Was Yahusha impaled and stoned?

 This study is based on scriptural evidence on facts which are right before our eyes but we are unable to see without the help of the Ruach. While the Greco-Roman mindset held by Christianity teaches that when Rome ruled over Yahudim it wasn't possible for the Yerushalayim council to stone anyone under their authority.

Let's begin by first seeing the influence of the Yerushalayim council of chief priests and scribes present at various trials based on false accusations which they brought against Yahusha ha Mashiyach and his talmidim/disciples and how they manipulated the Roman authority to bring Mashiyach to their court to be judged based on their false accusations through a conspiracy they made to murder Him using the Roman law and the Torah of Moses.

Let's see who comprised of the Yerushalayim council and who were present at various trials?

1.Peter and John 

Acts 4: 5  And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes, 6  And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.

2. Stephen

Acts 6: 15  And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

Acts 7: 1  Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

3. Shaul

 Acts 23:2  And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.

Caiphas was the son in law of Ananias the acting high priest.

Same stood as the council in trial of Yahusha 

Matt 24:57  And they that had laid hold on Yahusha led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.

John 18:19  Then the high priest asked יהושע about His taught ones and His teaching.

 20  יהושע answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in the congregation and in the Set-apart Place, where the Yehuḏim always meet, and I spoke no word in secret.

 21  “Why do you ask Me? Ask those who have heard Me what I said to them. See, they know what I said.”

 22  And when He had said this, one of the officers who stood by slapped יהושע in the face, saying, “Do You answer the high priest this way?”

 23  יהושע answered him, “If I have spoken evilly, bear witness of the evil, but if well, why do you strike Me?”

 24  Then Ḥanan (Ananias) sent Him bound to the high priest, Qayapha (Caiaphas)

It's evident that Ananias was the supreme authority in the council while Caiaphas was the acting authority

John 3:2  Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

The Torah punishment for accusation for blasphemy was stoning, Stephen was stoned by the verdict of the same council.

So those who say Yahusha couldn't have been stoned because Rome was ruling at that time and the council was in subjection to the Roman government authority trials is false. Or else Stephen wouldn't have been stoned to death, he too would have been handed over to the Roman authority.

Then what was the difference between the verdicts of Stephen and Mashiyach?

Stephen was accused by the High priest council for blasphemy only

Acts 7: 55  But he, being filled with the Set-apart Spirit, looked steadily into the heaven and saw the esteem of Elohim, and יהושע standing at the right hand of Elohim,

 56  and he said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Aḏam standing at the right hand of Elohim!” Psa. 110:1.

 57  And crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one mind,

 58  and threw him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Sha’ul.

He was stoned outside the camp just as stated by Torah. Were Romans involved? No

What about Yahusha?

He was accused of both blasphemy as well as a rebellion towards Roman authority. Hence, for the rebels, Roman regime had to be involved in the trial, for Yahusha claimed he was a King but His kingdom was not of this world

Thats why the first question Pilate asked was "Are you a Sovereign?"

Luke 23: 1  And the entire assembly of them, having risen up, led Him to Pilate,

 2  and began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this one perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Messiah, a Sovereign.”

 3  And Pilate asked Him, saying, “Are You the Sovereign of the Yehuḏim?” And answering him He said, “You say it.”

This was a conspiracy to inflict a painful death through impaling Him to the stake which actually takes some days and not hours for anyone impaled on the stake to die. They were impaled against the roadway for passerby to see and mock them.

Remember Pilate put up a writing on Yahusha's stake 

"Yahusha, Sovereign of the Yahudim"

The other accusation was blasphemy for which they could stone anyone cursing father or mother, cursing Yahuah, making Himself equal to Yahuah, adultery etc. and they didn't need Roman intervention in these cases and Stephen is a proof of this. No Roman official involved.

They conspired against Yahusha

Matthew 27:1  And morning having come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against יהושע, so as to put Him to death.

Pilate knowing the Yahudite Torah asked them to try Yahusha according to their Torah

This is the context:

The Yahudim who led Him to Pilate, a Roman governor to get him the death sentence are replying to Pilate who told them to take Him and judge Him according to their Torah.

They said " It is not right for us to put anyone to death"

Really? Then how did they put Stephen and others to death who blasphemed, cursed Yahuah, adulterers etc.? 

So the context says , because He made himself a Sovereign. And because of this they had to involve Roman authority as it was a capital punishment they wanted to inflict on Yahusha which is impaling along with their Torah for blasphemy, which is stoning

John 18: 31  Then Pilate said to them, “You take Him and judge Him according to your law.” The Yehuḏim said to him, *“It is not right for us to put anyone to death,”*

 32  in order that the word of יהושע might be filled which He spoke, signifying by what death He was about to die.

 33  Then Pilate went back into the palace, and called יהושע, and said to Him, *"Are You the Sovereign of the Yehuḏim?”*

 34  יהושע answered him, “Do you say this from yourself, or did others talk to you about Me?”

 35  Pilate answered, “Am I a Yehuḏi? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me. What did You do?”

Hence, their conspiracy with great hatred towards Yahusha was to impale him and stone him, cause stoning is painful but imminent death while impaling a delayed painful long suffering death,

That's why Yahusha died earlier than the zealots who died besides Him and hence His legs needn't be broken but the zealots had to be for immediate death as the next day was the Preparation day.

