Bible ~~- Newer Testament ~~- John ~~- chapter 20 of 21 (31 verses.)

John 20Wrench

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72 Hours Later, Yahshua Rises From The Dead
1 [72 complete hours pass, ๐Ÿ˜‡.] Early on the 1st day of the week, while it's still dark, Mary Magdalene [races] to the gravesite. [She] sees the stone [already] rolled away from the tomb!
72 COMPLETE HOURS. 1st day of the week = โ€˜sundayโ€™ morning. More technically, this appears to be a reference to the 1st day of counting 7 sabbaths until pentecost; see Lev 28:15-17.
2 Then Mary runs [all the way back] to Simon-Peter {Rock} and [JAHn,] another disciple Yahshua loves. Mary [panting, out of breath] cries to [Rock & JAHn], โ€œThe [Jews] stole Master [Yahshua] from the tomb! We have no idea where they [stashed] his [body].โ€
3 So Peter {Rock} and [JAHn] run out [of their hiding shack. They race] to the tomb.
4 [JAHn] outruns Peter. So [JAHn] gets to the tomb first, ๐Ÿ˜‡.
5 [JAHn] stoops down. He looks into [the tomb]. He sees [Yahshua's] linen [grave] cloths lying [there]. But [JAHn] doesn't go in.
6 Then Simon-Peter {Rock} runs up [panting] behind [JAHn]. Peter ventures into the tomb. [He] sees [Yahshua's] linen [burial] strips lying [on a rock].
7 The burial cloth (that had been around Yahshua's head) lies folded up by itself, separate from the linen.
8 Then [JAHn] goes into the tomb. [He too] sees [the evidence of Yahshua's resurrection]. So [he] deduces [that Yahshua is alive].
9 [Yahshua's disciples] still fail to comprehend the scripture's predictions that Yahshua would rise from the dead, ๐Ÿ˜‡.
10 Then the disciples return to their own [hiding place(s) and/or families].
Again, these guys are homeless! They sold their homes like Jesus commanded YOU to! Every single bookstore translation fraudulently inserts the word โ€˜homeโ€™ in this verse!
The Risen Messiah Appears To His Students
11 But Mary stands outside the tomb weeping, ๐Ÿ˜‡. As she weeps, she stoops down. She looks into the tomb.
12 Mary sees 2 angels in white. [They] sit, one at the head, the other at the feet, of where Yahshua's corpse lay [just hours before].
13 The angels say to Mary, โ€œWoman, why are you weeping?โ€ Mary answers the angels, โ€œBecause the [persecutors] have taken away my [dead] Master! I have no idea where they've [hidden] him.โ€
14 Then Mary turns around. [She] sees Yahshua standing [there in front of her]! But [Yahshua has shape-shifted, ๐Ÿ˜‡]. So Mary fails to recognize him.
15 Yahshua asks Mary, โ€œWoman, why are you weeping? Who do you seek?โ€ Mary, supposing Yahshua is the gardener, says to him, โ€œSir, if you've taken [Yahshua] away, tell me where you put him. I'll go get him [and embalm his body].โ€
16 Yahshua says to her, โ€œMary.โ€ Mary turns around [from weeping]. She cries to Yahshua, โ€œRabboni!โ€ (โ€œMaster!โ€)
17 YHVH's Family" href="?themes=16.3" target="The_Theme_Of_Sonship in Father YHVH's Family"> Yahshua says to Mary, โ€œDon't touch me, because I haven't yet ascended to [YHVH] my Father. Instead [run] to my brothers. Tell them I'm about ascend to [YHVH] (my Father and your Father, my Elohim and your Elohim).โ€
YHVH is the Elohim and FATHER of Yahshua. Both we and Yahshua are subordinate to YHVH, the Father. Don't mush Yahshua into the identity of the Father. Ignore and repudiate the confused Athanasian creed. โ€˜Elohimโ€™ here is plural. But plural in Hebrew is often used to denote the ultimate single example of a type. For example, the biggest tree would be called, โ€˜Trees,โ€™ as in โ€˜tree of all trees.โ€™
18 Mary Magdalene runs to tell [Yahshua's] disciples she's seen Adoni [Yahshua]. She repeats everything Yahshua told her.
