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| DESERTERS� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 19:31 [NIV] - [Five days later] - Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a SPECIAL SABBATH.� Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath....JOHN 19:31 [KJV] - The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, for that sabbath day was an high day....� | ||||||||
| [W. E. VINE, AN EXPOSITORY DICTIONARY OF NEW TESTAMENT WORDS - Sabbath did not mean seventh, it meant day of ceasing from ordinary work.]� | ||||||||
| THE BIBLE, LEVITICUS 16:29-31 - "On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work....It is a sabbath of rest."� [This shows that, although the seventh day of each week was to be a weekly sabbath, there were other sabbaths set for certain days of the year and could not have always fallen on Saturday.] | ||||||||
| [2]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:45b-46 - "My time is up, the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the hands of sinners.� Get up!� Let's get going!� My betrayer is here." | ||||||||
| [3]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:47 - The words were barely out of his mouth when Judas (the one from the Twelve) showed up, and with him a gang from the high priests and religious leaders brandishing swords and clubs. | ||||||||
| [4]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 18:4-6 - Jesus, knowing by now everything that was coming down on him, went out and met them.� He said, "Who are you after?"� They answered, "Jesus the Nazarene."� He said, "That's me."� The soldiers recoiled, totally taken aback.� Judas, his betrayer, stood out like a sore | ||||||||
| [5]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 18:7-9 - Jesus asked again, "Who are you after?" They answered, "Jesus the Nazarene." "I told you," said Jesus, "that's me.� I'm the one.� So if it's me you're after, let these others go."� (This validated the words in his prayer, "I didn't lose one of those you gave me.") | ||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:48-50a, LUKE 22:48 - The betrayer had worked out a sign with them:� "The one I kiss, that's the one ~ seize him."� He went straight to Jesus, greeted him, "How are you, Rabbi?" and kissed him.� Jesus said, "Friend, why this charade?"� ....Jesus said, "Judas, you would betray the Son of Man with a kiss?" | ||||||||
| [7]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:50b-51, JOHN 18:10a - Then they came on him ~ grabbed him and roughed him up.� One of those with Jesus (...Simon Peter who was carrying a sword) pulled his sword and, taking a swing at the Chief Priest's servant, cut off his ear.� Malchus was the servant's name. | ||||||||
| [8]������ THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:51 - Jesus said, "Let them be.� Even in this."� Then, touching the servant's ear, he healed him. | ||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:52-54; JOHN 18:11 - Jesus said, "Put your sword back where it belongs.� All who use swords are destroyed by swords.� Don't you realize that I am able right now to call to my Father, and twelve companies - more, if I want them ~ of fighting angels would be here, battle-ready?� But if I did that, how would the Scriptures come true that say this is the way it has to be?� Do you think for a minute I'm not going to drink this cup the Father gave me?" | ||||||||
| [10]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:52-53; Matthew 26:56 - Jesus spoke to those who had come ~ high priest, Temple police, religion leaders:� "What is this, jumping me with swords and clubs as if I were a dangerous criminal?� Day after day I've been with you in the Temple and you've not so much as lifted a hand against me.� But do it your way ~ it's a dark night, a dark hour.� You've done it this way to confirm and fulfill the prophetic writings." | ||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:56b - Then all the disciples cut and ran. | ||||||||
| [12]����� Euripedes lived and wrote around 400 BC.� The earliest manuscript we have today of his writings were penned 1500 years later, and we have only three copies.� Yet people do not claim that his writings are not accurate. | ||||||||
| We today have some 40,000 ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, some entire manuscripts penned as early as 250 years after Christ, and thousands of fragments representing most of the New Testament penned the same century Jesus lived. | ||||||||
| [13]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 18:15-16 - Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus.� That other disciple was known to the Chief Priest, and so he went in with Jesus to the Chief Priest's courtyard.� Peter had to stay outside.� Then the other disciple went out, spoke to the doorkeeper, and got Peter in. | ||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 17:20-21 - Jesus, grilled by the Pharisees on when the kingdom of God would come, answered, "The kingdom of God doesn't come by counting the days on the calendar.� Nor when someone says, 'Look here!' or ,'There it is?'� And why?� Because God's kingdom is already among you." | ||||||||
| [15]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 11:45-46 - One of the religion scholars spoke up:� "Teacher, do you realize that in saying these things you're insulting us?"� He [Jesus] said, "Yes, and I can be even more explicit.� You're hopeless, you religion scholars!� You load people down with rules and regulations, nearly breaking their backs, but never lift even a finger to help." | ||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 11:52 - "You're hopeless, you religion scholars!� You took the key of knowledge, but instead of unlocking doors, you locked them.� You won't go in yourself, and won't let anyone else in either." | ||||||||
| [17]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 18:13; MARK 14:66-68 - They took him first to Annas, father-in-law of Caiaphas.� Caiaphas was the Chief Priest that year. While all this was going on, Peter was down in the courtyard.� One of the Chief Priest's servant girls came in and, seeing Peter warming himself there, looked hard at him and said, "You were with the Nazarene, Jesus." He denied it:� "I don't know what you're talking about."� He went out on the porch.� A rooster crowed.� | ||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:71-72 - As he moved over toward the gate, someone else said to the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene."� Again he denied it, salting his denial with an oath:� "I swear, I never laid eyes on the man." | ||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 18:24 - Then Annas sent him, still tied up, to the Chief Priest Caiaphas. | ||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 2:19; MARK 14:56-58 - Jesus answered, "Tear down this Temple and in three days I'll put it back together...." | ||||||||
| Plenty of people were willing to bring in false charges, but nothing added up, and they ended up canceling each other out.� Then a few of them stood up and lied:� "We heard him say, 'I am going to tear down this Temple, built by hard labor, and in three days build another without lifting a hand.' "But even they couldn't agree exactly. | ||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 8:44 - "[Satan] couldn't stand the truth because there wasn't a shred of truth in him.� When the Liar speaks, he makes it up out of his lying nature and fills the world with lies." | ||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:59-61 - About an hour later, someone else spoke up, really adamant:� "He's got to have been with him!� He's got 'Galilean' written all over him."� Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about."� At that very moment, the last word hardly off his lips, a rooster crowed.� Just then, the Master turned and looked at Peter.� Peter remembered what the Master had said to him:� "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." | ||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:62b - He [Peter] went out and cried and cried and cried. | ||||||||