{"id":14682,"date":"2024-04-26T13:10:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=14682"},"modified":"2024-05-06T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T23:06:31","slug":"mark-1461b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14682\/mark-1461b\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark 14:61b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RE: Mark 14:61. But he was silent, and answered nothing.\u00a0 Again, the high priest questioned him, and told him, \u201cAre you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Jim,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Regarding\u00a0your question about the &#8220;told him&#8221; in\u00a0our translation of Mark 14:61, I have\u00a0checked, and that is an accurate\u00a0translation.\u00a0 In Matthew 26:63, which describes the same scene, the high priest &#8220;answered\u00a0and said&#8221;, but here in Mark, the high priest &#8220;questioned him and told him&#8221;.\u00a0 That difference in translation reflects the different verbs involved.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Admittedly, Mark 14:61 is a little awkward, but I decided some years ago that in our translation of the gospels, we would compare the\u00a0gospels in detail where they tell the\u00a0same stories, and so, produce a translation which reflects such grammatical\u00a0subtleties\u00a0as that.\u00a0 That is certainly not the only way to produce a good translation, but it is the path we chose.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Thank you for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RE: Mark 14:61. But he was silent, and answered nothing.\u00a0 Again, the high priest questioned him, and told him, \u201cAre you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed?\u201d Jim, Regarding\u00a0your question about the &#8220;told him&#8221; in\u00a0our translation of Mark 14:61, I have\u00a0checked, and that is an accurate\u00a0translation.\u00a0 In Matthew 26:63, which describes the same scene, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682"}],"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=14682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14707,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682\/revisions\/14707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}