Notice the zealots were tried only according to Roman law, no Yerushalayim council involved. If it wasn't a preparation day the next day, they would have been days hanging on the tree as they are not tried according to Torah.

Deut 21: 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city,

 20 and shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is wayward and rebellious. He is not listening to our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

 21 “Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst. And let all Yisra’ĕl hear, and fear.

 22 “And when a man has committed a sin worthy of death, then he shall be put to death and you shall hang him on a tree.

 23 *“Let his body not remain overnight on the tree, for you shall certainly bury him the same day – for he who is hanged is accursed of Elohim – so that you do not defile the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.*

Yahusha was judged both according to Torah as well as Roman law and hence, the Preparation day was significant in not allowing His body to be overnight on the tree as per Torah

Gal 3:13 Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, having become a curse for us – for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree.” – Deu. 21:23.

How could Shaul not mean in the text the stoning of a rebellious son who cursed his mother and father when quoting the Torah portion by saying Yahusha became a curse for Us? Not that Yahusha was the rebellious son, we were as he took our punishment upon Himself.

The calling out with a loud voice:

Stephen :

Acts 7: 60 And kneeling down *he cried out with a loud voice*, “Master, do not hold this sin against them.” And having said this, he fell asleep.

Matthew 27:50 And יהושע *cried out again with a loud voice,* and gave up His spirit.

The comparison texts showing crying with a loud voice when inflicted by terrible pain of stoning to overcome it by calling on Yahuah

Shaul's stoning and whipping:

Acts 14: 19 But Yehuḏim arrived from Antioch and Ikonion, and having won over the crowds, *they stoned Sha’ul*, dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.

2Corin 11:25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been in the deep,

Now see what Shaul says

Gal 6:17  From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the scars of the Master Yahusha

The scars of the Master Yahusha on him would definitely mean scars of beating and stoning

When he went into Yahudah, his disciples told him he was just about to be stoned and he is going in there again, this was just before his death

In Yahuchanan's/ John's basharah he was to be stoned many times as they accused him of blasphemy for making Himself the Son of Yah and equality with Yah. And it says each time, His time had not yet come.

Which time? Stoning or impaling. Here, there was no discussion of impaling him. We need to take it to Yahuah to understand these things

John 8:58  יהושע said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Aḇraham came to be, I am.” 

 59  Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but יהושע was hidden and went out of the Set-apart Place, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

John 7:30 So they were seeking to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because *His hour had not yet come.*

John 10:30 “I and My Father are one.” 

 31 Again the Yehuḏim picked up stones to stone Him.

 32 יהושע answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. Because of which of these works do you stone Me?”

John 11: 7  Then after this He said to the taught ones, “Let us go back to Yehuḏah.”

 8  The taught ones said to Him, “Rabbi, the Yehuḏim were but now seeking to stone You, and are You going back there?”

Also lets ponder on this, Yahusha said he came to fulfill the Torah and the prophets and not one kotz of a yod will be done away with without a fulfilment.

If Shaul says He became a curse for us as it says cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree by quoting the OT text which also says of stoning, wouldn't that be an unfulfilled Torah text?

Duet 21:22 “And when a man has committed a sin worthy of death, then he shall be put to death and you shall hang him on a tree.

Put to death and then hung on a tree:

Deut 21:23 “Let his body not remain overnight on the tree, for you shall certainly bury him the same day – for he who is hanged is accursed of Elohim – so that you do not defile the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.

Gal 3:13 Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, having become a curse for us – for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree.” – Deu. 21:23.

Killed just how? Deut 21:21 “Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst. And let all Yasharal hear, and fear.

In the Torah it's written that for blasphemy one has to be stoned to death.

This would be the reason why Mashiyach died before the zealots as they accused him of blasphemy and the chief priest had torn his clothes.

Yahusha only spoke twice of Him being the Sovereign:

One before the high priest and another before Pilate. Remember, before High priest he was being accused for blasphemy and before Pilate for being a Sovereign

Matt 26: 63 But יהושע remained silent. So the high priest said to Him, “I put You to oath, by the living Elohim that You say to us if You are the Messiah, the Son of Elohim.”

 64 יהושע said to him, “You have said it. Besides I say to you, *from now on you shall see the Son of Aḏam sitting at the right hand of the Power*, Psa. 110:1 and coming on the clouds of the heaven.” Dan. 7:13.

 65 Then the high priest tore his garments, saying, “He has blasphemed! Why do we need any more witnesses? See, now you have heard His blasphemy!

The right hand or the Power was claiming equality:

John 18: 37 Then Pilate said to Him, “You are a sovereign, then?” יהושע answered, “You say it, because I am a sovereign. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”

But in front of Herod, he answered not a word because there was no need for Him to defend Himself before Herod. The text says the high priest put Him under a Oath (according to Torah) Yashayahu says His form was disfigured. Here are a few scriptures:

Yashayahu 52:14 As many were astonished at You – so the disfigurement beyond any man’s and His form beyond the sons of men

Yashayahu 53: 2 For He grew up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or splendour that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should desire Him 

Lev 24:16 ‘And he who blasphemes the Name of יהוה shall certainly be put to death, and all the congregation certainly stone him, the stranger as well as the native. When he blasphemes the Name, he is put to death.

