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"The tetragra... is silent, it is never pronounced..."

Which vowels would you choose?


YAHWAH
Jehovah

how many different pronunciations of this word?

luke 21 :12 7 And they asked him, "Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign when this is about to take place?" 8 And he said, "Take heed that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!' and, 'The time is at hand!' Do not go after them. 9 And ...

12Therefore, I will allot him a portion in public, and with the strong he shall share plunder, because he poured out his soul to death, and with transgressors he was counted; and he bore the sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors. what does it mean "bore the sin of many" ? is t...

15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers ( a group numbering about a hundred and twenty ) 16 and said, “Brothers and sisters,[a] the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus. 17 ...

michael, are you saying mark knew of a meeting , but didn't know details like the other synoptics do?

Further, Mark 16:1-8 ends with the women being too scared to tell anyone. The normal meaning of that is that "no one" was told, including of course the apostles, because they would be "someone". There is no mention in Mark, or for that matter in Matthew, about the women telling ...

maybe after all that "let there be..." god lost his breath and had to catch it again.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. [2] And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. [3] So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his...

I am sure that Mark knew much more about the stories than he showed. He obviously knew about the resurrection stories

mark has told us in his account the difference between an angel and ordinary human.

2. I think Mark implies that the youth in the tomb was an angel, but I think Mark's style is to write in a veiled way sometimes about divine aspects of the story, like about Jesus' divinity. So this explains for one reason why he just calls the angel a youth. matthew and luke removed the hijab/veil...