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NASB | John 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 20:22 And when He said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. [Acts 1:8; 2:1-3] |
Subject: Retain or forgive sins? |
Bible Note: Hi, Val :: Good ole Vernon McGee! I may not agree with his every word on every topic, but I love him nevertheless. I have the entire written transcript of his "Thru the Bible" radio talks, and can think of few things that I enjoy reading more. Hardly a day passes that I don't read a few pages of McGee. In his preface to the "Thru the Bible" series, he says, "Behind these messages is a great deal of research and study in order to interpret the Bible from a popular rather than from a scholarly (and too-often boring) viewpoint. Perhaps not being especially scholarly myself helps indear me to Vernon McGee's sound, common sense and down to earth approach to Scripture. No one could say it better than Dr. McGee himself when he wrote, "We have definitely and deliberately attempted to put the cookies on the bottom shelf so that the kiddies could get them." And I've been enjoying those cookies for years. :-) Just a day or two ago I revisited Matthew 1 with McGee, and he made even the 'begats' interesting. --Hank |