Heaven and Earth Pass Away

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— wp:heading {“level”:3,”className”:”has-text-align-center”} –> (Matt. 5:17-18; 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 16:17; 21:33) power, as some others have done before me…. — wp:paragraph –>

Many scholars regard the sayings in Matt. 5:17-18 as originally independent of one another…. Either these sayings floated about as isolated sayings in the sea of oral tradition or the author of Matthew formulated the saying in Matt. 5:17 as an introduction to Matt. 5:18,See Schweizer, 106…. In any case, many scholars deny that either of these sayings belonged to the preexisting homily the author of Matthew expanded into the Sermon on the Mount (

Myth of the Pagan Origins of Christianity

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How to cite this article: David Flusser, “Myth of the Pagan Origins of Christianity” Jerusalem Perspective (2014) .

Yerushalayim Besieged

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“Alas for the pregnant women and the nursing mothers when all this takes place! … Some will be killed, and some will go into captivity to foreign places.

Widow’s Son in Nain

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We have placed the Widow’s Son in Nain pericope in a section entitled “Teaching and Healing in Yehudah,” a period early in Jesus’ career. … — wp:list-item –>

  • Where did the event described in this pericope take place?

    • Not Everyone Can Be Yeshua’s Disciple

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    Matthew places the Not Everyone Can Be Yeshua’s Disciple pericope during Jesus’ time in the Galilee, on the heels of Shimon’s Mother-in-law (Matt. 8:14-15) and Healings and Exorcisms (Matt. 8:16-17), whereas Luke places the Not Everyone Can Be Yeshua’s Disciple pericope during the early stage of Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem at a point when Jesus had already left the Galilee. … We have therefore placed Not Everyone Can Be Yeshua’s Disciple early in the section of the Hebrew Life of Yeshua entitled “Calling and Training Disciples.”… The non-canonical Gospel of Thomas (logion 86) also preserves a version of Jesus’ “foxes have dens” saying:

    Jesus said: the and the birds nest, but (δέ) the Son of Man has no place to lay his head and to rest.