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The Peshitta Aramaic New Testament is the Original New Testament

The Peshitta Aramaic New Testament is the Original New Testament (Peshitta is pronounced “Pe-sheet’-a”)

New Testament scholarship is about to undergo a paradigm shift of monumental proportions. The Aramaic language has already been established as the language of Jesus of Nazareth and of his apostles and countrymen of first century Israel. A bit more study of Josephus will reveal that Greek was not the native language of Israel, nor was it a second language in Israel, and that Aramaic was not only the native tongue of the Jews in Israel and of the Diaspora throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia, but Aramaic had been established as the language of commerce throughout the Middle East, northern Africa, Asia and Europe for at least seven centuries, starting with the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian Empires and continuing through the Greek and Roman Empires until the Muslim conquests of the 7th century AD, when Arabic began to replace Aramaic in most places in the Middle East and Asia. Considering these facts, along with the fact that all the Gentile churches founded by the Apostle Paul were started with Jewish converts to whom Paul preached the resurrected Lord Messiah Yeshua in the town synagogues, where Paul always attended on his missionary journeys and took the opportunity to preach the Gospel to his fellow Jews in the common Judean Aramaic they shared, wherever he went. The Greek NT was a later translation work to provide the Greek speaking Gentile Christians of the Western Roman Empire in Europe. The famous historian Josephus, a first century Jew of Israel, former Pharisee and son of a Priest, clearly revealed that the Jewish people did not speak or understand Greek, and that Josephus himself, after studying Greek assiduously for many years could not speak Greek in conversation, as he was too familiar with his native tongue and unused to hearing Greek. He also revealed that “I have proposed to myself, for the sake of such as live under the government of the Romans, to translate those books into the Greek tongue, which I formerly composed in the language of our country, and sent to the Upper Barbarians: This term “Upper Barbarians” he elsewhere specifies as “the Parthians, Babylonians, remote Arabians, the Jews beyond Euphrates, Adiabeni (Assyrians)”. William Whiston’s translation notes also explain further: These “Parthians, Babylonians, remote Arabians, the Jews beyond Euphrates, Adiabeni (Assyrians) understood Josephus’ Hebrew, or rather Chaldaic, books of the Jewish War, before they were put into the Greek language.” “Chaldaic” or “Chaldean” is an old term meaning “the Aramaic of Chaldea”. Josephus’ Wars of the Jews would be the historical model for an original work produced in 1st century Israel under the Roman Empire. First, the work would be written in Aramaic for the people of Israel and for Syria, Parthia (Persia), Arabians, the scattered Jews throughout the world, Babylonians (where Iraq is today), Assyrians (parts of Syria,Iraq,Iran). Later the work would be translated into Greek for the Romans of the Western Empire. This would hold for the entire New Testament, since the Epistles, as well as the Gospels were written “to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile” (Rom. 1:16). All the churches were founded with Jewish believers at first, and even most Gentile believers were Aramaic speakers. The Peshitta reading of Rom. 1:16 – “For I am not ashamed of The Gospel, because it is the power of God for the life of all who believe in it, whether of The Judeans first, or of the Aramaeans” - effectively s the premise that Aramaic was the ideal language in which to propagate the Gospels and other New Testament scriptures in the first century Cradle of Civilization and beyond. An Aramaean is a Gentile Aramaic speaker, which would have included all the Parthians, Babylonians, Syrians, Northern Arabians, many South-Western Asians and many Egyptians. Even books like Romans and Corinthians were written primarily to Jews (see Rom. 2:17-4:1, 7:1-9:10; 1 Cor 1:24; 9:1-10:1) who spoke Aramaic and to Aramaeans who also spoke Aramaic. I have documented that the Greek New Testament is a translation of the Peshitta Aramaic New Testament in over 200 pages of textual notes in my translation of the Peshitta’s Aramaic text. I show hundreds of readings from Matthew to Revelation, comparing the Greek to Aramaic readings where they differ and graphically illustrate how a Greek translator read and translated 1st century Aramaic writing by using Dead Sea Scroll Aramaic-Hebrew script, sometimes misreading just one Aramaic letter and thus translating an Aramaic word or phrase as another very different Aramaic word and rendering an incorrect Greek translation in that place. 1

