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The question is a textual one. Revelation 1:6 reads: καὶ ἐποίησεν ἡμᾶς βασιλείαν, ἱερεῖς τῷ θεῷ καὶ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ— αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων· ἀμήν. “and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” (NRSV) Revelation 5:10 […]

A parallel can be seen here between Zechariah’s prophecy about God himself standing on the Mount of Olives, and the angels telling the disciples in Acts 1:11 that Jesus would return to the Mount of Olives: Zechariah 14:3-4: Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a […]

John 16:28 (NRSV): I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father. In a word, no. This is is one of many verses in the Gospel of John which read very literally would mean that all the normal descriptions of Jesus […]

Lent is a period of fasting for six weeks prior to Easter which was instituted at the Council of Nicea in 325. There is no earlier record of such a practice, and no formal practice of fasting is instituted for any occasion, or even required on a voluntary individual basis, for Christians in the New Testament. […]

Many have noted the apparently contradictory statements are made by James who says that God tempts no man, and yet in Genesis God is said to have tempted Abraham James 1:13 ” . . . God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man.” Genesis 22:1 ” . . . God did tempt […]

Some have been confused by John placing the cleansing of the temple at the beginning of Christ’s ministry, and Matthew, and the other Gospels, place it at the end of his ministry. John 2:13-16 ” . . . Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.” Matthew 21:12,13 ” . . . […]

The Mark record says the women said nothing “to any man”, and yet the Luke narrative says the women “told all these things unto the eleven and to all the rest”. It is argued, therefore, by some that the two accounts are contradictory. Mark 16:7,8 “{Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome} . […]

Some have read an apparent contradiction, for how could the disciples be in both Galilee and Jerusalem at the same time? Matthew 28:7 ” . . . he {Christ} goes before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him . . . ” Luke 24:33 “And they rose up the same hour, and returned to […]

There have been various attempts to reconstruct the inscriptions on the cross in the original three languages. Matthew 27:37 “And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.” Mark 15:26 “And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” Luke 23:38 “And […]