Titus and Jesus Christ

Titus and Jesus Christ are two characters who do not appear to share very much. However, what we do have is two narratives written at approximately the same time. The first is the Jewish War by Josephus and the second is the ministry of Jesus as recorded in the four gospels.

Jesus: Plot lines:

1) He begins his ministry by the Lake of Galilee where he called his disciples to be 'fishers of men'. 

2) Then at Gadara he sends a legion of devils out of a demon-possessed man and into pigs. "the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea". 

3) Jesus, the son of Mary, offers his flesh to be eaten.

4) In Gethsemane a naked man escapes and Jesus is captured.

5) Simon denies him three times.

6) He is crucified with two other men and only he "survives". He is taken down from the cross by a man called Joseph of Arimathea.

7) When Jesus returns he tells Simon of his fate (his death) and tells John he will be spared.

Jewish War/Titus: Plot lines:

1) At the Lake of Galilee a Roman battle took place in which Titus attacked a band of Jewish rebels led by a man named Jesus. The rebels fell into the water where the Romans cut of hands and heads, pulling them out like fish, (fishing for men).

2) Josephus then tells of the Roman campaign against Gadara. Josephus describes the faults of all the rebels being concentrated in the one head of rebel leader John. Then, rushing about "like the wildest of wild beasts," the 2000 rebels rushed over the cliff and drowned.

3) Josephus then tells the story of Mary, a woman in Jerusalem, who eats the flesh of her own son.

4) Josephus describes how Titus Flavius went out without his armour (metaphorically naked to a soldier) in the Garden of Gethsemane, he was nearly caught and had to flee.

5) Simon the zealot denies Titus three times.

6) Josephus tells a story of finding three crucified men, he is allowed to free them, but only one survives. Josephus' name is Joseph Bar Matthias or Joseph b(Ar matthia)s.

7) Titus has the rebel leader Simon killed in Rome and spares John.

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Same names, locations, similar events and the main points in both works have a matching sequence. That is what's commonly known as a satire. The Romans loved satires. The intelligence, invention and memory retention of these people have been sorely underestimated and misunderstood for far too long.

The ministry of Jesus is based on the Jewish War. This means that Simon, Mary, John, Jesus, etc are all fictional characters.

I will write more when I can. This is merely an outline of how certain parts of the gospel stories where developed.