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Another evidence for Peshitta primacy –(the view of the Peshitta as the original New Testament) is Bible codes. Bible codes are long messages hidden in the original languages of the Bible found by computer decryption software which searches for by skipping a certain number of Bible text letters for each consecutive letter in the search term. Many of such long messages have been found in the Hebrew Old Testament Bible; to date, no such long messages have been found in the Greek New Testament, even after a team of Greek scholars searched for four years in the several Greek NT editions available. I have found six long coded messages in the Peshitta NT text (1905 Syriac Peshitta NT) which is a critical edition collated from over 80 Aramaic NT manuscripts. This edition is the one edition most commonly found on the internet and contains all 27 NT books. All these codes are sentences in Hebrew or Aramaic at least 25 letters long; most are much longer. The program “Codefinder” was used to search for all the codes. Codefinder is the most sophisticated, fastest and well featured commercial program of its kind. It will search any Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek or English term in any of a number of optional Bible and non Bible and control texts offered, including the King James Version and Moby Dick for English searches, several Greek NT’s, two Hebrew Bible editions, and two Peshitta NT versions. Codefinder will display the results of a search and also present statistical analysis of any code found in the form of a probability estimate, based on the search text size, the term length and the numbers of each letter of the alphabet used in the search term, in the search text. The shortest code I found is 25 letters in length. The longer the search term found, the lower the probability, in general. The probability for the shortest code (also called an ELS- Equidistant Letter Sequence) is calculated by Codefinder’s complex statistical formula is 1 in 100 million trillion. In scientific notation it is 10-20. In decimal form it is 0.00000000000000000001. Each code letter is separated from the next or previous letter by skipping 18,474 letters of Aramaic Bible text. To give some idea, the Peshitta Gospel of Mark contains 16 chapters and 36,326 Aramaic letters. 18,474 letters is about 8 chapters of Bible text between each consecutive letter of the code term. Exactly 18,474 letters are skipped 24 times in order to find the shortest 25 letter code, from the first letter to the last. The shortest and second code I found is this:

“Where should the Son of God lodge? Jesus shall bud forth in a manger.” Here’s the Hebrew spelling: owbyab ewsy uyny la nb yha Nlhl Pronounced: Lehelan ahee Ben El? Yeneets Yeshu bayboose. Please get my free pdf book The Discovery of the New Testament that God Wrote at http://www.lulu.com/shop/rev-david-bauscher/the-discovery-of-the-new-testament-that-god-wrote-withabundant-evidence-for-the-aramaic-original/ebook/product-20374487.html or a printed edition at aramaicnt.com for more details, how I discovered this code and others, and for much more evidence of Peshitta primacy.What may be most surprising about this discovery of codes in the Peshitta New Testament is that all the codes I found are in Hebrew or Aramaic poetry. After finding the first two Hebrew codes in the Aramaic Peshitta –(the Aramaic and Hebrew languages share the same alphabet, and the commonly used square Hebrew letters of the past 2500 years are actually borrowed from the ancient Aramaic writing in the 5th century BC), I eventually decided that I must learn the Aramaic language and translate this New Testament, since I was convinced this was the original NT, contrary to almost all popular Bible scholarship pronouncements and dogma that proclaims the original NT to be Greek. I performed a scientific experiment to validate my findings of the six long codes, which took a year to complete and validate, with the help of professional mathematician and former fellow of the world’s largest ing firm, Price Water House Cooper - Ed Sherman. Ed is a former Bible Code skeptic, now a Bible Code proponent and web site host to biblecodedigest.com. Ed has published quite a number of my articles and provided additional statistical analysis and corroboration of super intelligent code design in the Peshitta New Testament as evidenced by the written findings of my experiments. No

