Chapter III
The Sources of the Gospels and the Way of Writing Them
Section VI
The Texts which were quoted from the Old Testament, but they have not been attributed directly to it
In this section will examine the texts which were quoted from the Old Testament, but they have not been attributed directly to it, as is the case in the previous sections, which I call it Storyline or Plot-story or screenplay of the Gospels, where we will review the most of the events and stories and sayings that mentioned in the Gospels, and comparing them with the Old Testament and with Jesus as was portrayed in the Gospels, and his attributes in the laws of the faith of the churches as well.
This post includes the sources of the following sayings:
The Source of the Saying of Jesus "Who made me a judge over you?"
The Source of the Sayings of Jesus "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword" and "I came to send fire on the earth"
The Source of the Saying of Jesus "Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans"
The Source of the Saying of Jesus "O faithless and perverse generation"
The Source of the Saying of Jesus "let the dead bury their own dead"
The Source of the Saying of Jesus "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart"
31 - The Source of the Saying of Jesus "Who made me a judge over you?"
Luke 12:13 Then one from the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
Luke 12:14 But He said to him, "Man, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"
In this text Luke alone wrote on the lips of Jesus that he said that he is not a judge, which means that he has nothing to do with the LORD in terms of divine attributes and equality, unlike what the churches and the laws of the faith say concerning that he was a god and the son of God and one of three Persons who are one and have the same nature and essence and ability, because here Jesus says that he is not a judge, while there are dozens of texts in the Old Testament declare that the LORD the Creator of the heavens and the earth is the judge, including the following texts:
Deuteronomy 1:17 ‘You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it’.
Judges 11:27 ‘Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you wronged me by fighting against me. May the LORD, the Judge, render judgment this day between the children of Israel and the people of Ammon’."
1 Samuel 24:12 "Let the LORD judge between you and me, and let the LORD avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you.
1 Samuel 24:15 "Therefore let the LORD be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my case, and deliver me out of your hand."
Psalm 7:11 God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day.
Psalm 9:7 But the LORD shall endure forever; He has prepared His throne for judgment.
Psalm 9:8 He shall judge the world in righteousness, And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.
Psalm 58:11 So that men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely He is God who judges in the earth."
Psalm 75:7 But God is the Judge: He puts down one, And exalts another.
Isaiah 33:22 (For the LORD is our Judge, The LORD is our Lawgiver, The LORD is our King; He will save us);
This contradiction between Luke and the Old Testament indicates that this text is not revelation or inspiration of the Holy Spirit, so from Where Luke quoted this text?
Let's read the following text:
Exodus 2:11 Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Exodus 2:12 So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
Exodus 2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, "Why are you striking your companion?"
Exodus 2:14 Then he said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" So Moses feared and said, "Surely this thing is known!"
As we read that Luke has quoted the saying of Jesus from the words of the Hebrew man, ignoring that what he wrote contradicts the laws of the faith of the various churches, and what proves my view that Luke had quoted the saying of Jesus from this text is that he had quoted this text and wrote it on the lips of Stephen in Acts of the Apostles, as in the following text:
Act 7:35 "This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge’? is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Despite the fact that this quote is wrong, because Moses at this time has not been sent to them yet, because the LORD will speak with him and sends him after forty years of this event!
Moreover, whom he said to Moses this saying was not a group of people, but one man.
From all this, we see how the Gospels authors have used the Old Testament texts to write their narratives about Jesus in every detail, as is their method and approach of writing the Gospels, as is shown in this book, regardless if they contradict with the Old Testament texts, or with the laws of the faith of the churches, which means that the law "do not accept the lying and false" applies to this saying.
32 - The Source of the Sayings of Jesus "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword" and "I came to send fire on the earth"
Matthew 10:34 "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 "For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’;
Matthew 10:36 "and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household’.
Luke 12:49 "I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
Luke 12:50 "But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished!
Luke 12:51 "Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.
Luke 12:52 "For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three.
Luke 12:53 "Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
These texts represent a dilemma in the hearts and minds of the good people of the followers of the churches, and a strange understanding which contrasts with the preaching of Jesus; which is based on redemption, love, peace, forgiveness and salvation, as displayed in the Gospels and as say the various churches, which indicates that these texts have not been written through the revelation or the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, or even through the same source, because Matthew and Luke did not write the same words, but through the method and approach of writing the Gospels, as is shown in this book. So what are the sources of these texts?
