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HOW THE BIBLE GOT ITS VERSE NUMBERS:
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In 1524, the son of a Parisian printer took over his father’s business at the age of 21. There is nothing particularly unusual about a son taking over the family business, but the previous year, Robert Estienne had revised the Latin edition of the New Testament. Its subsequent publication was the first occasion of years of controversy that were to follow.--The controversy? Estienne had run afoul of the powerful and influential Roman Catholic faculty of the Sorbonne who thought it was a dangerous thing to have the Bible in the hands of ordinary farmers and shopkeepers.
Estienne was undeterred and continued to publish editions of the Bible for sale and distribution as well as to speak approvingly of the Reformers’ theological views that were then being circulated. He even published many of Melanchthon’s works, further antagonizing his opponents.
HOW THE APOSTLES DIED.
1. Matthew
Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, Killed by a sword wound.
2. Mark
Died in Alexandria, Egypt , after being dragged by Horses through the streets until he was dead.
3. Luke
Was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous Preaching to the lost.
4. John
Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge Basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution In Rome. However, he was miraculously delivered From death.
John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison Island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve As Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey . He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully
5. Peter
He was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross.
According to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die In the same way that Jesus Christ had died.
6. James
The leader of the church in Jerusalem , was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he survived the fall, his
enemies beat James to death with a fuller's club.
* This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the Temptation.
7. James the Son of Zebedee,
was a fisherman by trade when Jesus Called him to a lifetime of ministry. As a strong leader of the church, James was beheaded at Jerusalem. The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended his faith at his trial. Later, the officer Walked beside James to the place of execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge and Knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian.
8. Bartholomew
Also known as Nathaniel Was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey. Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death by a whip.
9. Andrew
Was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras, Greece. After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words: 'I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it.' He continued to preach to his tormentors For two days until he expired.
10. Thomas
Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church in the Sub-continent.
11. Jude
Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.
12. Matthias
The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.
13. Paul
Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment, which allowed him to write his many
epistles to the churches he had formed throughout the Roman Empire. These letters, which taught many of the foundational Doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the New Testament.
Perhaps this is a reminder to us that our sufferings here are indeed minor compared to the intense persecution and cold cruelty faced by the apostles and disciples during their times For the sake of the Faith. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: But he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Pass on to encourage other Christians
Why Do we feel sleepy in Prayer,
But stay awake through a 3 hour movie?
Why are we so bored when we look at the HOLY BOOK,
But find it easy to read other books?
Why is it so easy to ignore a msg about God,
Yet we forward the nasty ones?
Why are Prayers getting smaller,
But bars and clubs are expanding
Why is it so easy to worship a celebrity,
But very difficult to engage with God?
Think about it, are you going to forward this?
Are you going to ignore it, cause you think you will get laughed at?
Forward this to all your friends.
80% of you won't forward this.
God said:
If you deny me in front of your
friends, I will deny you on the day of judgment:
When one door closes , God opens two : If God has opened doors for you.
BIBLE TRIVIA
William Tyndale was the Captain of the Army of Reformers, and was their spiritual leader. Tyndale holds the distinction of being the first man to ever print the New Testament in the English language. Tyndale was a true scholar and a genius, so fluent in eight languages that it was said one would think any one of them to be his native tongue. He is frequently referred to as the “Architect of the English Language”, (even more so than William Shakespeare) as so many of the phrases Tyndale coined are still in our language today.
Here is a list of phrase that had not been known until the bible was translated into English.
A list of 122 everyday phrases that have a biblical origin
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A broken heart
KJV, Psalms 34:18 - The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
A cross to bear
KJV, Luke 14:27 - And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
A drop in the bucketType your paragraph here.
A fly in the ointment
A graven image
KJV, Deuteronomy 5:8 - Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth.
A house divided against itself cannot stand
A labour of love
A law unto themselves
KJV, Romans 2:14 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.
A leopard cannot change its spots
nest of vipers
A peace offering
KJV, Leviticus 3:6 - And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
A sign of the times
KJV, Matthew 16:3 - And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
A soft answer turns away wrath
KJV, Proverbs 15:1 - A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
A thorn in the flesh
A two-edged sword
KJV, Proverbs 5:4 - But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
A voice crying in the wilderness
KJV, John 1:23 - He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
A wolf in sheep's clothing
All things must pass
All things to all men
Am I my brother's keeper?
