Category: Biblical Commentary

  • No Res­ur­rec­tion In Mark’s Gospel : Paul of Tar­sus Says That The Gospel Of Mark Is Futile

    No Res­ur­rec­tion In Mark’s Gospel : Paul of Tar­sus Says That The Gospel Of Mark Is Futile

    But the first of the four gospels, i.e., the Gospel according to Mark, apparently did not receive Paul’s memo. And this is a very important point as we keep in mind that each of the gospels were initially divorced from each other and were written in different localities for different audiences.

  • The Authen­tic Gospel of Jesus

    The Authen­tic Gospel of Jesus

    Instead of writing a full-scale biography of Jesus of Nazareth, I want to focus on some aspects of the life and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth that are commonly overlooked by most Christians. Any attempt to reconstruct the historical Jesus (as distinct from the incarnate deity of ecclesiastical faith) needs to take into account all…

  • The Sign of Immanuel : Was It About Jesus ?

    The Sign of Immanuel : Was It About Jesus ?

    The authors of the New Testament have often quoted passages from the Old Testament, claiming such statements to be prophecies fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ. The number of such quoted passages is actually very high. Among the evangelists, Matthew is the one having made this phenomenon characteristic to his Gospel. The prophecy carries…

  • A Clos­er Look at the Sto­ry of Daniel : Homo­sex­u­al­i­ty in the Bible

    Is there homo­sex­u­al­i­ty in the Bible ? The Bible endors­es homo­sex­u­al behav­iour and we shall pro­vide one such exam­ple, which is exem­pli­fied in the sto­ry of the rela­tion­ship between Daniel and the prince of the eunuchs. The verse is : ​“Vayiten ha-Elo­him et-Daniyel leKHesed u’ler­aKHamim lifnei sar hasarisim” (Daniel 1:9) [i.e., ​“Now God had brought Daniel into favor…

  • Ignored Teach­ings in the New Testament ?

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi While there are so many Old Tes­ta­ment laws which are ignored by Chris­tians, here are a num­ber of New Tes­ta­ment writ­ings which are also ignored. Do Chris­tians believe only what they want to believe, despite being com­mand­ed in their Scriptures ? (a) “…none of you can be my dis­ci­ple unless he gives up…

  • Bible Com­men­tary on John 10:36

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi In John 10:36, we read the fol­low­ing words of Jesus : “Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanc­ti­fied, and sent into the world, Thou blas­phemest ; because I said, I am the Son of God?” The translit­er­a­tion of this verse in Greek is as follows hon ho Pateer hee­giasen kai apesteilen eis ton kos­mon humeis…

  • Obser­va­tion of Answer­ing Islam’s Response to I AM WHATAM : A Bible Commentary”

    Tera Tak Adamar & Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi The mis­sion­ary Sam Shamoun under the ban­ner of the infa­mous mis­sion­ary web­site, Answer­ing Islam, have claimed in his series of arti­cles [1][2][3][4] that he has ​“refut­ed” our analy­sis of John 8:28 regard­ing the usage of the Greek ​‘ego eimi’ (egw eimi). Unfor­tu­nate­ly, to achieve that ambi­tion, he had…

  • John 8 and the Birth of Jesus

    Fol­low­ing are some obser­va­tions on the curi­ous account of the birth of Jesus which a care­ful study of the Gospels reveal : In John 8:31 ff., there is a debate between Jesus and the Jews about their descent from Abra­ham, who is char­ac­ter­ized as their father. In verse 39, Jesus calls into ques­tion the legit­i­ma­cy of their birth…

  • Luke 6:1 : Its Cor­rupt­ed & Actu­al Understanding

    Asif Iqbal That the text of the New Tes­ta­ment, as we have it today, is loaded with tex­tu­al cor­rup­tions and mis­read­ings is an acknowl­edged fact among the NT schol­ars (cf., e.g., Met­zger, Oxford. 1987, ch., vii). Once in a while such tex­tu­al cor­rup­tions cre­ate such a gross mis­read­ing of the pas­sage that the entire sense is affect­ed.…