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Is there any legitimate reason given by scholars as to why Luke uniquely adds the account of Jesus healing the ear of Malchus after it being severed off?
In Luke 22:50-51, it is written,
50 And one of them struck the servant of the hi…
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Just as Christianity has co-opted Greek words, such as "baptism," and added new connotation to the Koine Greek, and did not "translate" it, could not, or should not, the word "evangelidzmo (sic) be also translitera…
It reads in Luke 10:2 (parallel is Matt 9:37-38):
Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
I’ve en…
It seems clear that in at least some parables there is an analogical correspondence between some character in the parable and Jesus. For instance, in the parable of the tenants in Luke 20, most would interpret the character of the son in r…