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
As old as Methuselah
As old as the hills
As white as snow
As you sow so shall you reap
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
At his wits end
Baptism of fire
KJV, Matthew 3:11 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
Be fruitful and multiply
KJV, Genesis 1:22 - And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Beat swords into ploughshares
Bite the dust
Blessed are the peacemakers
Born again
KJV, John 3:3 - Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Breath of life
KJV, Genesis 2:7 - And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul
.By the skin of your teeth
By the sweat of your brow
KJV, Genesis 3:19 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Can a leopard change its spots?
Cast bread upon the waters
KJV, Ecclesiastes 11:1 - Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Cast the first stone
Charity begins at home
Coat of many colours
Don't cast your pearls before swine
Dust to dust
KJV, Genesis 3:19 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Eat drink and be merryA man after his own heart
A multitude of sins
A nest of vipers
A peace offering
KJV, Leviticus 3:6 - And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
A sign of the times
KJV, Matthew 16:3 - And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
A soft answer turns away wrath
KJV, Proverbs 15:1 - A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
A thorn in the flesh
A two-edged sword
KJV, Proverbs 5:4 - But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
A voice crying in the wilderness
KJV, John 1:23 - He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
A wolf in sheep's clothing
All things must pass
All things to all men
Am I my brother's keeper?
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
As old as Methuselah
As old as the hills
As white as snow
As you sow so shall you reap
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
At his wits end
Baptism of fire
KJV, Matthew 3:11 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
Be fruitful and multiply
KJV, Genesis 1:22 - And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Beat swords into ploughshares
Bite the dust
Blessed are the peacemakers
Born again
KJV, John 3:3 - Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Breath of life
KJV, Genesis 2:7 - And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul
.By the skin of your teeth
By the sweat of your brow
KJV, Genesis 3:19 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Can a leopard change its spots?
Cast bread upon the waters
KJV, Ecclesiastes 11:1 - Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Cast the first stone
Charity begins at home
Coat of many colours
Don't cast your pearls before swine
Dust to dust
KJV, Genesis 3:19 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Eat drink and be merry
Eye to eye KJV
Isaiah 52:8 - Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
Faith will move mountains
Fall from grace
Fat of the land
KJV, Genesis 45:18 - And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Feet of clay
KJV, Daniel 2: 31-33 - His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Fight the good fight
Fire and brimstone
KJV, Genesis 19: 24-26 - Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
Flesh and blood
For everything there is a season
Forbidden fruit
Forgive them for they know not what they do
From strength to strength
Get thee behind me Satan
Gird your loins
KJV, 1 Kings 18:46 And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
Give up the ghost
Go the extra mile
KJV, Matthew 5:41 - And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Good Samaritan
Harden your heart
KJV, Exodus 4:21 - And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword
KJV, Matthew 26:52 - Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.Heart's desire
KJV, Psalms 21:2 - Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.Holier than thouK
JV, Isaiah 65:5 - Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
How are the mighty fallen
In the beginning was the word
In the twinkling of an eye
It's better to give than to receive
BIBLE TRIVIA
The royal patronage, and the royal money from government printing work, shielded Estienne from his opponents for many years. He twice published the entire Hebrew Old Testament, and in 1550 he published his third edition of the Greek New Testament – and that appears to have been one of the final straws. Eventually, the opposition became so fierce and violent that he and his family were forced to flee Paris in 1551, and they headed, initially, to Lyon.
Estienne loaded his family into a carriage and rode on horseback accompanying the carriage. In his pocket was a small copy of his third edition New Testament. To pass the time on the road, Estienne took out his New Testament and began to jot down where he thought the text should be divided into verses. In the thirteenth century, the New Testament had been divided into chapters by Steven Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, but there were as yet no verse divisions (in 1448, Rabbi Mordecai Nathan had previously divided the Old Testament into chapters and verses).
There are two reasons we know of why Estienne would do this. First, he was an ardent student of the Scriptures and thought that verses would help in studying the Bible. The second reason is
related to the first: He was planning to publish a concordance of the New Testament, and the work of assigning verse numbers was part of that project (sadly, the concordance was not published until after his death by one of his sons in 1594).
