Rediscovering Jesus's Words

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Mark 2:19 "No" Fun

Mark 2:19 "No" Fun

Dec 08, 2022
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Mark 2:19 "No" Fun
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Would Biblical translators leave out a “no” from Jesus’s words to completely reverse his meaning? They do this more than once. A good example is Mark 2:19 where Jesus plays with the different meanings of the two different Greek negatives. Rather than deal with the difference between the two words, Biblical translators simply eliminated one of them. They just don’t understand Jesus’s sense of fun. Let me explain.

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