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’?’…

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.…

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?…

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.”

There is an translational issue here.

This is one of a handful of places in this quotation from Jeremiah where the LXX differs from the MT.…