Psalm 82:6 (NET) — I thought, ‘You are gods; all of you are sons of the Most High.’
John 10:34 ‘Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 10:35 If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken), 10:36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?’…
Psa 122:6a – Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
This psalm, and especially this particular expression, is a favourite of Christian Zionists, who urge all Christians simply to obey the command, and pray for the city, so troubled and divided to this very day. Indeed, it is sometimes implied that if Christians do not do this, then they are living, in a rather fundamental way, out of God’s will and purpose. Citing this verse, Kenneth Hagee claims that ‘the scriptural principle of prosperity is tied to blessing Israel and the city of Jerusalem.’ …
17:34 “I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 17:35 There will be two women grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”
Is one ‘taken’ in judgment, or in salvation?
Interpreters hold a range of opinions.
(a) Some are not sure
Perrin: ‘whether in judgment or salvation is not clear’.
Some others do venture an opinion, but tentatively.…
Numbers 3:40 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 3:41 And take the Levites for me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.” 3:42 So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.…
4:16 He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” 4:17 The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’ 4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”
To what extent (if any) is Jesus being critical of this woman’s morality?
And to what extent (if any) are commentators quilty of slander when they comment adversely on her sexual history?…
NET – 116:15 The LORD values
the lives of his faithful followers.
AV, RV, RSV, NIV (1984), ESV – ‘Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.’
Similar NIV (2011), NASB, NRSV and many other translations.
NLT – ‘The LORD cares deeply
when his loved ones die.’
GNB – ‘How painful it is to the LORD
when one of his people dies!’
The Message – ‘When they arrive at the gates of death,
GOD welcomes those who love him.’…
Hebrews 8:9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.”
This is one of a handful of places in this quotation from Jeremiah where the LXX differs from the MT.
The issue here that the LXX, on which this quotation is based, appears to have mistranslated the text in Jeremiah 31:32 (‘though I was their husband’).…
12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us, 12:2 keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.…
Lk 16:19 “There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 16:20 But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores, 16:21 who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.
16:22 “Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.…
Mt 1:17 – ‘So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations.’
The differences between Matthew’s and Luke’s genealogy of Jesus have been discussed elsewhere.
But what should we make of Matthew’s division of his genealogy into three groups of fourteen?
Matthew says that between Abraham and David were fourteen generations; between David and Exile were another fourteen generations; and between the Exile and Jesus were yet another fourteen generations.…
