The last blog post put up an initial list of words to think through.
Well, how often do these words come up in the Gospel Accounts? Below are the answers.
Note that my word counts are not from one specific translation; they are an average taken from 6 different translations (ESV, NASB, KJV, CSB, NIV, & NLT). I did correct for different choices in the English translation (so if one uses the word commandment and another uses law, but it's the same Greek root word, then I searched for both to get an accurate count).
How to read Table 1: the ‘total’ column displays the number of times (on average) the word(s) show up in all 4 Gospel Accounts (sorted by frequency). I have also included columns for each of the individual books to the left of the ‘total’.
How to play it as a Bible Study game:
Print out the words listed in Part I of the blog post
Divide your group into 2 teams
Lay the words out face up and have each group take turns picking one word [each team guesses a word AND one of the four gospel books to go along with that word (ex: Lord, John)]
The team gets points equal to the total number of times that word is used in all four books AND additional points for the number of times that word is used in the gospel book selected. (Ex: so if Lord was used 100 time total and 18 times in John, the team would be awarded 118 points)]
After all words are selected, the team with the most point wins
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