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one else had found such Bible codes in the New Testament and published them before, nor has anyone since, to my knowledge. Aside from all the technical scientific and linguistic data aforementioned, perhaps the best and most easily obtainable first hand evidence for the originality of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament is reading the text for yourself. Since most people will not take the time to learn Aramaic themselves, I would recommend reading a literal interlinear translation of the Peshitta. You can get a free pdf copy of my interlinear Gospels here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/rev-david-bauscher/the-aramaicenglish-interlinearnew-testament-color-edition-volume-1/ebook/product-17507526.html . If you would like a printed edition or pdf of the whole NT, go to aramaicnt.com and see the different editions available. The Peshitta is to New Testament scholarship and theology what the Hubble Space Telescope is to Astronomy. Before the Hubble Telescope was launched into space, the best and most powerful telescope for observing outer space was the 200 inch Hale telescope at Mt. Palomar, California. Here are Hubble photos of deep space objects as never before seen by pre Hubble telescopes:

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Jupiter from 200 inch Hale telescope Jupiter from Hubble Space telescope

Pluto from 200 inch Hale telescope

Saturn from Hubble

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Pluto from Hubble Telescope

The Peshitta Aramaic New Testament is the Original New Testament

Seen above are the Crab Nebula, edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 891, Neptune, Mars, The Variable Nebula, the Orion Nebula, spiral galaxy NGC 2403, and globular cluster M92. All were photographed with the 200-inch Hale Telescope. Explore the links on the right to see high resolution versions of these objects and others.

Crab Nebula- compare with Hale photo above

Mars from the Hubble Telescope

Planet Uranus from Hale 200 inch telescope

Neptune from Hubble

Planet Uranus from Hubble

Spiral Galaxy NGC 2403 from the Hubble (Compare with Hale Telescope photos above)

So how is the Peshitta like the Hubble Telescope? It gives much more detail, clarifies what is obscure in the Greek, magnifies and pulls in what was previously invisible in the heavens, removes earth’s atmospheric interference (Greek translation errors) from the picture and reveals the brilliance, majesty and full spectrum of the glory of God contrasted to the black, white and many grey images of the Greek NT. Let me illustrate. The following is my translation of the Peshitta Aramaic NT in the left column alongside the World English Bible which is translated from the Greek NT.

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The age is Matthew 14:24-33: Original Aramaic NT in Plain English

World English Bible

“And the ship was many furlongs distant from the land while it was tossed greatly by the waves, for the wind was against it. But in the fourth watch of the night, Yeshua came unto them, while he was walking on the water. And his disciples saw him, that he was walking on the water, and they were alarmed and they were saying, ‘It is a hallucination!’, and they cried out in fear. But Yeshua immediately spoke with them and he said, ‘Take heart; I AM THE LIVING GOD. Do not be afraid.’ And Kaypha answered and he said to him, ‘My Lord, if you are He, command me to come unto you on the water.’ And Yeshua said to him, ‘Come!’, and Kaypha went down from the ship and he walked on the water to come to Yeshua. And when he saw the wind was violent, he was afraid, and he began to sink, and he raised his voice and he said, ‘My Lord, save me!’ And immediately Our Lord stretched out his hand and he held him and said to him, ‘Oh small of faith! Why did you doubt?’ And when they came up into the ship the wind stopped. And those who were in the ship came and they worshiped him, and they said, "Truly, you are The Son of God!"

But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary. In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea. When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It’s a ghost!" and they cried out for fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying "Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid." Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters." He said, "Come!" Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!" Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?" When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased. Those who were in the boat came and worshipped him, saying, "You are truly the Son of God!"

Notice particularly the contrast between the two translations in these two verses: But Yeshua immediately spoke with them and he said, ‘Take heart; I AM THE LIVING GOD. Do not be afraid.’ And Kaypha answered and he said to him, ‘My Lord, if you are He, command me to come unto you on the water.’

But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying "Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid." Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters."

