These served in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra the priest and scribe. Nehemiah 12:26 NASB Jeshua – You will immediately recognize that the Hebrew spelling of this man’s mane is not Jeshua. It is Yeshua. He is not the only Israelite to…
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:15 ESV Friends – “What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and…
for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11 NASB Christ the Lord – “The Church cannot indefinitely continue to believe about Jesus what he did not know to be true about himself.”[1] So writes John Bowman. But, of course, Bowman is a heretic, isn’t…
The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Matthew 1:1 NASB Jesus the Messiah – What do we do with this expression from the NASB? Oh, we might look at the footnote too. That says, “Heb Yeshua (Joshua), meaning The Lord saves.” More confusion. Let’s be…
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 1 John 4:2 NASB In the flesh – Understanding the Bible requires placing the writings within their historical and cultural context. We have learned that it isn’t appropriate to pull a verse…
