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Metzger observed that the best witnesses to the Gospel of Matthew had omitted the verse. … question in the Gospel of Matthew. …

The eunuch was an individual who was NOT heterosexual. That is, the eunuch did not engage in sexual intercourse with members of the opposite sex. In this regard, eunuchs therefore were the custodian …

The excess food was one apparent source of revenue. That is, while certain women donated funds to the ministry of Jesus (Luke 8:1-3) there was the apparent need for the administering substantive amoun …

The only remarkable observation is that this Greek word is both the imperfect and aorist active indicative (3rd Person Singular) of the verb φημί. In this regard, Robinson (1919) cites the following …

The Idea in Brief Jesus does not appear to downplay the necessities of life as normal daily concerns; that is, the Apostle Paul corrects such misconceptions in his second epistle to the Thessalonians …

of Alexandrian (א B) and other witnesses (f 1 f 13 700 1071) with Eastern versions (cop arm eth geo) and representatives of the Western text (Old Latin mss and D in Luke [D is lacking for this part of Matthew … Although most scholars are impressed by the overwhelming weight of textual evidence supporting Ἀσάφ, Lagrange demurs and in his commentary prints Ἀσά as the text of Matthew. …

The Hebrew Bible makes mention that Elijah will appear before the "great and terrible day of the Lord" (Mal 4:5). That is, Elijah was to turn the hearts of Israel for healing (Mal 4:6). The Hebrew B …

Matthew 26:20 (NASB) 20 Now when evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. … So, we read the following in the Gospel of Matthew regarding the eating of the Passover meal on the first day of Unleavened Bread - Matthew 26:17 (NASB) 17 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread …

However, there is one exclusive example in Paul's writing that is parallel to the Gospel of Matthew, and therefore suggests direct contact by Paul with Matthew and/or his writings. … This parallel suggests that Paul had direct personal contact with Matthew and/or to the written information that today forms the Gospel of Matthew. …

On page 35 he writes the following: 17.21 omit verse {A} Since there is no satisfactory reason why the passage, if originally present in Matthew, should have been omitted in a wide variety of witnesses …

The Scribes were professional academicians, whose teaching was the basis of religious traditionalism (Matt 15:1-3). What is worse is that these Bible academicians tended to miss the forest for the tre …

The Greek adjective here is ἄξιος, which has two meanings in the Christian New Testament: (a) It means to be deserving. So the slave was "deserving" of a flogging (Lu 12:48); the prodigal son was not …

Ezekiel 20:33-44 appears to be the parallel account in the Hebrew Bible to this passage in Matthew, when the Lord God will one day regather his people from the nations of the world in order to be their … At the end of Matthew 25:31-46 the announcement is made: “These (goats) will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous (sheep) into eternal life.” …

(Please note however that Bathsheba is not mentioned by name in the Matthew genealogy, but only mentioned to show that the kingly right of Jesus to the Davidic throne was through Solomon.) …

In the Hebrew Bible, salt is both a disinfectant and preservative, but if the salt loses its integrity (or its "flavor" to preserve) the result is disintegration. When Jesus talked about salt "trample …