John 10: 33 The Yehuḏim answered Him, saying, “We do not stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself Elohim.”

Also after His resurrection Miriam Magdalena couldn't recognize him and so did his talmidim who walked along the road with Him

Luke 24: 13 And see, two of them were going that same day to a village called Amma’us, which was sixty stadia from Yerushalayim.

 14 And they were talking to each other of all this which had taken place.

 15 And it came to be, as they were talking and reasoning, that יהושע Himself drew near and went with them.

 16 But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.

John 20: 15 יהושע said to her, “Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek?” *Thinking He was the gardener*, she said to Him, “Master, if You have carried Him away, say to me where You put Him, and I shall take Him away.”

When someone has been so long with them, how couldn't they recognise Him?

Mark 15: 44  And Pilate marveled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

 45  And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Yahushaph/Joseph

Pilate marveled if Yahusha was already dead because he knew, the capital punishment is a long suffering death.

But the zealots termed as thief's in English were already alive even after going through the same process Yahusha went through. It had to be stoning which causes His death earlier.

Thus Yahusha fulfilled the Torah portion for the rebellions sons by taking the penalty of stoning on Himself along with being the Pesach Lamb who takes away our sin

The process was reversed for Yahusha, he was hung on the stake and then stoned, while Torah says to kill and then hang on the tree.

While the Yahudim broke Torah, this was the purpose of Yahuah to pay the complete requirements of His Torah

Psalms 22:14  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 

 15  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

 16  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

 17  I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

 18  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

The bones of Yahusha were not broken as scripture states Not one bone would be broken but His bones were exposed as his flesh was torn apart from the stoning.

We need to study more to understand these truths which Christianity has suppressed the Torah through a god's spell (gospel) of a Roman and Greek view point. The Hebraic viewpoint is having the mind of Mashiyach which reveals the hidden truths from scripture.

The divinity of Mashiyach is hidden from the obvious face value understanding of scriptures, and there are many things that scriptures don't speak explicitly but we must see Torah and it's requirements to be fulfilled to understand what pain and suffering our Mashiyach went through for us to bring us back to Him. 

Exo 29:38  “And this is what you prepare on the slaughter-place: two lambs, a year old, daily, continually.

 39  “Prepare the one lamb in the morning, and the other lamb you prepare between the evenings,

 40  and one-tenth of an ĕphah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering, with the one lamb.

 41  “And prepare the other lamb between the evenings. And with it prepare the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to יהוה –

 42  a continual ascending offering for your generations at the door of the Tent of Appointment before יהוה, where I shall meet with you to speak with you.

Yahusha fulfilled the entire period from the third hour when the first lamb offering a year old along with the same time of incense offering to the sixth hour when the second lamb was offered along with the incense offering at the same time. Yahuah brought darkness over the whole land during the completion of the second lamb offering to show that the requirements as per Torah was fully satisfied by Yahusha because when the incense offering was offered in the heykal/temple at the 9th hour, the veil of the Most Setapart place was torn in two. The incense smoke causes darkness in the Set apart place. The true Lamb of Alahym was impaled outside the Camp where Alahym brought the clouds of darkness as His prayer brought forth the incense before the throne.

When fully satisfied with the requirements of the sacrifice required by Torah, Alahym then fulfilled the Torah portion which spoke of the stoning of the rebellious sons by putting that punishment of their sins on Mashiyach the Son of the Living Alahym.Thats why by our belief in Yahusha we receive the Ruach of Redemption and get the right to call Alahym as Abha/Father.

The Stone/Aban in which is the Ahb and the Ban (Father and Son) was rejected by the builders but became the chief Cornerstone.

Yashayahu 28:16  Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am laying in Tsiyon a stone/H68 Aban for a foundation, a closely examined /bachan H976 stone/Aban H68 , a precious/Yaqar H3368  corner or face/pinnah H6438  a established/yasad H3245 foundation/musad H4143 . He who trusts shall not act quickly.

The woman who was caught in the very act of adultery was brought to Yahusha to see what He would say of them stoning her. Yahusha told them, He who had no sin, could be the first one to cast the stone. And all left one by one 

Yahusha was the only one eligible to cast the stone as He alone was sinless but He told her He doesn't condemn her. The woman is a reflection of Yasharal who whored away from Him and He came to remarry Her and for that He had to pay the price for her adultery. And the penalty of punishment of adultery was stoning. Hence, the Stone stood firm, examined thoroughly  and Yaqar/precious Aban/Stone when the sinners cast stones at Him

Yaqar H3368 has the root word qar which means call. The yod before it means "He will call", and became the pinnah/ the Face turned.He cal led upon Alahym for the rebels, adulterers etc when His face turned/pinnah  towards asking for mercy for Us.

Messiah's cry from the stake:

Alay Alay lamah shabaqtany

Shabaqtany

Mashiyach cried when on the stake Alay Alay lamah shabaqtany which is translated as My AL My AL why have you forsaken me.

