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The New Testament is the story of how all the promises made by God in the Old Testament were kept-and what that means for us today. The nation of Israel had many hopes: hope for a deliverer, hope for restored fellowship with God, and hope for the world to be put right. The New Testament explains how those promises were kept and how, if we are Christians, they are kept in us as well. Mark Dever...

ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple desecrate the day and yet are innocent? I tell you that one greater than the temple is here” (12:1–6). Well, that last comparison would have gotten the attention of Jesus’ Jewish audience. It is unclear how exactly the Greek pronoun for “one” (in the phrase “one greater than the temple”) should be translated into English, whether as
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