Garbled Words

A supporter of Rediscovering Jesus recently wrote me saying they were interested in specific verses that are lost in translation. This new series is on…
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Jesus described his authority during his life in an interesting way. “Authority:” does not mean being an expert in something but having control over…
In English, we have the word “miracles,” which comes to us from the Latin, miraculum, which means “a wonderful, strange, or marvelous thing.” In…
Jesus makes two humorous statements in Luke 11:18. He is answering the accusation that he castes our demons by Beelzebub. We certainly cannot see any…
The word “prophets” in the New Testament is an untranslated Greek word adopted into English. Its English meaning does not match what the word meant in…
I found this shocking when I discovered it. And the more research I did, the more surprising it became. The Bible’s English translation is strongly…
In our last article, we discussed the Greek word, mikros, meaning “small ones” and “young ones.” Jesus uses this word to refer to children. In only one…
Sometimes the research I do for these articles makes me rethink the English translations of Greek words that I have accepted without thinking about them…
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This article is a follow-up to the earlier one on Jesus’s top five Greek nouns. We have increased the number to ten here because many of these verbs are…
Recently, I have been analyzing a section of Mark where several verses have Jesus discussing how a person is “defiled.” For me, this myopic translation…
When we see the word “can” in Jesus’s words, we are often seeing a word that means, literally “having power.” We cannot look at the Greek word without…