On the Fathers of People in the Gospel

I have been thinking about James and John, the sons of perception (regesh). I agree that the father’s name Zavdai refers to someone already known. I tentatively raise the possibility that the Gospels cite Jesus’s father’s name as Joseph because many people expected a Messiah son of Joseph and a Messiah son of Levi. The name James might well be a TITLE. There is no reason to distinguish between James the Great, the disciple of Jesus, on the one hand, and James the Lesser, Jesus’s brother and first Bishop of Jerusalem. If you look again at Dt XXXIII you will see the document authorising the setting up of the Church. The Church is the successor of the Congregation of the Wilderness under Moses. Moses became King under the Kingship of God when the Torah had been given and the tribes had been formed into the Congregation of Israel. (See the first verses). Upon the coming of one from Judah (verse 7) all the tribes are to be united again as a new Congregation of Israel under a new Torah. (See the first verses with the last verses). It does not necessarily say that this new Congregation is to be permanently headed at the mundane level by this person from Judah. That means the only appropriate title for the following mundane leader holding divinely given authority is Israel or Jacob, i. e. James. As said many times before, the name John, whether it really belongs to James or belongs to Mark or is the name of someone else, refers to John I: 17, “Grace in addition to Grace”, which refers back to Ex XXXIII: 12 to the end of the chapter; and the name then refers to v. 18, “Grace and Truth”, which is the Grace in addition to the Grace, and refers back to Ex XXXIV: 6 and its context. The meaning of these verses in John and the symbolism of the name John is that the first Grace was only accessible to Moses, and he had to put a veil over his face because the Israelites could not bear it: but now “we look with unveiled faces” as II Corinthians puts it. Truth is PERCEPTION of reality.

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