Query: How to Study and Understand What Jesus Says in the Bible

Response: (as of 2025-12-30)

To study and understand what Jesus says in the Bible, follow these steps:

• 1. Pray: Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in understanding the Bible.
• 2. Read the Bible: Use a translation you understand and read the text carefully.
• 3. Study the Context: Understand the time, place, and audience of the text.
• 4. Interpret the Text: Look for terms, structure, emphasis, and relationships between ideas.
• 5. Apply the Knowledge: Use what you learn to guide your life and relationships.

By following these steps, you can deepen your understanding of the Bible and apply its teachings to your life.

Query: How to Study and Understand What Jesus Says in the Bible

Response: (as of 2025-12-30)

1. Hermeneutical Tools: Use tools like the cross tool to connect passages to the central message of Jesus Christ. This involves asking how the passage relates to the cross of Jesus, his incarnation, life of obedience, resurrection, and future reign.

2. Scriptural Interpretation: Understand that all of Scripture points to the gospel, which is the saving work of Jesus through his death and resurrection. This requires a gospel-centered interpretation and application of the Bible.

3, Bible Verses: Refer to specific verses that shed light on Jesus' identity and teachings. These verses can guide believers in their faith and daily lives, providing wisdom and encouragement.

4. Community and Prayer: Embrace community support and prayer as ways to communicate with God and find peace and guidance. These practices help believers grow and stay strong in their beliefs.

5.By applying these methods, one can gain a deeper understanding of Jesus' words and their significance in the Christian faith.

Query: How to Study and Understand What Jesus Says in the Bible

Response: (as of 2025-12-30)

To study and understand Jesus' words in the Bible, start with prayer, read the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) with a focus on context (the verses before/after), use good study tools (concordance, dictionary), and apply what you learn by living like Jesus, asking questions, and noting repeated themes to grasp the bigger picture of His life and teachings.

Before You Start

• Pray: Ask God for understanding and wisdom through the Holy Spirit.
• Find Your Time & Place: Set aside a consistent, comfortable spot for focused study.
• Gather Tools: Have your Bible, paper, pen, and maybe a Bible dictionary or concordance ready.

How to Read and Study

• Start with the Gospels: Begin with Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to learn directly about Jesus.
• Context is Key: Read the surrounding chapters to understand the situation, culture, and flow of the narrative.
• Read Holistically: Don't just read verses in isolation; read whole books or passages to grasp the big picture.
• Ask Questions: Who, what, where, when, why? What do key words mean? What's the main point?.
• Look Up Key Words: Use original language tools for deeper meaning if something stands out.
• Follow a Plan: Use a Bible app or reading plan for structure and to compare Old & New Testament themes.

Deepening Your Understanding

• Observe & Apply: Look for repeated words or concepts (like love, forgiveness, Kingdom) and ask how to live them out.
• Be Patient: Trust that God will reveal more over time as you continue to read and apply.
• Don't Get Bogged Down: Jot down difficult passages to return to later; use clearer parts of scripture to understand harder ones.
• Learn from Others: Read commentaries or books like How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth for deeper insights.
• By consistently applying these steps, you move from simply reading words to understanding and living out Jesus' transformative message.

As a computer scientists who is continually identifying and solving new problem, the following might be a place to start.

1. Assume we can understand the general literal meaning of the GNT (Greek New Testament) (in whatever translation) from the available texts (from the original languages).

Important question: What does Jesus say about how to understand what he means when he speaks? We are not interested in what others say about him. This requires locating the following (if it exists).

• Jesus says something, such as a parable.
• Jesus explains in some way what he means.

[statistics, opinions]

In the seven (or eight) Kingdom Parables in Matthew 13, Jesus explains three of them.

• KP1: Sower
• KP2: Wheat and weeds
• KP7: Harvest at the end of the age.

These are the only places I have found where Jesus says something and then explains what he means.

The only other places would be that when Jesus says what is translated as "verily I say unto you" he appears to mean that what he said right before and what he is about to say are very similar in meaning.

Let us address the Kingdom Parables first.

Besides nouns as code words, Jesus appears to select the verbs very carefully to have multiple meanings so that those verbs work for the encoded and decoded parables.

Both Mark and Luke tend to embellish the literal meaning of the encoded parable while losing the decoded meaning.

A code word can be a play on words. Such decoded nouns, when changed to a more literal meaning in Mark and Luke, lose the play on word meanings.

This appears to be the only way in which Jesus explains what he has said.

The disciples appear to have figured out only one code word. That is, "leaven" represents "false teaching".

Some reasonable assumptions are now made.

• As a good teacher, Jesus expects is to figure out the rest of the code words.
• All noun code words, some play on words, are used consistently.

The result is what is known in logic programming in computer science as a constraint logic system of a language over code words.

So when Jesus says that the "field" is the "world", the use of this noun code word meaning is consistent. One must still determine exactly what is meant by "field" and "world".

From a model perspective, and after extensive analysts of the GNT texts in the original Greek (and variants), the following assumptions are reasonable (despite the opinion of so-called experts).

• Jesus, as did a large majority in the area, spoke Aramaic (550 years since the Babylonian Captivity) and Greek (350 years since Alexander the Great) and some Latin (25 years since Rome established a presence in Judea).
• For any child growing up exposed to Aramaic and Greek, that child would learn both languages. Leaning to read and write Greek was not hard for someone wanting to do so. Hear the sounds. Write them down. See the letters, pronounce them. Very few extra rules. Unlike Aramaic or the dead (not spoken by children) Hebrew language.
• Matthew (whoever wrote Matthew) had the skills to write down verbatim what Jesus said. Matthew appears unlikely to have understood what Jesus meant, but he wrote it down. When Jesus used play on words (not easily understood by the religious establishment), Matthew would have needed to decide how to write down words that had been pronounced between the actual word in context and a play on words pronunciation (in context).
• What Jesus says as recorded in Matthew has a very intricate and interconnect structure with authentication codes, continuity codes, and semantic meaning codes (where play on word meanings support the primary meaning of what was said). Mark and Luke lose the intricate and interconnected structure as well as the authentication and continuity codes, etc.

As the code word meanings are discovered to fit it is interesting to see how other NT (New Testament) authors use those nouns as codes.

• Books actually written by Paul appear to adhere to these codes.
• Books attributed to Paul that do not adhere to these codes (1 Timothy, 1 Thessalonians, Colossians, 2 Corinthians) may not have been written by Paul.
• The same goes for books such as 1 Peter and James.

Another help in this determination is the change in meaning of words over 30 to 60 years. Those books not written by Paul (or James) tend to use the meaning of words that became established later. Those writing the letters appear to not have realized that the meanings had changed.