Two Women. The Same Four Words.

Two women in the Gospels hear the same sentence. One had bled for twelve years. The other was weeping at Jesus' feet. One walks away healed, the other forgiven. And in the language Jesus spoke, those two sentences are not similar. They are identical: the same four words, pistis sou sesoken se. It all comes down to one Greek word your English Bible cannot hold, a word that means faith and faithfulness, belief and loyalty, the word the Reformation turned on. This is pistis. This is Traced: biblical words, traced back to their source. CHAPTERS 0:00 Two women, the same four words 1:23 One word doing the work of three 2:47 The word itself: pistis and its twin 4:24 One verse, three hands (and the Reformation) 7:18 Faith is an empty hand 10:05 The faith even demons have 13:00 Faith IN Christ, or the faithfulness OF Christ? 15:20 Which one are you holding? SOURCES & FURTHER READING Every claim in this video is sourced. Key texts: Luke 8:48 and Luke 7:50 (the identical Greek) · Habakkuk 2:4 · Romans 1:17 · Galatians 2:16, 20 · James 2:14-19 · Hebrews 11 and 12:2 · Jude 3. Greek: pistis (G4102), its twin pistos, and the root peitho. Hebrew taproot: emunah. Scripture quotations are from the ESV. The one thing we ask: don't take our word for it. Read the passages yourself. #BibleStudy #Greek #Pistis