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Did Jesus walk on water?The Syriac edition says something else.

There is a Syriac edition of the Holy Bible (the Peshitta) translated by linguistic scholar George M. Lamsa and published in English in 1933. The ancient Syriac language was a written version of the Aramaic that Jesus is believed to have spoken. The oldest manuscripts of most if not all of the New Testament were written in Koine Greek. Writings in Koine were widely read among scholars in the Eastern Mediterranean at the time. Bible scholars through the ages have assumed that the authors of the gospels chose to write in Greek so the message could be distributed and read as widely as possible throughout the known world. But those writers must necessarily have worked from the original Aramaic sayings and accounts.

It’s an old saying that youth is wasted on the young. Can the same be said of curiosity?

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