John 2, could thegod tolerate Pontius Pilot freeing Yeshua (Jesus, note)?

 John 2, could thegod tolerate Pontius Pilot freeing Yeshua (Jesus)? I think so.

Note: In early 2024 I learned his mom and dad in Nazareth named and called him "Yeshua", and "Jesus" is a consequence of translations from Aramaic/Hebrew to Greek, to Latin, to old English, then to Protestant English. "Christ" supports Paul, and some people believe Paul without civic objection. This discovery is wonderful and to be shared.

CJB emphasis in blue and green, Nomads* comments in yellow, and my comments in gray.   *Participative Sunday-school-class at UBC led by Kenneth Tipton

[I read the Bible to consider a perhaps 5500 year old Sumerian political philosophy. It’s primitively expressed by Semite scholars of 3900 years ago in Genesis 1:26-28, in my paraphrase:  Female-and-male-human-being may and can, independent of other entities, choose to constrain political democracy on earth: on earth, humankind has the power to pursue the good and constrain the bad. Rule of law may develop justice. Yeshua affirmed these ideas in each Matthew 19:3-8, in Matthew 5:48, and in other direct dialogue. I think the next Bible canon should include the law codes of Sumer and competing civilizations. Resulting insights would take the heat off Judeo-Christianity, a Christ vs Messiahs* competition** that egregiously deludes Yeshua’s civic influence. The resulting comprehensive view could accelerate collaborative pursuit of human being (verb) and lessen baby killings, like those happening in Israel, in Ukraine, and in the U.S.

*Cyrus, 600 BC, is called a messiah in Isaiah 45:1.

**Competitive monotheism survives on war.]

2 On Tuesday here was a wedding at Kanah in the Galil; and the mother of Yeshua was there. ² Yeshua too was invited to the wedding, along with his talmidim. ³ The wine ran out, and Yeshua’s mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” ⁴ Yeshua replied, “Mother, why should that concern me? — or you? My time hasn’t come yet.” ⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ⁶ Now six stone water-jars were standing there for the Jewish ceremonial washings, each with a capacity of twenty or thirty gallons. ⁷ Yeshua told them, “Fill the jars with water,” and they filled them to the brim. ⁸ He said, “Now draw some out, and take it to the man in charge of the banquet”; and they took it. ⁹ The man in charge tasted the water; it had now turned into wine! He did not know where it had come from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. So he called the bridegroom ¹⁰ and said to him, “Everyone else serves the good wine first and the poorer wine after people have drunk freely. But you have kept the good wine until now!” ¹¹ This, the first of Yeshua’s miraculous signs, he did at Kanah in the Galil; he manifested his glory, and his talmidim came to trust in him. [Trust based on miracles is a matter of believing Yeshua could control physics much as Moses supposedly did, e.g., providing water by striking a rock, Exodus 17:5 and Numbers 20:11.] ¹² Afterwards, he, his mother and brothers, and his talmidim went down to K’far-Nachum and stayed there a few days.

¹³ It was almost time for the festival of Pesach in Y’hudah, so Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim. ¹⁴ In the Temple grounds he found those who were selling cattle, sheep and pigeons [Jews in Judea still practicing blood sacrifices.], and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money. ¹⁵ He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He knocked over the money-changers’ tables, scattering their coins; ¹⁶ and to the pigeon-sellers he said, “Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market [Principle: don’t commercialize or politicize thegod.]?” ¹⁷ (His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, “Zeal for your house will devour me.” ) [Psalms 69 addresses Israel’s passionate, misguided pursuit of gods through sacrifice and self-fulfilling predicts Yeshua’s estrangement from Nazareth.] ¹⁸ So the Judeans confronted him by asking him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove you have the right to do all this?” ¹⁹ Yeshua answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” ²⁰ The Judeans said, “It took 46 years to build this Temple, and you’re going to raise it in three days?” ²¹ But the “temple” he had spoken of was his body. ²² Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his talmidim remembered that he had said this, and they trusted in the Tanakh and in what Yeshua had said. [Trust based on miracles is a matter of believing Yeshua could control physics much as Elijah reportedly did, e.g., raising the dead, 1 Kings 17:17-24.] 

²³ Now while Yeshua was in Yerushalayim at the Pesach festival, there were many people who “believed in his name” when they saw the miracles he performed. ²⁴ But he did not commit himself to them [John overlooks that in every conversation with “the person on the street”, Yeshua was open minded and open hearted. I don’t trust John’s writing.], for he knew what people are like — ²⁵ that is, he didn’t need anyone to inform him about a person, because he knew what was in the person’s heart. [Perhaps John misinterprets here, and the real issue is that Jesus knew the political correctness of the Judean majority and feared for his life. That is a foretaste of Pontius Pilot, another god facing death, having the power and authority to free Yeshua, an innocent man.]

[About 40 years after Yeshua died, the Romans destroyed the temple and Jerusalem. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70_CE) then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbinic_Judaism.  “Following the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE . . . Jewish worship stopped being centrally organized around the Temple, prayer took the place of sacrifice, and worship was rebuilt around rabbis who acted as teachers and leaders of individual communities.” “Instead of giving tithes to the priests and sacrificing offerings at the Temple, the rabbis instructed Jews to give money to charities and study in local synagogues, as well as to pay the Fiscus Iudaicus.” “As the rabbis were required to face a new reality, that of Judaism without a Temple (to serve as the location for sacrifice and study) and Judea without autonomy, there was a flurry of legal discourse, and the old system of oral scholarship could not be maintained.”

Russell’s question, are claims that Adonai demanded sacrifices fictional? seems well grounded and justified.

Furthermore, it brings into question Yeshua’s reported “sacrifice”. It seems like execution of an innocent man, to me. I’ll never know the ineluctable truth about it, but have my opinion: thegod could have handled Pontius Pilot releasing Yeshua (Jesus in common terms). I commend Yeshua’s civic influence and gladly switch to “Jesus’ civic influence” for those who prefer that name. “Civic” refers to reliable responsibility to the good rather than the bad in human connections and transactions on earth.]