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Internal consistency of the Bible‎ - cleanup citations; use templates forget it, my usefulness there has come to an end

Internal consistency of the Bible‎ - Matt v Acts

People's New Testament

18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

1:18 This man purchased a field. He returned the bribe money to the priests, who used it to purchase the potter's field. Peter here intends to say that his money bought the field. The Greek verb ktaomai, rendered purchased, has the form that means caused to be purchased.

Falling headlong. Mt 27:5 says he hanged himself. Peter tells some additional particulars, which Matthew omitted. He probably hanged himself on a tree projecting over the precipices of the Valley of Hinnom, and afterwards, on account of the rope or limb breaking, fell headlong with such force as to burst his body open on the jagged rocks. This is the traditional account of his death.

19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.

1:19 That field is called... Aceldama. The field bought with the bribe money of Judas. He came to such a bloody end that this, and the origin of the purchase money, gave the field its name.

Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1982)

Robert L. Thomas and Stanley N. Gundry, A Harmony of the Gospels (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978)

Fundamentalism ref: Beale, David O. "S.B.C. House on the Sand?", Appendix Two: Fundamentalism: The Origin of Fundamentalism, BJU Press (1985). Accessed 15 May 2008

User:Jacilp misreported authors' statement, saying "conclude that 62.9% of verses in the Nestle-Aland version differ from at least one of these editions" instead of what the author's actually said, "two-thirds of the New Testament text, the seven editions of the Greek New Testament which we have reviewed are in complete accord, with no differences other than in orthographical details"

Sigh.

--Faith (talk) 19:35, 19 May 2008 (UTC)