Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "LastWeekTonight" channel.

To subsequently get to wear a crown of stems with much larger thorns. What was driven out were money changers (Roman money was considered unclean, so other nations currency was changed for a fee) and animal salesmen for sacrificial animals. Turning a temple courtyard into a bizarre.
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@sessahme the problem is, he would have spoken Aramaic, a proto-Hebrew, Greek and possibly Latin (definitely Greek and probably Egyptian as well). What was "translated"is more accurately transliterated, as direct translation would be impossible and going into mistransliterations is a well worn out and documented mess. The only thing worse than ignoring those errors are those proclaiming that King James is the language of the bible, as if anyone in the Levant, let alone the British isles would understand that ancient proto-English! Given the location, trade was significant, so multiple languages would have been the norm.
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@thekububeach I disagree, not wholly fictional, but appears to be a compendium of a number of characters active in religious and political life at that time. Religiously, a communal faith, similar to the Essenes is well established, along with the political view of "Don't get into a war with an army twice the size of your entire populace", along with a Judaism-lite akin to Buddhism vs Hinduism, which was relatively new at that time as well.
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@thekububeach learn the history, learn who Josephus was and what he wrote, learn who the Essenes were, learn who the Zealots were. The history is easily available for all to review.
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@alanchoichang8336 don't blame me, I didn't write that holy book!
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@limelyte5390 show me one history document that isn't derived from the Christian bible that mentions Jesus of Nazareth. You'll make history if you found one. His teachings were highly inline with what was being taught by the Essenes.
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@thekububeach uh huh, so all of the words in a sentence are meaningless, save for the first one you latch onto? OK, what was one cause of strife among the Jews of the era with the Sadducees? Why were there issues with the populace with the Pharisees and especially with conflicts between the Pharisees and Sadducees? Why was there resistance to Hellenization? Have you studied anything in the divinities?
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I highly resemble that remark! ;)
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@AverageAwesomeDude one problem with a single Jesus is, the Romans had a massive bureaucracy, with records on everything from the name, residence and birthplace of every subject and citizen to who was executed and why. No records have been found that mention him as a person, but records to exist that speak of many preachers running about and preaching everything from rise up and make war against the empire to give unto Caesar his damnable tax money. Most of what is in the New Testament is directly traceable to the Old Testament, from prophesies to being nice to your neighbor and not swinging a sword at anyone who gets you mad. Worse, Paul came along and there's still a fair amount of dispute among theologians as to how much Paul upstaged Peter while Peter was traveling and preaching. As Gandhi once said, "I like your Christ, I don't like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ". How many forgive, rather than speaking of smiting whoever and wherever someone that angers them, who call themselves Christians? So unlike Christ. How many are willing to turn the other cheek, rather than resorting to Smith and Wesson? How many withhold judgement, lest they be judged according to the harshness of their judgement? That's the lesson, few listen to their own faith and are hypocrites by condemning strangers before learning anything about them, why they do things and simply judge and condemn. How should they be judged, if not according to their own rush to judgement and harshness of their judgement? The lesson isn't that of a man or son of anyone, the lessons are the message and lessons to learn and live by. For who would be judged the better person, the one behaving because of threats of eternal torture and nonexistence or someone that behaves because it's the right thing and better thing to do?
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