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Unsarcastically, more and more scholars are recognizing that in the Greek original texts of the New Testament, the apostles seem to range in age from newly pubescent (John) up to maybe 18-19 in the case of Peter. To say nothing of the naked child Jesus was caught with in the garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14:51-52) - the whole reason they crucified him under laws reserved for child traffickers.
Important to remember that Jesus spoke Greek and lived in the context of Greco-Roman culture, with the widespread prevalence of pederasty, eunuchs, drug use etc. that came with it.
Mark 14:61 calls out blasphemy as the charge. Is blasphemy typically the charge used against child traffickers?
Mark 14:48 has Jesus asking the soldiers why they’re attacking him with heavy weaponry as if he were a lēstēs, or human trafficker, the same word is used by Julius Caesar to describe the people who captured and ransomed him, so the general translation of lēstēs as robber or brigand is insufficient, they are human traffickers, often the pederastic type. Caesar also started the tradition of crucifying this particular type of criminal.
Ugh, definitely one of those passages where the translation matters. Several versions of the Bible are no where near suggesting the soldiers are attacking him, nor using “lēstēs”. Granted the Bible has been heavily edited over the centuries, and I cannot read the original.
Thank you for pointing out the section.
To address the passage you mentioned, its Mark 14:64 that mentions blasphemy and that could be (I’ve heard it explained this way) from Jesus’ appropriation of earlier Greek Bacchus/Aphrodite cult practices, with Jesus specifically taking over the role played by Aphrodite.