THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD ABOUT THE GREATEST HYPOCRITE THAT EVER LIVED

By Shlomoh Sherman
March 16, 2023


In the Gospels, Jesus is presented as being perfect. And he WAS perfect, a perfect hypocrite -

Matthew 5:43-45:
You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. ' But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you ...

That's Matthew 5.  

Here is Matthew 23 -
3 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! 24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28, Even so, ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Zarachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

So not only does the great Jesus Christ choke on his own advice to be nice to enemies but he wants our rabbis to incur the guilt of the death of saints from Abel to Zarachiah. Why? What a great guy. Which Jew wants him to be a messiah for anyone?


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