Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, Matthew 3:1 NASB Saying – Yesterday we discovered that the Hebrew expression le ʾmōr is not really a word to be translated. It is the Hebraic substitution for quotation marks. Now, when we look at the Greek text of Matthew, we find the…
No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. John 1:18 NASB Explained– First, let’s deal with some punctuation. There isn’t any in the Greek text, so we find some English variation when the translators construct the sentence. In the ESV, this reads: “No one…
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1 ESV Created/Formed– Understanding the text of an ancient Near-Eastern Semitic document requires a particular kind of imaginative listening. It’s not just vocabulary definitions,…
And Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, Today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Luke 23:43 J. Green translation Today – When do we get to heaven? While the question certainly isn’t on the top shelf from a biblical point of view, evangelical Christianity seems to suggest that the answer to…
