[B-Greek] Luke 22:41 - WSEI LIQOU BOLHN

David Rollins david87350 at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 5 21:00:58 EDT 2008


I was looking at the record of Jesus in Gethsemane in the gospels.  
Luke records a seemingly insignificant detail that the other others  
do not use - in verse 41 of chapter 22 - KAI AUTOS APEPASQHE AP'  
AUTWN WSEI  LIQOU BOLHN,

Matthew 26:39 and Mark 14:35 - both have KAI PROELQON MIKRON EPIPTEN.

Now perhaps this is an insignificant question, but for the modern ear  
- "a stone's throw" could be anywhere from 50 feet to 300 feet  
depending on whether you are a weakling or a Major League player ( it  
is  difficult to find any information on what a Koine greek man would  
think of as "a stone's throw"). Why did Luke put in this detail ? I  
would surmise that because the other two accounts speak of "going  
forward a little" that a stone's throw would be about 20 feet.  
Perhaps Luke never threw stones as a boy, so he did not have much of  
"an arm". :)

David Rollins



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