The Estienne family settled in Geneva, Switzerland, and Robert began to pursue his calling as a printer there. Soon after setting up shop in Geneva, he published his fourth edition of the New Testament in 1551 with his verse divisions included. He also used his presses to defend himself from the attacks of the faculty of the university.
By 1553, he had published a French language Bible and had also published a fine edition of John Calvin’s “Institutes of the Christian Religion.” His French language Bible was the first Bible published that combined Nathan’s Old Testament chapter-and-verse divisions with his New Testament divisions. The Geneva Bible, published the year after his death, and based in large part upon his work, was the first English language Bible to contain the verse divisions that we use today.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/where-did-the-bibles-verse-numbers-comefrom/#UqAqw0W4V5GaMKkt.99 Although his work continued to aggravate the professors at the university, his printing and binding were of a very high quality. His Greek typeset was particularly elegant, and eventually he was awarded the title “Printer in Greek to the King” in 1539.
The royal patronage, and the royal money from government printing work, shielded Estienne from his opponents for many years. He twice published the entire Hebrew Old Testament, and in 1550 he published his third edition of the Greek New Testament – and that appears to have been one of the final straws. Eventually, the opposition became so fierce and violent that he and his family were forced to flee Paris in 1551, and they headed, initially, to Lyon.
Estienne loaded his family into a carriage and rode on horseback accompanying the carriage. In his pocket was a small copy of his third edition New Testament. To pass the time on the road, Estienne took out his New Testament and began to jot down where he thought the text should be divided into verses. In the thirteenth century, the New Testament had been divided into chapters by Steven Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, but there were as yet no verse divisions (in 1448, Rabbi Mordecai Nathan had previously divided the Old Testament into chapters and verses).
There are two reasons we know of why Estienne would do this. First, he was an ardent student of the Scriptures and thought that verses would help in studying the Bible. The second reason is
related to the first: He was planning to publish a concordance of the New Testament, and the work of assigning verse numbers was part of that project (sadly, the concordance was not published until after his death by one of his sons in 1594).
The Estienne family settled in Geneva, Switzerland, and Robert began to pursue his calling as a printer there. Soon after setting up shop in Geneva, he published his fourth edition of the New Testament in 1551 with his verse divisions included. He also used his presses to defend himself from the attacks of the faculty of the university.
By 1553, he had published a French language Bible and had also published a fine edition of John Calvin’s “Institutes of the Christian Religion.” His French language Bible was the first Bible published that combined Nathan’s Old Testament chapter-and-verse divisions with his New Testament divisions. The Geneva Bible, published the year after his death, and based in large part upon his work, was the first English language Bible to contain the verse divisions that we use today.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/where-did-the-bibles-verse-numbers-comefrom/#UqAqw0W4V5GaMKkt.99
JESUS VS PROPHESY
“Science Speaks,”
Dr. Stoner calculated the probability that any one man [Jesus] could fulfill just these eight [Bible] prophecies to be 1 chance in 10 to the 17th power, meaning a 1 with 17 zeros after it. To illustrate how unlikely a chance that would be, Stoner gave this illustration. Cover the entire state of Texas with silver dollars to a level of two feet deep. The total number of silver dollars needed would be 10 to the 17th power. Now, choose just one silver dollar, mark it, and put it back. Then thoroughly stir all the silver dollars all over the state. Now, blindfold someone and tell them they can travel wherever they want in Texas, but sometime they must pick one of the silver dollars. The chance of finding that one silver dollar that we marked in a pile 2 feet deep covering the state of Texas would be the chance the prophets had for these eight prophecies coming true in any one man in the future. (Peter Stoner, Science Speaks: Scientific Proof of the Accuracy of Prophecy and the Bible 107 (Chicago, Moody Press, 1969)). Interestingly, Dr. Stoner submitted his figures for review to a Committee of the American Scientific Affiliation. After examining his figures, they verified that his calculations were dependable and accurate in regard to the scientific material presented. (Id. at 4). And that is just eight of the more than sixty prophecies about the Messiah that Jesus fulfilled.