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Aug 4, 2022 · John the Baptist condemned the Pharisees and Sadducees as a “brood of vipers” in Matthew 3:7. A “brood of vipers” is a “family of snakes.”. Because vipers are venomous, John was essentially calling the religious leaders “deadly sons of serpents.”. It’s quite a bold denunciation—and one Jesus repeated to the Pharisees in ...
So the time and place of the beginning of John's ministry is fixed for us in relation to known historical people and places. The fifteenth year of Tiberias' reign was AD 27 or 28, and the place of John's emergence was out of the wilderness into all the region around the Jordan River.
Singularly enough, the name appears for the first time in the Gospel history. Josephus, who tells us most about them, being presumably later, if not than the Gospels in their present form, yet, at all events, than the materials from which they are derived.
Appropriately, the author of the earliest church history (Acts) and the most careful study of Jesus' life among the Gospels (Luke) is fairly conclusively identified with Luke the physician. Clement of Alexandria positively identifies Luke as the author of Acts:
Jesus called them a brood of vipers because like the first serpent (Ge 3:1 ), they had become subtle or cunning (06175 ערום ‘aruwm) in challenging the word of God, and not only the word, but the Word-Jesus.
They are first mentioned by the Jewish historian as opposing the government of the priest-ruler of the Asmonæan house, John Hyrcanus (Ant. xiii. 5). The meaning of the name is clear enough. The Pharisees were the “separated” ones, and the meaning may help us to trace the history.
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Apr 11, 2016 · The names of the authors of the Gospels have been adapted into English from the Greek of the New Testament. 1 However, Hebrew and/or Aramaic were likely the mother tongue (s) of three of the evangelists (Matthew, Mark, and John), and their names reflect this background. Luke's name is Greek.
