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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Abba (The Deity)

Aramaic for father, and the word a child would actually use. Jesus prays it in Gethsemane. Paul says believers end up saying it too, and he takes that as the sign they have been adopted.

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Aramaic for father, and the word a child would actually use. Jesus prays it in Gethsemane. Paul says believers end up saying it too, and he takes that as the sign they have been adopted.

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Abba is the Aramaic word for father, an intimate family term Jesus used in his prayer at Gethsemane, and Paul says believers themselves cry out Abba, Father, as evidence of their adoption as God's own children.

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Where it appears
  • Mark 14:36
  • Romans 8:15
  • Galatians 4:6

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