As for the sayings "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth, I did not come to bring peace but a sword" and "I came to send fire on the earth"; there are dozens of texts that talked about the sword of God and about the fire, which had been sent by the LORD, or He will send it, including the following texts:
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 97:3 A fire goes before Him, And burns up His enemies round about.
Ezekiel 30:8 Then they will know that I am the LORD, When I have set a fire in Egypt And all her helpers are destroyed.
Ezekiel 39:6 "And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 39:7 "So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore. Then the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezekiel 39:8 "Surely it is coming, and it shall be done," says the Lord GOD. "This is the day of which I have spoken.
Hosea 8:14 "For Israel has forgotten his Maker, And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces."
Amos 1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, Which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
Amos 1:7 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, Which shall devour its palaces.
Amos 1:10 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, Which shall devour its palaces."
Amos 1:12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah."
Amos 2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, And it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; Moab shall die with tumult, With shouting and trumpet sound.
Amos 2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
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.
Isaiah 34:5 "For My sword shall be bathed in heaven; Indeed it shall come down on Edom, And on the people of My curse, for judgment.
Isaiah 34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is made overflowing with fatness, With the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Isaiah 66:16 For by fire and by His sword The LORD will judge all flesh; And the slain of the LORD shall be many.
Jeremiah 9:15 therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah 9:16 "I will scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them."
Jeremiah 12:12 The plunderers have come On all the desolate heights in the wilderness, For the sword of the LORD shall devour From one end of the land to the other end of the land; No flesh shall have peace.
Jeremiah 25:16 "And they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."
Jeremiah 25:27 "Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Drink, be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you."‘
Jeremiah 25:29 "For behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth," says the LORD of hosts’.
Ezekiel 6:3 "and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD’! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: "Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
Ezekiel 21:4 "Because I will cut off both righteous and wicked from you, therefore My sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north,
As for the source of the rest of the texts of Matthew and Luke, let's read the following text:
Micah 7:5 Do not trust in a friend; Do not put your confidence in a companion; Guard the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom.
Micah 7:6 For son dishonors father, Daughter rises against her mother, Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; A man’s enemies are the men of his own household.
As we read that the text in the book of Micah is almost the same as the text that mentioned in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, despite they must be aware that this notion inconsistent with what they have written about Jesus and his calling for peace, tolerance, love and forgiveness!
33 - The Source of the Saying of Jesus "Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans"
Matthew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: "Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans.
Matthew 10:6 "But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
This text with the text that talks about sending Jesus only to the children of Israel, which is as follows:
Matthew 15:23 But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us."
Matthew 15:24 But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Are considered one of the most major problematic issues in the hearts and minds of the good people of the followers of the churches, because they contradict what is written in the Gospel of John about his visit to a city of Samaria that called Sychar, (John 4:1-43).
Moreover, that all of them are not of the children of Israel, which means that they are not followers of Jesus, if so, this indicates that this text has not been written by the revelation or the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, but through the method and approach of writing the Gospels, as is shown in this book, therefore what is the source of this text?
Let's read the following text:
Jeremiah 10:1 Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus says the LORD: "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them.
As we read that the LORD asked the children of Israel not to learn the way of the Gentiles, which is similar to what is written by Matthew, but he wrote his text as a real way or a physical way, which made him contrasts with John!
34 - The Source of the Saying of Jesus "O faithless and perverse generation"
Matthew 17:14 And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,
Matthew 17:15 "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
Matthew 17:16 "So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him."
Matthew 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me."
Matthew 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
Matthew 17:19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?"
Matthew 17:20 So Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Matthew 17:21 "However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."
Luke 9:37 Now it happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met Him.
Luke 9:38 Suddenly a man from the multitude cried out, saying, "Teacher, I implore You, look on my son, for he is my only child.
Luke 9:39 "And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out; it convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and it departs from him with great difficulty, bruising him.
Luke 9:40 "So I implored Your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."
Luke 9:41 Then Jesus answered and said, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."