19 That evening, the first day of the week, the disciples hide behind locked doors, ๐Ÿ˜‡. [They crouch,] huddled for fear of the [murderous] Judaeans. Yahshua teleports to stand right in the middle of the disciples! He [sings] to them, โ€œShalom aleikhem!โ€ [โ€œPeace, guys.โ€]
20 Then Yahshua shows the disciples his [pierced] hands and side. When the disciples see [their] Master, they overflow with joy, ๐Ÿ˜‡.
21 Then Yahshua says to his disciples, โ€œPeace, men! In the same way that [YHVH] my Father sent me, I now send you [into persecution, death & resurrection].โ€
See Matt 28:18-20, The Great Commission. You need no man's permission to go on a mission overseas. Don't wait around for some church to authorize you to go, nor for some worldly government to give you papers with strings attached. GO!
22 Then Yahshua blows with force on his disciples. [He] says to them, โ€œReceive Sacred Spirit!
23 โ€”[I am giving you power to forgive sins.] Whoever's sins you forgive, those sins are gone forever. If you choose not to forgive their sins, their sins remain.โ€
This is a very controversial verse. It could be translated: โ€˜I give you the power to fix people's mistakes,โ€™ for instance to cure venereal disease or leprosy. It led the Catholic church to fraudulently sell indulgences (fake forgiveness for money). We are not authorized to build businesses on this verse.
24 Now Thomas (Twin, aka โ€˜Didymus,โ€™ one of Yahshua's 12 apostles,) is absent from the other disciples when Yahshua appears [to them in their hiding house].
25 So the other disciples say to Thomas {Twin}, โ€œWe've seen Adoni [Yahshua]!โ€ But Thomas scoffs to them, โ€œUnless I see the nail-prints in Yahshua's hands, and put my finger into the [holes], and put my hand into [the spear-wound in] Yahshua's side, I will never believe [he lives].โ€
26 8 days later, Yahshua's disciples, including [doubting] Thomas {Twin}, [still sit huddled] in their hiding house. Yahshua [supernaturally] floats right through the shut and locked doors. [He] stands in the middle of the group. [He shouts], โ€œShalom, friends!โ€
Shalom aleikhem!
27 Then Yahshua says to Thomas {Twin}, โ€œReach your finger over here. Check out my hands. Reach your hand over here. Poke it into [the spear-hole in] my side. Stop doubting. Trust [me].โ€
28 Thomas {Twin} answers Yahshua, โ€œMy Adoni and my Eloah!โ€
Thomas was NOT worshiping Yahshua as [YHVH] THE Eloha. That would be a kind of blasphemy which occurs nowhere else in scripture. Yahshua (Jesus) is often referred to as โ€˜Elohimโ€™ (chief). But Jesus is never referred to as THE God [Ho Theos, The Eloha]. What Thomas was saying was similar to the common expression of shock and surprise, โ€œMy lord! My God!โ€ Even if you want to imagine that Thomas was confused enough to think he was looking at an apparition of YHVH, you still can't build a theology on the words of โ€˜Doubting Thomas.โ€™ Thus another pillar for the Athanasian creed crumbles to dust.
29 Yahshua answers Thomas {Twin}, โ€œThomas, you believe [I'm alive] because you saw me [with your meat-eyes]. [YAH] blesses people who believe even though they don't see [physical proof].โ€
30 Before [the stunned faces of] his disciples, Yahshua performs many other [miraculous] signs not described in this book, ๐Ÿ˜‡.
31 But [I] write these [accounts] so that you, ๐Ÿ˜‡, will believe that Yahshua is the Messiah, the son of [YHVH] the Eloah, and that [by] trusting [him] you come to [obtain] life, through [active, lifelong obedience] to Yahshua's Name-Authority.
Eternal life comes from obedience to Yahshua's authority, not merely praying โ€˜in the name of Jesus.โ€™
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