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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Counting Years
Message-ID: <841@sigma.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 10:28:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: sigma.841
Posted: Wed Sep  3 10:28:39 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Sep-86 08:49:52 EDT
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Reply-To: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
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Keywords: BC AD CE BCE

In article <243@geops.geops.UUCP> charles@geops.UUCP (Bad Charles) writes:
>[...]
>Better yet, since Jesus Christ never wrote anything, let's have
>BM (Before Matthew) and AM (After Matthew).

Odd. I distinctly remembered the Bible stating that Jesus wrote.. so I
went and looked it up. Just to be sure it was correctly translated (no,
I can't read the original.. I don't know the ancient Greek and Hebrew,
why, I can't even read Gaelic (yet :-)). I looked it up in a Parallel 
Edition (four translations.. now there's a tome with the weight of
authority, not to mention the mass! :-).

In John 8:6b it says "But Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote
on the ground..", and later in John 8:8 "And again He stooped down, and
wrote on the ground". Not once, but twice! ..and the King James, New American
Standard, New English Bible, and the Jerusalem Bible all agree on this.