Luke 9:42 And as he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child, and gave him back to his father.
These two texts represented a dilemma in the Gospels; not only because they have described the disciples as a faithless, which is indeed their reality as it is written in the Gospels, but because they could not cure the child and cast the demon out of him, while Matthew and Luke wrote before this story that Jesus had given them power and authority over all demons to cast them out, as in the following texts:
Matthew 10:1 And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.
Luke 9:1 Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
Luke 9:2 He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
And this proves that the word of Jesus is not true and unachievable, and this unlike the words of the Lord the Creator of the heavens and the earth, as is shown in the first chapter, which indicates that this story is not a revelation or an inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and what matters here is what is the source of the saying "faithless and perverse generation"?
Let's read the following text:
Deuteronomy 32:3 For I proclaim the name of the LORD: Ascribe greatness to our God.
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
Deuteronomy 32:5 "They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation.
Deuteronomy 32:6 Do you thus deal with the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?
This text is part of the Song of Moses, which he had said at the end of his life, and describes the children of Israel that they are a perverse and crooked generation, and this description is true, because they did a lot of troubles to Moses, even though they had seen a lot of miracles, as is written in the Old Testament, while what Matthew and Luke have written on the lips of Jesus that he says that his disciples is a faithless and perverse generation proves that his words in the previous texts about giving his disciples the power over unclean spirits to cast them out have not been achieved!
35 - The Source of the Saying of Jesus "let the dead bury their own dead"
Matthew 8:21 Then another of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."
Matthew 8:22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead."
Luke 9:59 Then He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."
Luke 9:60 Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God."
Anyone who reads these texts feels sad, because how dare Matthew and Luke to write about the hardness of Jesus' heart; who prevented his disciple to bury his father on the flimsy and false pretext, and contradictory as well, saying let the dead bury their own dead and go and preach the kingdom of God, because this disciple could have preached the kingdom of God among his family and his peoples, and there is no moment for preaching the Kingdom of God better than the moment which the human beings facing death, so this disciple was able to preach the Kingdom of God and at the same time contributes to bury his father.
For this, I can say that this text is not a revelation or inspiration of the Holy Spirit, but it was written according to the method and approach of writing the Gospels, as is shown in this book, so from Where Matthew and Luke have quoted this text, and wrote it on the lips of Jesus?
Let's read the following text:
1Kings 19:19 So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him.
1Kings 19:20 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, "Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?"
1Kings 19:21 So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.
The existence of this story in the Old Testament; made Matthew and Luke compose this story about Jesus, but unlike the story of Elijah and Elisha, as we read, because when Elisha asked Elijah to let him to kiss his father and his mother then he will follow him; Elijah did not say anything to him, such as "you should not kiss the dead" or that your father and mother do not deserve the kiss, but allowed him and said to him "go back again", so Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, and gave it to the people, and they ate, then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.
For this I say that the method and the approach of the Gospels authors in writing the Gospels, which is the quoting the stories and the texts of the Old Testament and reformulating them in the Gospels, regardless of the true meaning or the reality of those stories and texts, is the main reason of all the errors and contradictions and unacceptable sayings that we read in the Gospels!
36 - The Source of the Saying of Jesus "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart"
Matthew 5:27 "You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery’.
Matthew 5:28 "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
This text is one of the beautiful texts that written by Matthew on the lips of Jesus, but it is not far away from the method and approach of the Gospels authors in writing the Gospels, which is the quoting from the texts of the Old Testament and reformulating them in their narratives about Jesus to make similarity with the Old Testament to say that they are from the same source, as shown in this book, including this text, which is similar to two texts in the Old Testament, which are as follows:
Exodus 20:17 "You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s."
Proverbs 6:25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, Nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
We can see the similarity between the texts of the Old Testament and Matthew's text, and this appears in the most of teachings of Jesus in the Gospels, because either they are on the contrary of them, or violated the commandments of the Law, or added to them, or they are themselves! For this I say that most of the stories and the texts of the Gospels can be read from the Old Testament, with one difference, in fact a huge difference, which is that the Old Testament calls to worship the Lord the true God alone, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, while the Gospels call to worship three gods with the LORD or beside Him, and that is why it contains all these contradictions and discrepancies and errors and differences.
