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“ He then said to his following: "Consider ye how the Scripture hath been fulfilled, He is poor, and riding upon the foal of an ass" (Zech. 9:9) .
They came to offer the Passover offering, when one of his own party came and said to those of Israel: "Are ye willing to have Jesus?" They asked him: "Where is he?" He answered: "In Jerusalem." They said to him: "Shew him unto us." He answered: "He hath already adjured us by the authority of the Ten Commandments not to reveal himself unto others, and hath clothed me (sic: should be "us") in common attire. ”

“ For this reason, he is only permitted by a rabbinic ordinance to come upon her once during the night of her nuptials, when she must then separate herself from her husband and begin to check herself for signs of purity. On all other occasions, he may come upon her as often as he may desire.↑ It should be noted here that this Shimon would have been a very old man at the time when Jesus' mother conceived of him. For he served as President and Judge of the court at Jerusalem under the Hasmonaean king, Alexander Janneus, in the year 67 BCE, as also in subsequent years. ”

“ A Hebrew maidservant is automatically given in marriage to her Master when she reaches puberty, the money paid to her father accruing to her actual betrothals by the man who bought her (see: Exodus 21: 7 – 11) . Miriam, though originally a Hebrew maidservant, was at that time the legally betrothed wife of Yoḥanan. In the ancient Hebrew source (Midrash Hagadol, Deut. 13:7) , the mother of Jesus is named "Miriam Magdala Nishaia" (Mary Magdalene) which name, according to the Talmudic commentator, Rashi, in Hagigah 4b, means, "Miriam, the Braider of women's hair."↑ Variant spellings: Pundera ”

“ And again it is written, Happy is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the wicked" (Ps. 1) , at which saying he escaped from them, and stood up, he and the following whom he had coerced through words, and began to make war, each man's brother against his brother, and father against his son, until at length his following delivered him, and fled away with him, remaining in a certain place until the Passover. Then he took an ass and mounted it, and gathered together his following, and went up to Jerusalem. ”

“ When the son whom she had borne heard his mother confess, and heard that the Sages made only him liable to the death penalty, [9] he withdrew himself to the Temple precincts. Now the express letters of God's ineffable name were written upon the Foundation Stone within the Holy of Holies, and anyone who learnt them could do by them whatsoever he wished. Moreover, the nation of Israel used to fear lest perhaps the wicked of Israel should learn them, and thereby destroy the world. ”

“ Moreover, indeed, he could have easily delivered himself from them, but rather said, 'It was better for me to be killed than to behave in a presumptuous manner. And, as for you, if ye shall meet with an Israelite and he smite thee on thy left cheek, turn unto him the right cheek also ”

“ Likewise, we find that the chosen people of God are to inherit in the world to come three-hundred and ten worlds.↑ Most Jewish citizens who lived in Babylonia at that time resided in the towns of Nehardea and Nisibis, the latter town in the far north of present-day Iraq, near the Turkish and Syrian borders.↑ This episode about the clay birds being made to fly is also related in the Mohammedan's Qur’ān 3:49 and 5:110. ”