The root words in shabaqtany are:

Shab is Turn around

Shabaq- Left alone for a long time

Tan is also a sea monster/dragon

The quph in shabaq is the sun setting down in this case as in Turn down 

The cry of Mashiyach has a deep breath of the Ruach

Shabaq /Turned away for long or Left me here for long tanay/to the monsters

In Psalms 22 also it's mentioned strong bulls of Bashan have surrounded me

Bashan was a placed beyond the Yarden given to half tribe of Menashaheh, and the place was called as Galilee of Gentiles

Deut3:13  “And the rest of Gilʽaḏ, and all Bashan, the reign of Oḡ, I gave to half the tribe of Menashsheh – all the district of Argoḇ, with all Bashan, called the land of the Repha’ites.

Menashaheh was eldest son of Yahusaph and his berekah/blessing was given to Apharyam/Ephrayim the younger son through the crossed hands. Now I understand why the crossed hands as it showed the stake of Mashiyach through the impaling of his hands. The ancient letter Tau was like a t

A tree with branches out:

This crossing of hands was tried to be stopped by Yahusaph/Yoseph but his father being a nabi/prophet understood that Menashaheh's seed would partake in impaling and stoning of Mashiyach, whereas Apharyams seed would be in dispersion and the crossing over the first born berekah would bring him near.

Acts 4:27  “For truly, in this city there were gathered together against Your set-apart Servant יהושע, whom You anointed, both Herodes and Pontius Pilate, with the GENTILES and the people of Yasharal

Alahym left Yahusha on the stake for a long while for the completion of the lamb morning and evening sacrifice along with incense offering when the veil was torn from top to down during the 9th hour which was the incense hour post the second daily lamb offering. During this time Alahym brought darkness over the whole land just as smoke darkens the air through incense offering.

And when Yahusha cried Alay Alay lamah shabaqtany ...he had finished the Torah requirements for the lamb offerings and because of this delay beyond, the cry to hasten the completion of the end fulfilment of all of Torah which includes being stoned by the strong ones of Bashan for the rebellious sons. 

The chief priests and scribes thought that he was calling AlaYahu to save him, not that they didn't understand Abary but they would have understood partly because they witnessed the darkness over the whole land and the report would have come to them that the veil of the temple was torn into two.

Unless Yahuah gives repentance they nor anyone can turn. About Stephen, it's written they saw that his face was the face of an angel/messenger and yet they stoned him with gnashing of teeth. They did the same with Mashiyach, when he cried Alay Alay lamah shabaqtany, they waited to see if AlaYahu/ Elijah would come to rescue him and then they stoned him.

It was an answer to Yahusha s prayer as we saw the actual meaning. The cry meant My AL My AL why have you left me for so long among the dragon/monsters (tanay). His cry was that He fulfilled the requirements of the morning and evening sacrifice, and yet He is still alive and it's time to fulfill the Torah requirements of adopting the rebellious sons into the sonship 

And Yahusha remember had said, no one takes his life from Him, He lays it down Himself and takes it back Himself as commanded by His Father.This was the point where He was stoned and He laid His life down by Himself

Impaled and killed:

Acts 2: 23 this One, given up by the set purpose and foreknowledge of Elohim, you have impaled and killed through the hands of lawless men

The Khabouris codex is the oldest Aramaic translation, older than Greek manuscripts.

In Acts 2:23 Kepha particularly emphasizes on Yahusha being impaled and killed

If impaling itself was killing then he wouldn't have used the word kill there. Putting up both the words in Khabouris which are translated as crucified/impaled and killed

The stoning of Shaul and the implications of the stoning which ties up to Ha Mashiyach and is definite evidence:

Acts 14: 19 But Yehuḏim arrived from Antioch and Ikonion, and having won over the crowds, they stoned Sha’ul, dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.

 20 But while the taught ones gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And on the next day he went away with Barnaḇa to Derbe.

We know Shaul the emissary was stoned and he miraculously survived but he had his eyesight impacted. Thats why most of his letters were written by someone else and not by himself. He was a learned man who learned Torah at the feet of Gamaliel.

Rom 16:22 I, Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in יהוה.

Shaul ends 1 Corinthians, Colossians, and 2 Thessalonians saying, “I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand,” which would indicate that the rest of the letter was written by the hand of another, but the mark of authenticity was Shaul’s greeting or signature at the end

1 Corinthians was written with the help of Sosthenes

1Corin 1:1 Sha’ul, a called emissary of יהושע Messiah by the desire of Elohim, and brother Sosthenes,

 2 to the assembly of Elohim which is at Corinth, to those who are set-apart in Messiah יהושע, called set-apart ones, with all those calling on the Name of יהושע Messiah our Master in every place, theirs and ours

2Corinthians and Colossians was written with the help of Timothy

2Corin 1: 1 Sha’ul, an emissary of יהושע Messiah, by the desire of Elohim, and Timotiyos the brother, to the assembly of Elohim that is at Corinth, with all the set-apart ones who are in all Achaia:

Col 1: 1 Sha’ul, an emissary of יהושע Messiah by the desire of Elohim, and Timotiyos our brother,

 2 to the set-apart ones in Colosse, and true brothers in Messiah: Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master יהושע Messiah.

The historians say that Shaul had secretaries which is absurd who wrote for him but it's a fact that when he was stoned he had an eye injury which caused him to take help from the brethren to write for him.

Galatians was the only book written by him, by his own hand

Gal 6: 11 See with what big letters I have written to you with my own hand!

