• WORD STUDY – MANSIONS – (ARAMAIC) אנוא John 14:2: “In my father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you.” I once had a friend named George who was a former Greek teacher. In fact he was not only fluent in the Biblical Koine Greek but modern Greek as

  • ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – VIPERS – ‘AKIDNA’ אכדא Matthew 3:7: “But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers.   Poor John is so misunderstood. He is often portrayed as a wild, maniacal, doomsday prophet dressed in ill-fitted clothes, subsisting on bugs and

  • WORD STUDY – PETER (ARAMAIC) – CEPHAS כפא John 1:42 “And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be (Aramaic uses a pefect tense – are) called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.” Peter’s given name was Simon or Shimon

  • WORD STUDY – MANSIONS – (ARAMAIC) אנוא John 14:2: “In my father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you.” I once had a friend named George who was a former Greek teacher. In fact he was not only fluent in the Biblical Koine Greek but modern Greek as