Knowing your strength: Elaine Miles reads from the gospel of John

‘Jesus believed in personal responsibility.’

John the Evangelist, from the Rabbula Gospels, c6th century CE

The authorised version of the New Testament of 1611 translates John 14: 16-18 as ‘And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter’. It then uses the word ‘comfortless’ in verse 18.

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