Do Mark and John’s account of the crucifixion contradict each other? By Rabbi Simon Altaf
11th Jan 2011
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How can John’s gospel be reconciled with Mark?
How can a man die in 3.5 hours you may ask?
Do you know of the challenge that the account of John and Mark contradict each other for Yahushua’s death yet many Christians are told that he was put on the cross/tree some say at 6am and others at 9am. Scholars continue to ignore this truth while seminaries continue to teach error.
According to the account of John 19:14
Yahuchannan (John) 19:14 And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour and he said to the Yahudim (Hebrew people), Behold your King!
The sixth hour was 12 to 12.30pm noon time but Christians are taught this is 6am Roman time which is incorrect.
But Mark says: Mark 15:25 And it was the third hour, and they impaled him.
Most scholars place Mark around 9am. Some struggle and place John’s time at 6am trying to bring it closer with Mark to fit them together and erroneously suggest that John a Hebrew Israelite was writing for gentiles. Such teachings are pervasive in gentile Christianity.
Both of these would be wrong. They also argue that John was writing for the Romans and Mark for the Yahudim: Again these assumptions are incorrect! Why would John be writing for the Romans, what relationship did he have to them? None.
The gospels are either eye witness accounts or near witness accounts which were written in Hebrew for the Hebrew people. They were written for Israel and not for Romans! However they are relevant to all the people because of the scattered tribes living amongst the gentile nations since some gentiles may desire to join Israel. When I say Israel I do not mean the land but the scattered spiritual people which are all part of Tsiyon.
The reality is that because the anti-Semitic forefathers of Christianity left their first love Torah and hated the Israelites hence why they lacked in answers to these questions which have persisted to this day.
John and Mark were Hebrew Israelites and Hebrew Israelites write for their own community and not for the enemy Rome. They used terms that were only understood by their own people and we can tell even today gentile Christianity does not understand them.
They were writing in what is termed Hebrew vernacular and terms using such things as ‘watches’, which are time markers that Hebrew people used.
In Hebrew thinking a 24 hour day is split into two periods of 12 hours approximate. The twelve hours is then further divided into four watches of three hours each.
So one watch would be between 6.30 am-9.30 am, another from 9.30 am-12.30 am and so on.
Marks’s 3rd watch is like saying 9.30 AM to 12. 30 PM these are not exact times like today but are approximates.
Mark 15:25 And it was the third watch, and they impaled him.
Mark knew his watches, check Mark 6:48. Whoever translated this gospel from the Hebrew confused the term into hours while Mark never described an exact hour since there existed no such designation.
3rd watch falls between 12.30 pm-3.30 pm
Using and understanding the watches resolves any contradiction:
So Mark says the third hour or more accurately 3rd watch. That would be the third watch of the day beginning 12.30 am to 3.30 pm.
John says 6th hour or another way of saying 3rd watch, which is 12.30 pm to 3.30 pm.
Neither one says he was hung at an approximate time but he was ready or presented to the people to be impaled. After being scourged and taken through the streets He was impaled around 2.30 pm, which is the time of the Passover lamb’s sacrifice which fits the impalement that Mark describes.
The Type must fit or He cannot be the Type. You cannot say He is the Passover Lamb but sacrifice Him at 9am which is the time of the morning sacrifice in the Temple but nothing to do with the Passover sacrifice. This is how Christians have been duped into accepting false theologies.
The above is taken from the AF Netzarim Hebraic Study Scriptures.
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