There is a considerable difference between “Take heart; I AM THE LIVING GOD” and “Cheer up! It is I!”, as there is a big difference between “My Lord, if you are He, command me to come unto you on the water,” and "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters." I will not go into the linguistic technicalities involved in the vastly different Western non Semitic Greek and the Eastern Semitic Aramaic languages and cultures, but I will simply point out that Yeshua (“Jesus” from Latin) used an Aramaic two word phrase which occurs 223 times in the Aramaic Old Testament and in 219 cases is the utterance of God as he introduces himself to a human: “I am God”, “I am Jehovah”, “I am The Lord God of your fathers”, etc. In the NT there are 44 “ena na” occurrences; 36 of these are plainly attributed to God The Father or Jesus; 3 of them are the claims of false prophets to be God The Messiah or simply God The Father. One is John The Baptist’s denial to be God The Messiah: “Not I AM The Messiah!”That leaves 4 that are attributed to mortal men or an angel, the same number found in the Old Testament. The first occurrence is in the above age in Matthew 14. According to the Peshitta (pronounced “Pe-sheet’-a”) Aramaic text, Jesus said, “Take heart, I am God. Do not be afraid.” According to the Greek text, he said, “Cheer up! It’s me!” According to the Peshitta, Kaypha (“Peter” is the Latin translation of “Kaypha” which is Aramaic for “stone”) responded- “‘My Lord, if you are He, command me to come unto you on the water,’ which means “If you are God, command me to come to you on the water.” The Greek has no such meaning, only- “Lord, if it is you, command me to come unto you on the water.” Peter and the others did not believe at this point that Jesus was divine. They had not yet been shown that fact, and even Peter’s faith after the statement and miracle of his walk on the water was small and weak, but this was a turning point for him and the other disciples. After this miraculous encounter at sea, “those who were in the ship came and they worshiped him, and they said, ‘Truly, you are The Son of God!’" The disciples had seen Jesus do many miracles before, including his feeding over ten thousand people in the wilderness with five loaves and two fish. Never did they confess him to be The Son of God until this time. Shimeon Kaypha (“Simon Peter” in Latin) later confessed Yeshua to be “the Messiah The Son of The Living God”, which probably was as close as he could legally come to pronouncing the name of God in public, given that the Jewish people were apparently forbidden to speak the sacred name publically. Jesus apparently never observed that ban. Eventually Jesus would be arrested after identifying himself as God before hundreds of Jewish soldiers, and would be sentenced to death by crucifixion in the Supreme Court of Israel by uttering the same Aramaic phrase.

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Here is another comparison of The Aramaic and Greek NT scriptures: Original Aramaic NT in Plain English 1. The book of the genealogy of Yeshua The Messiah, The Son of David, The Son of Abraham. 2. Abraham begot Isaaq, Isaaq begot Jaqob, Jaqob begot Yehuda and his brothers. 3. Yehuda begot Pharez and Zarah from Tamar. Pharez begot Hezron, Hezron begot Aram. 4. Aram begot Aminadab, Aminadab begot Nahshon, Nahshon begot Salmon 5. Salmon begot Boaz from Rahab, Boaz begot Obayd from Ruth, Obayd begot Jesse. 6. Jesse begot David the King, David begot Solomon from the wife of Uriah. 7. Solomon begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abia, Abia begot Asa. 8. Asa begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, Joram begot Uzaya. 9. Uzaya begot Jotham, Jotham begot Ahaz, Ahaz begot Hezekiah. 10. Hezekiah begot Menasheh, Menasheh begot Amon, Amon begot Joshaiah. 11. Joshaiah begot Jokania and his brothers in the captivity of Babel. 12. After the captivity of Babel, Jokania begot Shelathiel, Shelathiel begot Zorubabel. 13. Zorubabel begot Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, Eliakim begot Azor. 14. Azor begot Zadoq, Zadoq begot Akin, Akin begot Eliud. 15. Eliud begot Eliazar, Eliazar begot Matthan, Matthan begot Yaqob. 16. Yaqob begot Yoseph the guardian of Maryam, her from whom was begotten Yeshua, who is called The Messiah.

The King James Version 1 ¶ The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; 3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; 4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; 5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; 6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; 7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; 8 And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias; 9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias; 10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias; 11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon: 12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel; 13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor; 14 And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; 15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob; 16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

17. Therefore all generations from Abraham until David were fourteen generations, and from David until the captivity of Babel, fourteen generations, and from the captivity of Babel until The Messiah, fourteen generations.

