Messiah in Rosh HaShanah & Yom Teruah Chapter 21
The Testimony of Pillipos and Netan’el:
לְמָחֳרָת רָצָה יֵשׁוּעַ לָלֶכֶת לַגָּלִיל. הוּא מָצָא אֶת פִילִיפּוֹס וְאָמַר לוֹ: לֵךְ אַחֲרַי! פִילִיפּוֹס הָיָה מִבֵּית צַיְדָא, מֵעִירָם שֶׁל אַנְדְּרֵי וְכֵיפָא. פִילִיפּוֹס פָּגַשׁ אֶת נְתַנְאֵל וְאָמַר לוֹ: מָצָאנוּ אֶת זֶה שֶׁכָּתַב עָלָיו מֹשֶׁה בַּתּוֹרָה, וְכֵן גַּם הַנְּבִיאִים, אֶת יֵשׁוּעַ בֶּן יוֹסֵף מִנָּצְרַת. אָמַר לוֹ נְתַנְאֵל: מִנָּצְרַת יָכוֹל לָבוֹא מַשֶּׁהוּ טוֹב? אָמַר לוֹ פִילִיפּוֹס: בּוֹא וּרְאֵה. כְּשֶׁרָאָה יֵשׁוּעַ אֶת נְתַנְאֵל בָּא לִקְרָאתוֹ, אָמַר עָלָיו: הִנֵּה בֶּאֱמֶת בֶּן יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁאֵין בּוֹ מִרְמָה. שָׁאַל אוֹתוֹ נְתַנְאֵל: מִנַּיִן אַתָּה מַכִּיר אוֹתִי? עָנָה לוֹ יֵשׁוּעַ: לִפְנֵי שֶׁקָּרָא לְךָ פִילִיפּוֹס, כַּאֲשֶׁר הָיִיתָ תַּחַת עֵץ הַתְּאֵנָה, רָאִיתִי אוֹתְךָ. הֵשִׁיב לוֹ נְתַנְאֵל: רַבִּי, אַתָּה בֶּן־הָאֱלֹהִים, אַתָּה מֶלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל! אָמַר לוֹ יֵשׁוּעַ: מִפְּנֵי שֶׁאָמַרְתִּי לְךָ כִּי רְאִיתִיךָ תַּחַת עֵץ הַתְּאֵנָה הֶאֱמַנְתָּ? גְּדוֹלוֹת מֵאֵלֶּה תִּרְאֶה! וְעוֹד אָמַר לוֹ: אָמֵן אָמֵן אֲנִי אוֹמֵר לָכֶם, אַתֶּם תִּרְאוּ אֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם פְּתוּחִים וּמַלְאֲכֵי אֱלֹהִים עוֹלִים וְיוֹרְדִים עַל בֶּן־הָאָדָם. פ
[Day 4/of 7] The next day, Yeshua decided to go out to Galilee (the Galil). He found Philip (פִּילִפּוֹס-Pillipos) and said to him, “Follow Me.” Philip was from Beit-Tzaida (בֵּית־צָיְדָה), of the city of Andrew (Andrai) and Peter (Petros). Phillip encountered Nathanael (נְתַנְאֵל-Netan’el) and said to him, ‘We have found the one of whom Moses in the Torah scroll and the Prophets wrote, Yeshua ben Yosef (בֶּן־יוֹסֵף) from Nazareth (נְּצָרֶת-Netzeret). He said to him, “Does good come out of Nazareth?” He said to him, “Come and see.” Yeshua saw Nathanael coming to greet Him and said of him, “Truly, here is a son of Yisra’el in whom there is no deceit!” Nathanael said to Him, “How do you know me?” Yeshua answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Nathanael answered and said to Him, “Rabbi, you are the Ben Ha-Elohim! (בֶּן־הָאֱלֹהִים) You are the Melekh Yisra’el!” (מֶלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל). Yeshua answered and said to him, “You believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these!” He said to him’ ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, from now on, you will see heaven opened and the angels of the Almighty ascending and descending on the Ben Ha’adam'” (the Son of Man-בֶּן־הָאָדָם).
The Beloved Talmid’s frequent use of courtroom terminology:
Language of the Heavenly Court: The Spokesperson for the Shlichim, Yochanan ben Zebedyah, employs the legal terms of “testify,” “testimony,” “witness,” and “attest” numerous times throughout his five books (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) that are included in the twenty-seven books of the Brit Chadashah (New Covenant). The Beloved Disciple’s writings employ almost sixty percent of all the nouns and verbs that are used to convey the words “testify” “witness” “attest” or “testimony” within the entire HaBrit HaChadashah.
Abundance of Legal Terms in Sefer Yochanan: Sefer Mattai (מתי-Grace of God), Sefer Yochanan Markos (יוֹחָנָן מַרְקוֹס-Hammer of Grace), and Sefer Lukas (לוקס-Light-bringer) the Sefer of Yochanan alone uses these legal terms forty-seven times, while the other three accounts together employ these words only twenty-one times. In just his five books of the Brit Chadashah the Beloved Talmid uses the legal terms of “testify,” “witness,” and “testimony” a total of seventy-seven times.
The Heavenly Court is “Now in Session!” The vigorous use of legal court language, seventy-eight times in all, just in the four besorat accounts is more prevalent than anywhere else in the Scriptures because it is the privilege of these four accounts to convey first to their countrymen the Yehudim and then to the gentiles that the Heavenly Court of Adonai is already in session and that there is still time to believe in the Messiah before the first phase of the time of searching for our redemption ends (Elul 1-Tishri 2) and the time of the second phase of the seven intermediate days of extra testing begins (i.e. Tishri 3-9).