This verse is very straight forward with common words. This is how Jesus gives instructions to his followers.
For those who want to know what Jesus really said, how he said it, why crowds came to hear him, and shades of meaning lost or hidden in translation.
In Jerusalem before the Passover, spoken to Peter and John. The "prepare" doesn't mean "prepare" a meal, but prepare a room where they can get a meal.
Luke 22:8 Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
Luke 22:8 Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”
Departing, prepare us the Passover so that we might eat.
This verse is very straight forward with common words. This is how Jesus gives instructions to his followers.
Go(WF) and(IW) prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
My analysis standards and methods are constantly improving. New information on each verse is provided as articles are updated. It requires approximately two years for me to work through updating each of Jesus's verses.
The everyday meanings of the Greek words Jesus used were different than the definitions they have been given over time in biblical translation. The word translations here are based upon documents of his time such as the Greek Septuagint, not ideas unknown in his time.
See what Jesus said in Greek and see how his words are changed in English translation. My goal is to translate Jesus's words as they were heard when he taught, not the way they are interpreted today. The work here resurrects the humor and cleverness of Jesus's words lost in translation.
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Each article provides detailed information on all the Greek words in each verse with links simplifying your own research. It compares the Greek to popular translations to show where words are confused, changed, left out, and added. This site offers research available nowhere else, such as how often Jesus uses a specific Greek word and links to a list of every verse in which he uses a given word.
Matthew 6:26 Behold the birds of the air: | Sep 16 2025 |
Matthew 6:25 ...Take no thought for your life, | Sep 15 2025 |
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate | Sep 14 2025 |
Matthew 6:23 But if your eye is evil, | Sep 13 2025 |
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: | Sep 12 2025 |
Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. | Sep 11 2025 |
Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, | Sep 10 2025 |
Matthew 6:19 Do not Lay up treasures for yourselves on earth, | Sep 09 2025 |
Matthew 6:18 That you do not appear to men to fast, | Sep 08 2025 |
Matthew 6:17 But you, when you fast, | Sep 07 2025 |
Most Bibles lose a lot of information in translation, for example, the Greek word translated as "word". See this article.
When I started I didn't know that Christ taught in Greek, however, my work indicates he did. The key points are summarized in this article.
Do you know that Jesus was really funny? Many of his verses are clearly meant to be entertaining. See this article for more.
Christ's words were spoken not written Greek. To understand the differences, see this article.
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