Ask any Chinese believer “Who is the God of Israel?”, and the answer would easily be “耶和華” {ye1-he2-hua2}. No surprises there, as His name can be plainly read from the pages of the Old Testament. But if we ask an English speaker the same question, we might get “Jehovah” or “Yahweh”, yet we can’t find either in…
The combined account of Matthew and Luke describe not only the pivotal birth of Christ but also the arduous journey that His family had to endure. Within one verse, Joseph and Mary traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem. That same journey, if we are to endeavor now, takes more than 30 hours one-way (no stopping), covering 145km according to Google…
No, really, what IS Christmas? I used to think Christmas means Christ más, which loosely translates to plus Christ in Spanish. I know, it’s absurd, but it made just enough “sense” that I didn’t bother asking, until now. It turns out, the mas in Christmas is short for mass, another name for worship service in Catholicism. So Christmas originally meant the special worship…
Have you ever wondered why the “J” in “Jesus“? 耶穌{ye1-su1}, Ιησούς, イエス, יֵשׁוּעַ, and many others sound a lot like each other. What’s the story of that “J”? Long before we had the Bible in English, it was first translated into Latin, where the New Testament Greek “Ιησούς” was translated to “IESVS“, sounding almost identical to its Greek…