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


A sermon contains a mountain of information
The tax-collector Matthew establishes "LORD" as the 666th word of the Greek Testament. His 1,940 words of the sermon Rabbi Jesus preaches...
A man, a woman and what three books show
Every Greek or Hebrew letter stands for a number, as well as a sound, and this number is its numeric value. The numeric value of a word...
Weaving words by patterns of numbers
Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom. It is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are...
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