by bboyneko 4 Replies latest watchtower bible
I never remember being taught about this scripture before...when jesus was crucified zombies starting walking around? And an event as amazing as a couple hunder dead people haunting the streets of jerusalem only merits a one sentence description?
.. http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=MATT+27:51-53&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=off
That's because those verse are spuriouis, meaning they were ADDED to the Bible by some scribe. The oldest manuscripts on hand do not include these verses. Some translation either have a footnote in their margin stating this fact or they delete the verse altogether like the NWT.
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still, id like to see a movie called 'The night of the living dead prophets of yore'
Ok, according to WT sources, some people feel that this meant there was a resurrection. But, since this does not fit the WT view of the resurrection, they explain it as a throwing of bodies out of their tombs, such as a 1962 case in Bogota, Colombia, when 200 corpses were thrown out of their tombs by a violent earth tremor.
But, but WT Interlinear Translation translates the verse "(and persons, coming out from among the memorial tombs after his being raised up, entered into the holy city), and they became visible to many people."
Some translation either have a footnote in their margin stating this fact or they delete the verse altogether like the NWT.
what? NWT does neither. they do that parenthetical thing ItsJustMe said to make it into exhumed corpses rather than resurrections. incredibly awkward that. an older WT actually discussed this a bit saying maybe it was spurious, maybe it has the corpse meaning, we dont know for sure. but since then they have stuck to the corpse meaning with no reservations. this corpse interpretation is also infamous for having been due in part to the translation of spiritist Johannes Greber.
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