ARIUS CALPURNIUS PISO
PEN NAME
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS
$12.00
WHY WE WELCOME YOU TO THE INNER CIRCLE
The INNER CIRCLE or INNER RING is the most exclusive club in history. It has consisted of those religious, political and literary leaders having knowledge of the GREAT SECRET: that the Calpurnius Piso family of ancient Rome created the fictional Jesus, the New Testament, the Church, and Christianity. In welcoming the general public to this knowledge, the following introduction is appropriate.
Originally, this explanation was designed solely for Jews-for the purpose of preventing their con\-version to Christianity. It was not intended for Christians nor other non-Jews. No exclusivism was in\-tended; rather, concern for the faith of others.
The purpose of this booklet was to inform Jewish-Christians and Jewish-Jews of the true account of the creation of Christianity. In the first century A.D., Jews were 10% of the population of the Roman Empire. Today, after 1900 years of suffering persecution, forced conversion, exiling, murder, and finally the Holocaust, the Jews are but ]/4 of 1% of the world's population.
And today Jews are being attacked by modern versions of the age-old problems. Firstly, there are a number of groups of what are called "Messianic Jews" or "Hebrew Christians" or "Completed Jews," whose leaders are engaged in the twofold business of (1) collecting money from Christians, their churches, and their Christian organizations, and (2) using the money thus collected to evangelize the more confused and/or unsophisticated of their Jewish brethren into changing their religious affilia\-tion to become Christians.
Secondly, still today other "Christian" groups continue to manipulate their readers and listeners by preaching hatred toward Jews. Some attack Jews by attacking the State of Israel. They claim the Holocaust was a lie created by Jews to justify Israel. They continuously present the account of the 1967 wartime attack on the USS Liberty, with their cry of Jewish "conspiracy." Other groups claim that they, white Christian Americans, are somehow descended from the Northern Ten Tribes who were carried off by Assyria in 720 B.C.; and that they, and not Jews, are modern-day Israel; and that Jews are Satanic rejecters of Christ and have no right to exist. All this is done in the name of Christ (while the money continues pouring in)!
This hatred toward Jews seems reasonable to many 0n/y because 1900 years of stereotyping Jews has Conditioned Popular thinking to its acceptance. The hatred was deliberately created by the authors of the New Testament, as this booklet shows.
Thirdly, our Arab cousins have seized upon the world-wide negative image of the Jews to likewise manipulate for power. They and their Communist friends dominate the UN so that it spends 50% of its total time attacking Israel by every conceivable excuse.
Many Christians (as well as Jews) have wondered at this continued manipulation of hatred. Chris\-tians have also wondered at just why the Jews did reject Jesus. They have doubted the Jesus story; but there were no answers available for their questions. Many have been clearly pleased to obtain and read this explanation. Therefore, it is to seekers of truth of all POSSible PERsuasions that we respect\-fully submit the information in this booklet.
PRAISE PISO!
A Challenging Proposal--If any group or person should feel its sincerity and/or honesty is being un\-fairly attacked by this booklet or should wish to challenge this thesis, we stand ready to publicly debate on the issues: (a) the actual authorship of the New Testament, and (b) the proof that leaders know this great secret and use the information (which is code) in their writings.
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The True Authorship of the New Testament.
Bibliography:
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ISBN 0-930808-02-9
CONTENTS
I,
II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX.
X.
XI.
The Great Secret
The Jews Reject The Story
The Authorship of The New Testament Books
The Numerical Code Systems
Sounds, Animals and Allusions
The Family In The New Testament
The Creation of The Church
How to Find Josephus as The Author
The Proof That Josephus Was Really
Calpurnius Piso
The Inner Circle
The Truth Makes Free
Copyright © 1979 by Abelard Reuchlin
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
First published in 1979 in paperback, 8,500 copies first printing,
Published by Abelard Reuchlin Foundation, P.O. Box 5652, Kent, WA 98031
Printed in the United States of America
I. THE GREAT SECRET--"FOR THERE IS NOTHING COVERED
THAT WILL NOT BE REVEALED" (Mat. 10.26)
The New Testament, the Church, and Christianity, were all the creation of the Calpurnius Piso (pronounced Peso)1 family, who were Roman aristocrats. The New Testament and all the characters in it--Jesus, all the Josephs, all the Maws, all the disciples, apostles, Paul, and John the Baptist--are all fictional. The Pisos created the story and the characters; they tied the story into a specific time and place in history; and they connected it with some peripheral actual people, such as the Herods, Gamaliel, the Roman procurators, etc. But Jesus and everyone involved with him were created (that is, fictional!) characters.
