Two Voices · No. 08 of 30 · all the sheets
The rebuke they dropped
Jesus refuses Elijah’s fire. Many modern Bibles lose what he said.
The disciples asked for Elijah’s fire. Jesus said they did not know what spirit they were of. Whose spirit sent it?
The verses on the sheet, as text
Luke 9:54–56 · KJV
…Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.
2 Kings 1:10 · KJV
…If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
Luke 9:55 · ESV
But he turned and rebuked them.
The ESV and the NIV end the verse there and move the rebuke to a footnote.
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If the two halves of your Bible don’t agree
You are not the first to notice. The second-century churches that read the Bible as two voices were burned out of history, and their case can be read again. Start with the free gospel they carried, or the book that sets the two gods side by side, verse by verse.
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