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HIDING THREE BLACKS: JESUS, JOHN MARK AND SIMON

Randall Carter Gray

Located on Mount Koressos, near Turkey, and in the vicinity of ancient Ephesus, sits a little house of stone. Today and for decades, it has been a Catholic and a Muslim shrine, which is called the “House of Mary.” Millions of pilgrims have flocked to the edifice, yearning to be at one with the spirits of Mary and Zebedee’s John. Pope Benedict even celebrated Mass at the site on Nov. 29, 2006..

Zebedee’s John, allegedly, is supposed to have taken great strides to take the Virgin Mary with him from Jerusalem to this obscure Asia Minor location, where Zebedee’s John intended to begin to preach and write while he could look after the Virgin Mary. Does that strike you as odd? And didn’t the Beloved Disciple take the Virgin Mother to his own home within the hour Jesus requested it from the cross (John 19:26-27)? And didn’t Mary have other children? Of course she did. They, like practically everybody else, were staying at the home of John Mark and his wealthy mother Mary.

Did, Mary, the mother of Jesus, ever have any particular tie to Zebedee’s John or any other person but the wealthy John Mark? To reiterate, jump to Acts 1:13-14) where it is revealed that EVERYONE who was a disciple of Jesus from Galilee or Jerusalem had a place to stay in John Mark’s two-story house.

Zebedee’s John originally lived in Galilee, many miles to the north. That would mean the Beloved Disciple lived in Jerusalem. And we have a perfect candidate: John ... also known as “the Hammer.” He is one of the pillars of the church, though he has received little appreciation and respect. He was a wealthy African refugee and Jewish Levitical priest, the only professional writer in Jesus' inner circle-- which satisfies the question posed in John 18, when Jesus is brought before Annas and Caiaphas -- and “the other disciple” knows them and can command a servant girl to let a frightened Peter inside. This insider had the Jewish name John, until he witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus and subsequently adopted “hammer,” a tool of brutal strength and wrongful power; so he determined that he would refer to himself as a person would have witnessed the crucifixion with Mary, the mother of Jesus.. No other disciple was present. Keep in mind that Zebedee's John did not leave to go to Galilee, with the other ten disciples, until after the resurrection, when the women had told them. John Mark was already in the loop.

Now that we have determined that John Mark was the Beloved Disciple, now we must begin to reveal in scripture the racial identities os Jesus, John Mark and Simon. They were all black.

There is a way to look at events surrounding Jesus' stumbling with his cross and a man from Cyrene (Libya, North Africa) being seized to share Jesus' racial burden. Simon of Cyrene was headed in the opposite direction with the procession with Jesus passed by. When Jesus stumbled, the Roman soldiers went out of their way to get Simon. John Mark was also from Cyrene, so he becomes black by association. And most of all, we know Jesus was black because in Hebrews 7:14, the writer of Hebrews (priest John Mark?) states it was evident that Jesus arose from the Tribe of Judah. What would be evident about a person that would allow them to assign a tribe? Something physical. I worked as a Naval intelligence specialist, in East Africa, Ethiopia, whom claim they are from the Tribe of Judah. They fled Judah when Babylon invaded and reestablish themselves in East Africa .... where all the people were black. They claimed to have in their future a Lion of Judah. So Jesus, John Mark and Simon were black. What do we as Bible scholars do with the solving of a mystery nearly two millennia old?