Quote by Ben Witherington III

“Is the Lord’s Supper only for Christians? Whenever I ask this question I immediately remember the character of those that partook of the Last…

— Ben Witherington III

“The ritual of the blood on the lintel of the door, which protected the Israelites from the angel of death, is an apotropaic (avoidance)…

— Ben Witherington III

“Sometimes silences are pregnant and sometimes not. It is hard to know what to make of the silence of much of the New Testament…

— Ben Witherington III

“Who should serve the Lord’s Supper? Well in the early church, considering Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, the host of the home presumably…

— Ben Witherington III

“When one gets to Clement or Hippolytus, we are clearly a long way from what we find in Paul and the Gospels, where the…

— Ben Witherington III

“It required an understanding of theology, and ethics, and ancient religions and philosophies. You had to have a working knowledge in a plethora of…

— Ben Witherington III

“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace the pagan…

— Ben Witherington III

“We have seen some gatekeeping or fencing-the-table language already beginning to rear its head in this context. One needed to be baptized to take…

— Ben Witherington III

“The reference in 1 Corinthians 11:27 is to Christ’s actual body, which was crucified, as the reference to blood makes evident. Anaziõs has been…

— Ben Witherington III

“Verse 12 [of Ex. 12) tells us that the judgment of Yahweh is not only on the Egyptians but also on their deities. This…

— Ben Witherington III

“When exactly did this all change, and what were the social and theological factors that led to the change? The answer seems to be…

— Ben Witherington III

“One of the things that happened when the church moved from meetings in homes to having purpose-built buildings beginning before, but accelerated during, the…

— Ben Witherington III