Aside from the distinctively non Semitic Greek spellings of many Hebrew and Aramaic names of Old Testament and New Testament people of Israel, there is a glaring problem with the Greek genealogy of Matthew 1, and that is that the numbers of generations stated in verse 17 does not match the numbers of names in each of the three designated sections of the genealogy, particularly the third group of generations from the captivity in Babylon to Jesus. It is stated to be 14 generations, but it is 13 generations. The other two groups of generations are 14 generations, as d. No amount of double counting first or last names in any list can fix this problem, and all Greek editions agree on the 13 generations in the 3rd list of names. Some will simply dismiss this as a technical error of no consequence. “Who cares if a number is wrong?”, some will say. Think about it. The New Testament, which is supposed to be the word of God, starts out on page one with a genealogy of the Messiah in which one of the stated numbers of generations in each of the three lists comprising that genealogy is incorrect. And the number is not a big unwieldy number, but the number 14! Most six year olds could count that correctly.That’s a fine introduction to the divinely inspired New Testament and Gospel of The Son of God! So what’s the problem? How can we explain this error?

You can notice that the Original Aramaic NT in Plain English has in verse 16: “Yaqob begot Yoseph the guardian of Maryam”. This is quite different from the Greek text which unequivocally has “And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary”. The Aramaic text has the word “gavra” to describe Jacob’s son Joseph, “gavra” of Maryam. This word has several possible meanings: “man”, “mighty man”, “husband”, “guardian”, “master”. The Aramaic reading makes it likely that the genealogy of Matthew 1 is not the genealogy of Joseph, Mary’s husband, as the Greek text has it, but rather the genealogy of Mary, Mother of Jesus, the daughter of Joseph Bar Jacob! That would also supply the missing generation by noting that Joseph named in verse 16 is not Mary’s husband, but her father, and so, according to the Aramaic text, Joseph Bar Jacob is generation 12, Mary is generation 13 and Jesus is generation 14. It would also mean that Luke’s genealogy in Luke 3 is not Mary’s genealogy, but Joseph’s, her husband! And that is borne out beautifully in the Aramaic text of Luke 3: “But Yeshua was about thirty years old, and he was considered the son of Yoseph, son of Heli, Son of Matthat, son of Levi, etc.. The Greek of Luke 3 lacks the word “son” after the first verse of the genealogy; the Aramaic text has the word “Bar” –“son” 76 times!. The Greek omission of the word “son” for every generation before Jesus gives commentators wiggle room to play with in making Joseph the son in law to Heli instead of his son, and so they make this Mary’s genealogy, and Mat. 1 becomes her husband Joseph’s! This really confuses matters!

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Have a look at The Messiah’s genealogy of Luke chapter three in a literal translation of the Peshitta on the left and one of the Greek text in the right column: The Diaglot NT 23 And he was the Jesus about years thirty, beginning, being, as was allowed, a son of Joseph, of the Heli, 24 of the Matthat, of the Levi, of the Melchi, of the Janna, of the Joseph, 25 of the Mattathias, of the Amos, of the Naoum, of the Esli, of the Naggai, 26 of the Maath, of the Mattathias, of the Semei, of the Joseph, of the Juda, 27 of the Joanna, of the Rhesa, of the Zorobabel, of the Salathiel, of the Neri, 28 of the Melchi, of the Addi, of the Cosam, of the Elmodam, of the Er, 29 of the Jose, of the Eliezer, of the Jorem, of the Matthat, of the Levi, 30 of the Simon, of the Juda, of the Joseph, of the Jonan, of the Eliakim, 31 of the Melea, of the Mainan, of the Mattatha, of the Nathan, of the David, 32 of the Jesse, of the Obed, of the Booz, of the Salmon, of the Naasson, 33 of the Aminadab, of the Aram, of the Esrom, of the Phares, of the Juda, 34 of the Jacob, of the Isaac, of the Abraham, of the Thara, of the Nachor, 35 of the Serouch, of the Ragau, of the Phalec, of the Eber, of the Sala, 36 of the Cainan, of the Arphaxad, of the Sem, of the Noah, of the Lamech, 37 of the Mathusala, of the Enoch, of the Jared, of the Malaleel, of the Cainan, 38 of the Enos, of the Seth, of the Adam, of the God.

