John 8 and 9 are one confrontation

The Pharisees challenge Jesus' birth in John 8. In John 9 he heals a blind man with saliva. The Talmud says firstborn saliva heals eyes.
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The Pharisees challenge Jesus' birth in John 8. In John 9 he heals a blind man with saliva. The Talmud says firstborn saliva heals eyes.

Psalm 91 names four demonic entities by their Canaanite deity names. Satan quotes it in the desert and skips the verse that identifies him.

Jesus' ministry lasted one year, Passover to Passover. The 3.5-year tradition depends on John 6:4, a verse the earliest church fathers did not have.

Light is timeless, non-local, and exists in superposition. Every quantum property of light maps to a theological claim about God.

The claim that the Christian Trinity derives from a Babylonian triad of Nimrod, Semiramis, and Tammuz traces to Alexander Hislop, not to Babylon.

Luke documents Zechariah's priestly course, Elizabeth's conception, and a six-month gap. The chain of verses places the birth in late September, not December.

Each of the twelve disciples has a Hebrew or Aramaic name with a specific meaning. Several carry alternate names in the text for documented reasons.

Ehyeh appears 37 times in the OT. Jesus uses ego eimi 37 times in the NT. 37 is the prime factor of 2701, the gematria of Genesis 1:1.

The Greek word for tradition, paradosis, has an isopsephy value of 666. Jesus used this word to describe human systems that replace the commandments of God.

153 is the 17th triangular number, the sum of the cubes of its digits, and the gematria of bene ha-elohim (sons of God).