The Three Marys

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The Three Marys

Matthew 27:55-56 version of the Passion of Jesus the Christ is the only consistent verse in the English language Bible, that is pretty much consistent throughout the various translations.  However, we do see that the consistency wanes when we check the Passion verses through the four canonical gospels. Matthew 27:55-56; Mark 15:40-41; Luke 23:49 and John 19:25. Then it all evaporates when we match it up to Matthew’s version in the oldest Bible in extant, Codex Sinaiticus.  Then things get perplexing and if anyone who has read the Passion account found it perplex to say the lease.  Not to worry, as everyone else finds it the same, from biblical scholars to pulpit bashers.  The problem is over the witnesses of Jesus’ crucifixion.

Problems of Matthew 27:56 and questions being:

  1. Who are James and Jose/Joseph? 
  2. Who are the mother and father of James and Jose/Joseph?
  3. Who were the three Marys?
  4. Whom is Joanna mentioned in Luke 24:10 and a witness to the Passion of Jesus?
  5. Where are the witnesses standing, are they far away at a distance or are they standing at the foot of the cross?*
  6. Who is Clopas? This name occurs in Mark 15:40.

Answers

  1. would seem to be an easy question, but I am afraid you would get different answers to this question from whomever you asked. Matthew 27:56 states: Mary, the mother of James and Joseph.  If it was Jesus’ brothers, why is Jesus not mentioned?  One answer probably is that Jesus is dead!  On James, this is what Mark 15:40 they called him, James the Younger.  We know that James the Just was Jesus’ brother, but who is James the Younger?

https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/M/mary-the-(wife)-of-clopas.html 

https://bibletruthpublishers.com/james-the-less/ljm21227  

https://overviewbible.com/james-son-of-alphaeus/ 

Well, in Codex Sinaiticus the Greek word used for James is JACOBUS (Ι᾿άκωβος, the Graecized form of the name Jacob), the name of two or three persons mentioned in the Bible. 

Sinaiticus

56 εν αιϲ ην ┬ μαρια η του ϊακωβου και η μαρια η ιωϲηφ και η μαρια η των ϋϊων ζεβεδεου. Matthew 27:56 Codex Sinaiticus

The highlighted words in verse 56 are Mary mother of Jacobus, and Mary mother of Joseph, and Mary mother of the sons of Zebedee.  I said it was perplexing!  Also, for my Greek scholars friends on this site, I have not mentioned the several η (THE) in the one single sentence which has had inserts and redacted text throughout the centuries

  1. The  James the younger is often identified with James, son of Alphaeus.  Whose wife is Mary Clopas or Cleophas.  Not only that, whichever Christian rendering you use most will tell you that Clopas and Alphaeus are one of the same.
  2. According to most, the Marys were Mary Magdalen, Mary mother of James and Joseph and Mary the sister of Mary the mother of Jesus.  Two Marys in the same family, who’d guessed!  As I said, it gets perplexing!
  3. Easy one?  I have known idea, could be the fourth Mary?  I do, but it’s too much for me to go into.
  4. Who was Clopas, he was the father of Jesus.

They were standing in the next valley, far, far away!

Would you agree that using word for word in translation that the names Joseph, Jacob,  Jeremiah, Benjamin, Isaac, etc. are boys names that are familiar within the English language, albeit they all have a Hebrew origin?  The answer would be yes, one has to agree!  Yet, the English translators have kept all the Hebrew names, albeit they are anglicized, but for Jacobus or Jacob they use James.  This is to hide the fact that Mary the mother of Jesus was Married to Clopas or what ever his name is!

Calvary/Golgotha, meaning the hill of the Skull.  A rocky hillock in Jerusalem, which is claimed by most scholars as the true place of Jesus’ execution.  Not the Church of the Holy Sepulchre a half km away to the south, as Rome would have us believe. Did the Roman allow family and friends at crucifixions?  No, the crucifixion was for criminals and enemies of the state, as the synoptic gospels say, the witness looked on from afar.  It was far, and any witnesses to the crucifixion would have needed binoculars and any spy listening device, but as yet none are available that can hear from at lease 0.5 Km away. What do you say?

Cofion

Jero Jones

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