07-25-2011, 05:24 PM
Let me try to answer questions step by step.
1) According to the Scriptures, when is the Feast of Firstfruits to take place?
"From what I know of", Feast of First Fruits took place the day after the beginning of First regular Sabbath
??From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD." (Leviticus 23:15-16).
I want to point out couple of errors in Didascalia Chapter 21.
1) "In the night, (Saturday Night) therefore, when the first day (Sunday) of the week drew on, He appeared to Mary Magdalene and to Mary the daughter of James, and in the morning of the first day (Sunday) of the week He went in to (the house of) Levi; and then He appeared also to us ourselves."
Gospels never mention that Jesus appeared to Mary the daughter of James. Gospels also never mention that James had a daughter named Mary. But Gospels mention about Mary who is the mother of James and Joses.
Mark 15:40 - "And there were women looking on, from a distance, Mary Magdalena, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome." These were the women who were standing next to Jesus when he was crucified.
Few verses later, we read this (Mark 15:47) - "And Mary Magdalena and Mary [the mother] of Joses saw where he was laid."
Mark 16:1 - "And when the sabbath had passed, Mary Magdalena, and Mary [the mother] of James, and Salome, bought aromatics, that they might come and anoint him."
But you might say the mother is in parenthesis/brackets. So let me take Luke for confirmation - Luke 24:9-10 "And they returned from the sepulchre, and related all these things to the eleven, and to the rest. Now they were Mary Magdalena, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and the others with them, who related these things to the Legates."
2) "Herod commanded that He should be crucified; and our Lord suffered for us on the Friday."
Pilate sending Jesus to Herod is mentioned in Luke 23:7-12. In Luke's Gospel, we see that Herod never "commands" that Jesus should be crucified.
3) And Didascalia mentions that Crucifixion happened on a Friday and Jesus resurrected on a Sunday.
This disagrees with certain verses in Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke, and Gospel of John.
I wrote this before. But I have to write this again.
Mark 16:1 clearly shows that Women bought aromatics after the Sabbath. And Luke 23:50-56 mentions that Women rested on the sabbath after they prepared perfumes and aromatics. And John 19:31 points out that the Sabbath after the Crucifixion of Jesus was a High/Great Sabbath. Not a regular/weekly Sabbath.
4) Gospels never says that Jesus went into the house of Levi in the morning of the first day (Sunday) of the week.
There are more confusions in this document called Didascalia. But I will stop here for now.
1) According to the Scriptures, when is the Feast of Firstfruits to take place?
"From what I know of", Feast of First Fruits took place the day after the beginning of First regular Sabbath
??From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD." (Leviticus 23:15-16).
I want to point out couple of errors in Didascalia Chapter 21.
1) "In the night, (Saturday Night) therefore, when the first day (Sunday) of the week drew on, He appeared to Mary Magdalene and to Mary the daughter of James, and in the morning of the first day (Sunday) of the week He went in to (the house of) Levi; and then He appeared also to us ourselves."
Gospels never mention that Jesus appeared to Mary the daughter of James. Gospels also never mention that James had a daughter named Mary. But Gospels mention about Mary who is the mother of James and Joses.
Mark 15:40 - "And there were women looking on, from a distance, Mary Magdalena, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome." These were the women who were standing next to Jesus when he was crucified.
Few verses later, we read this (Mark 15:47) - "And Mary Magdalena and Mary [the mother] of Joses saw where he was laid."
Mark 16:1 - "And when the sabbath had passed, Mary Magdalena, and Mary [the mother] of James, and Salome, bought aromatics, that they might come and anoint him."
But you might say the mother is in parenthesis/brackets. So let me take Luke for confirmation - Luke 24:9-10 "And they returned from the sepulchre, and related all these things to the eleven, and to the rest. Now they were Mary Magdalena, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and the others with them, who related these things to the Legates."
2) "Herod commanded that He should be crucified; and our Lord suffered for us on the Friday."
Pilate sending Jesus to Herod is mentioned in Luke 23:7-12. In Luke's Gospel, we see that Herod never "commands" that Jesus should be crucified.
3) And Didascalia mentions that Crucifixion happened on a Friday and Jesus resurrected on a Sunday.
This disagrees with certain verses in Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke, and Gospel of John.
I wrote this before. But I have to write this again.
Mark 16:1 clearly shows that Women bought aromatics after the Sabbath. And Luke 23:50-56 mentions that Women rested on the sabbath after they prepared perfumes and aromatics. And John 19:31 points out that the Sabbath after the Crucifixion of Jesus was a High/Great Sabbath. Not a regular/weekly Sabbath.
4) Gospels never says that Jesus went into the house of Levi in the morning of the first day (Sunday) of the week.
There are more confusions in this document called Didascalia. But I will stop here for now.