Bible Question: To whom did God speak directly? |
Bible Answer: Dear Estabon, Assuming you meant "To whom [people] did God [the Father] speak directly?" Searcher left out some pretty essential ones... -Adam (Genesis 2:16) -Eve (Genesis 3:13) -Abram/Abraham (Genesis 12:1) -Hagar (Genesis 16:8) -Moses (Exodus 3:4) -Aaron (Exodus 4:27) -Miriam (Numbers 12:4) -Balaam (Numbers 22:9) Additionally, there are a bunch more judges and prophets... From the New Testament, we might also add John the Baptist (John 1:33); Jesus Himself (Mark 1:11); Peter, James and John (Matthew 17:5-6; cf 2 Peter 1:17-18). Nevertheless, as stjohn pointed out, hearing Christ was hearing the Father (John 14:24). In Him, Doc PS By the way, according to most scholars, the words spoken at Jesus' baptism (Matthew 3:17) were not overheard by the people. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown write, "Was this voice heard by the by-standers? From Matthew's form of it, one might suppose it so designed; but it would appear that it was not, and probably John only heard and saw anything peculiar about that great baptism." (Mark 1:11 emphasizes this more particularly.) |