Jesus and Saul enter different worlds shaped by Second Temple disputes
Turn of the era · prequel→historyLuke 23:43 places “paradise” on the lips of Jesus
The prequel treats this as a major Persian-language echo while distinguishing etymology from proof of direct theological borrowing.
First century CE Gospel tradition · prequel→historyLuke’s twelve-year-old Jesus remains in Jerusalem among teachers
Luke 2:41–52; the Second Road observer is fictional.
c. 6–12 CE · missing→historyJesus walks toward the Jordan
Luke 3:23 dates the beginning of ministry to about thirty.
About age thirty · missing→historySaul persecutes the Jesus movement and later claims revelation
Reserved for a later Pauline Turn site; only foreshadowed here.
After Jesus’s death · missing→historyThe magoi recognize Jesus
Foreign religious specialists from the east identify the main character before Jerusalem’s establishment.
Matthew 2 · bible→historyThe novel’s Covenant of the Cord
Inspired by Zoroastrian initiation, but no source links Jesus to navjote or the kusti.
Age twelve · missing→historySaul’s formation in Tarsus and Jerusalem
Paul’s self-descriptions ground the parallel; childhood scenes are invented.
Contemporary with Jesus’s youth · missing→historyThe Magian Council tests the expected helper
Jesus rejects worship, political machinery, and the throne.
Ages twenty-six to twenty-eight · missing→historyThe final journey east and the archive of failed signs
Jesus meets the final imagined survivor of Matthew’s Magi.
c. 29–30 CE · missing→historyThe wilderness voice ends the missing years
The fiction stops before Luke dates the public world and narrates John, baptism, and Jesus at about thirty.
Threshold of Luke 3 · missing→historyThe Magi’s student hypothesis
Diesel investigates whether the opening relationship continued during the years the canonical narratives do not describe.
Jesus’ undocumented years · bible→historyTruth, light, paradise, resurrection, judgment
The study engine compares Jesus’ teaching with older Iranian concepts while distinguishing inheritance, parallel development, and direct identity claims.
Adult ministry · bible→