Original Aramaic NT in Plain English 23. But Yeshua was about thirty years old, and he was considered the son of Yoseph, son of Heli, 24. Son of Matthat, son of Levi, son of Melki, son of Yannai, son of Yoseph, 25. Son of Matatha, son of Amots, son of Nahum, son of Hesli, son of Naggai, 26. Son of Maath, son of Matath, son of Shimei, son of Yoseph, son of Yehuda, 27. Son of Yohannan, son of Resa, son of Zorobabel, son of Salathiel, son of Nari, 28. Son of Melki, son of Addi, son of Qosam, son of Elmodad, son of Ayr, 29. Son of Yose, son of Eliazar, son of Joram, son of Mathitha, son of Levi, 30. Son of Shimeon, son of Yehuda, son of Yoseph, son of Yonam, son of Eliakim, 31. Son of Melia, son of a Mainai, son of Matatha, son of Nathan, son of David, 32. Son of Ashai, son of Obed, son of Boaz, son of Salmon, son of Nahshon, 33. Son of Aminadab, son of Aram, son of Hetsron, son of Pharets, son of Yehuda, 34. Son of Jaqob, son of Isaaq, son of Abraham, son of Terah, son of Nahor, 35. Son of Serug, son of Arau, son of Phaleg, son of Eber, son of Shalah, 36. Son of Qainan, son of Arphakshar, son of Shaym, son of Noah, son of Lamek, 37. Son of Methuselah, son of Enoch, son of Jared, son of Mehalaleil, son of Qainan, 38. Son of Enosh, son of Shayth, son of Adam, who was from God.

Please notice that the Peshitta contains the word “son” for every name in the genealogy: “Yoseph Bar Heli, Bar Matthat, Bar Levi, Bar Melki”, etc. That is how a man’s name was expressed in Israel at the time- “Joseph Bar Heli”- he was “Joseph son of Heli”. Jesus was “considered” (very important comment) “Yeshua Bar Yoseph.” The Greek text leaves out “son” after “Jesus son of Joseph” for every name in the genealogy! This leaves a lot of ambiguity, especially in a genealogy of such importance as that of The Messiah, The Son of God! The consequence of these omissions here and the mistranslation in Matthew one’s genealogy is that scholars have reversed the identity of the two genealogies, making this one Mary’s, which is really her husband Joseph’s, and making the Matthew one genealogy Joseph’s, which is really Mary’s! Sort that out for a while. Such confusion and error at the very beginning and foundation of the New Testament has had great ramifications historically, doctrinally, psychologically and spiritually for the western church and its approach to scripture and the Christian faith for almost two thousand years. One step on the way to set right the damage done is to return to the true original New Testament text which presents itself as The Writing of The Spirit: “Every writing which is written by The Spirit is profitable for teaching, for correction, for direction and for a course in righteousness, that the man of God will be perfect and perfected for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3:16

I will give one more telling comparison of the Aramaic and the Greek NT which demonstrates how Christianity has been subtly and almost universally subverted from its original faith in the Divine purity, power and inerrancy of the New Testament and of all Scripture to a very humanistic and rationalistic approach to the Bible which requires practically no faith at all to accept.

This is the beginning of Luke’s Gospel: Original Aramaic NT in Plain English Chapter 1:1-4 Because many were willing to write an of those events of which we are persuaded, like the things which they delivered to us who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of The Word, He appeared also to me because I had approached all things carefully, that I would write everything in order to you, excellent Theophila, that you may know the truth of the words of which you have been instructed by such.

World English Bible 1 ¶ Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus; that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

