The first clue is that James was a confirmed vegetarian – just as was John the Baptist although this was evidently later obscured to ‘locusts and wild honey’. (Matthew 3:4) Jesus appears to confirm this when he said “John came neither eating nor drinking and they said “he has a demon”; the ‘son of man’ came eating and drinking and they say “Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard”. (Matthew 11:18-19)” What this means, when duly decoded, is that before he became a Master, a Saviour, Jesus ate meat and drank wine whereas John had never. Logically, if James the Just was a vegetarian, and John the Baptist’s diet did not include meat, Jesus was likely to be the same. In any case, true Gnostic Masters are always vegetarian.
If so, why did Jesus – after three days – feed four thousand followers with just two fish and five loaves? (Matthew 15:32-38; 16:5-12). As with Gnostic terms like ‘resurrection’ and ‘casting out demons’, this was evidently misunderstood by later writers, and I explained the real meanings in prior articles. What we must understand is that, just as philologists have determined, with the possible exception of John’s gospel (explained below), the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were not written by the original disciples but a century later – after Jews were all but exterminated in AD 70 by Roman forces and few, if any, eyewitnesses remained.