In the middle of the first century of the present era, Rome's aristocracy felt itself con\-fronted with a growing problem. The Jewish religion was continuing to grow in numbers, adding ever more proselytes. Jews numbered more than 8,000,000, and were 10% of the population of the empire and 20% of that portion living east of Rome.2 Approximately half or more of the Jews lived outside Palestine, of which many were descended from proselytes, male and female.3
However, Judaism's ethics and morality were incompatible with the hallowed Roman institution of slavery on which the aristocracy fed, lived and ruled. They feared that Judaism would become the chief religion of the empire. The Roman author, An-naeus Seneca, tutor and confidant of Emperor Nero, suggested in a letter to his friend Lucilius (a pseudonym of Lucius Piso) that lighting candles on Sabbaths be prohibited.4 Seneca is later quoted by St. Augustine in his City of God5 (although the quotation does not exist in Seneca's extant writings) as charging that:
"the (Sabbath) customs of that most accursed nation have gained such strength that they have been now received in all lands, the conquered have given laws to the conqueror."
The family headed by Seneca's friend, Lucius Piso, was confronted with an allied problem more personal to it. They were the Calpurnius Pisos, who were descended from statesmen and consuls, and from great poets and historians as well. Gaius Lucius Calpurnius Piso, the leader of the family, had married Arria the younger (from her grandfather's name, Aristobulus). This made Lucius Piso's wife the great-grand-daughter of Herod the Great.
Repeatedly, religious-minded Judaean zealots were staging insurrections against the Herodian rulers of Judaea who were Piso's wife's relations. Piso wished to strengthen his wife's family's control of the Judaeans.
The Pisos searched for a solution to the two problems. They found it in the Jewish holy books, which were the foundation both for the rapid spread of the religion and for the zealots' refusal to be governed by Rome's puppets. The Pisos mocked, but marvel\-ed at, the Jewish belief in their holy books. Therefore, they felt a new "Jewish" book would be the ideal method to pacify the Judaeans and strengthen their inlaws' control of the country.
About the year, 60 A.D., Lucius Calpurnius Piso composed Ur Marcus, the first version of the Gospel of Mark, which no longer exists. He was encouraged by his friend Seneca5a and assisted by his wife's kinsman, young Persius the poet.
Nero's mistress (later his wife) Poppea was pro-Jewish, and Nero opposed the plan. The result was the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, detailed in the historian Tacitus. But this attempt failed when he aborted the plot. Instead, Nero had Piso and Seneca and their fellow conspirators executed by forcing them to commit suicide.
He exiled Piso's young son Arrius (spelled "Arius" herein), who appears in Tacitus under several names, including "Antonius Natalis. "6 Nero sent young Piso to Syria as governer. That post also gave him command of the legions controlling Judaea. His own "history" records his service in Judaea in the year 65 under the name of Gessius Florus, and in 66 with the pseudonym Cestius Gallus.
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This Arius Calpurnius Piso deliberately provoked the Jewish revolt in 66 so he could destroy the Temple in Jerusalem--for the Jews were unwilling to accept his father's story and thereby become pacified by it as was intended.7
However, his 12th Legion was caught by the zealots in the Pass of Beth Horon and almost lost. Nero's reaction was to exile him instead to Pannonia, to command a legion there; and to send Licinius Mucianus to serve in Syria, and Vespasian to Judaea to put down the Jewish revolt.
