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Hi Dean:

    I have written you several times and have always been satisfied with your'e answers. I would like to ask you if Jesus was a Levite? People are telling me he was not - so than why did God make the Levites the priests, why not make the tribe of Judah from which Jesus emerged the priestly tribe? Thanks for your'e help

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I am sorry for the long delay.  There was an out of state emergency and I was unable to receive your question.

Jesus was of the house of Judah.  The best known ancestors were David and Bathsheba.

Matt 1:1-2
1:1 A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham:

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,
Isaac the father of Jacob,
Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, ...........
(from New International Version)  

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Dean Gade

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I can answer questions concerning the translating of specific words and translations of the New Testament. I can give the etemology of Greek words, primarily in the Koine Greek, but also in Classical Greek. I can also give explanations of much of the Bible having read it many times and written many Bible studies.

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I studied Greek in earning my BA at a university and my DTh. and MDiv. at an accredited seminary. I was a diviity student at both the university and seminary, spending most of those eight years studying the Bible.

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