We don't talk about covenants much in our day-to-day lives, but they are integral for understanding the biblical storyline and what part of that story you and I find ourselves.
There seems to be no end to the books that have been and will be written about Jesus. Which is, of course, what John tells us at the end of his gospel: “…I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written” (Jn. 21:25b).
When the New Testament writers quoted the Old Testament, their quotations didn’t always come from the original Hebrew/Aramaic. In fact, somewhere between 90-95% of the time, their quotations came from one of the Greek translations of the Hebrew/Aramaic Old Testament.