Why would Shaul use big letters to write unless he had an issue with his eyes. The Yahudim audience who threw stones aim at the head. Before we look at some scriptures, let's look within Galatians what Shaul says. He speaks of his trials in his flesh which the assembly at Galatia accepted and if need be they would pluck out their own eyes and give it to him.

Gal 4: 14 And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as a messenger of Elohim, as Messiah יהושע.

 15 What then was your blessedness? For I bear you witness, that if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

Psalms 38:10 My heart pants, my strength fails me, *as for the light of my

eyes, it also has gone from me*

11 My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

The Messianic passage shows a similarity as before the event actually happened it says of Mashiyach's words that the light of his eyes have gone out.

In the parable of the vineyard Mashiyach Himself spoke of His servant being stoned and wounded in the head.

Mark 12: 4 “And again he sent them another servant, and throwing stones at him, *they wounded him in the head*, and sent him away, having insulted him.

Thats where they aim the stones towards which made Shaul partially blind. And yes he had no secretaries as theologians would want us to believe in. And Shaul says in Gal 6:17, the very letter He wrote with large letters Gal 6:11

17 From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the scars of the Master יהושע.

So the scars have to be the likeness of the stoning that partially blinded him as was Mashiyach who was impaled on the stake. Stephen testified in Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers. 

They murdered Mashiyach contrary to Torah. Scripture tells us that His body was marred, then how was it marred? 

Isaiah 52:14 Just as many were astonished at you, so His visage was marred more than any man and His form more than the sons of men

All these scriptures were right before our eyes and yet without the Ruach's help we couldn't see or understand them

Some say Kepha/Peter also had a secretary Silas based on 1Peter 5:12  Through Silas the trustworthy brother, as I reckon, I have written to you briefly, encouraging and witnessing that this is the true favour of Elohim. In this stand fast.

 13  She who is in Baḇel, chosen together with you, greets you, also my son, Marqos.

This is not true as Silas was sent from the Yerushalayim assembly to accompany Shaul and Barnabah in the ministry

Act 15:22 TS2009 Then it seemed good to the emissaries and elders, with all the assembly, to send chosen men from among them to Antioch with Sha’ul and Barnaḇa: Yehuḏah being called Barsabba, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,

Act 15:27 TS2009 We have therefore sent Yehuḏah and Silas, who are also confirming this by word of mouth.

Kepha had written the letter when he was in Rome and the time of his departure was at hand  (2Peter 1:14) Peter was only delivering the letter through Silas from Rome to those in dispersion due to the persecution in Yerushalayim.

Silas was an accomplice of Shaul after Barnabah and Shaul had a sharp argument over Mark and Shaul took Silas with him and Barnabah took Mark along with him.

Post this, scriptures are silent on Barnabah but Mark is found with Kepha/ Peter in prison as stated in 1Peter 5:13

13  She who is in Baḇel, chosen together with you, greets you, also my son, Marqos

Coming back to Mashiyach, when all things were fulfilled concerning Him, His body was taken down from the timber and laid in a tomb.

Acts 13: 29  “And when they had accomplished all that was written concerning Him, taking Him down from the timber, they laid Him in a tomb

The Side portion

 Gen 32:30  And Yaʽaqoḇ called the name of the place Peni’ĕl, “For I have seen Elohim face to face, and my life is preserved.” 

Gen 32:31  And the sun rose on him as he passed over Penu’ĕl, and he limped on his thigh. 

Gen 32:32  Therefore the children of Yasharal eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the middle/kaph H3709 of the thigh/yarak H3409, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. 

 Yaaqob wrestled with a man until day break and Yaaqob understood that he was the Messenger of Yahuah and wouldn't let him go and hence the Messenger of Yahuah touched the kaph/middle of his yarak/thigh and the muscle of the thigh shrank but Yaaqob wouldn't let Him go until he blessed him, and his name was changed to Yasharal which has the root words 'yashar' which means 'upright/remnant/straight/plenteous, & 'sharah' which means 'prince' and 'Al' which is the short form for 'Alahym'. Hence, Yaaqob as Yasharal of Alahym means 'The upright prince of Alahym'

The wrestling was significant as his thigh/yarak was disjointed and we have Gen 32:32 recording that the children of Yasharal do not eat of the sinew which shrank which is on the middle of the thigh unto this day. Hence, Yasharal is likened to an sacrificial animal or a sheep/lamb/goat which children of Yasharal eat and they do not eat the portion of the middle of the thigh.

In Torah you will not find a single verse which shows that the priests ate of this thigh/yarak portion, instead it says of the right/yamyin H3225 shoulder/H7785 shuq portion reserved for the kohen/priests

Lev 7:31 And the priest shall burn את eth-the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aharon's and his sons'.

Lev 7:32 And את eth-right/yamyin H3225 shoulder/H7785 shuq shall ye give unto the priest for a heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

Lev 7:33 He among the sons of Aharon, that offers את eth-the blood of the peace offerings, and את eth-the fat, shall have the right/yamyin H3225 shoulder/H7785 shuq for his part.

