CONFESSIONS OF A STREET PREACHER: Representing Jesus
It’s a calling really. Representing Jesus. It just seems like the right to do, you know. Praying for people to get right with God….
It’s a calling really. Representing Jesus. It just seems like the right to do, you know. Praying for people to get right with God….
Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History – Page 277 https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0252064143 Deborah Vansau McCauley – 1995 – Preview – More editions revival in Cherokee County, when Spurling felt…
This is the sixth of twenty five lectures on the Gospel of Mark by Dr. Mark Jennings. He teaches at Gordon Conwell Seminary(Wenham, MA)….
“Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:” – Romans 3:13…
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Mark and Matthew record Jesus speaking Aramiac from the cross:
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mark 15:34 ESV)
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46 ESV)
All other times they record Jesus words using the Greek language. It is accepted that Aramaic was the language Jesus spoke. However, it is obvious that many, if not all of the Apostles were able to communicate in both Aramaic and Greek (and probably knew Latin). So it seems likely that Jesus also was able to speak in both Aramaic and Greek.
Mark and Matthew are purposeful to make the point that when Jesus quoted Psalm 22 He used Aramaic. Consequently they are purposeful to exclude any possible confusion or claim that Jesus quoted the Greek translation of the Psalm, which in the Septuagint is significantly different at that point: ὁ θεὸς ὁ θεός μου πρόσχες μοι (O God, my God, take heed to me). Quoting the Greek lacks the personal pronoun at the beginning and would also have Jesus asking God to take heed of Him, something the Aramaic precludes.
While the use of the Aramaic quotation can be seen as purposeful to ensure Jesus correctly quotes the Psalm, it also gives reason to question the assertion that all of the other sayings of Jesus were exclusively spoken in Aramaic and translated into Greek.
What is the evidence Jesus spoke exclusively in Aramaic and never used the Greek language?
William Branham dedicated the church of Brother Littlefield in Cleveland, TN (MP3 sermon recording and transcript) Church Dedication (59-0708M) Sermon details LISTEN…
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