What does the holy grail suppose to represent. it is a
dish, plate, stone, or cup a "wide and deep
saucer" designed for consuming liquids and used to serve at
a feast.but From the time author Robert de Boron a French poet of the late 12th and early 13th
centuries, portrayed it as the vessel of the Last Supper, information he
had no way of knowing about, and an event of which he was not
invited to and was born more than a few hundred years to attend more baloney
has been heaped on the so called last supper, an event in which Jesus and
his disciples prepared to eat the lamb of Passover, but when Matthew and
Mark describe the meal that Jesus and his disciples ate, the only religious
items named are wine and bread. The so called writers of the gospels never say
a word of the other ritual food required at Passover, the bitter herbs (marror)
which Jews are commanded to eat at Passover in the book of Exodus (Exodus
12:8). The only two items named in the Gospels, wine and bread, can be found at
any traditional Jewish meal, regardless of whether or not it is
Passover. The last supper could not have been a sacrificial seder for the
sins of man it must be noted that the Hebrew Scriptures condemns any form
of human sacrifice, and this alone precludes Jesus from having been any kind of
sacrifice within a Jewish context. Furthermore, the Hebrew Scriptures are quite
clear, the person who sinned is the one who is punished for the sin, stop saying
that Jesus was sacrificed for the sins of many because that’s more
baloney see Exodus 32:33, Deuteronomy 24:16 'Every man shall be put to
death for his own sin,' Ezekiel 18:20, and Jeremiah 31:29-30. And so Jesus
could not die for anyone else's sins like a sin sacrifice lamb. However, again,
the Passover lamb was not a sin sacrifice, and all lambs for sin sacrifices had
to be female (see Leviticus 4:32)
One must also realize that the vast majority of the elements
in a Passover Seder as they are done today, were not done in the days of Jesus,
and were only invented in the last 400 years or so. Just a couple of examples:
Haggadas up until the 1700's used only one and one half of a piece of Matzah,
not three. Up until the middle of the 1600's, the afikomen was set aside, kept
in plain view, and not hidden. Although the Last Supper could not have been a
Passover Seder, Jesus would have experienced Seders over his life, but what he
did at them would have not reflected what is done at a Seder today.
Now let me deal with one other matter, Jesus’s betrothal to
mary Magdalene and the question of whether they were married or not. The answer
to that question is yes..they were married.. The Jewish home is the most
important institution in the Jewish religion, and thus all men are
required to be married, whether or not they are rabbis, but rabbis were
obligated to be married. So the answer to your question is yes; even
2,000 years ago Jewish men were married, rabbis or not. Orthodox
Judaism assumes the messaih will be married, as he will be and Orthodox
Jewish man…to make the point more clear.. Rabbis where required to get
married 2000 years ago as the Jewish weddings laws and customs relating to the
wedding ceremony, its preparations and Seudas Mitzvah (festive reception meal)
date back to the Patriarchs and the giving of the Torah at Sinai.
So back to the grail that I write about in my Cronicles
drama, according to legend it still exists! The cup was likely to be made
of wood or clay. According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the
dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess
miraculous powers. The connection of Joseph of Arimathea with the Grail legend
dates from Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie (late twelfth century who must
have used Marty McFlys time machine to know all that he knows about things that
went on more than 25 hundred years ago) in which Joseph receives the Grail from
an apparition of Jesus and sends it with his followers to Great Britain;
building upon this theme, later writers recounted how Joseph used the Grail to
catch Christ's blood while interring him and that in Britain he founded a line
of guardians to keep it safe. The quest for the Holy Grail makes up an
important segment of the Arthurian cycle, appearing first in works by Chrétien
de Troyes.[1] The legend may combine Christian lore with a Celtic myth of a
cauldron endowed with special powers.
The development of the Grail legend has been traced in detail
by cultural historians: It is a legend which first came together in the form of
written romances, deriving perhaps from some pre-Christian folklore hints, in
the later 12th and early 13th centuries. The early Grail romances centered on
Percival and were woven into the more general Arthurian fabric. The Grail
romances started in France and were translated into other European vernaculars;
only a handful of non-French romances added any essential new elements. Some of
the Grail legend is interwoven with legends of the Holy Chalice. I prove this
legends to be mere puffs of smoke in my novel The Da Vinci Chronicles.
