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Acts 10:28 - "common or unclean" - What meaning is given by Peter in this statement to the ordinary word κοινὸν?
Then he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to
keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me
that I should not call any man common or unclean. (Acts 10:...
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In Romans 11:1 do all ethnic Jews qualify or just the remnant Jews?
“I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.”
Romans 11:1
When Paul is addressing the ...
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Is the man in the Good Samaritan parable immediately known to the audience to be a Jew?
The phrase used in my translations says "a man" or "a certain man" was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho. Some studies seem to indicate that the phrase "anthropos tis" ...
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Why did Jesus say his servants would have fought to avoid being handed over to the Jews, not the Romans?
John 18:36 ESV
Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my ...
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According to the Bible, has Satan been using world powers like Hitler to persecute the Jews?
Several powers in history have been used by the devil to persecute the Jewish people.
The Babylonians took them to exile
The Romans under Titus killed approximately 600,000 to 1 million Jews
The ...
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does the term "gentiles" (ethnos) really mean, in places such as as acts 10:45, "Lost sheep of Israel?" [duplicate]
this is something i hear people who believe that salvation is exclusive to Judaism say frequently; that whenever salvation is given to gentiles, it is actually being given to those of Israel who have ...
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Romans 9:24 why does Paul conflate Israel with Gentiles?
God makes known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, vessels which he prepared before hand to extract glory from them,
“even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the ...
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Why does, in 1Cor 9:20, Paul make a distinction between Jews and “those who are under the law” aren’t they one and the same?
1 Corinthians 9:20, ESV:
To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under ...
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In Romans 9:3-5, who are Paul's "kinsmen according to the flesh" and why and when were they cursed and "cut off" from Christ?
[Rom 9:3-5 NASB95] [3] For I could wish that I myself were accursed, [separated] from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, [4] who are Israelites, to whom belongs the ...
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"The Jews" vs. "the Crowds" in John 7 - a distinction with an important difference?
John 7
11 The Jews were looking for him at the feast and saying, “Where is
he?” 12 And there was considerable murmuring about him in the crowds.
Some said, “He is a good man,” while others said, “No; ...
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Are Jews allowed to practise usury? [closed]
The Bible strongly condemns usury:
(Ezek 18:13) gives on interest and takes usury - should he live? He
shall not live! He has committed all these abominations: he shall
surely be put to death, his ...
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Is the Bible anti-Semitic? [closed]
It seems the Bible is anti-Semitic or how else do you explain these Bible passages?
God himself wanted to kill all Jews but Moses stopped him:
(Ex 32:9-11) 9 And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen ...
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In John 5:18, shouldn't there be scare quote punctuation marks to identify the Jews' false accusations against Jesus? [closed]
John 5:18 according to the ESV:
This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because
not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his
own Father, making himself ...
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Greeks or Hellenist?
My question is this, In John 12:20 ESV "Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some GREEKS" (Gentile) However in the Complete Jewish Bible, it says "Greek Speaking ...
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Riddle: How is a Jew not a Jew, but a Gentile is a Jew?
Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh.
Revelation 3:9
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say ...
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