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John 6:15–21: Jesus walks on the sea; John 6:22–40: The Bread from Heaven; John 6:41–59: Rejected by his own; John 6:60–71: Many disciples turn away; Alfred Plummer, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, prefers not to break up the text from John 6:26 to 6:58, arguing that this text "forms one connected discourse spoken at ...
James Burrell Jordan (born December 31, 1949) is an American Protestant theologian and author. He is the director of Biblical Horizons ministries, an organisation in Niceville, Florida that publishes books, essays and other media dealing with Bible commentary , Biblical theology , and liturgy .
"Gergeza" was preferred over "Geraza" or "Gadara" (Commentary on John VI.40 (24) – see Matthew 8:28). Some common alterations include the deletion, rearrangement, repetition, or replacement of one or more words when the copyist's eye returns to a similar word in the wrong location of the original text.
There is a widespread scholarly view that the Gospel of John can be broken into four parts: a prologue, (John 1:–1:18), the Book of Signs (1:19 to 12:50), the Book of Glory (or Exaltation) (13:1 to 20:31) and an epilogue (chapter 21). [1] John 20:30 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are ...
In the Bible, Genesis 10:23, Genesis 22:21 and 1 Chronicles 1:42 mention Aram, son of Shem, whose firstborn son is named Uz. Thus, Rashi places Uz in Aram. [2] According to the War Scroll (one of the Dead Sea Scrolls) the land of Uz existed beyond the Euphrates, possibly in relation to Aram. In column 2 verse 11, the War Scroll says,
The Angel told Zacharias concerning John, He shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias. (Luke 1:17) As Elias then will preach the second advent of our Lord, so John preached His first; as the former will come as the precursor of the Judge, so the latter was made the precursor of the Redeemer.
In the Hebrew Bible, the term used to refer to the future Transjordan is Hebrew: עבר הירדן (Ever HaYarden), "beyond the Jordan". This term occurs, for example, in the Book of Joshua . It was used by people on the west side of the Jordan, including the biblical writers, to refer to the other side of the Jordan River.
Jordan receives 50,000,000 cubic metres (1.8 × 10 9 cu ft) of water from the river, a quantity which is regulated by the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. [27] In the past, one of the main water resources in Jordan was the Jordan River, with a flow of 1.3 billion m 3 per year (BCM/yr). However, after Israel built the National Water Carrier in ...