Chapter III
Section IV
The Texts that were attributed directly to the Old Testament in the Gospels
In this section we will examine the texts of the Old Testament that were attributed directly to it, and the Gospels authors said that they have not been fulfilled, and achieved only in Jesus and his time and his generation, to find out what is the truth and the reality of them, and if the Gospels authors have told the truth or not.
15 - The Source of the Reason that Jesus was speaking in Parables
Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came and said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?"
Matthew 13:11 He answered and said to them, "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
Matthew 13:12 "For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
Matthew 13:13 "Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
Matthew 13:14 "And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive;
Matthew 13:15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them’.
Matthew 13:34 All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them,
Matthew 13:35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world."
Matthew 13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field."
In these two texts Matthew shows the reason of why did Jesus speak in Parables, and as we see he wrote one on the lips of Jesus and the other is his conclusion for why did Jesus speak in Parables, and he has quoted the first one from the book of Isaiah chapter VI, and the second from the Psalm 78, and before examining these texts to find out if they were true prophecies about the Jews in Jesus' time, or he has used them according to the way of writing the Gospels, I'd like to mention some notes on Matthew's texts.
The first note is if what is written by Matthew is true, why Jesus was speaking to the Jews without Parables, such as the sermon on the Mountain, and so on.
The second note is if the text of Isaiah was a true prophecy about the reason of why did Jesus speak to the Jews in parables; why Mark and Luke did not cite it in their Gospels, despite they wrote many parables, knowing that Luke has written it, i.e., Isaiah's text, on the lips of Paul in the Acts of the Apostles, as in the following text:
Act 28:24 And some were persuaded by the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.
Act 28:25 So when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had said one word: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
Act 28:26 "saying, ‘Go to this people and say: "Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; And seeing you will see, and not perceive;
Act 28:27 For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them."‘
Act 28:28 "Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it!"
Moreover, that John had cited it but in another story; though he did not write any parable on the lips of Jesus, as in the following text:
John 12:37 But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him,
John 12:38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: "Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
John 12:39 Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
John 12:40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, Lest they should see with their eyes, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them."
John 12:41 These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.
John 12:42 Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;
John 12:43 for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
The third note is on the credibility of the saying of Jesus "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.", even though he had spoken to his disciples in parables, and they did not understand the meaning of the parables, so could we say that the text of Isaiah applies to his disciples also?! As in the following texts:
Matthew 15:10 When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear and understand:
Matthew 15:11 "Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
Matthew 15:12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"
Matthew 15:13 But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch."
Matthew 15:15 Then Peter answered and said to Him, "Explain this parable to us."
Matthew 15:16 So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?
Matthew 15:17 "Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?
Matthew 15:18 "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
Matthew 15:19 "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
Matthew 15:20 "These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."
Matthew 16:5 Now when His disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
Matthew 16:6 Then Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."
Matthew 16:7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have taken no bread."
Matthew 16:8 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, "O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread?
Matthew 16:9 "Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?
Matthew 16:10 "Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up?
Matthew 16:11 "How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? — but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Matthew 16:12 Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mark 4:10 But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.
Mark 4:11 And He said to them, "To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,
Mark 4:12 "so that ‘Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them’."
Mark 4:13 And He said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
Mark 8:13 And He left them, and getting into the boat again, departed to the other side.
Mark 8:14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat.
Mark 8:15 Then He charged them, saying, "Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."
Mark 8:16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have no bread."
Mark 8:17 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, "Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened?
Mark 8:18 "Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?
Mark 8:19 "When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?" They said to Him, "Twelve."
Mark 8:20 "Also, when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments did you take up?" And they said, "Seven."
Mark 8:21 So He said to them, "How is it you do not understand?"
Luke 8:4 And when a great multitude had gathered, and they had come to Him from every city, He spoke by a parable:
Luke 8:5 "A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it.
Luke 8:6 "Some fell on rock; and as soon as it sprang up, it withered away because it lacked moisture.
Luke 8:7 "And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.
Luke 8:8 "But others fell on good ground, sprang up, and yielded a crop a hundredfold." When He had said these things He cried, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
Luke 8:9 Then His disciples asked Him, saying, "What does this parable mean?"
Luke 8:10 And He said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘Seeing they may not see, And hearing they may not understand’.
The fourth note is on his saying "but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.". This saying is one of oddest words that had been written on the lips of Jesus in the Gospels, because the main task of any prophet or messenger from the LORD is to make the people understanding his mission and what calling for it; and to make them satisfied when they follow and believe him, and not to make it mysterious, as is shown in the first chapter.
