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...I do agree with the OP that something is odd about 14:41. Literal Standard Version And He comes the third time and says to them, “ Sleep on from now on, and rest—it is over ; the hour came; behold, the Son of Man is delivered up into the hands of the sinful; That literal rendering is odd! (For t...

Matthew Genealogy names Joseph and Mary David was the father of Solomon by Uriah’s wife, Solomon the father of Rehoboam... and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus , who is called Christ. 1:6-16 Conflict between literal and metaphorical "mother and brothers&q...

to gryan, (young) Josephus was a contemporary of (old) James, both living in Jerusalem. He implied that James was prominent among "some others", because that James is named & identified. James and the others were of the same group, because the accusation was the same for the members o...

Tertullian follows up the passage with this observation (AM 4.43.7) Now Marcion was unwilling to expunge from his Gospel some statements which even made against him ----I suspect, on purpose, to have it in his power from the passages which he did not suppress, when he could have done so, either to ...

"brethren" can also mean members of the church of Jerusalem: Acts 11:29 "Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:" The next "brethren" is in Acts12:17: "But he, beckoning unto them w...

"brethren" can also mean members of the church of Jerusalem: Acts 11:29 "Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:" The next "brethren" is in Acts12:17: "But he, beckoning unto them w...

Galatians 1.18-19 is evidence that stories of Jesus and the apostles preceded the Epistle writers. I see it differently, although I do think Paul was probably part of a community of writers, and thus may have been privy to the process whereby GMark was written. Who knows? Maybe the Galatians saw th...

7) Peter's reference to "James and the brothers" seems to refer naturally to the previously named "James" who was one of the 12--"James son of Alphaeus: Here James is presented as either a prominent member of the brotherhood or having a leadership role relative to that brot...

...it almost looks like two different people. Convoluted, yes. But what appears convoluted in the NT, taken as a whole--especially when straining not to see two Jameses in NT Galatians, which is what the mainstream tradition does--remains clear in GMark, taken as a literary unity: Mark 6:3 (home to...

He tells of someone imagining that Paul, while writing the Epistle to the Romans had open on his desk a copy of the Wisdom of Solomon, and used parallels from it, repeatedly—an imagined view he ridicules. A post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Thanks for bringing this article to our attention. I read...