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Physician Luke is here explaining briefly his reason and his credentials for writing his Gospel. Notice in the World English Bible translation of the Greek NT, which I have chosen to represent the Greek text, as it faithfully represents that text and agrees generally with most translations of the Greek and is a modern English version. In this, Luke is represented as saying: “it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus…” Why did Luke write his Gospel? “It seemed good to me.” Contrast this with the Aramaic text: “He appeared also to me”. Who appeared to Luke? “The Word, He appeared to me”! Anyone who has read John’s Gospel knows Who The Word is. He is Jesus The Lord, The Son of God, The Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, Who is also God(see John 1:1-3, 14). Here is my note for Luke 1:3 from my NT translation The Original Aramaic NT in Plain English: –“He appeared” is the most natural meaning of “Ethkhazay” and would refer to the previous word -atlmd “of the Word”. Luke is saying that The Lord Yeshua The Messiah had appeared to him and had authorized and directed his writing of this Gospel. Why would it be received otherwise? If Luke merely “thought it good to write”, why would the churches have put it on a par with the inspired Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke? He would have been merely rehashing second hand information and serving warmed up leftovers. That is no recommendation worthy of an inspired Gospel of The New Testament. “Theophila”, to whom Luke wrote, would have thrown it in the trash if that were Luke’s meaning. Verse 2 says the other gospels were written by “eyewitnesses”. Verse three says Luke was also an eyewitness of The Messiah. If he were not, then he would be disqualified to write a gospel. It would seem that Western churches, in their misunderstanding of Luke’s introduction, have allowed scholarship to supplant Divine inspiration as its authority. This has subtly and slowly supplanted the Spiritual with the intellectual, which Luke the Physician has come to represent. He was not writing a literary composition here; he was writing from God, just as every other God inspired writer of scripture wrote: 1Co 2:13 “Which things we also speak; not in the teaching of the words of man’s wisdom, but in the teaching of The Spirit; and we compare spirituals with spirituals.” 2Pe 1:21 “For at no time was it by the pleasure of man, that the prophecy came; but holy men of God spoke, as they were moved by the Holy Spirit”. Would an inspired writer say, “I thought I would write a Gospel because many others were writing s like those the apostles were writing”? That would be the height of presumption. Would he then suppose that he would improve on the inspired s?- “ It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus” – This is the King James translation, which demonstrates here the presumptive attitude attributed to Luke. This is a very poor translation of the Greek of verse 3, but all translations get it wrong in the first word of the verse, which is the most critical: “It seemed good”. That is because the Greek has the verb “edoxen” from “dokeo”-(“to seem”). The Aramaic verb “Ethkhazay” -(He appeared) –yzxta could mean “seemed”, but its usual meaning is “appeared” or “was seen”. This ive form of the Aramaic “yzx”- “Khaza” (“to see”) occurs 29 times in the Peshitta NT. 18 times Murdock translates it “appeared”, 7 times- “seen”, three times “received sight” and once (here in Luke 1:3) (incorrectly, in my opinion)- “seemed”. I repeat this excerpt from the above note, because I feel it is extremely important that we consider this essential difference between the ancient Eastern and the modern Western approach to Christianity and Scripture: It would seem that Western churches, in their misunderstanding of Luke’s introduction, have allowed scholarship to supplant Divine inspiration as its authority. This has subtly and slowly supplanted the Spiritual with the intellectual, which Luke the Physician has come to represent. He was not writing a literary composition here; he was writing from God, just as every other God inspired writer of scripture wrote.

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The Peshitta Aramaic New Testament is the Original New Testament

You owe it to yourself to read this translation of the ancient Aramaic Peshitta New Testament and decide for yourself whether you have been given opportunity to receive the whole truth of the original New Testament or you have been restricted to an “original” Greek NT which is actually a fallible and flawed translation of the original. I am not claiming my translation is infallible. No translation is infallible. I am claiming that we have been “sold a bill of goods” in accepting Greek as the language of the original New testament and Greek manuscripts as the representatives of that original, for any of the NT books. I am claiming, with abundant ing evidence, that the Aramaic Peshitta NT is the New Testament that God wrote.

“You are to eternity, Lord Jehovah, and your word stands in Heaven”.- Psalms 119:89 “Your word is very precious and your Servant has loved it.” - Ps. 119:140 “Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.” – Proverbs 30:6 WEB Yeshua answered and said to him, "It is written: 'a man does not live by bread alone, but by every utterance of God.'"- Luke 4:4 “For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” – Isaiah 11:9 KJV

All above Bible quotations are from The Original Aramaic NT in Plain English with Psalms and Proverbs unless indicated otherwise. The author’s The Original Aramaic NT in Plain English with Psalms and Proverbs and other books, including his interlinear NT are available from his web site: aramaicnt.com

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