CAN I TRUST THE BIBLE? (8 OF 32)
Can I Trust the Bible? (8 of 32)
Series: John
Patrick Edwards
John 7:53
Introduction
If you brought a Bible with you this morning, I'd ask that you open it to John 7:53. For, you see, while I hope you bring your Bible with you every Sunday and use it every Sunday, today it is especially important for you to do so, because you really need to be looking at the text right now as we dive in. You see, this morning we come to one of the most well-known stories in the Bible concerning Jesus, the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery. And, yet, before we even get a single word into this story we're presented with an issue. This issue is standing there, staring us in the face, and it is an extremely important issue for us to understand and know how to deal with. And, yet at the same time, it's an issue we often ignore or just gloss over, I think mostly because we just don't know what to do with it. And what that issue is, is a little bracket or parenthesis or footnote and asterisk that comes at the very beginning of verse 53.
Depending on what translation or version of the Bible you're using you'll notice there is a little marker at the beginning of verse 53, with a note that says something to the effect of, 'The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53-8:11.' And I've got to imagine that the overwhelming majority of us read that and are like, 'Wait. What does that mean?' It's the very same thought you've likely had when reading the very end of Mark's gospel.
Well what this means is that is that over the last few hundred years as more and more copies of parts of Scripture have been found and copies that are very early in history, such as from the second and third centuries, it has been discovered that these very early copies of John's Gospel do not contain these verses at all. In other words, the very oldest copies of the Bible that we have go straight from John 7:52 to John 8:12, completely omitting 7:53-8:11. What this suggests to us is that th ...
Series: John
Patrick Edwards
John 7:53
Introduction
If you brought a Bible with you this morning, I'd ask that you open it to John 7:53. For, you see, while I hope you bring your Bible with you every Sunday and use it every Sunday, today it is especially important for you to do so, because you really need to be looking at the text right now as we dive in. You see, this morning we come to one of the most well-known stories in the Bible concerning Jesus, the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery. And, yet, before we even get a single word into this story we're presented with an issue. This issue is standing there, staring us in the face, and it is an extremely important issue for us to understand and know how to deal with. And, yet at the same time, it's an issue we often ignore or just gloss over, I think mostly because we just don't know what to do with it. And what that issue is, is a little bracket or parenthesis or footnote and asterisk that comes at the very beginning of verse 53.
Depending on what translation or version of the Bible you're using you'll notice there is a little marker at the beginning of verse 53, with a note that says something to the effect of, 'The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53-8:11.' And I've got to imagine that the overwhelming majority of us read that and are like, 'Wait. What does that mean?' It's the very same thought you've likely had when reading the very end of Mark's gospel.
Well what this means is that is that over the last few hundred years as more and more copies of parts of Scripture have been found and copies that are very early in history, such as from the second and third centuries, it has been discovered that these very early copies of John's Gospel do not contain these verses at all. In other words, the very oldest copies of the Bible that we have go straight from John 7:52 to John 8:12, completely omitting 7:53-8:11. What this suggests to us is that th ...
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