He opened his mouth and began to teach them, saying, Matthew 5:2 NASB To teach – “The test of a true sermon is that it can be converted into prayer.”[1] Are you a preacher? Do you lead a Bible study? Do you teach your children or grandchildren the texts of Scripture? Are you an elder…
Then the LORD said to Moses, Numbers 7:4 ESV (said) – Things happen in Hebrew that never make it into translation. You know all about the ‘et, that particle in Hebrew that designates the next word in the sentence is the direct object. Never translated. Then along come Messianics and make a very big deal…
He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying Matthew 5:2 Opened His Mouth – Today a good number of scholars believe that Matthew’s gospel was originally written in Hebrew and later translated into Greek. Much of the evidence for this view comes from the number of Hebrew idioms in Matthew’s Greek text. In…
He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying Matthew 5:2 To Teach – The Greek word here is edidasken. It is actually an imperfect, active form of the verb, didasko. Why does this matter? Because the imperfect form tells us that this teaching is an on-going action. It is as if the text…
