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Seven signs and 7777 sheeps
A sure sign of control is the matching of words with numbers. Every opportunity to show structure in John's book (and the synoptics) has...
Satan's number or the Lord's
According to the evangelists, the Satan is a straw man. Despite the fascination with 666, none of the gospel writers arrange this number...
Taunting talk in the temple
The plan to provoke the religious authorities of Judea was laid out in the mini-sermon of John's fifth chapter. In Cana of Galilee, two...
The first sermon by Rabbi Jesus
The first evangelist to break the mold of writing Jewish scripture in Hebrew is the only book to contain the word "messiah." John puts it...
Book of John and an adulterous wife
Deviating from the synoptic authors, this "orphan" focuses more on the eights (double and triple) and is appropriately placed between...
Book of Luke puts Peter in his place
Distinguishing the beloved physician's gospel is his emphasis of the nickname given to Simon by Rabbi Jesus. A number denied Jesus is...
Book of Mark manages to make its mark
The writer of the first synoptic gospel manages to encode several 666s on a very spare skeletal structure. Absent a single monologue...
What Lord shares with God in the sermon
LORD is the six hundred sixty sixth word of the Greek Testament. Matthew writes 700 words that includes the verse revealing who the...
EXTRA! A Tribute to Ivan Panin
On this date in 2006, I serendipitously stumbled upon a rare book. Ivan Panin had privately published in 1934 by the University Press at...
A wide gate leading into the kingdom
Like the yellow brick road in the land of Oz, there is only one wide gate in the tax-collector's book. In fact, Matthew is the only...
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