One can relate Zech 16.63 (1) "mother and father" and (2) "thrust him
through," and Zech 16.6 (3) "wounds between thy hands" and (4) "my
friends" to four gospel texts, i.e. (1) Mk 3.32-33 (2) Jn 19.34 (3) Jn
20.25-27, and (4) Mk 3.21. This seems a bit odd.
After Jesus cast the money-lenders out of the Temple (Mk 11), perhaps
his family and his friends executed him. Otherwise, the Romans might have
come after his family and friends, and imprisoned them, or worse. It would
have been the lesser of two evils.
If so, everything considered historic about Jesus after Mk 11.18 is
non-historical. This could explain the odd repetition of Mk 14. One would
think that Jesus's disrupting the Temple would have been enough to have him
arrested then and there.
It could be another way to explain the 'Barabbas' incident. This would
simply have been a way of the gospel writer to assure us that indeed, it
really was Jesus who was crucified.
The gospels were written a decade or more after the destruction of the
Temple in 70 AD/CE. Nobody probably knew very much about the activites of a
Jesus and his followers that preceded this disastrous event, and many
witnesses and historical records were probably lost. One even wonders if
there were any disciples?
But if Jesus was executed by his family, or at least arrested and never
heard of again, his disciples would have been in a quandary. They would
either dissolve, or they could make up a heroic story about Jesus, something
that would attract a new following. So we have a story about an individual
who was persecuted by the church (priests), the state (Romans), and, just
for good measure, by competing religious groups (Sadducees and Pharisees).
Oh, you're thinking this speculation seems a bit odd, too? Oh, you're
right. It is. Sorry.
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