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About this version This New Testament is the fruit of daily reading. My name is Wilfredo Aguilar. For years I have read the New Testament every day, the same books again and again, until the words sit in the ear and not only on the page. That kind of reading raises questions the text itself will not let go: what the Greek actually says, why a word was chosen, what a custom meant in the first century, and how to say it in the language people speak now. For more than six years I have used Logos Bible Software as a workshop: Textus Receptus, lexicons, histories of the words, and the old English line beside the Greek. This version was born in that workshop, and then with the newer tools now available for drafting and checking. The tools do not replace the reading. They help a long project move. Every chapter is still weighed against the Greek of the Textus Receptus, the same textual tradition behind the King James Version. The aim is simple: stay close to the Greek speak modern ...

he rebuke the demon and it came out of the boy

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Word study diegeiro and egeiro

Word Study — διεγείρω ( diegeirō ) and ἐγείρω ( egeirō ) ἐγείρω ( egeirō ) — the base verb, "to raise, to wake, to raise up." It's the workhorse resurrection verb in the NT: used for Jesus's own rising ("he is not here, he is risen," Matthew 28:6), for the raising of the dead in general (Matthew 10:8, John 5:21), and for future bodily resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:52, "the dead will be raised"). Outside of resurrection contexts, it's also just the ordinary word for standing someone up or waking them from sleep — the semantic range covers both from the start. διεγείρω ( diegeirō ) — an intensified compound of ἐγείρω, formed with the prefix διά ("through, thoroughly"). The prefix sharpens the sense toward a full, decisive rousing rather than a partial stirring — "to wake completely," "to arouse fully." It's used of Jesus waking from sleep in the storm (Mark 4:39, Luke 8:24) and of Joseph's waking here ...

Word study erusin and nisuin

Word Study — אירוסין ( erusin ) and נישואין ( nisu'in ) Jewish marriage in the Second Temple period happened in two distinct legal stages, not one ceremony. Matthew, writing in Greek, has his own vocabulary for marking these stages — worth laying alongside the Hebrew terms. Erusin (אירוסין) — "betrothal/engagement." Despite the English word "engagement," this stage was already a full legal marriage in terms of obligation. It was usually formed by money or a written contract; intercourse could also create the bond, but was not the expected first step. Once erusin was formed: The woman was legally the man's wife — Scripture and rabbinic law call her his ishah (wife), not merely his intended. Breaking it required a formal divorce ( get ), not just a change of mind. Unfaithfulness during this period was treated legally as adultery, not merely as breach of promise — which is exactly why Joseph's option in v.19 is framed as divorce , not ...

he became poor

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Matthew Chapter 1

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The genealogy of Jesus Christ 1 The record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. 2 Abraham fathered Isaac; Isaac fathered Jacob; Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers; 3 Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar; Perez fathered Hezron; Hezron fathered Ram; 4 Ram fathered Amminadab; Amminadab fathered Nahshon; Nahshon fathered Salmon; 5 Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab; Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth; Obed fathered Jesse; 6 Jesse fathered David the king; David the king fathered Solomon by her who had been Uriah's wife. 7 Solomon fathered Rehoboam; Rehoboam fathered Abijah; Abijah fathered Asa; 8 Asa fathered Jehoshaphat; Jehoshaphat fathered Joram; Joram fathered Uzziah; 9 Uzziah fathered Jotham; Jotham fathered Ahaz; Ahaz fathered Hezekiah; 10 Hezekiah fathered Manasseh; Manasseh fathered Amon; Amon fathered Josiah; 11 Josiah fathered Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon. 12 After the deportation to Babylon...

Christ is LORD

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