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Luke's loaves and priests
No one has as many names of priests with special numbers as Luke does. Eight of the eighteen times "No One | Οὐδεὶς" is the subject, the...
Luke: brothers and sisters
Family histories are more concealed than revealed. Hypothetical genealogies are presented by two gospel writers (Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke...
Matthew: left/right, first/last
The tax collector sets the course for the Greek Testament by putting "LORD" as the sixth word of Matthew 2:13 and the 666th word in a...
Talants and the Temple Scroll
Accounting for the money-obsession of the writer of Matthew is his own declaration of his priestly profession as a tax collector in 9:9....
The Magdalene and marriage
Divorce is a contentious issue throughout the synoptic gospels but entirely absent from the book of John. The logical explanation is that...
The problem with Pharisees
Matthew the tax collector has a problem with Pharisees. His twenty-third chapter presents seven woes concerning hypocritical writers in...
Prepositions and the crosses
The book of John is the first gospel written, but the last in published order. In 11:43 a name that is used 11 times is once called aloud...
Names and numbers in John
Anonymity is the norm of human enterprise. Being named is often to be shamed ("Judas" is an infamous name which means "celebrated" in...
"Lazarus, who is Simon Magus?"
What man is more mysterious and yet has such a legacy that his name is immortalized by an obscure noun ("simony") defining "the buying or...
John's signs by their numbers
Mario Puzo's fictitious godfather may be less fabulous than the three fathers invoked by Rabbi Jesus in the book of John. The parallel...
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