Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

In relation the beauty of the Norse elves, some further evidence is given by old English words such as ælfsciene (" elf-beautiful "), used of seductively beautiful Biblical women in the Old English poems Judith and Genesis A.

* English translations of Biblical Prefaces, Commentary on Daniel, Chronicle, and Letter 120 ( tertullian. org )

Azymes is an archaic English word for matzah, derived from the Koine Greek word " ἄζυμος " ( ázymos: " unleavened ") for unfermented bread in Biblical times.

Seven annual Biblical festivals, called by the name miqra (" called assembly ") in Hebrew and " High Sabbath " in English, serve as supplemental testimonies to Sabbath.

The first recorded English use was in 1622, with the meaning " sacerdotal government under divine inspiration " ( as in Biblical Israel before the rise of kings ); the meaning " priestly or religious body wielding political and civil power " is recorded from 1825.

** William Whittingham, English Biblical scholar and religious reformer ( b. 1524 )

Biblical scene in the Old English Hexateuch | Illustrated Old English Hexateuch ( 11th century ), portraying Pharaoh in court session, after passing judgment on his chief baker and chief cupbearer

Early on, this vocabulary of refined behaviour began to work its way into English: the word ' debonaire ' appears in the 1137 Peterborough Chronicle ; so too does ' castel ' ( castle ) which appears in the above Biblical quotation, another import of the Normans, who made their mark on the English language as much as on the territory of England itself.

An early 14th century English depiction of a Biblical battle giving an impression of how soldiers were equipped at Bannockburn.

Baʿal ( Biblical Hebrew,, usually spelled Baal in English ) is a Northwest Semitic title and honorific meaning " master " or " lord " that is used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant and Asia Minor, cognate to Akkadian Bēlu.

While this precise terminology —" by faith alone "— does not appear in English Bible translations other than in where it has been claimed that the author seems to reject the notion that a person is justified by God solely on account of faith, other Catholic authorities also used " alone " in their translation of Romans 3: 28 or exegesis of salvation by faith passages, and it is claimed to summarize the teaching of the New Testament, and especially the Pauline epistles such as, which systematically reject the proposition that justification before God is obtained due to the merit of one's obedience to the Law of Moses ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ), or Abraham's circumcision and works.

His later defence of the English Church, and episcopacy as Biblical, entitled Episcopacy by Divine Right ( 1640 ), was twice revised at Laud's dictation.

William Whittingham ( c. 1524-1579 ) was an English Biblical scholar and religious reformer.

Thomas Kelly Cheyne ( 1841 – 1915 ) was an English divine and Biblical critic.

The Italian version has the two Mormon women quote suggestive Biblical dialogue to seduce Hill that is not in the English version.

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A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature.

Ernest de Bunsen was a scholarly writer, who published various works both in German and in English, notably on Biblical chronology and other questions of comparative religion.

The principal of the school announced that -- despite the help of private tutors in Hollywood and Philadelphia -- Fabian is a 10-o'clock scholar in English and mathematics.

* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

* 1787 – Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar ( b. 1710 )

* 1712 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar ( b. 1654 )

Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

* 1599 – Méric Casaubon, English scholar ( d. 1671 )

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( The Ecclesiastical History of the English People ) gained him the title " The Father of English History ".

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

* 1715 – George Hickes, English minister and scholar ( b. 1642 )

* 1584 – John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar ( d. 1654 )

* 1747 – Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar ( b. 1695 )

The Countess of Oxford was the half-sister of Arthur Golding, the scholar who translated Ovid's Metamorphoses into English.

The scholar Harvey Wheeler attributed to Bacon, in his work " Francis Bacon's Verulamium-the Common Law Template of The Modern in English Science and Culture ", the creation of these distinguishing features of the modern common law system:

English scholar Russell Martineau, who had studied under Bopp, gave the following tribute: “ Bopp must, more or less, directly or indirectly, be the teacher of all who at the present day study, not this language or that language, but language itself — study it either as a universal function of man, subjected, like his other mental or physical functions, to law and order, or else as an historical development, worked out by a never ceasing course of education from one form into another .”

English scholar Chloe Chard ’ s published introduction to The Romance of the Forest refers to the “ promised effect of terror ”.

English scholar Peter Heather called the Huns " the first group of Turkic, as opposed to Iranian, nomads to have intruded into Europe ".

Often called " the first modern historian ", the English scholar Edward Gibbon wrote his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 – 1788 ).

Henry Ainsworth ( 1571 – 1622 ) was an English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar.

* 1647 – Thomas Farnaby, English schoolmaster and scholar ( b. 1575 )

* 1704 – John Taylor, English scholar ( d. 1766 )

* 1776 – Jeremiah Markland, English scholar ( b. 1693 )