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Mark records that Jesus goes on to say:
43But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 44and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. ESV
So you could ask "who in the Bible most fits that description?". An argument could be made for Paul or perhaps one of the other apostles, but I do not ...
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Mark records the partial healing of the blind man to illustrate Jesus healing of his disciples partial understanding. Though the disciples see that Jesus is the Christ, they see only in part. Jesus is the Christ but not the Christ of their expectations.
The two-part healing of the blind man (8:22-26) is sandwhiched between Jesus' rebuke of the disciples ...
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In the Hebrew Bible trees are analogous to people, who bear fruit and grow, or who do not bear fruit and are therefore removed (Judg 9:9-15; Ps 1:3; Ps 52:8; Is 56:3; Is 61:3; Jer 11:16; Jer 17:18; Dan 4:20-22) and the same idea continues into the Christian New Testament (Mt 3:10; Mt 7:17-19; etc.).
Jesus took this man out of the village (Bethsaida), and ...
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It is the same worm (skolex) of decomposition that Isaiah (end of the book) seems to be referring to.
Isaiah 66:24:
They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots (LXX: ho skolêx autôn - the worm of them) that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the ...
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Early manuscripts does not mean "better".
The 2 manuscripts that underlie the NIV and all other modern bibles are vaticanus and synatichus, translated by two gnostic occultists, Westcott and Hort.
The manuscripts they used were corrupt gnostic texts with many subtle additions and deletions to suit their new age theology, the reason they are original and ...
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