NOTE REGARDING THE FOUR
CRUCIFIED WITH JESUS CHRIST:
An
example of a big mistake in the King James Version (1611, KJV, also called the
Authorized Version, AV) is that the word "one” in Jn.
19:18 was not set there in italics by its translators (as that is the
way in which they did indicate the words added by them). If they wanted to
leave it there the word "one”, it should be left in ITALICS as "one”, and for
more accuracy, should even be removed, being translated as: "Where they
crucified him, and two other with him on either side
and Jesus in the midst". This is an example of the most exciting studies
in Bible accuracy, because no one Greek text, not even the oldest ones,
includes the word "ONE”. Darby’s
Translation (1889 Darby Bible) puts it in italics,
as it should have been in the KJV, because it was added only by the
translators, but was NOT present in any of the Greek manuscripts. Some examples
of other good translators of such section are: 1976 Jay P. Green Sr. Green's
Literal Translation (LITV), 1898 Robert Young's Literal Translation (YLT), 2001
Dr. Walter L. Porter's A Conservative Version (ACV), 1860 Benjamin Wilson's The
Emphatic Diaglott (Diaglott),
1996 The Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha
by Dr. Goble (OrthJBC, only his version in English),
1959 The Emphasized Bible by Joseph Bryant Rotherham
(Rotherham), and even the Jerome's Latin Vulgate
(~405 AD) DOES NOT include the word "ONE”. [To compare by yourself these
versions go to: http://www.bibletechnologieswg.org/cgi-bin/diatheke.pl].
This eight examples of good translations for this verse show that there where
FOUR crucified with Jesus Christ, two at each side.
You
can study very carefully the Greek words used by Mt. and Mk., and compare them
with Lk. (duo Lestai(robbers, Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:27) versus duo kakourgoi (malefactors,
Luke 23:32)) and also the different timing of the arrival of each pair (the
Malefactors arrived at the same time with Jesus Christ, and were crucified
closer to him, while the Robbers arrived later on), and their different
attitude regarding Jesus Christ (the two Robbers mocked him, but only one
Malefactor did it, whereas the other believed in Jesus Christ's Innocence,
Resurrection, and in his Future Coming to his Earthly Kingdom). The Revelation
originally given by God to each writer is always complementary
but never contradictory. There is a reason for the particular usage of every
word in the Bible, and the careful student will discover those God's given
treasures that have nothing to do with the ancient's dogmatism or traditions.
Tasters of the Word (YouTube), videos recientes: "Astronomía y Nacimiento de Jesucristo: Once de Septiembre Año Tres A.C.", "Estudio sobre Sanidades" (en 20 episodios), "Jesus Christ, Son or God?":http://www.youtube.com/1fertra