Category: The Gospels
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Talitha koum: the Aramaic words of Jesus
Jesus spoke Aramaic, and the gospels are in Greek. A handful of his words survive untranslated in Mark. Here is what they are and what they tell us about the Injīl.
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The woman taken in adultery: a story that moved
John 7:53-8:11 is missing from the oldest copies of John and turns up in other places in later ones. What that tells us about the gospels, and what it does not.