Jesus: Messiah or Myth? - Book - Page 14
3. On his way to Gadara, Jesus encounters a man with
demons, who he casts out and sends into a herd of pigs. He
asked the demons to identify themselves and they say they
are called, “legion.”
When Titus and his army reach Gadara, they run into a legion
of Jews with a rebellious spirit against Rome. The Jews wind
up surrendering and as Josephus says in his writings, many
rush to the hills and like “swine possessed by demons” fall off
the cliff.
n the Book of Revelation (16:18) John writes: “And there were
noises and thundering and lightnings; and there was a great
earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not
occurred since men were on the earth.”
Josephus writes in one of his texts titled “Wars of the Jews,”
for there broke out a prodigious storm in the night, with the
utmost violence, and very strong winds, with the largest
showers of rain, with continued lightnings, terrible
thunderings, and amazing concussions and bellowings of the
earth, that was in an earthquake.
In comparing the New Testament story of Jesus and the
Complete Works of Josephus, it’s difficult to deny they match
up. So again I ask Christians who are becoming aware of
these parallels, “Why would this be the case if Jesus really
was the only begotten Son of God?”
The fact is our Creator set himself apart from all things
human, stating in Tanakh He is not a man (Numbers 23:19).
power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all
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