Hey Pastor John,<\/p>\n
I noticed that the new\u00a0translation of Philippians refers to Jesus as “the master”.\u00a0When I referred to the KJV, and the Good News I noted it wasn’t used in either. I also know it wouldn’t have been used in NIV either. \u00a0SO I wondered what made you use that term? Was it the greek word used in\u00a0 those greek bibles? Jesus is rarely called the master in most translations, I don’t think,\u00a0so I was interested to know. \u00a0I must say I like the use of ‘master’.<\/p>\n
Jenny<\/p>\n
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Hi Jenny.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n A root meaning of the Greek word “kurios” (usually translated as “lord”) is “owner”. \u00a0In Paul’s world, slaveowners were called “master”, and I believe that is the characteristic of Jesus that he was trying to convey. \u00a0Most often, when modern translations have “servant” or “serve” in the NT, the Greek word is actually “slave”. \u00a0Paul was a slave of the Master, Jesus Christ, and he was not shy about saying so.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey Pastor John, I noticed that the new\u00a0translation of Philippians refers to Jesus as “the master”.\u00a0When I referred to the KJV, and the Good News I noted it wasn’t used in either. I also know it wouldn’t have been used in NIV either. \u00a0SO I wondered what made you use that term? Was it the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}