SOME CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THEWORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT

A SMALL SAMPLING OF SOME CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THEWORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
(By Roman Piso, compiled from earlier notes - 08/03/00)

Hello, I’d like to give you a brief preface for this work. This is what scholarsconsider solid evidence, but what one must also realize is that this means thatthis evidence is not arbitrary, but instead - deliberate. That is right. That thiswas there to be found means that it was done intentionally. And the purposeis obvious, and that is so that this COULD be discovered. There now is solidproof that there is indeed a connection between Flavius Josephus and theauthorship of the New Testament.

Remember, this is only a very small sampling of the correlations between theworks of Flavius Josephus and the New Testament - there are many, manymore. It is, in fact, truly overwhelming the amount of content that may be foundin common between the works of Flavius Josephus and the New Testament. And, something else that this proves is that the mention of "Jesus" in the works ofFlavius Josephus is NOT a latter addition, it could NOT have been when thereis so much of the same content found in both of these works. This should putan end to that old rumor. Flavius Josephus, as has been stated by several scholarswas the creator of "Jesus who was called Christ." There are too many things inthe works of Josephus that correlate to the New Testament for that to be in anyway coincidence, including James the brother of Jesus, and John the Baptist.

It would be a virtual impossibility for Christians to "add" all of these correlationsto the works of Josephus at a later date as the removal of all of these would leavethe works of Josephus like a deflated tire… so much content would be gone thatit would no longer make any sense! What would be left would be an unrelatedmish-mash of things that don’t even make any sense and cannot give an accountin an understandable way. And that, most certainly, was NOT how Josephus wrote.

And so, I sincerely hope that this has put an end to that old notion that the mentionof "Jesus" in the works of Josephus was a later addition by Christians. That rumorwas started, I believe, as a kind of ‘strategy’ on the part of those who knew the truthof the matter - but whom, wanted to lead persons away from discovering all of thecorrelations between the works of Flavius Josephus and the New Testament, andknowing full well that atheists would grab hold of this rumor and spread it aroundlike wildfire for the simple reason that most atheists at that time were entirelyignorant of how all of this really happened, yet wanted something, anything, tohold up to Christians as ‘evidence’ on behalf of their own beliefs.

You should be able to use and read "Roman numerals" to make use of this list, andyou can find the works of Flavius Josephus as translated by Whiston into Englishonline at…
Works of Flavius Josephus

