Let Him Who Is Without Sin…

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The same sentiment is heard in Jesus’ model prayer that he gave to his disciples: “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us” (Matt. 6:12). … — wp:paragraph –>

In the same vein on another occasion Jesus cautioned his followers, “The measure you give will be the measure you get” (Matt. 7:2). … His statement, instead, is a clear and unmistakable crystallization of the popular Jewish notion that we have already mentioned, “Be merciful as your father in heaven is merciful” (Luke 6:36), or “With the judgment you pronounce you will be judged” (Matt. 7:2).

Over and Under-Familiarity with Matthew 6:11

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One of the most oft-quoted passages in the New Testament is The Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13). …

Matthew 6:11 is a remarkable verse from the prayer. … Compare Matt. 6:11 to its Lukan parallel: “Give us each day our daily bread.” … Interestingly, when Benjamin Franklin paraphrased the Lord’s Prayer, he rendered a blend of Matt. 6:11 and Luke 11:3 as “Provide for us this day as thou has hitherto daily done.” … (Matt. 6:33-34)

The things to which Jesus referred were food, water, and clothing.

Yohanan the Immerser’s Execution

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Matt. 14:3-12; Mark 6:17-29; Luke 3:18-20 (Huck 5, 111; Aland 17, 144; Crook 20, 164)For abbreviations and bibliographical references, see “Introduction to ‘The Life of Yeshua: A Suggested Reconstruction.'” Updated: 4 May 2023

The Kingdom of God: God’s Power Among Believers

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Jesus spoke of the Kingdom with the same understanding in Matthew 7:21: “Not everyone who says ‘Lord, Lord’ to me will come into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” … When Matthew 7:21 is translated back into Hebrew, one recognizes its proverbial form in which there is no real future tense. …

Matthew 6:10 makes the same point: “Your Kingdom come, your will be done in heaven and on earth.”

Fish, Storms and a Boat

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Jesus, however, had a personal acquaintance with the life of Galilean fishermen, as can be seen from Matthew 7:9-10: “Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Cataloging the Gospels’ Hebraisms: Part Six (Parallelism)

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(Matt. 6:22-23; RSV)

The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good,

and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. … (Matt. 6:19-20; RSV)

A knowledge of Hebrew parallelism is one additional aid to investigators of the synoptic Gospels since, when two or more versions of a saying of Jesus have been preserved, the greater perfection of the parallelism in one version may be key in determining it is the earliest, the closest to the text of the conjectured lost Hebrew biography of Jesus of which early church sources speak. … Therefore, it is probable that Luke 12:33 is a revision of a text like Matthew 6:19-20.

Register Now for New David Bivin Workshop!

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In this workshop, we will study many dramatic and exciting miracle stories from the life of Jesus, such as:

Healing of Peter’s Mother-in-law (Mt 8:14-15; Mk 1:29-31; Lk 4:38-39; Crook, Parallel Gospels #61)

Healing of a Leper (Mt 8:1-4; Mk 1:40-45; Lk 5:12-16; Crook, Parallel Gospels #65)

Healing of a Paralytic (Mt 9:1-8; Mk 2:1-12; Lk 5:17-26; Crook, Parallel Gospels #96)

Healing of Man with Withered Hand (Mt 12:9-14; Mk 3:1-6; Lk 6:6-11; Crook, Parallel Gospels #131)

Stilling of the Storm (Mt 8:18, 23-27; Mk 4:35-41; Lk 8:22-25; Crook, Parallel Gospels #158)

Healing of a Demon-possessed Man (Mt 8:28-34; Mk 5:1-20; Lk 8:26-39; Crook, Parallel Gospels #159)

Raising of Jairus’ Daughter from the Dead (Mt 9:18-19; 23-26; Mk 5:21-24; 35-43; Lk 8:40-42; 49-56; Crook, Parallel Gospels #160)

Healing of Woman with a Hemorrhage (Mt 9:20-22; Mk 5:25-34; Lk 8:43-48; Crook, Parallel Gospels #160)

Feeding of the Five Thousand (Mt 14:13-21; Mk 6:30-44; Lk 9:10-17; Crook, Parallel Gospels #166)

Healing of Epileptic Boy (Mt 17:14-21; Mk 9:14-29; Lk 9:37-43a; 17:5-6; Crook, Parallel Gospels #181)

Healing of Blind Man (Mt 20:29-34; Mk 10:46-52; Lk 18:35-43; Crook, Parallel Gospels #301)

Jesus raised the dead, healed the sick, cast out demons, calmed the violent waves of the Sea of Galilee, and miraculously fed the multitudes.

Jesus and the Oral Torah: Did Jesus Wear Phylacteries?

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The Gospels attest to the fact that Jesus had tassels on the four corners of his outer robe (Matt. 9:20; 14:36; Mark 6:56; Luke 8:44). … As with his criticism of the public display of almsgiving (Matt. 6:2), one must not view Jesus words as a general condemnation of wearing tefillin.

Woes on Three Villages

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Matt. 11:20-24; Luke 10:13-15 (Huck 66, 139; Aland 108, 178; Crook 127, 202)For abbreviations and bibliographical references, see “Introduction to ‘The Life of Yeshua: A Suggested Reconstruction.'”

Jesus’ Jewish Command to Love

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The same idea undergirds Jesus’ model prayer, “Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us” (Matt. 6:12). … Otherwise, “with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get” (Matt. 7:2).

The “How Much More” Rabbinic Principle of Interpretation in the Teaching of Jesus

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Matt. 7:11 (= Luke 11:13); Matt. 10:25; Luke 12:28 (= Matt. 6:30); and Luke 23:31…. (Matt. 7:9-11)

There is another passage in which Jesus employs simple-to-complex logic to prove God’s reliable care for his children. … (Matt. 6:28-30)

The Householder

A third example of Jesus’ use of simple-to-complex reasoning comes from Matthew 10:24-25, and is so Hebraic that in translating it from Greek to Hebrew, the syntax need not be altered except in the case of one word.

Unlocking the Synoptic Problem: Four Keys for Better Understanding Jesus

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Other examples of Hebrew idioms embedded in the Greek text of the Synoptic Gospels are: “bad eye” (Matt. 6:23); “bind” and “loose” (Matt. 16:19); “cast out your name evil” (Luke 6:22); “lay these sayings in your ears” (Luke 9:44); “set his face to go” (Luke 9:51); “give a ring on his hand” (Luke 15:22); and “lifted up his eyes and saw” (Luke 16:23).