Post by Zadkiel on Jan 12, 2016 23:06:01 GMT
Jesus understood that the only chance he had to continue his ministry after he had been anointed was to elicit a crucifixion, by appearing as "an enemy of the Roman Empire". This meant that he had to rely on the assumption that certain players would behave as expected, although he took a big risk, because everything would collapse if something went wrong. But the ambitious Judas Iscariot acted exactly as Jesus had predicted, by selling him out as "a Zealot" to Pontius Pilate. The Father, Jonathan Annas, suggested that he should consider drinking poison to avoid a painful death on the cross, but he refused the offer on two occasions. Unlike what tradition tries to convince us of, however, the Crucifixion didn't take place in Jerusalem, but rather in Qumrân and the crosses looked like the letter T without the upper, later "Christian" part. Jesus was pierced by nails through his wrists - not his palms - and his legs were fastened with ropes. They were thus not pierced. Jesus hung on the western cross, Judas Iscariot on the eastern and Simon Zealotes, who was the alleged mastermind in the resistance against the Romans, was given "the place of honor" on the middle cross. The discrepancy between the times mentioned in the Gospels is caused because the different religious orders placed the three hours backward adjustment of the clock at different times, so that the first Good Friday became three hours longer than a normal day. Jesus hung on the Cross for just over six hours, while those that still had not set the clock back before, did it at 1500 hours, so that the three hours from 1200 hours to 1500 hours happened twice for this group, while a similar "double triple hour" had occurred for the others at midnight. Therefore, the western-oriented evangelists wrote that Jesus only hung about three hours on the Cross. When he finally accepted Jonathan Annas' offer of drinking some drops from a sponge, the Father probably did not know that someone had replaced the poison with a strong drug that made Jesus only apparently dead, while he in reality was only "sleeping".
