Jesus named them “Boanerges”. English translations of His Greek term usually render it as “Sons of Thunder”. But, “mangled” as the Greek transliteration is, it would be more accurate to translate the original meaning as “Sons of Rage”.
We are going to relate this “title” to the raising of Jairus’ daughter. The “they” whom Jesus gave the fancy title to, were James and John, the two sons of Zebedee who were two of Jesus’ 12 original apostles.
As we will see when we get “into” the story of Jairus’ daughter (future article/post) in even more mathematical detail, Jesus chose this title “Sons of Rage”, VERY precisely. The two brothers, and their fellow apostle, Simon Peter, aka Cephas,
were the ones whom Jesus took with Him “chez Jairus” to raise the dead girl back to life.
Let’s start with the name(s).
Sons of Thunder – Sons of Rage
The term Jesus used to describe the two brothers was a Greek “transliteration” of two Hebrew words. And yes, Jesus DID speak Greek. He was a multi-lingual guy. As te Son of God, and as the Word of God Incarnate, He was likely to be multilingual anyway. Remember that when the Spirit of God came upon the disciples on the first Pentecost, one of the things that happened was that they were given the gift of languages. They were not speaking and preaching in gibberish. The New Testament account says plainl that people from many different parts of the Roman Empire heard the preaching in their “native tongue”. So Jesus, upon whom John The Baptist saw the Holy Spirit descend like a dove, and stay upon Him, should have had the same Holy Spirit derived multi-language ability.
But in the case of the Greek language, Jesus did not need some special gift “from above” or “from within”. The language was common through much of what we now call the Middle East. It had been common since the time of Alexander the Great, a bit over 300 years before Jesus was born.
In Jesus’ case, He had effectively “started life” on a Greek speaking university campus in Alexandria, Egypt. Alexander had set up that university, and renamed and built up the university city around it. Joseph, Jesus’ step-father was way more than a “humble carpenter”. He probably was a humble man. But he was also a brilliant Torah scholar. That is why he was selected (by the religious Jewish community, to be Maria’s husband. They knew that her son was to be the Messiah. So they chose a super scholar as her husband, in order that the coming Messiah and Saviour would be well trained, well prepared. Joseph’s “day job” or “trade” was as a builder. But he was also an academic, a brilliant scholar.
When Joseph fled to Egypt with Maria (Mary), and Jesus, they went to the university. There it was easy for them to “blend in” and “disappear” among the many other Jewish scholars and researchers who were on the staff there.
At home there in Alexandria, Jesus spoke Hebrew and Aramaic. That was natural. BOTH Maria and Joseph had links to the Qumran community. BOTH were well educated. Qumran, in turn, had links with Egypt, which had been Greek speaking since the time of Alexander. But the links between Greek and Hebrew culture were older than that. The Greek alphabet is clearly descended from the Hebrew alpabet. And especially since the time of Solomon, Greek scholars had traveled to Israel, where they studied with Jewish scholars. The accounts of Solomon’s life make it clear that “the whole world” came to Solomon to learn from him. The Greeks were no exception. This is why “Greek science” bloomed.
Contrary to the claims made in western education and western theology, since at least the time of St. Augustine, Greek science was not secular or independent of God. Greek science was deeply esoteric, with secret knowledge given only to initiates. “Greek gurus”, if we can call them that, only gave knowledge of things like the “wonders of the Dodecahedron” to their most advanced initiates. Carl Sagan described that with a smile on his face. Professor Sagan probably knew very well that mch of that “Greek” science was really Jewish science, derived from Solomon’s knowledge and from generations of Torah scholars, starting with Moses, and even before that, with Abraham.
Abraham grew up, from the time he was a baby, in Shem’s school. Shem was the son of Noah, a man well versed in ancient “pre-flood” knowledge. That was why he, (Shem), was running his school, and why he was so good at it.
Jesus, a bit like Abraham, had to be smuggled to a school a long way from where He was born, because yet another thuggih king wanted to kill Him. So Jesus started life on a Greek speaking university campus. He retained the language as he grew up. He knew it well enough to understand its mathematics and gematria. He understood that Greek gematria well enough to choose Aramaic names that He could transliterate into Greek in such a way that the names came out as “Torah Mathematics” in Hebrew. Jesus did that with Simon Peter’s names. And He did it with the names of James and John.
Putting it bluntly, Jesus was straight out BRILLIANT.
An example of just how BRILLIANT Jesus was/is, can be seen in the way He MANGLED (and mangled is the word!) the two Hebrew words He transliterated into Greek as the nicknames for the two sons of Zebedee.
Daniel 3:13
Daniel 3:13 describes Nebuchadnezzar being furious with rage. The word used for furious rage is “Regaz” or “Regez”.
The Hebrew word for Son is “Ben”, its spelling being two letters, Bet and Nun. Jesus “mangled” the phonetics of “Ben” to get the “Boan” He wanted in Greek. The “Boan” was part of the Gematria/mathematics Jesus wanted in the name(s) He gave to James and John.
