Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 1104 When New Testament writers quote the Old Testament, the wording sometimes differs from what we find in our Old Testament. Does this mean there are errors in Scripture? If the Bible is inerrant, should we not expect quotations to match exactly? The Nature of the Question Anyone who reads Scripture carefully notices that…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1046 When we open our Old Testament, we are reading a translation of ancient Hebrew manuscripts. But which Hebrew manuscripts? And what about the Greek translation that Jesus and the apostles so often quoted? This question sits at the heart of how we received our Bible and which text we should trust as authoritative….
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1047 If you have ever compared an Old Testament quotation in the New Testament with the Old Testament passage itself, you may have noticed that sometimes the wording does not match exactly. This is not a translation issue in your English Bible—it reflects the fact that the New Testament authors frequently quoted from the…