The fifth note is on the saying of Matthew "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.", so did he quote it accurately, or he had distorted it to serve his story as is the way and the method and the approach of his writing?!
However, we must read the text of Isaiah and the Psalm to see if it was talking about the Jews in Jesus' time or not, which are as follows:
Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: "Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."
In this paragraph Isaiah says that the Lord said that He wants one to send him to tell the people something; so Isaiah said that he is ready to go, and here I say that Matthew should write a narrative about the appearance of Isaiah at the time of Jesus to inform people an order from the Lord to convince us that this text was talking about Jesus, and here might some people say what is the difference between the appearing at the time of Jesus and his appearance earlier?
I say the difference is the people, whom will be informed by Isaiah, so if the people was not exist at the time of Jesus; this means that the words of the LORD were not sent to the people in the time of Jesus, thus how Matthew says that these words were sent to the people in the time of Jesus? But if the words were sent to the people in the time of Jesus, he should write a story says that Isaiah has appeared in Jesus' time, and this is not difficult for those who say that Jesus was a god and the son of God and one of a three Persons who are one and have the same nature and essence, and wrote that John the Baptist was Elijah, who died before hundreds of years of the birth of John the Baptist, as in the following text:
Matthew 11:13 "For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Matthew 11:14 "And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come.
Matthew 11:15 "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
Isaiah 6:9 And He said, "Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive’.
This paragraph confirms what I have said above that the Lord talked to Isaiah and said to him go and tell this people, so if the text was indicating to the people in the time of Jesus; Isaiah should appear in the time of Jesus and tells the people the words of the Lord.
Isaiah 6:10 "Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed".
This is the paragraph, which was cited by Matthew to say why Jesus did speak to the Jews in parables, and John quoted it to show why the Jews did not believe in Jesus, and if we considered that this paragraph prophesies about the Jews in Jesus' time; so it applies to Matthew and John and the rest of the disciples! And the striking thing here is that Jesus has described them the same descriptions, as in the following text:
Mark 8:14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat.
Mark 8:15 Then He charged them, saying, "Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."
Mark 8:16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have no bread."
Mark 8:17 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, "Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened?
Mark 8:18 "Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?
Isaiah 6:11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered: "Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utterly desolate,
Isaiah 6:12 The LORD has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
Isaiah 6:13 But yet a tenth will be in it, And will return and be for consuming, As a terebinth tree or as an oak, Whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be its stump."
These paragraphs confirm that the text does not talk about the time of Jesus, because it showed a specific period of time for this matter, which is the period of time that the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, the houses are without a man, the land is utterly desolate, and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land, and all these things; Matthew and John and the other Gospels authors did not tell us that it had occurred in the time of Jesus, but this is what happened to the children of Israel before hundreds of years of the birth of Jesus, during captivity to Assyria and Babylon, and this confirms that the text was not talking about the Jews in the time of Jesus.
The second quote mentioned in the Psalm seventy-eight, which is as follows:
Psalm 78:1 (A Contemplation of Asaph.) Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
Psalm 78:3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
The Psalm begins with somebody who calling his people to give ear to his law and to incline their ears to his words, for he will open his mouth in a parable and will utter dark sayings of old, which they have heard and known, and their fathers have told them.
The first thing that appears to us when we compare these paragraphs with the text of Matthew is the big difference between them, because Matthew said; "I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world", and the Psalm says " I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old".
Hebrew Version
Psalm 78:1 Maschil of Asaph. {N} Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old;
Psalm 78:3 That which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us,
Septuagint Version
Psalm 78:1 Give heed, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning.
78:3 All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us.
And I wonder about the reason of the Gospels authors to change the Old Testament texts if they have written through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, as the various churches say, or even if they have Literary Integrity, because if anyone will quote anything from others; should write it as is written to show the reality of the quoted text, yet this way of distorting the texts of the Old Testament refers to the deliberate approach, not inadvertently, especially that what is distorted and manipulated are the texts of the revelation, which the prophets of Israel had received?!
The second thing that appears is that the speaker in the Psalm is an ordinary man, not a god or the son of God, as some people might think, and the proof of this is his saying "we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us".
Psalm 78:4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.
Psalm 78:5 For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
Psalm 78:6 That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children,
Psalm 78:7 That they may set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments;
Psalm 78:8 And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
In these paragraphs the speaker in the Psalm says that he will telling to the coming generations about the praise of the Lord and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done, for He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a Law in Israel, which He commanded their fathers, that they should make them known to their children; that they may set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments; and may not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation! And this case is not the case of the various churches, because they have broken the commandments of the LORD in the Old Testament, as shown previously.
