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Original Bible manuscripts have survived in the Euphrates Valley and in Iran among the ancient Assyrian Christians. A manuscript dated A.D. 464 containing five books of Moses was procured by the British Museum. This manuscript is the oldest dated biblical manuscript in existence. A complete copy of the whole Bible written in the early 5th century was purchased by Cardinal Ambrosius

This version translates the Sacred Name as "YHWH," with no vowels, to allow the reader to render the exact pronunciation of the Name as they best understand it

"Matthew collected the oracles in the Hebrew language, and each interpreted them as best he could." - Papias

"Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome and laying the foundations of the church."  - Irenaeus

"As having learnt by tradition concerning the four Gospels, which alone are unquestionable in the Church of God under heaven, that first was written according to Matthew, who was once a tax collector but afterwards an apostle of Jesus Christ, who published it for those who from Judaism came to believe, composed as it was in the Hebrew language." - Origen

Unknown fact to much of Christianity is the existence of two ancient Aramaic manuscripts of the Four Gospels dating back to the Fourth century.

The first was discovered by Dr.William Cureton in 1842. It was found in a monastery at the Naton Lakes Valley in Egypt. This manuscript is known as Codex Syrus Curetonianus or, and is catalogued in British Museum today

The second was discovered by Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis in 1892. It was found at St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of traditional Mount Sinai in Egypt. This manuscript is known as Codex Syrus Sinaiticus

Translated from the Original Hebrew and Aramaic

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth (Aramaic Version)

Revelation 1:12 And I turned to know the voice that spoke with me and when I turned, I saw seven menorahs of gold. And in the middle of the menorahs was like the form of a son of man and clothed with an ephod at his breasts with a girdle of gold. (Aramaic Version)

Revelation 21:6 And he said to me, I am the Alef and I am the Tav, the beginning and the end. to the thirsty, I will give from the fountain of living water freely.(Aramaic Version)

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Eloah, and the Word was Eloah.(Aramaic Version)

John 2:2 this was in the beginning with Eloah(Aramaic Version)

Phillipians 1:2 Favor with you, and shalom from Eloah our Father, and from our Adon Yeshua the Messiah(Aramaic Version)

Phillipians 2:7 But he emptied his nefesh, and took on the likeness of a servant(Aramaic Version)

from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts

The Munster Hebrew Text of Matthew was published in 1537 by Sebastian Munster which he had obtained from the Jews. In 1557, a second edition was printed, This edition went unnoticed and soon forgotten. The lost Hebrew text of Hebrews has only recenty been "rediscovered" as this second 1557 edition of Munster's Hebrew Matthew

The DuTillet version of Matthew is taken from a Hebrew manuscript of Matthew which was confiscated from Jews in Rome On August 12th, 1553, at the petition of Pietro, Cardinal Caraffa, the Inquisitor General

Jean DuTillet, Bishop of Brieu, France was visiting Rome at the time,took notice of a Hebrew manuscript of Matthew. DuTillet confiscated the manuscript and returned to France, depositing it in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. It remains there to this day

The Shem Tob Hebrew version of Matthew was transcribed by Shem Tob Ben Yitzach Ben Shaprut 1380 A.D.

The Old Syriac Aramaic Gospels and the Crawford Aramaic Revelation

The Crawford Aramaic version of Revelation is a very rare, little known version.The manuscript was purchased by the Earl of Crawford around 1860.Today it is in the possession of the John Rylands Library of Manchester England.The manuscript contains a complete NT text supplemented by the extra-NT epistles. This is a very unique version of Revelation

this edition is not rooted in a Greek Hellenistic text. This translation seeks to understand the text of the New Testament from the languages in which it was originally written.

 Any Bible student knows, lepers were not permitted to live in the city.

Lev. 13:46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be NKJV

Since ancient Hebrew and Aramaic were written without vowels, there was no distinction between the Aramaic words GAR'BA (leper) and GARABA (jar maker or jar merchant). Since in this story a woman pours oil from a jar it is apparent that Simon was a jar merchant or jar maker and not a leper.

Matthew 19:12 & Acts 8:26

....there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake....
--Mt. 19:12 NKJV

So he Phillip arose and went. And behold,a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship.
--Acts 8:27 NKJV

The man in Acts 8:27 appears to be a proselyte to Judaism since he seems to be making the Torah-required pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Deut. 16:16  Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty NKJV

The Torah, however, forbids a eunuch both from becoming a proselyte Jew, and from worshiping at the Temple

This also raises the question of why one would become a eunuch (be castrated) for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. After all eunuchs are excluded from the assembly of Israel. The word for "eunuch" in the Aramaic manuscripts of both of theses passages is M'HAIMNA which can mean "eunuch" but can also mean "believer" or "faithful one" as it clearly means here.

when Jesus was on trial before Pilate, Jesus said:

John 18:37-38 For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness of the TRUTH.  Everyone who is of TRUTH hears my voice. NKJV             

To this Pilate asked the all important question:

John 18:38 What is truth? NKJV

Let us look back to the original translation to find the answer to Pilate's question:

Psalm 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness & your Torah is truth(Aramaic Version)

Psalm 119:142 ....your Torah is TRUTH

The ancient Aramaic definition of "Truth" gives whole new meaning to Jesus's words

Jesus came to bear witness of the Torah, those who hear the Torah hear his voice.

This definition explains many phrases made by Jesus in the New Testament

John 5:46  For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

John 5:47  But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? NKJV

John 8:31-32 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed on him, if you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed.  And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. NKJV

Matthew 7:23 And then I will profess to them, that I know them not. Depart from me, all you workers of Torah-less-ness          (Aramaic Version)

Matthew 5:17 Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law of the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them.                         NKJV

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I have come to abolish the TORAH of the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.           (Aramaic Version)

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Matthew 19:24 = Mark 10:25 = Luke 18:25

     ...it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. NKJV

The word for "camel" in the Aramaic manuscripts is GAMLA which can mean "camel" but can also refer to a "large rope," which is certainly the meaning here.