#ChiselTheDebris: When was ‘Jesus’ the Nazarene Rabbi arrested?

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#ChiselTheDebris: When was ‘Jesus’ the Nazarene Rabbi arrested? Sunday Mail

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Last week we established that the historical “Jesus” (Yahoshua the Nazarene Rabbi) was arrested by the local Roman power to avert political trouble on nationalist grounds.
This was done with the collaboration of the Roman-appointed members of the Hebrew priestly class who felt threatened by Yahoshua’s popularity.
The Hebrew priestly class was appointed by Rome and therefore beholden to Roman interests. The Hebrew authorities were very unpopular with Hebrews.
In contrast, Yahoshua was not a Roman appointee and would have been very popular among people who wanted to overthrow a Roman occupation and rule and its Hebrew collaborators.
This week we examine when (period of year, day and time) Yahoshua was arrested.
According to the gospels, Yahoshua was arrested on the night of the day before Passover and Sabbath (Matthew 26:50, Mark 14:46, Luke 22:54 and John 18:3,12).
The Sabbath preparation and Sabbath days are on Friday and Saturday, respectively.
There is a historical assumption that Yahoshua was arrested in the month of Nisan, “which is the first month in the (Judaic) calendar”.
As a religiously practicing Hebrew, Yahoshua the Nazarene would have been in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover (Haggadah, Festival of the Unleavened Bread), which commences on the 15th of Nisan according to the moon.
This is one of the most widely celebrated Hebrew days.
The Passover (“Pesach” in Hebrew) occurs when the sun crosses the equator from south to north on the Spring or Vernal Equinox (March 21).
This means that the Hebrew religious event is an observation of an astronomical occurrence. The astronomical event coincided with the historicalised mythical story of Exodus, when Hebrew slaves were supposedly released from bondage in Egypt. Passover is therefore a celebration of freedom and was a historicalised astronomical event. The Hebraic Law stated, “Court must not be held on the Sabbath, or any holy day” (Betza, chapter Vol II); and “They shall not judge on the eve of the Sabbath, nor on that of any festival” (Mishna, Sanhedrin IV 1).
The Hebraic law prohibited any part of a legal proceeding of capital offences to take place at night.
“Legal proceedings, including arrests, were forbidden at night. It was a well-established and inflexible rule of Hebrew law that arrests and trials leading to capital punishment could not occur at night. Dupin the famous French lawyer explicitly states that the trial of (Yahoshua) was illegal, but the arrest was also, because both were held at night” (Walter M Chandler, “The Trial of Jesus Volume 1”, pages 226-227).
Moses Maimonides explains why trials are to be held during the daylight, “The reason why the trial of a capital offence could not be held at night is because. . . the examination of such a charge is like the diagnosing of a wound – in either case a more thorough and searching examination can be made by daylight.”
Rabbi Wise in “Martyrdom of Jesus” says, “No court of justice (of the Hebrews) was permitted to hold sessions on the Sabbath or any of the seven (scriptural) holidays. In cases of capital crime, no trial could be commenced on Friday or the day previous to any holiday, because it was not lawful either to adjourn such cases longer than overnight or to continue them on the Sabbath or holiday.”
To have arrested Yahoshua “during the feast of the Passover,” the day and time of arrest was illegal under Hebraic law.
Regarding the Sanhedrin, “In property cases, they try the case by day and complete it by night. In capital cases, they try the case by day, and complete it (by) day. In property cases they come to a final decision on the same day (as the trial itself), whether it is for acquittal or conviction.
In capital cases they come to a final decision for acquittal on the same day, but on the followng day for conviction.” (Sanhedrin 4:1, “The Mishnah, a New Translation,” by Jacob Neusner.)
To say that the authority of the Sanhedrin arrested Yahoshua is a fictional invention devoid of knowledge about Hebrew law. The time of Yahoshua’s arrest was an impossibility even if done by Roman-appointed Hebrew authorities.
If he was arrested despite the illegality and fraudulent possibility, then it means Romans forced it to happen because of their disregard of the criminal procedure of their subjects. They then worked with the Roman-appointed members of the Hebrew priestly class as local collaborators, despite the Hebrew authorities being inflexible observers of religious laws.
The Hebraic law was clear that it did not permit the trial of a capital offence to begin during the night, on a day before the Sabbath and on the day before a religious event.
Therefore, either the texts are fraudulent or the period of arrest was itself illegal but forced by the Romans.

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