Psalm 78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
Psalm 78:10 They did not keep the covenant of God; They refused to walk in His law,
Psalm 78:11 And forgot His works And His wonders that He had shown them.
Psalm 78:12 Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
These paragraphs talk about the children of Ephraim, and how they did not keep the covenant of the Lord and refused to walk in His Law, and forgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them, and the marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. Yet Matthew and the other Gospels authors did not told us that the children of Ephraim had turned back in the day of battle in Jesus' time, and Jesus has called them but they refused to walk with him, if this text talks about Jesus!
Then the speaker starts talking about the history of the children of Israel, and due to the length of it I will mention some paragraphs only.
Psalm 78:18 And they tested God in their heart By asking for the food of their fancy.
Psalm 78:19 Yes, they spoke against God: They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Psalm 78:20 Behold, He struck the rock, So that the waters gushed out, And the streams overflowed. Can He give bread also? Can He provide meat for His people?"
Psalm 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard this and was furious; So a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also came up against Israel,
Psalm 78:22 Because they did not believe in God, And did not trust in His salvation.
Psalm 78:23 Yet He had commanded the clouds above, And opened the doors of heaven,
Psalm 78:24 Had rained down manna on them to eat, And given them of the bread of heaven.
Psalm 78:25 Men ate angels’ food; He sent them food to the full.
Psalm 78:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens; And by His power He brought in the south wind.
Psalm 78:27 He also rained meat on them like the dust, Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;
Psalm 78:28 And He let them fall in the midst of their camp, All around their dwellings.
Psalm 78:29 So they ate and were well filled, For He gave them their own desire.
Psalm 78:30 They were not deprived of their craving; But while their food was still in their mouths,
Psalm 78:31 The wrath of God came against them, And slew the stoutest of them, And struck down the choice men of Israel.
Psalm 78:32 In spite of this they still sinned, And did not believe in His wondrous works.
These paragraphs talk about the children of Israel in the wilderness, and how the Lord had rained down manna on them to eat, and given them of the bread of heaven, and rained meat on them like the dust, feathered fowl like the sand of the seas, in spite of this they still sinned, and did not believe in His wondrous works, and these things have occurred before hundreds of years of Jesus.
Then the Psalm continues talking about the children of Israel in the wilderness, and then we read the following paragraphs:
Psalm 78:56 Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, And did not keep His testimonies,
Psalm 78:57 But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalm 78:58 For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
Psalm 78:59 When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,
Psalm 78:60 So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,
Psalm 78:61 And delivered His strength into captivity, And His glory into the enemy’s hand.
Psalm 78:62 He also gave His people over to the sword, And was furious with His inheritance.
Psalm 78:63 The fire consumed their young men, And their maidens were not given in marriage.
Psalm 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows made no lamentation.
These paragraphs say that the Lord angered of his people, the children of Israel, and greatly abhorred them, so that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, and delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemy’s hand, and also gave them over to the sword, because they have rebelled against Him, and did not keep his statutes, and provoked Him to anger with their high places and with their carved images, which means that the LORD will be furious with anyone who does not keep His laws and makes carved images and worships them, thus what the churches will say to the LORD about the millions of the carved images, which they have made and worshiped them?
Does the Lord, who was angry with His people because they had made the statues and the idols, and expelled them into the captivity, will be glad with what have been done by the churches?!
Psalm 78:66 And He beat back His enemies; He put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalm 78:67 Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalm 78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.
Psalm 78:69 And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has established forever.
Psalm 78:70 He also chose David His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalm 78:71 From following the ewes that had young He brought him, To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance.
Psalm 78:72 So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
These paragraphs say that the LORD has rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, but chosed the tribe of Judah and David His servant to be the shepherd of His people Jacob, and Israel His inheritance so he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart.
From all of the above, we find that there is no reference to Jesus in the text of Isaiah, or in the Psalm, yet we found that Matthew has distorted and manipulated the text of the Psalm, and John and Luke had used the text of Isaiah in other stories, which has nothing to do with the parables of Jesus, despite Luke had mentioned several parables, and John did not mention any parable in his Gospel, although many of the parables that attributed to Jesus contain several errors such as the Parable of the mustard seed, as will be shown later, and all these thing indicate that the Gospels authors had written their books based on the Old Testament texts, away from the revelation and the Holy Spirit and the historical events as is their way or method or approach of writing the Gospels to bestow a state of holiness, credibility and reliability on their Gospels, for this I can say that our law "do not accept the lying and false" applies to Matthew's texts that showed why Jesus was speaking to the Jews in parables.
