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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...
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...
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...
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...
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