Tag: Greek New Testament
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ADVENT WEEK 2 TRANSLATION: MATTHEW 22:23-24:14
Here is the second week of Advent’s Gospel (read last week’s here, read last year’s here) readings for our year translated, by me, from the Greek New Testament. Not much in the way of textual issues this week; only one variant. The key theme here is that most of the text is Jesus against his…
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ADVENT WEEK 1 TRANSLATION: MATTHEW 21:1-22:22
Each Advent I spend some time in deep translation of the Greek New Testament. I love the GNT, but, oddly, my work as pastor keeps me from having the kind of time which I wish I had to study the Bible. But in Advent I just put everything on hold and shove it aside and…
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ADVENT WEEK 3 TRANSLATION
The third week of Advent focuses very heavily upon the repentance and baptism message of John the Baptist. It was very exciting to translate Matthew, Mark, and Luke all telling the same thing but with slightly different tellings. There are so many hermeneutical things which could be addressed in these passages–from the conclusion of the…
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ADVENT WEEK 1 TRANSLATION
As promised, I have posted my translation from the Greek New Testament of the Gospel readings for the first week of Advent. Luke 20:1-8 It happened on one of those days as he was teaching and evangelizing the people in the temple that the chief priests and the scribes with the elders attacked. They said…