Then in 68 Nero was assassinated by his own slave Epaphroditus8 --who unknown to his master was young Piso's lackey. Galba became emperor and named Piso's cousin, Licinianus Piso9, as his intended successor; but Galba in turn was soon overthrown by Otho. Otho was then overthrown by Vitellius--at which point Piso and his friends began to flock together against the latter. The Pisos and Vespasian and Mucianus and Tiberius Alexander (Philo's nephew) all joined ranks behind Vespasian to seek to over\-throw Vitellius.10
Arius Calpurnius Piso was still commanding the 7th Legion in Pannonia11 (Austria-Hungary), and Vespasian sent him (now appearing in Tacitus with the name Marcus Antonius Primus12) south across the Alps to overthrow Vitellius. Meanwhile, the main body of Vespasian's legions marched overland under Mucianus from the east towards Rome. Piso succeeded in defeating Vitellius' army and secured Rome for Vespasian.13 Mucianus arrived and promptly sent him to Judaea to help Titus at the siege of Jerusalem. He did so, and in 70 they assaulted the city, then the Temple, burn\-ed it, slaughtered many thousands, sent thousands more to slavery and gladiatorial combat and death.
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Then, Arius Calpurnius Piso wrote, in sequence, the following: |
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Gospel of Matthew |
70-75 C.E. |
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Present Gospel of Mark |
75-80 C.E. |
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Gospel of Luke (with help of Pliny the Younger) |
85-90 C.E. |
In the gospel story he inserted himself by playing the role not only of Jesus, but of all the Josephs, as well. He particularly enjoyed assuming the identity of Joseph. Wishing to create a Jewish hero, a savior, in fictional form, he (and his father before him), felt the identity of a second Joseph secretly, but very aptly, fit them. For their name Piso had the same four letters, rearranged, as the four Hebrew letters (Yud Vov Samech Fey) which in that language spelled the name Joseph. Thus they saw themselves as the new Joseph. That is why so much of the story of Joseph in Egypt is secretly redone and
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inserted into the gospel story of Jesus. The Jewish Joseph (of Genesis) • 12 brothers • Spices on the camels • Joseph flees without his cloak from Potiphar's wife *Joseph was sold for 20 pieces of silver • Brother Judah suggests the sale • Background was Egypt, bondage and slaying of the first-born *Miriam is sister of Moses, whose story is sequel to that of Joseph. |
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The second Joseph (Jesus) • 12 disciples • Spices with the Magi *The young disciple flees without his cloak when Jesus is arrested. • Jesus is sold for 30 pieces of silver *Judas sells Jesus *Background was flight to Egypt to avoid Herod's slaying of the male children (Mt.2.13,16) • Mariam is Jesus' mother |
The Jesus figure which Piso creates is a composite. He inserts redrawn elements from Joseph in Egypt and other Jews of the Bible; elements from Essenic writings; and characteristics of various pagan gods.
Piso plagiarized the Hebrew scriptures. Especially, he loved and borrowed freely from the prophet Isaiah, whose 44th chapter was most helpful. Piso's idea to make Jesus a god to whom to bow, worship and pray came from Isaiah 44.17; and the idea to
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phecies" in the Gospel of John, and in the writings of the church fathers. The "pro\-phecies" fit Jesus for the same reason Cinderella's slippers fit her feet. The Jesus story was deliberately written in such a way that it would fulfill the prophecies.
In addition to creating Jesus in literature, Piso created for himself another fam6us literary role, that of a purported Jewish general and then historian: Flavius Josephus. As Josephus, he contended he had bravely led his fellow Jews in the war in defending Galilee against the Roman invaders! However, like Jesus, Josephus came only in literature, that is, in Piso's own writings. 'Under his fictional name of Flavius Josephus he also wrote, during these approximate years the following:
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• The Jewish War |
75-80 C.E. |
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• Jewish Antiquities (Jewish Archaeology) |
90-93 C.E. |
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• His purported autobiography entitled Vita in Latin (which |
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would be Bios in Greek)--which is also fictional |
96-103 C.E. |
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• Contra Apionem |
103-105 C.E. |
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Piso is known publicly in history only under his pen name of Flavius Josephus. He does not appear as Arius Calpurnius Piso. His true identity is decipherable only by reconstruction. With his father's death at Nero's hands in 65, the Pisos vanish from public Roman history. For the next 73 years they are busy writing the NT and tighten\-ing their power over the known world; but they appear only under alias names. They reappear as a family with Piso's grandson Antoninus as emperor in 138, and are thereafter known chiefly as the Antonines--but not as the Pisos!