The alternative interpretation of the origin of Jesus’ transliteration, is to see the “source word” as “Reges” or “Regesh”, where the final letter is not a Zayin, but a Shin. This word is used in Psalm 55:14, when David describes walking to the House of God with his close friend. They walk together among or through “the crowd” or “throng”. On the assumption that a crowd is noisy, western translators jump from “noisy crowd” to “thunderous noise” to “Sons of Thunder”, to Jesus predicting in coded style that James and John were going to be “noisy preachers” or great orators”.
The “s” sound at the end of “Boanerges” sounds to English speakers, very close to a “z” sound, so, it IS possible that Jesus had “Reges” in mind. What is perhaps more interesting is the physical location King David refers to (The Temple), and WHOM King David was talking about. The close friend was none other than Bathsheba’s grandfather.
That story is tragic. The two men were very close friends. But David’s friends sure had grounds to be furious with David. Those grounds were what David had done to his grand-daughter, to her husband, and to her father. David had shattered the whole family, four generations of it, counting Bathsheba;s new baby son, who died within a week of his birth, according to the judgement David himself had pronounced:
The man shal pay four-fold
King David lost four sons, as per his own words. One of those sons was the great-grandson of David’s furious former “best friend”. God did forgive David, and apparently, Bathsheba. They became the parents of the greatest, wisest and wealthiest king the world has ever known, Solomon.
But Solomon’s great-grandfather never lived to see it. He sided with the rebellion against David, but soon realised that God was not with him, despite the righteousness of his furious rage. God was, once again, “with David”. So David’s former friend put his affairs in order and then took his own life.
The story is tragic. It probably does link to what was in Jesus’ mind when He named His two Apostles as “Sons of Rage”. It ties in together themes around The Temple, about forgiveness and adultery, about the woman caught in adultery dragged before Jesus in the Temple grounds, about the Holy of Holies (a Cube) where the Ark and the portal back into Eden, complete with two cherubs was. But on the Ark of The Covenant, the Cherubs were not war-like and threatening. They were young, innocent little children, like the “cherubic” little babies in medieval paintings.
Jesus had James and John with Him when He raised Jairus’ daughter from death – yet another Cube, 6 around 1, 12 edges, 12 years etc. Jesus had them with Him on Mt Hermon for the Transfiguration. He had them with Him in Gethsemane the night before He was crucified. They are significant. Their nameS are significant.
The account of the inauguration of The Temple is interrupted by the “ritual” of the adulterous woman/wife. She had to be taken to the Temple Grounds where she looked to where the Holy of Holies (the Cube) was, with the Ark (portal to Eden) was. When Moses and Elijah met Jesus on Mt Hermon, they talked with Him aout what He was going to accomplish by His death in Jerusalem. When Jesus died, the Holy of Holies’ veil was torn open, symbolic of the way back to Eden being opened again. Jairus’ daughter, “Talitha” was brought back from the clutches of The Teli (The Draco Serpent) into The Light, fitting for the “Daughter of Light”. (Jairus’ name was Light.)
Eve’s adultery with the Serpent-Draco Constellation was being reversed. The rage of her family was justified. It was what kept her separated from Adam for 130 years. When they re-united, they were together for 800 years. The 800 years is symbolic of the “800 Block”, Rows 2-9, of the 72 Triplets. As we will see in future posts, Jesus was “working” that Block of 8000 within the Triplets (Camelot) when He named His Apostles.
Solomon’s Temple had a volume of 8000 Cubic Cubits (20 by 20 by 20). This was larger than Moses’ Tabernacle (10 by 10 by 10 = 1000).
Psalm 55, verse 15 (Jewish Tanakh) (verse 14 in English Bibles)
In the verse above, look at the word on the left (the end) of the verse. The Bet in front means “in” or “among”. The next three letters are Regesh )Resh-Gimel-Shin), meaning “crowd” or “throng”.
In a (the?) Crowd
Reges (Crowd or Throng)
“Alternative possible source for
Jesus’ “Boanerges” Transliteration
The “8000 Block” in The 72 Triplets
Solomon’s Holy of Holies Volume 8000
Eve’s 800 Years “Back With” Adam
Jesus (future posts in this “series”), named His apostles so that their names matched divisions within the Block of 8000. in The 72 Camelot (Triplets)
Mind Boggling!
Rage
Going back to Regaz and Rage, the verse below is Daniel 3:13. It describes the little thug of a king throwing a prize “dummy spit” when he hears that not some young Hebrews were refusing to bow down and worship the gold statue of himself that the king had had set up. His “dummy spit” is described as “Regez”, a “burning rage”.
Daniel 3:13
The 4th Word in The Verse is “B’Regez” (In a Burning Rage)
B’Regaz “In a Burning Fiery Rage
Ragez or Regez: Burning Rage
Jesus’ “Boanerges” Sons of Rage
(Ben Regaz)