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• {"n":"John 2:11","s":"The beginning of miracles. John's word is sign, and he never uses the usual word for miracle.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-2-11","r":"John 2:11","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"The King James reads miracles. Modern versions read signs."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**A sign of trouble.** A sign points past itself. A **marvel** stops at itself. Two different jobs and English has both words."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Semeion means a sign, something pointing beyond itself. The other Gospels use dunamis, act of power, and teras, wonder. John uses semeion throughout and structures the first half of his Gospel around seven of them."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English miracle emphasises the breach of ordinary cause. Sign emphasises significance. The Greek word chosen is the second one and the King James printed the first."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When one Gospel consistently uses a different word from the other three for the same events, the difference is the writer's argument."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Signs is what nearly every modern version prints. The King James miracles is the outlier and is the reason the popular phrase is seven miracles rather than seven signs."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03c3\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bf\u03bd semeion \u00b7 G4592"}],"src":["semeion at John 2:11; 4:54; 20:30-31","dunamis in the Synoptics: Matthew 11:20; Mark 6:2","John 20:30-31 states the purpose of the signs"]}