His mother's people rejected his tale and with good reason. They well knew he had destroyed their Temple and City and slaughtered their people because of his senseless hatred (John 15.25); and that he was now the author of the new fiction by which Rome was hoping to control the Judaean masses. They also knew that while finishing the Gospel of Matthew and writing his account of the war entitled the Jewish War, he was the Roman general who in 73 destroyed the last three Jewish outposts: Machaerus, Herodion, and then Masada.
In the semi-fictional story of the war which he wrote he gave himself, as conqueror of Masada, the fictional name Flavius Silva.' He knew the details of the siege of Masada intimately because he was the the one who conducted it. He wrote that the defenders who committed suicide totaled 9602 because (as the explanation later of his code system will explain) 600 stood for Christ, 300 stood for the Cross, and 60 stood for the name Calpurnius Piso .
Then he inserted into the Gospel of Mark after the year 75 the fallen commander of Masada, Eliezer ben Yair.3 He makes him Jairus, in Mark 5.22. Then he puts him into Luke 8.41 as Lazarus. He was teasing that he, Piso, because his alter ego creation was Jesus, could heal and raise from the dead, whereas the Jews had been forced by him to perish at Masada.
Because of the destruction in the war, Judaea after 70 was desolate and under-populated. With little left to tax, the Herodian aristocracy had gone to Rome per\-manently to live. The Sadducaean priesthood, appointees and in-laws of the Herods, were dead at the revolutionaries' hands, and the remainder scattered to Rome. Even the Essenic visionaries in the desert were dead--at Piso's hand.
The only surviving Judaean leadership were the non-political or fence-straddling Pharisees, who after 70 changed their names to rabbis. The remaining Judaeans looked to them for guidance. Their leader, Yochanan ben Zakai, had obtained Vespasian's permission to establish a school at Yavneh. In return the rabbis now taught pacifism and accommodation to Vespasian's imperial wishes.
But unlike the Herods before them, they were not fully practical. For they refused to accommodate Piso's wishes as to religion. They refused to instruct their people to ac\-cept his story.
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The little man up in the sycamore tree in Luke chapter 19, who becomes a follower of Jesus. Rabbi Gamliel (Gamaliel) is inserted not only as the teacher of Paul (Acts 22.3) but also as the speaker at the Council of Jerusalem warning that the apostles should be let alone (Acts 5.38-39). Even Rabbi Akiva would be added to Acts: as Agabus (Acts 11.28 and 21.10) and as Sceva (Acts 19.14).
More vengeance was wrought by Piso by his picturing the Jews, in the successive gospels, as increasingly evil. In Matthew chapter 23, Jesus repeatedly calls the scribes and Pharisees hypocrites and even vipers--but does not include the people. In Matthew 3.7, also, the Pharisees and Sadducees are called offspring of vipers--this time by John the Baptist. But by the time of Luke 3.7, it is not merely the leaders but the crowds whom John the Baptist calls the offspring of vipers. And in Acts 23.12 (writ\-ten 96-100) it is "the Jews" (and not merely the Pharisees or Sadducees) who form a conspiracy to kill Paul. By the time of the Gospel of John (year 105), the author (Piso's son, Justus) has Jesus tell the Jews who challenge him, "You are of (your) father the devil...'(John 8.44)'
Even when Piso absolves the villains of culpability-- " Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"(Luke 23.34)--it is the Roman soldiers, and not the Jews, whom he excuses. It was true that none of the actors knew what--because none of the fictional characters could be present to observe the writing of the story!
