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NASB | Mark 14:51 ¶ A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they *seized him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 14:51 ¶ A young man was following Him, wearing [only] a linen sheet over his naked body; and some men seized him. |
Subject: Mark 14:51 |
Bible Note: Dear Cheri, Regarding revelation, please see post #164985. Regarding tradition, please see post #182013. See also the "golden rule" of Biblical interpretation in post #156918. Drs. Fee and Stuart begin the introduction to their book "How to Read the Bible for All its Worth" making the following statement, well worth our remembrance: "We are also agreed that the preacher or teacher is all too often prone to dig first and look later, and thereby to cover up the plain meaning of the text, which often lies on the surface. Let it be said at the outset -- and repeated throughout -- that the aim of good interpretation is not uniqueness; one is not trying to discover what no one else has ever seen before. "Interpretation that aims at, or thrives on, uniqueness can usually be attributed to pride (an attempt to 'out clever' the rest of the world), a false understanding of spirituality (wherein the Bible is full of deep truths waiting to be mined by the spiritually sensitive person with special insight), or vested interests (the need to support a theological bias, especially in dealing with texts that seem to go against that bias). Unique interpretations are usually wrong. This is not to say that the correct understanding of a text may not often seem unique to someone who hears it for the first time. But it is to say that uniqueness is not the aim of our task." In Him, Doc |