Monthly Archives: September 2015

13 “And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. 14 But his citizens hated him (meaning Christ!), and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.” Luke 19:13-14 KJV (my emphasis).

The definition of the word “Occupy” or “pragmateuomai” in verse 13, means “to busy oneself with, i.e. to trade,” and from the word “pragma”  

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Upon reading John 4:1-14, NKJV, I focused on vv. 10, 13, and 14.  v. 10 states, Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” v. 13-14 states, Jesus answered and said to her “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.  

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“Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men” Proverbs 22:29 KJV.

I heard this scripture one day while watching Sam Adeyemi on The Word Network station on my cable service.  I questioned at that time if the Holy Bible actually contained the word “business.”  So I looked up this scripture verse and found the word “business” in my King James Version.  The word “business”

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