The NT pictures the Jews as the enemies of Jesus, of Paul, and of the message of the Gospel. Piso's son Proculus, writing the Epistle to the Romans, in 11.28 explained the reason why the Jews were being pictured as the enemies of the new belivers: "As con\-cerning the gospel (they, the Jews, are) enemies because of you" (for your sakes). That is, in order that the people would believe the story! The author of I and II John admits why the Jews were then opposing the Gospel--they were refusing to confess that Jesus Christ had come "in (the) flesh" (I John 4.3; II John, verse 7). The author's response was to label such opponents as deceivers and anti-Christ (ibid).
III.THE
AUTHORSHIP OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
BOOKS-- "LET GOD BE TRUE, BUT EVERY MAN A LIAR... "(Romans 3.4)
The main authors of the New Testament books were Arius Calpurnius Piso (Josephus); his son, Fabius Justus; his granddaughter's husband, Pliny the Younger; and his son, Julius.
Following is a list of the actual authorship of each of the books of the New Testament:
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THE ACTUAL AUTHOR Lucius Calpurnius Piso Arius Calpurnius Piso Arius Calpurnius Piso Arius Calpurnius Piso with Pliny's help Justus Calpurnius Piso Chapters 1-15, A. C. Piso with Justus' help; chapters 16-17, by Justus; chapters 18-28, some written by Justus, some by Pliny Proculus Calpurnius Piso Pliny Justus Justus with his son Julianus' help Pliny Justus |
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Titus |
103-105 |
Pliny |
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Philemon |
105-110 |
Justus with help of Julianus |
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James |
110 |
Justus |
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I and II Peter |
110-115 |
Proculus |
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I, II, and III John |
110-115 |
Julius Calpurnius Piso |
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Jude |
110-115 |
Julius |
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Revelation |
136-137 |
Julius |
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Hebrews |
140 |
Flavius Arrianus (Arrian), aka Appian, younger |
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THE CHURCH FATHERS. Between 100 and 105 additional Christian books were already being done--by the same authors who were finishing the New Testament itself. Julius wrote an epistle as Clement of Rome. Pliny wrote a number of epistles as St. Ignatius. Proculus wrote one as St. Polycarp. By these writings, the authors were installing themselves, in their own time, as the legitimate successors of the apostles Peter and Paul who had supposedly written in the middle of the past century. This facade entitled them, as they now went among their new believers, to be the legitimate propagandizers and interpreters of the Christian writings.
THE SEPTUAGINT. Father, too, was busy. Piso was amending the Greek Sep\-tuagint. In his gospels he had strengthened his story by misquoting places from the Hebrew Scriptures. He changed language in the Septuagint to make it conform with the NT misquotes. That way, there would be an alleged "correct" translation of the Hebrew Scriptures with which the NT quotations agreed
THE APOCRYPHA. Piso wished to create a strong foundation on which to place the new faith. So between 100 and 115 he recreated the story of the "400 lost years" of Jewish history. He did this by also writing most of the 14 books of the Apocrypha, including Esdras, I Maccabees, Judith, Tobit, Bel and the Dragon. By making Jewish history brave and glorious, the empire's peoples would more readily accept it as their own history and become the new Israel.
THE WRITINGS OF ARRIAN. Later, between 130 and 150, Arrian (Arrianus, a longer form of his grandfather's name Arius) would emulate him. He would use Piso's pseudonyms of Flavius and Barnabas. And he would compose, in addition to Hebrews, many Christian books: The Shepherd of Hermas, Barnabas, the Didache, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Epistle to Diognetus; as well as 24 volumes on Roman history; an account of Alexander's campaign into India; the writings of the purported astronomer Ptolemy; and the lecture notes of Epictetus, his Stoic instructor (whom he created!).
IV. THE
NUMERICAL CODE SYSTEMS--PUTTING TWO & TWO TOGETHER & GETTING 22
Piso wished to insure that no other writers nor family could ever lay claim to the authorship of his and his family's great work. So he inserted various systems of code in\-to his NT writings, and similarly into his public writings under his Josephus name, and also into the Apochrypha, each to express his and his family's true identity. It was like copyrighting his work.
