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NASB | John 6:66 ¶ As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 6:66 ¶ As a result of this many of His disciples abandoned Him, and no longer walked with Him. |
Bible Question: Is this verse the answer to the riddle of 666 in Revelation 13:18? The Book of John is the only book in the entire Bible that contains the verse 6:66. If we go back to the previous verse we see that Jesus says to his disciples that "you cannot come to know the Son unless the Father draws you." Now we find that almost all of the disciples leave him because of that verse. He then turns to the 12 and asks them if they will support him. They say "yes." We are the beast when we separate ourselves from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and fail to do his will. This is the nature of the beast and the anti-Christ in all of us. This is our human nature. We are not willing to die for Christ. When we make the commitment to die for Him, we KNOW Him as 6:65 suggests. What do you think? |
Bible Answer: The present chapter divisions in our Bibles were invented in 1205 by Stephen Langton, a professor in Paris (he later became Archbishop of Canterbury), who put these into a Vulgate edition of the Bible. These chapter divisions were first used by the Jews in 1330 for the Hebrew Old Testament in a manuscript and for a printed edition in 1516. This system of chapter divisions likewise came into the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament in the 1400s. It was Robert Stephanus, a Parisian book printer, who added the verse divisions we use today. He took over the verse divisions already indicated in the Hebrew Bible by the soph pasuq (these were gaps in the text to help scholars find their place) and assigned numbers to them within the chapter divisions already assigned by Stephan Langton. While riding on horseback from Paris to Lyons he affixed his own verse divisions to the New Testament and numbered them within Langton's chapter divisions. Consequently the quality of his work was not the best... From this brief survey of the history of the Bible's chapter and verse divisions it is very apparent that these are nothing more than a handy method of reference. They do not necessarily represent those units of composition present in the author's mind as he strove to impart his thoughts. ... There is no doubt that the chapter divisions which we have inherited from Langton leave much to be desired. These divisions do not rest upon a comprehension of the literary structure of the Biblical books. ... All that we can do is to realize that this system falls far short of doing justice to the inherent units of Scripture. (The above is exerpted from the web site "Chapters and Verses -- Late Comers" by Daniel P. Fuller; www.fuller.edu. Text restrictions in the answer format prevent me from listing the complete web site address - it won't allow the backslash character.) |