The word 'yarak' which also means 'loins/hip portion down to the thigh, shank/side/shaft' is found in numerous other portions in Torah

The priestly garments were to have linen breeches to cover their nakedness from the waist to the thighs

Exo 28:42  “And make linen trousers for them (Aharon and his sons), to cover their nakedness/aruah H6172 of the flesh/bashar H1320, reaching from the waist to the thighs/yarak H3409. 

We have scriptures recording that Yahusha was placed a scarlet robe after He was stripped off his own garments and His tunic was seamless of one piece woven from the top

Matt 27:28 They stripped Him (Yahusha) of His own garments and put a scarlet robe on Him.

John 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Yahusha, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout

Joh 19:24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. (Tehilliym 22:18) These things therefore the soldiers did.

We had understood in the earlier study 'The rod of Aluahym',  that Yahusha was the high priest who presided as a high priest over his own sacrifice as the high priest Caiaphas had torn his garments and was disqualified to be a high priest

Lev 10:6 And Mosheh said to Aharon, and to Elʽazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Do not unbind your heads nor tear your garments, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the people. But let your brothers, all the house of Yisra’ĕl, bewail the burning which יהוה has kindled.

Lev 21:10 ‘And the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is ordained to wear the garments, does not unbind his head nor tear his garments,

Lev 21:11 nor come near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother,

When Yahusha stood before Caiaphas (Matt 26:62-65) and Caiaphas tears his clothes-he is no longer high priest because now Yahusha is! Also Yahusha's robe could not be torn-it was woven in one piece! A beautiful picture of Messiah as our High Priest!

Mat 26:62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answer you nothing? what is it which these witness against you? Mat 26:63 But YAHUSHA held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure you by the living EL, that you tell us whether you be HA’MASHIACH, the Son of ELOHIYM. Mat 26:64 YAHUSHA said unto him, You have said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of A’dam sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Mat 26:65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

In Yahusha' case, the soldiers rent his outer garment and made 4 parts, but Yahuah didn't allow them to tear his tunic and hence, they cast lots for it.

Heb 9:11 But MASHIACH being come a High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of MASHIACH, who through the eternal RUACH offered himself without spot to את eth-YAHUAH, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living YAH?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the Mediator of the Renewed Covenant, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

The writer of Hebrews confirms to us that Mashiyach entered the Most Set Apart place with his OWN BLOOD which shows us that he presided over his own sacrifice at the summit.

Where else is yarak/thigh mentioned in Torah?

Num 5:13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her man, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken
with the manner;
Num 5:14 And the ruach/spirit H7307 of jealousy/qanah H7068 come upon him, and he be jealous of את eth-his woman, and she be defiled: or if the ruach (spirit) of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of את eth-his woman, and she be not defiled:
Num 5:15 Then shall the man bring את eth-his woman unto the priest, and he shall bring את eth-her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
Num 5:16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before YAHUAH:
Num 5:17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the Tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
Num 5:18 And the priest shall set את eth-the woman before YAHUAH, and uncover את eth-the woman's head, and put את eth the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse:
Num 5:19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your man, be free from this bitter water that causes the curse:
Num 5:20 But את eth if you have gone aside to another instead of your man, and if you be defiled, and some man have lain את eth-with you beside your man:
Num 5:21 Then the priest shall charge את eth-the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, YAHUAH make you a curse and an oath among your people, when YAHUAH makes את eth-your thigh/yarak H3409 to rot, and את eth-your belly to swell;

Num 5:22 And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly to swell, and your thigh/yarak H3409 to rot: And the woman shall say, Amein, Amein.

The Torah portion says If man with a ruach/spirit of jealousy suspects his wife of adultery, he would bring her to the priest with an offering and the priest would put her under an oath of curse and make her drink the bitter water that causes the curse which would make her belly swell and her yarak/thigh to rot if she had committed adultery. The woman in spiritual adultery was Yasharal who whored away from Yahuah. We have scripture recording that Yahusha took the ruach of qanah/jealously of His wife upon Himself

Mark15:10 For he (Pilate) knew that it was only out of their jealousy/qanah that the chief priests had handed Him over.

He was made to drink the bitter water of curse instead of us. We have Matthew recording that before he was impaled they offered him vinegar mingled with gall and he would not drink

Mat 27:33 And when they were come unto a place called Gulgoleth, that is to say, a place of a skull, Mat 27:34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

Mat 27:35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled את eth which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. (Tehilliym 22:18)

And when he was impaled and in the final hours of his sacrifice, He called out to Aluahym ''Alay Alay lamah shabaqtani'' and he was offered the vinegar again, while Matthew still doesn't record of Mashiyach having the bitter water, we have Yahuchanan in his basharah recording Him saying '' I thirst'' to fulfill scripture. Which scripture? Its the bitter water of jealousy Torah portion He fulfilled, by taking his wife's spirit of jealously upon Himself. For Yahuah had said that He is an Aluahym of jealousy.

Mat 27:48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

Joh 19:28 After this, YAHUSHA knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.

Joh 19:29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

Joh 19:30 When YAHUSHA therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his ruach (spirit).

Zec 8:1 And the word of יהוה of hosts came, saying, Zec 8:2 “Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘I shall be jealous/H7065 qana for Tsiyon with great jealousy, with great wrath I shall be jealous/H7065 qana for her.’

