Mar 21, 2024
The sixteenth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Luke18:9-14, which is the sole source of this pericope. It could have come from the Q-gospel, but that would mean that the author of Matthew chose not to use it for some reason. The Jesus Seminar assigned it the...
Mar 14, 2024
The fifteenth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mk 3:24-25, Mt 12.25, Lk 11:17. The differences between the saying in Mark, compared with the one in Matthew and Luke (which are more similar to each other), are sufficient to conclude that the version in Matthew...
Mar 6, 2024
The fourteenth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mk 2:22, Mt 9:17, Lk 5:37-39, and Thomas 47:3-4. As with SY passage 13, the main source of this saying is from Mark (Matthew and Luke both borrow from Mark, and so they both place the saying where Mark places it)....
Mar 6, 2024
I’m taking this opportunity to talk about some of my personal experiences, and hopefully, you will be encouraged to draw something meaningful from them for yourself. I recall someone I worked with in London in the early 2000’s. She was a young girl in her late teens,...
Feb 28, 2024
The thirteenth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mk 2:21, Mt 9:16, Lk 5:36, and Thomas 47:5. The main source of this saying is from Mark (Matthew and Luke both borrow from Mark, and so they both place the saying where Mark places it; and Luke makes quite a few...
Feb 19, 2024
The twelfth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mt 11:7-15, Lk 7:24-28a (a reed in the wind, a man in fancy clothes, prophet to be sent before the Day of YHVH, prophet like Elijah, no one greater than John); Lk 10:23 (‘those who have ears to hear’). The likely...