Centuries before, the Greek philosopher PythagorasI had developed the method of expressing ideas through the numerical equivalents of a word's letters.2 Piso took and refined this Pythagorean "mathematics" and by it utilized Greek numerical code, basically three systems:
1. SMALL NUMBERING. (When the same system was used by the Jews in Hebrew, they called it Mispar Koran .) Each letter in Greek had a numerical equivalent. But in small numbering, the zeros were deleted. Thus, in Greek his family name was spelled Kalpournios Piso and had the following numerical equivalents:
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K A A P O T P N I O E |
P I E O |
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20 + 1 + 30 + 80 + 70 + 400 + 100 + 50 + 10 + 70 + 200 = 41 |
80 + 10 + 200 + 800 = 19 |
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The total of this word is 41 |
The total of this word is 193 |
TOGETHER THE TWO WORDS TOTALED
60
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2. INITIAL SYSTEM. This involved using only the initial letters of the names but
with full numerical (not small numbering) values:
• K was 20; P was 80; thus KP was 100.
•C (in Latin) was 100; P was 80; thus CP was 180.
• K was 20; P, which was R in Greek, was as R in Greek 100; thus KP was 120. • C was 100; P, as R in Greek, was 100; thus CP was 200.
3. SEQUENCE SYSTEM. This was used with, and as an extension of, systems 1 or 2. Each Greek letter also had its assigned sequence in the order of the letters in the alphabet.
Using the sequence system together with 1: the letter for 60 was CH which even today
as --- on the Papal Cross. That letter was the 14th letter of the alphabet.
appears
Thus Kalpournios'' Piso, which was expressed as 60, was also expressed as 14. That is, 14 became the secret equivalent of 60.
Using the sequence system together with 2: K was the 10th letter in sequence, and P was the 16th. Thus KP was 26.
Examples of his use of these numbering systems are as follows:
I. IN THE GOSPELS--The two chapters containing genealogies of Jesus are Mat\-thew 1 and Luke 3. He used various methods to express those numbers which most per\-tinently expressed his identity; namely, 41, 60, and 26. IN MATTHEW, CHAPTER 1
41The actual number of generations from Abraham to Jesus (count them!)
60The crucial verse is Matthew 1.17, which recites 14 three times. One plus 17,
plus 14 three times, is a total of 60.
26The 1st chapter has total of 25 verses--that plus 1 (the first chapter) gives
26. IN LUKE, CHAPTER 3
41The 3rd chapter has 38 verses, total being 41.
60The generations from Jesus back to Abraham (count them!) are 57. Fifty-seven
plus 3rd chapter totals 60.
26The crucial verse is Luke 3.23 (which recites Jesus' age as 30). Three plus
23 is 26.
Please note that Christians have been taught that the New Testament at that time did not have numbering of the chapters and/or verses. That also is not true, as far as the Pisos' own copies were concerned. The family arranged the verses so that many of the more important ones would, with the chapters, total Piso numbers, such as John 3.16 (total of 19), and John 8.32 (total of 40). That no chapter and/or verse numbering appears on copies distributed to be read to the illiterate slaves and poor people is quite immaterial.
Introducing the actual 57 generations in Luke chapter 3, is the statement in Luke 3.23 that Jesus was 30 years of age. It is, thereby, hinted that the 30 should be added to the 57 which follows; thus, giving a total of 87. Then we should compare the 87 to the actual 41 in Matthew chapter 1; and that gives a difference of 46.
Forty-six was Jesus Christ in small numbering, as when in the Gospel of John, the Jews tell Jesus that the Temple was being built for 46 years.
But Piso had an even more pertinent reason for using this involved method to secret\-ly insert 46 in connection with 41. He was hinting that we should put the two numbers together as 41.46 and then find that verse in Genesis. When we do that, we find the verse which recites that Joseph was 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh in Egypt. By secretly thus hinting at Genesis 41.46, Piso was teasing that that chapter anti verse in Genesis was the source for his idea to make Jesus 30 years of age.4 He was say\-ing that the Old Testament story of Joseph was the source of his idea to use the Joseph story (that is, many elements in it) as redone by him for Jesus' life, and the idea to remake himself as a fictional Joseph (that is, Josephus, a purported Jewish historian), and also to insert himself as all the Josephs in the New Testament.
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