interpretation of the Law, Prophets and Psalms - along with the proper application of the Instructions that God gave men to live by at Sinai and from the beginning.  It honestly looks to me that perhaps they are behind those who supported Paul to upend the new faith in Jesus' Teachings and fulfillment of the Holy Scriptures - that his disciples consider living by the words of God to be honorable - not impossible as Paul taught.  Indeed - the greatest deception may be obscuring what God said of man and what he is capable of - abiding in His word indeed, and that there was no "Fall of man", but that we've all been repeating the same untruth for almost 1700 years - at least - perhaps 1900 years for the disciples of Paul's writings.  God said man was created in His image.  No where in the account does God say Adam and Eve sinned - they suffered the natural consequence for their disobedience and unbelief of what God had told them.  Proof is what God told Cain - after the supposed "Fall" - that we are both capable and responsible for personal improvement to "do better."  Even in the Law - without living rightly - per His instructions - their "sacrifices" were a stench in His nose.] [[Historically it was Rome and then the Roman Church that persecuted anyone who dared possess and read Scripture, or translate it into the language of the people that they might know the words of God and discover their confusions.  In the early centuries severe persecution was against the Jews and disciples of Jesus - it was under penalty of death to possess their writings and later to worship on the Sabbath.  This is why there are so precious few first century writings - they were burned.  It is only now with the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls and their being translated for all to read that we can discover their ALTERATION of the word of God and the Scriptures.  Also noted in those who study the development of the Scripture canon, some proudly stated they worked to revise the accounts - twice for the OT and six times for the NT - by 150 CE! [[[Now, siince March of 2021 we can see that the DSS records were altered long before the DSS were first recorded (300 BC), but thankfully we can "imporove ourselves" by observing what the Testimony of God was before they were altered in the days near Ezekiel.  No wonder Jesus sometimes included the "scribes" with the Pharisees! ]]

 

65.  Pilate said to them: Search out guards and guard it as well as you can. [Likely the Temple guard with a Roman over them?]

 

66.  So they completed the structure of the tomb, sealed it, and placed a guard there.

 

Chapter 28

 

1.      On the first day of the week, early in the morning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

 

2.      Then the earth shook because the angel of the Lord descended from heaven to the tomb, overturned the stone, and stood still.

 

3.      His appearance was like the sun and his garments like snow.

 

4.      From the fear of him the guards were dismayed and stood like dead men.

 

5.      The angel answered and said to the women: Do not fear for I know that you seek Jesus who was hung.

 

6.      He is not here for he is already alive as he said.  Come, therefore, and see the place where the Lord arose.

 

7.      Then go immediately and tell his disciples that the Lord has already arisen there.  He will be before you and there you will see him as he told you.

 

8.      The women went out of the tomb with fear because they had seen the angel, but with great joy because the Lord had come back to life.  They ran to tell his disciples.

 

9.      As they were going Jesus passed before them saying: May the NAME deliver you.  They came near to him, bowed down to him, and worshiped him.

 

10.  Then Jesus said to them: Do not be afraid; tell my brothers that they should go to Galilee and there they will see me.

 

11.  While they were going some of the guards entered the city and declared to the chief priests all that had happened.

 

12.  They came together for counsel with the elders of the people.  Then they gave much money to the horsemen

 

13.  and said to them: Say that his disciples came by night and stole him while you were sleeping.

 

14.  If this should come to the ears of Pilate we will tell him that he should leave you alone.

 

15.  They took the money and said thus as they instructed them.  This is the word held in secret among the Jews unto this day.

 

16.  After this when his twelve disciples came to Galilee he appeared to them in the mountain where they had prayed.

 

17.  When they saw him they worshipped him, but there were some of them who doubted him.

 

18.  Jesus drew near to them and said to them: To me has been given all power in heaven and earth.

 

19.  Go

 

20.  and teach them to carry out all things which I have commanded you forever.

 

(AENT) 18 - 20; And Y'shua drew near and spoke with them and said to them, "All authority is given to me in heaven and on earth.  And as my Father has sent me, I send you.  Go therefore, make disciples of all nations and immerse them in the name of the Father (Elohim), and teach them to keep all that I have commanded you (note carefully how Y'shua and Elohim  said to live).  And behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the world.  Amen. (edited to remove the Trinitarian baptism.  The Nazarines have held this doctrine since the beginning - this is not the "protestant" Nazarines - but those who trace their roots to antiquity.  I HIGHLY recommend that studies include the Aramaic English New Testament - but note the author has not discovered the lies of Paul.  He has many useful study notes throughout the text of Matthew, and some helpful things to note in the study articles included after the NT texts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The core message of the Gospel is hope in the coming Kingdom, when the wicked have been judged and are ashes under the feet of the righteous.  The core principles are as told in Micah - to live justly, love mercy and to walk humbly with God and our fellow mankind.  God never told man he had to have the same glory of God as told in "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."  Living justly is to live by the life and justice God commanded of those who are "My people", and that we ‘do no evil'.  We are also called to love mercy, but were never told to put ourselves last or consider everyone above us or better than ourselves.  God taught equality and justice and mercy and truth.  The matter is to focus on reforming our conscience - our world view - to what God declares true and just and merciful - and not give preference in judgment towards the rich or the poor - but as we are able, to help those who are in need - especially "these, my brethren."  We should turn in repentance to live as God decreed and then realize the reliability of His words of life and the reality of our hope in the coming Kingdom of God - faith is not blind.  Faithfulness is abiding in the word of God and the Teachings of Jesus (Yeshua), the coming King.  If you still have any doubt - consider in your heart the teachings of Jesus - start putting them into the reality of what you do - and see if God blesses you for honoring his words of life and living by God's gracious instruction in righteousness.

 

As God decreed, when we improve ourselves, and Jesus said this is by living by every word of God, we experience life to the fullest.  Belief is not blind obedience.  Belief is coming to know and fully trust in the the True God who is faithful to His words of life.  Trusting God builds our relationship with Him and is the relationship He has desired man have from the beginning.  Jesus taught that "faith" is one of the weightier matters of the Torah that the people were not being taught by their Rabbi's, Pharisees and Sadducees.  What can help us grow to become who we were born to be?  When we come to see and know the life He desires for "My people" through His gracious words of life - as we do whatsoever He (Yeshua as "that prophet" of God) instructs us, new life begins that has purpose, meaning and observable definition.  We need to grow and have root in ourselves to sustain this life - we cannot just hear and accept it and then dry up, wither and die because we had no root in ourselves.  We are called to be faithful all our lives, in fact, we are warned to be faithful because God is just and righteous in all His ways He is true.  His warnings through Ezekiel and Jeremiah still stand true - the righteous man who turns to do evil, his righteousness will not be remembered or somehow blot out his evil - it's given also that the unrighteous man who turns to do righteousness will not have his evil held against him.  This is because God is just, and the matter is being faithful till death - just as Yeshua exampled and taught.  God said He will not impute to the righteous the sins of the wicked - Jesus never taught that his righteousness is imputed to anyone else - not in Matthew - and the Hebrew Matthew as the accepted Gospel by Jesus' disciples for at least three hundred years.

 

(*** Recall the Covenant, Blessings and Curses:  "Blessed are you in your coming, and blessed are you in your going" could well be that Elohim was also speaking of when we are born, and when we leave this life - as to what comes after this     

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