(Note: the following posts are in Section V in the book, but because they are related with previous post I liked to post them together)
39 - The Source of the Parable of the Mustard Seed
Matthew 13:31 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,
Matthew 13:32 "which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."
Mark 4:30 Then He said, "To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it?
Mark 4:31 "It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;
Mark 4:32 "but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade."
Luke 13:18 Then He said, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?
Luke 13:19 "It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and put in his garden; and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches."
In these texts Jesus describes the Kingdom of Heaven, or the Kingdom of God, as a mustard seed that grows up to become a large tree, and the birds of the air come and nest in its branches, and this parable shows that the speaker or the writer, whether Jesus or the Gospels authors, does not know anything about the mustard plant! Because the mustard plant in the extremes of its growth is not larger than the shrub and is not higher than one meter, so the writing of this parable in the Gospels indicates that the Gospels authors have not written through the revelation or the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, because if so, they will know that the mustard seed does not grow up to become a large tree, thus what is the source of this parable?
Let's read the following text:
Daniel 4:10 "These were the visions of my head while on my bed: "I was looking, and behold, A tree in the midst of the earth, And its height was great.
Daniel 4:11 The tree grew and became strong; Its height reached to the heavens, And it could be seen to the ends of all the earth.
Daniel 4:12 Its leaves were lovely, Its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, The birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches, And all flesh was fed from it.
This text speaks of a dream or a vision of Nebuchadnezzar, when he saw a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great, etc., with no room to discuss this dream or any other dreams based on the physical reality and science.
Because anyone can dream about anything and no one can oppose him, or discusses his dream, for the dreams outside physical reality and scientific, yet by reference to what Matthew, Mark and Luke have written in their Gospels; we notice that the case is different, because they wrote the words of Jesus as if it were taking place in reality or nature, that's what caused them to write this error.
Moreover, there is another text in the Old Testament, which mentions similar story to the parable of the mustard seed, which is as follows:
Ezekiel 17:22 Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will take also one of the highest branches of the high cedar and set it out. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and prominent mountain.
Ezekiel 17:23 "On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it; and it will bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. Under it will dwell birds of every sort; in the shadow of its branches they will dwell.
Ezekiel 17:24 "And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the LORD, have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish; I, the LORD, have spoken and have done it."
In this text we read words concerning the cedar tree, which is a kind of coniferous trees, and grows significantly, which is in fact could be the dwelling for all kinds of birds, for this finished the text by saying that the LORD has spoken and has done it, thus the words of the Lord are absolutely right, which indicates to the greatness of the LORD, while what we have read in the Gospels on the lips of Jesus contradicts the mustard plant!
Furthermore, if Jesus really was a god and the son of God and one of three Hypostases who are one and have the same nature and essence, as the churches say, the mustard plant should become a large tree, and the birds of the air come and nest in its branches! Thus when the mustard plant have not become a large tree; this indicates that Jesus has nothing to do with the Lord, the Creator of the heavens and the earth in terms of the attributes and the equality, who is if spoke about anything, this thing should be done, as Ezekiel said in this text, which is a clear evidence that the Gospels have not been written through the revelation or the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, which means that our law "do not accept the lying and false" applies to this parable.
40 - The Source of the Parable of the Great Banquet
In fact, not all parables of Jesus like the previous parable contradicted with the nature, there are a number of parables have good meanings, including the following parable:
Luke 14:7 So He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them:
Luke 14:8 "When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him;
Luke 14:9 "and he who invited you and him come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man’, and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place.
Luke 14:10 "But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher’. Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.
Luke 14:11 "For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
As we read that Luke wrote on the lips of Jesus that he calls to not to sit down in the best place, fearing that embarrass the man himself, and this is a good commandment, but the question that arises here is whether this parable is the words of Jesus himself, or it was quoted from the Old Testament as is the method and the approach of writing the Gospels as shown in this book?!
Let's read the following text:
Proverbs 25:6 Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, And do not stand in the place of the great;
Proverbs 25:7 For it is better that he say to you, "Come up here," Than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, Whom your eyes have seen.
This text proves that what have been written in the Gospels, whether the texts that are filled with errors and contradictions or the texts that include good meanings, had quoted from the Old Testament!