(Keyed to Whiston's English Translation of Josephus)
(1) "Jesus, who was called Christ" [Matt. 27:17] (Ant. of the Jews, bookXX, chap. IX, verse I)
(2) "The Egyptian" [Acts 21:38] (Ant. of the Jews, book XX, chap. VIII, v. VI)
(3) "Punishment of the Jews" [Matt. 24:21, Mark 13:19, Luke 21:23,24] (Wars of the Jews, Preface; Calamities of the Jews, book VI, ch. V, v. IV)
(4) "Binding and Loosing" [Matt 16:19] (W. of the Jews, ch. V, v. II)
(5) "The Weaker Sex" [1 Peter 3:7] (Wars of the Jews, b. I, ch. XVIII, v. II)
(6) "Render unto Caesar..." [Matt. 22:21, Mark 12:17, Luke 20:25] (W. ofthe Jews, b. I, ch. XIII, v. V)
(7) "My Father's house has many Mansions" [John 14:2] (W. of the Jews, b. Ich. XIII, v. V. Note: same as above)
(8) "The 'New' Testament" [Matt. 26:28, Mark 14:24, 1 Cor. 11:25, Heb. 9:15] (Wars of the Jews, b. II, ch. II, v. VI and b. II, ch. II, v. III)
(9) "Pilate" [Matt. 27:2, etc.] (W. of the Jews, b. II, ch. IX, v. II, misc. other places)
(10)"Felix, Procurator of Galilee" [Acts 24:25] (W. of the Jews, b. II, ch. XII, v. VIII) (11)"Roman Jews" [Acts 22:25-29] (W. of the Jews, b. II, ch. XV, v. IX)
(12)"King Agrippa's wisdom on the Jews" [Acts 26:28] (W. of the Jews, b. II, ch. XVI, v. IV) (13)"Public Mourners" [Matt. 12:17] (W. of the Jews, b. III, ch. IX, v. V)
(14)"Zacharias, son of Baruch" [Matt. 23:35] (W. of the Jews, b. IV, ch. V, v. IV)
(15)"Houses of Prayers" [Acts 16:13, 16, Luke 6:12] (W. of the Jews, b. IV, ch. VII, v. II) (16)"Blood of Josephus/Jesus" ("Take my own blood as a reward if it may butprocure your preservation, i.e., 'save you'" - Wars of the Jews, b. V, ch. IX, v. IV) [John 6:56, "eat of my flesh, and drink my blood (to save you.")]
(17)"Seven Lamps" [Rev. 1:13, etc.] (W. of the Jews, b. VII, ch. V. v. V. and otherplaces) (18)"Seven Heads" [Rev. 13:1, 17:3, 7] (Jewish Antiquities, b. III, ch. VII, v. VII)
(19)"Twelve Stones" [Rev. 21:16 & 19-20] (W. of the Jews, and Ant. of the Jews)
(20)"John the Baptist" [Matt. 3:4, Mark 1:6] ('Banus' in Vita and Ant. of the Jews, b. XVIII, ch. V, v. II, etc.)
(21)"Hairs of your head" [Matt. 10:30, "…even the very hairs of your head arenumbered."](Ant. of the Jews, b. XI, ch. V, v. III, etc.)
(22)"Eating 'Common' things" [Acts 10:14-15, 28; 11:8-9, Rom. 14:14] (Ant. ofthe Jews, b. XI, ch. II, v. VII)
(23)"Grace at Meal" [Mark 8:6, John 6:11, 23, Acts 27:35] (Ant. of theJews, b. XII, ch. II, v. XII)
(24)"Ointment in alabaster box" [Luke 7:37. Also see Mark 14:3 & Matt. 26:7] (Ant. of the Jews, b. XVII, ch. IV, v. II)
(25)"Judas/Theudas" [Acts 5:36-37] (Ant. of the Jews, b. XVII, ch. X, v. V andb. XX, ch. V, v. I) (26)"Glad Tidings", "The Gospels" or "Good News" [Luke 2:10 & 1 Th. 3:6] (Ant. of the Jews, b. XIX, ch. VIII, v. II)
(27)"Only Begotten Son" Used to say the wrong thing in Ant. of the Jews, whichwas their way of ‘annotating’ certain things. And the reason is that the phrase"Only Begotten Son" does NOT mean that literally, it was a figure of speech thatwas used as a term of endearment. It was a phrase that was said to a ‘favorite’son out of more than one by the father or mother of that son. So, there is really ajoke here by the use of that phrase, a joke that was put there by the author of theGospel of John himself. [John 3:16, "For god so love the world that he gave his"only begotten son". Be sure to read our full true translation of this elsewhere.] (Ant. of the Jews, b. XX, ch. II, v. I)
(28)"Famine" [Acts 11:28] (Ant. of the Jews, b. XX, ch. II, v. V)
(29)"Simon the Magician" [Acts 8:9] (Ant. of the Jews, b. XX, ch. VII, v. II)
(30)"Our Father (Abba) who art in Heaven" [Mark 14:36, Rom. 8:15, Gal. 4:6] Josephus says 'Aaron' died in the month called 'Abba' by the Hebrews. (Ant. of the Jews, b. IV, ch. IV, v. VII) And, "O Father (Abba), why hast theeforsaken me?" Josephus: "One man will be obliged to hear the voice of his sonimploring help of his father, when his hands are still bound." (Wars of the Jews, b. VII, ch. X, v. VII)
(31)"Tomorrow ye shall be with me in heaven" [Luke 23:43] and "Tomorrowthou shalt be with me in hades" (Ant. of the Jews, b. VI, ch. XIV, v. II)
(32)"Beaten with 40 stripes, save one" [2 Cor. 2:24] (Ant. of the Jews, b. IV, ch. VIII, v. XXI) (33)" Gold, Incense, and Myrrh" [Matt. 2:11] (Ant. of the Jews, b. III, ch. VIII, v. III)
(34)"For we do not follow cunningly devised fables" [2 Peter 1:16], "And hath notpreserved his writings from those indecent fables..." and, "he might have securelyforged such lies" (Ant. of the Jews, Preface, v. IV), "They followed fables..." (Ant. of the Jews, Preface, v. IV)
(35)"Babylon the Great" [Rev. 17:5, etc.] (Ant. of the Jews, b. VIII, ch. VI, v. I)
(36)"666" [Rev. 13:18] (Ant. of the Jews, b. VIII, ch. VII, v. II)
(37)"False Prophets" [Mark 13:22] (Ant. of the Jews, b. XIII, ch. XI, v. II, andAnt. of the Jews, b. VIII, ch. IX, v. I)
(38)"Filthy Lucre" [1 Tim. 3:3, Tit. 1:7, 1 Pet. 5:2] (Ant. of the Jews, b. VI, ch. III, v. II, and, Ant. of the Jews, b. XV, ch. VII, v. IX)
(39)"Age 30" In Josephus' Vita (verse 15, page 5, Whiston's), and in Luke 3:23, isArrius hinting at himself being "a person in great authority" at age 30 (which, he wouldstill be, into the year 68 C.E.)? Was he Fasti Consular P. Galerius Trachalus and/orC. Bellicus Natalis in 68? He WAS Fasti Consular in 69 C.E. as Arrius Antoninus. Ref. 'Inscriptiones Italiae', vol. XIII, fasc. I, A. Degrassi, Rome, 1947. Perhaps thesingle most important thing that happened for Arrius Piso when he was age 30 is thatin 68 CE he got Nero off of the royal throne of Rome and caused his death. Whichwas the revenge that he sought for Nero forcing his father to commit suicide. (40)"James, the brother of Jesus" [Mark 6:3, Matt. 13:55, Acts 12:17, 15:13, 21:18, 1 Co. 15:7, Gal. 1:19, 2:9, 2:12, Jas. 1:1] (Ant. of the Jews, b. XX, ch. IX, v. 1)