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The biblical narrative of Pentecost is given in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles.Present were about one hundred and twenty followers of Christ (), including the Twelve Apostles (i.e. the eleven disciples and Matthias, who had replaced Judas Iscariot), [7] Jesus' mother Mary, various other women disciples and Jesus' brothers ().
The LITV takes a literal, formal equivalence approach to translation. The Masoretic Text is used as the Hebrew basis for the Old Testament, and the Textus Receptus is used as the Greek basis for the New Testament. [2] This translation is available in book form and is freely available online for use with the e-Sword software program. [3]
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name.It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen (Ancient Greek: Στέφανος Stéphanos), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church.
John Mill's 1707 Greek New Testament was estimated to contain some 30,000 variants in its accompanying textual apparatus [1] which was based on "nearly 100 [Greek] manuscripts." [2] Peter J. Gurry puts the number of non-spelling variants among New Testament manuscripts around 500,000, though he acknowledges his estimate is higher than all ...
Acts 8 is the eighth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the burial of Stephen , the beginnings of Christian persecution , the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Samaria and the conversion of an Ethiopian official.
Papyrus 38 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓 38, is an early copy of part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains only Acts 18:27-19:6.12-16. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the early 3rd century. [1]
Acts 6 is the sixth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the institution of the first seven deacons, [1] and the work of one of them, Stephen. The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of ...
The inscription describes a Ioudaios of Greek religion; such that in this context Shaye J. D. Cohen states the word must be translated as "Judean". [1] Ioudaios (Ancient Greek: Ἰουδαῖος; pl. Ἰουδαῖοι Ioudaioi) [n 1] [2] is an Ancient Greek ethnonym used in classical and biblical literature which commonly translates to "Jew ...