Yahusha's belly didn't swell nor his thigh rot for He endured the ruach of jealously/qanah on Himself and the woman was found innocent in Him for we were quickened together with Him in His death. The woman was already saved in childbearing as she had brought forth the man child Mashiyach. Chauah/Eve was the mother of all living and was a type of the wife of Mashiyach

Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all transgressions; Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of dogma that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his stake; Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Num 5:27 ‘And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that brings the curse shall enter her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh or loins/yarak shall waste away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people. Num 5:28 ‘But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be clear and shall conceive children. Num 5:29 ‘This is the Torah of jealousy, when a wife turns aside under her husband’s authority and defiles herself, Num 5:30 or when a spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife. Then he shall make the woman stand before יהוה, and the priest shall do to her all this Torah. Num 5:31 ‘And the man shall be clear from crookedness, but the woman bear her crookedness.’ ”

The thigh/yarak here is in relation to childbearing

1Ti 2:13  Because Aḏam was formed first, then Ḥawwah. 

1Ti 2:14  And Aḏam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, fell into transgression. 

1Ti 2:15  But she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in belief, and love, and set-apartness, with sensibleness. 

While the scripture was fulfilled when Yahusha actually drank the bitter water of jealousy in place of His wife, it is evident that Yahuah had forgiven the sin of adultery His wife had committed based on His sacrifice for His wife for she was saved in her childbearing.

Gal 3:13 Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, having become a curse for us – for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree.

Yarak/H3409 in the Lampstand:

Ex25:31 Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand and its base/yarak H3409 and its branch shall be made of hammered work; its cones, its spheres and its buds shall be from it.

Ex25:32 Six branches shall go out from its sides; three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its other side.

The beauty of the fulfillment of the menorah branch which had the almond bowls which stood before the veil was fulfilled when Yahusha was impaled to the tree of almonds which grew from the rod of Masha which Dawid hid in the mount of Olives. The two zealot's were impaled on the same tree one on the right and one on the left of Yahusha, while Yahusha Himself being on the center of the tree. Yahusha's body on the tree stood as the center branch of the menorah and his two hands and the two hands each of the zealot's make six branches coming out of the center.

Mat 27:44 And also the robbers/charapu who were impaled with Him reviled Him, saying the same.

At that time zealot's were called bandits, He was numbered with the transgressors shows that Yahusha was likened by the accusation to be a zealot/rebel. If zealots were simple robbers they wouldn't have been impaled to the tree. Only those rebelling against the authority of the Roman government went through the punishment of impaling to a tree until death. For Yahusha the punishment was different than these zealot's, they had accused him of rebellion as well as blasphemy, that's why probably he died earlier than the two zealot's as he was stoned after being impaled to the tree.

Pilate marveled if Yahusha was already dead, why would he marvel if impaling would kill someone immediately? It is clear from the zealot's hung along with Yahusha that they were still alive and their legs were broken so that they should die of not being able to breathe, while Yahusha was impaled and then stoned to death. This shows the difference of punishment meted out, one for blasphemy and the other two for rebellion but not blasphemy.

Mar 15:44 And Pilate marveled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

The table of shew bread:

Exo 40:22 And he put את eth-the table in the tent of the assembly, upon the side/yarak H3409 of the Tabernacle northward, without the veil. Exo 40:23 And he set the bread in order upon it before YAHUAH; as YAHUAH had com manded את eth-Mosheh. Exo 40:24 And he put את eth-the menorah in the tent of the assembly, over against the table, on the side/yarak H3409 of the Tabernacle southward.

The shew bread table had 12 loaves, in rows of 6 each representing the 12 tribes of Yasharal. The table was placed north of the side/yarak of the Tabernacle and menorah/lampstand was placed of the side of the south of the Tabernacle, in the Set-Apart place (outside the veil)

Lev 24:5 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

Lev 24:6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before YAHUAH.

Lev 24:7 And you shall put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto YAHUAH.

Heb 9:1 Now the first covenant indeed had regulations of worship and the earthly set-apart place. Heb 9:2 For a Tent was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, and the table, and the showbread, which is called the Set-apart Place. Heb 9:3 And after the second veil, the part of the Tent which is called Most Set-apart, Heb 9:4 to which belonged the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that held the manna, and the rod of Aharon that budded, and the tablets of the covenant, Heb 9:5 and above it the keruḇim of esteem were overshadowing the place of atonement – about which we do not now speak in detail.

The north of the Tabernacle was significant of Yasharal, while the lampstand seems to be southward, it was southward of the shew bread table, still pointing to the north facing the veil.

Psa 48:1 Great is יהוה, and greatly to be praised In the city of our Elohim, His set-apart mountain. Psa 48:2 Pretty on high, The joy of all the earth, Is Mount Tsiyon on the sides of the north, The city of the great Sovereign.

All burnt offerings were killed on the side/yarak of the altar northward before Yahuah. Yahusha ha Mashiyach is the Yasharal of Aluahym and we are engrafted into Yahuah in Him.

Lev 1:11 And he shall kill it on the side/yarak H3409 of the altar northward before YAHUAH: and the priests, Aharon's sons, shall sprinkle את eth-his blood round about upon the altar.

