Jesus did not directly write any existing manuscripts. In fact, there is only one reference to Jesus' writing anything. In this account from John 8:1-11, Jesus wrote something in the sand, but we do not know what it was: Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
This seems particularly odd, given that many Christians, especially Evangelicals, hold that the primary way of coming to know Jesus is through a book, the Bible. Yet Christ never wrote anything down. It isn't recorded that he ever asked his disciples to write anything down.
It turns out that the Matthew 17:21 passage is not included in any of the more recent Bible versions, either Catholic or Protestant, because the older and better manuscripts of Matthew do not include it. The two best manuscripts: the Codex Sianaiticus and Codex Vaticanus do not include the verse.
Someone pointed out that the phrase, “Fear Not” is found 365 times in the Bible. That is one “fear Not” for every day of the year. The Bible is filled thousands of other promises as well that God has made to His children. More here-
John was written between AD 90–100. Like the three other gospels, it is anonymous, although it identifies an unnamed "disciple whom Jesus loved" as the source of its traditions and perhaps author.
What Did Jesus Write in the Sand? The Mystery of John 8
Who wrote the book of Matthew in the Bible?
Early Church tradition holds that the Gospel of Matthew was written by the apostle Matthew. This tradition is first attested, among the extant writings of the first and second centuries, with the early Christian bishop Papias of Hierapolis ( c.
The apostle John wrote the book of Revelation around the year AD 95 from his exile on the island of Patmos. He addressed his work to seven Asian churches—Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.
In the Bible, two is the number of a “faithful witness,” or someone who is set apart for God. Also worth noting, the word “wisdom” is mentioned 222 times in scripture.
The phrases maher-shalal and hash-baz are synonymous, both meaning approximately "quickly to the plunder". The name Maher-shalal-hash-baz is a reference to the impending plunder of Samaria and Damascus by the king of Assyria, Tiglath-Pileser III (734–732 BCE).
But the most repeated phrase in the Bible is "Fear not!" or "do not be afraid" or some equivalent translation. That phrase occurs around 100 times in the Old Testament and 44 times in the New Testament.
KJV: "Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting." Reason: The verse closely resembles Mark 9:29, but it is lacking in Matthew in א (original handwriting), B, θ, some Italic, Syriac, Coptic and Ethiopic manuscripts.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in the caves of Qumran in 1947, are copies that can be dated to between 250 BCE and 100 CE. They are the oldest existing copies of the books of the Hebrew Bible of any length that are not fragments.
When Jesus expresses this kind of frustration, the issue is nearly always the same: unbelief. Specifically, the people of "this generation" have failed to believe in Him as the Messiah and in His authority and power as the Son of God.
In his earthly life, Jesus lived in a Jewish context, and his teachings and references were drawn from the Hebrew Bible. We would call this the Old Testament today. What we know is Jesus read from the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament.
There is, for instance, physical evidence. We have copies of the manuscripts and throughout history these copies show that the Bible has been transmitted accurately. Despite common skeptical claims that the Bible has often been changed through the centuries, the physical evidence tells another story.
202, attributed them to: 1) Matthew, an apostle who followed Jesus in his earthly career; 2) Mark, who while himself not a disciple was the companion of Peter, who was; 3) Luke, the companion of Paul, the author of the Pauline epistles; and 4) John, who like Matthew was an apostle who had known Jesus.
YHWH, or the Tetragrammaton, is God's personal name as revealed in the Bible. God's name can be represented by the four Hebrew consonants, which can be spelled in English as YHWH. Known as the Tetragrammaton, it appears nearly 7,000 times in the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible).
(In the Septuagint, most of the ages in this section are different. Lamech begets Noah at age 188, and Methuselah lives 802 years after begetting Lamech.) He was also the oldest of all the figures mentioned in the Bible. Methuselah is mentioned once in the Hebrew Bible outside of Genesis, in 1 Chronicles 1:3.
"Jesus wept" (Koine Greek: ἐδάκρυσεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς, romanized: edákrusen ho Iēsoûs, pronounced [ɛˈdakrysɛn (h)o i. eˈsus]) is a phrase famous for being the shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible, as well as in many other translations. It is not the shortest in the original languages.
The number 666 is one of the most famous elements in Revelation. John explains that the number corresponds to the name of the beast, which he says is also the name of a person. In ancient times, people gave numerical values to the letters in the Greek and Hebrew alphabets: a=1, b=2, and so on.
This representation may be justified either through gematria, by counting the letter values of the Greek transliteration of Jesus' name,as an opposing value to 666, the number of the beast and/or 888, as the Triple 8 means “new beginnings”.
This book is located in heaven (Luke 10:20) and is called “Your [God's] book, which you have written” (Exod 32:32), the “book of life” (Ps 69:28; Phil 4:3), and the “book of the Lamb” (Rev 17:8).
How many prophecies in the Bible are left to be fulfilled?
If around 2000 of its predictions have come true in history and can be verified, we have strong grounds to believe what it has to say about the future in the remaining 500 or so cases. The other things fulfilled prophecy does for us is points us to a God who is in total control of the universe.
Genesis was written anonymously, but both Jewish and Christian religious tradition attributes the entire Pentateuch—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy—to Moses. During the Enlightenment, the philosophers Benedict Spinoza and Thomas Hobbes questioned Mosaic authorship.
