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Old Testament The Hebrew phrase wicked men, literally “Sons of Belial” is an expression rendered literally in older English Bibles so for example: Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; (Deuteronomy 13:3 KJV) […]

“You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!” (Matthew 23:24 ESV) Many people have heard the claims that Jesus’ saying about a camel through the eye of a needle (Matthew 19:24)  could have been ‘rope’ not camel in Aramaic when supposedly Jesus originally said it. But there is no real evidence for […]

That the demons both (a) believe and (b) shudder seems to indicate the demoniacs healed by Jesus in the synoptic Gospels. The word for shudder used by James (Greek frisso) is not otherwise used in the New Testament but is fairly common in Greek to mean ‘bristle’ or ‘shudder in fear’. 4 Maccabees 14:9 Even […]

The lists of books claimed not to be cited in the New Testament usually included the following nine books. 1. Judges 2. Ruth Although not directly quoted the history in these two books is repeatedly mentioned. 3. Ezra Ezra is not quoted but Nehemiah is. And these two books were one scroll in Hebrew so […]

  The Old Testament pseudepigrapha is a title given by scholars to group together various Jewish writings roughly contemporary with the New Testament many of which take the form of pseudepigrapha, texts claiming to be written by a named Old Testament figure. These texts overlap with the Dead Sea Scrolls and early rabbinical documents found […]

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. (Isaiah 63:9) This is an emphatic statement that only occurs once in the Hebrew Bible.