Speaking of Mashiyach it is said he will gird his sword upon His yarak/thigh, and on His robe and His thigh He has a name written 'Melek hamalakim, Adon ha adonim' (King of kings and Master of masters)

Psa 45:3 Gird your sword upon your thigh/yarak H3409, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.

Rev19:16 And on His robe and on His thigh/yarak He has a name written, King of the kings, and Adon of the masters.

Ephrayim is interchangeably used for Yasharal and speaking of Yasharal returning back to Yahuah, Yahuah prophesies of Ephrayim lamenting and striking his yarak/thigh being ashamed of the whoredoms done against Yahuah

Jer 31:18 “I have clearly heard Ephrayim lamenting, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained calf. Turn me back, and I shall turn back, for You are יהוה my Elohim. Jer 31:19 ‘For after my turning back, I repented. And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh/yarak H3409. I was ashamed, even humiliated, for I bore the reproach of my youth.’ Jer 31:20 “Is Ephrayim a precious son to Me, a child of delights? For though I spoke against him, I still remembered him. That is why My affections were deeply moved for him. I have great compassion for him,” declares יהוה.

Eze 21:12 Cry and howl, son of A’dam: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Yashar’el: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon את eth-my people: smite therefore upon your thigh/yarak H3409.

Eze 21:13  “For it is a trier, and what if it even despises the ROD or SCEPTRE/SHEBET H7626? Shall it not be?” declares the Master יהוה. 

Yahuah tells Ezekiel to smite his yarak/thigh for the sword of His judgement upon His people Yasharal for they despised the ROD/SHEBET i.e. Mashiyach

This rod termed as matah/rod of chastisement or rod of support or branch is called maqalah which means to germinate/shoot forth pointing to Mashiyach whose everlasting priesthood would shoot forth as the blossoms/tsyists from it bringing forth life. This same rod is called as shebet as well as ets in scripture

Gen 49:10 The sceptre/shebet H7626 shall not depart from Yahudah, nor a Torah giver from between his feet, until Shiyloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

The sceptre/shebet that sprung from the tribe of Yahudah is Mashiyach.

shebet H7626 From an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, that is, (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan: - X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.

Num 24:17 “I see Him, but not now; I observe Him, but not near. A Star shall come out of Yaʽaqoḇ, and a Sceptre/shebet H7626 shall rise out of Yisra’ĕl, and shall smite the corners of Mo’aḇ, and shall destroy all the sons of Shĕth.

Eze 37:16 “And you, son of man, take a stick/ets H6086 for yourself and write on it, ‘For Yehuḏah and for the children of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’ Then take another stick/ets H6086 and write on it, ‘For Yosĕph, the stick of Ephrayim, and for all the house of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’

Eze 37:17 “Then bring them together for yourself into one stick, and they shall become one in your hand.

Eze 37:18 “And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’

Eze 37:19 say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the stick of Yosĕph, which is in the hand of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, his companions. And I shall give them unto him, with the stick of Yehuḏah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.” ’

Eze 37:20 “And the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.

Eze 37:21 “And speak to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the children of Yisra’ĕl from among the gentiles, wherever they have gone, and shall gather them from all around, and I shall bring them into their land.

Eze 37:22 “And I shall make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl. And one sovereign shall be sovereign over them all, and let them no longer be two nations, and let them no longer be divided into two reigns.

Eze 37:23 “And they shall no longer defile themselves with their idols, nor with their disgusting matters, nor with any of their transgressions. And I shall save them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and I shall cleanse them. And they shall be My people, and I be their Elohim,

Eze 37:24 while Dawiḏ My servant is sovereign over them. And they shall all have one shepherd and walk in My right-rulings and guard My laws, and shall do them.

Eze 37:25 “And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Yaʽaqoḇ My servant, where your fathers dwelt. And they shall dwell in it, they and their children and their children’s children, forever, and My servant Dawiḏ be their prince forever.

Yahuah uses the word ets H6086 translated here as 'stick'. Ets also means 'tree'

ets H6086 a tree (from its firmness); hence wood (plural sticks): - + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.

The picture is of a rod which is a matah/maqalah/shebet/ets in the hands of Yahudah and Yahusaph whose seed represent the One Malchitsedeq priesthood of Yahusha who will spring forth in bringing and making both these rods/staff as ONE in his hand.

Gen 49:10 “The sceptre/shebet H7626 shall not turn aside from Yehuḏah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples.

The sceptre/tribe/stick/rod/staff wouldn't turn aside from Yahudah until Mashiyach represented by the name Shiloh, whose name means 'that which belongs to him' would come.

Gen 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes/shebet H7626 of Yashar’el: and this is it that their father spoke unto them, and blessed them; everyone according to his blessing he blessed them.

Hence, we see the smiting of Yaaqob's thigh/yarak significant of his seed smiting their thigh in in shame for rejecting the ROD of Aluahym who is Yahusha, and the children of Yasharal not eating the thigh portion and Torah not mentioning any of the sacrifices where the kaph/middle of the thigh/yarak was offered in burnt offerings for the yarak/thigh of Yahusha was put to test by Aluahym Himself when He drank the bitter water of jealously and his loins did not rot, nor his belly swell and Yahuah shows and exposes His thigh where His name is written 'Melek hamalakim, Adon ha adonim' for He overcame the written dogma of curses by turning them into barakha for us. Shalum!