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Looking for Jesus according to Mark

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John Mark, often just called Mark, is the author of the gospel of Mark. He was a believer in the early church mentioned directly only in the book of Acts. John Mark is first mentioned as the son of a woman named Mary (Acts 12:12), whose house was being used as a place for believers to gather and pray. Later, Mark is mentioned as a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together (Acts 12:25). John Mark was also Barnabas’ cousin (Colossians 4:10).


John Mark was a helper on Paul and Barnabas’ first missionary journey (Acts 13:5). However, he did not stay through the whole trip. John Mark deserted Paul and Barnabas in Pamphylia and left the work (Acts 15:38). The Bible does not say why Mark deserted, but his departure came right after a mostly fruitless time in Cyprus (Acts 13:4–12). Only one conversion is recorded in Cyprus, but there had been strong demonic opposition. It’s likely that the young John Mark was discouraged at the hardness of the way and decided to return to the comforts of home.


Some time later, after Paul and Barnabas had returned from their first journey, Paul expressed a desire to go back to the brothers in the cities they had previously visited to see how everyone was doing (Acts 15:36). Barnabas agreed, apparently upon the provision that they take John Mark with them. Paul refused to have Mark on the trip, however, citing Mark’s previous desertion. Paul thought it best not to have a quitter with them; they needed someone more dependable. Paul and Barnabas had a “sharp disagreement” about John Mark (verse 39) and wound up separating from each other and going on separate journeys. Barnabas took John Mark with him to Cyprus, and Paul took Silas with him through Syria and Cilicia to encourage the believers in the churches in those areas (Acts 15:39–41).


Barnabas, the “son of encouragement” (Acts 4:36), desired to forgive John Mark’s failure and to give him another chance. Paul took the more rational view: pioneering missionary work requires dedication, resolve, and endurance. Paul saw John Mark as a risk to their mission. Luke, the writer of Acts, does not take sides or present either Paul or Barnabas as being in the right. He simply records the facts. It’s worth noting that, in the end, two groups of missionaries were sent out—twice as many missionaries were spreading the gospel.


John Mark sails off to Cyprus with his cousin Barnabas, but that is not the end of his story. Years later, he is with Paul, who calls him a “fellow worker” (Philemon 1:24). And near the end of Paul’s life, Paul sends a request to Timothy from a Roman prison: “Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry” (2 Timothy 4:11). Obviously, John Mark had matured through the years and had become a faithful servant of the Lord. Paul recognized his progress and considered him a valuable companion.


John Mark wrote the gospel that bears his name sometime between AD 55 and 59. There could be a veiled reference to John Mark in Mark 14:51–52. In that passage a young man, roused from sleep on the night that Jesus was arrested, attempts to follow the Lord, and the mob who had Jesus in custody attempts to seize him. The young man escapes and flees into the night. The fact that this incident is only recorded in Mark’s gospel—and the fact that the young man is anonymous—has led some scholars to surmise that the fleeing young man is actually John Mark.

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Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
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  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

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Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
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59) Looking for Jesus


Mark 5:21- 24


  • One of the presiding officers of the synagogue named Jairus comes to see Jesus!
  • He knows who he is!
  • He knows about his miracles!
  • They knew who Jesus was!
  • He falls at Jesus’ feet!
  • His daughter is extremely ill!
  • Jesus doesn’t hesitate!
  • He goes straight away!
 

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Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

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Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
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60) Looking for Jesus


Mark 5:25-34

  • Now there is a woman who has had a flow of blood for 12 years!
  • She has suffered a lot at the hands of many physicians!
  • She has spent all her resources!
  • She has become worse!
  • And she hears about Jesus!
  • So she decides to touch his outer garment!
  • And she is healed all at once!
  • What a difference!
  • Imagine her feelings!
  • And Jesus realizes what has happened!
  • So he asks who did it!
  • The woman is frightened and is trembling!
  • She falls down before Jesus and tells him everything!
  • He blesses her!
  • It shows what God’s kingdom will do pretty soon!
 

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Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

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Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
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61) Looking for Jesus


Mark 5:35,36

  • The daughter of the presiding officer has just died!
  • But Jesus tells him to have faith!
  • Simple words!
  • Easy to understand!
  • Now the presiding officer has come because he knows what Jesus can do!
  • So when Jesus tells him to have faith, he understands perfectly what it means!
  • Jesus speaks as someone who knows and the people who really know him know what he is able to do!
 

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Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

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Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
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62) Looking for Jesus


Mark 5:37-39


  • The people are weeping and wailing loudly!
  • Jesus asks them why they are acting that way!
  • He knows why but he wants to show them that he thinks differently!
  • He says the child is sleeping!
  • Because he can resurrect people!
  • And in fact, that’s what he will do when he leads God’s kingdom after the Big One!
  • We may remember that when he died some people were resurrected!
 

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Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

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Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
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Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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63) Looking for Jesus


Mark 5:40-43

  • Jesus takes the girl by the hand!
  • Then he tells her to get up!
  • And immediately she rises and begins walking!
  • And he tells them to give her something to eat!
  • He knows what she needs!
  • He knows what to do at the right time!
  • And he speaks with authority!
 

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Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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JLG

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64) Looking for Jesus


Mark 6:1-3

  • Jesus teaches in the synagogue!
  • And people are astounded by his wisdom and his powerful works because he is a carpenter!
  • Their surprise indicates how far they are from Yah.weh!
  • It reminds us of the time when Samuel arrived at the house of Yah.weh!
  • It sounds like Yah.weh had never been their God!
  • Only man’s tradition!
  • Everything is empty!
 

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

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Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

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Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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65) Looking for Jesus

- In Mark 6, Jesus is back in his home territory!

- And people know him as the son of the carpenter, the son of Mary and they know all his siblings!

- So they know him as a normal person!

- Not as someone who has such abilities to teach in the synagogue!

- So they don’t believe in him!

- Anyway, he cures people!

- But it won’t change anything!

- And Jesus is amazed at their lack of faith!

- is it so surprising?

- After all, they are just human beings!

- Once again it shows the necessity to do his best to get accurate knowledge!

- But a lot of effort is required!
 

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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JLG

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66) Looking for Jesus

- In Mark 6:7-13, Jesus sends the Twelve two by two!

- And he gives them authority over the unclean spirits!

- They must take nothing with them!

- They stay at the house of those who receive them!

- They must tell people to repent!

- And they cure people!

- Thus he prepares them to be able to keep the preaching work after his death!

- May we follow such an example!
 

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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JLG

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67) Looking for Jesus

- In Mark 6:14-16, We are told Jesus is well known for his miracles!

- Even king Herod hears about him!

- Many think he is John the Baptist!


- Others think he is Elijah!

- Or a prophet like in the past!

- Thus the Pharisees have no excuse!

- Because they choose their personal power!

- We must also choose!

- We can’t wait and see!
 

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  • In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
  • An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
  • To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
  • When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
  • According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
  • BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
  • And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
  • SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
  • BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
  • What about you?

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  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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