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Primary Lesson #1 Supplement<\/p>\n

ATTENTION ACTIVITY: Before class, write the following on the chalkboard, leaving out the dashes so it appears as one long string of letters:
\nDID-YOU-KNOW-THAT-THE-NEW-TESTAMENT-WAS-WRITTEN-LIKE-THIS
\n-LOWERCASE-LETTERS-AND-SPACES-BETWEEN-THE-WORDS-AND-
\nPUNCTUATION-WERE-NOT-ADDED-UNTIL-LATER-IT-WAS-NOT-UNTIL
\n-CENTURIES-LATER-THAT-CHAPTER-DIVISIONS-AND-VERSE-DIVISIONS
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201dAND-CHAPTER-HEADINGS-AND-FOOTNOTES-WERE-ADDED
\nAsk your students if they can read what it says. Discuss your gratitude for modern helps in understanding the scriptures.<\/p>\n

ATTENTION ACTIVITY: Write the following on the board: KATA MA\u00d3\u00a8\u00d3\u00a8AOIN
\nAsk your students if they know what language this is or what it says. Explain that this is Greek–the language that the New Testament was written in–and that it is the title of Matthew\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gospel (it says kata = \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaccording to\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and Mattaion = \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMatthew\u00e2\u20ac\u2122). Share your gratitude to Matthew and the other New Testament writers for sharing their testimonies of Jesus Christ with us.<\/p>\n

VISUAL AID Print out the image from here<\/a>. This is the earliest known New Testament text\u00e2\u20ac\u201da tiny fragment from the Gospel of John. Express your gratitude for the countless numbers of people who, in various ways, preserved the scriptures throughout history for us.<\/p>\n

ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY #2: If you choose to do this activity from the lesson, you may want to have your students play the telephone game to illustrate how a message can change over time. <\/p>\n

STUDY AIDS: Use Matthew 26 as an example of the study aids available our scriptures: <\/p>\n

–Have your students look at v7 and ask them what is unusual about the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153at meat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Explain that they are in italics and that this means that these words were not part of the Greek text but were added by the translators to make the translation smoother.
\n–Now have your students look at footnote 4a. A footnote beginning with GR means that an alternative translation of the Greek word is given.
\n–Look at 8a. TG means \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctopical guide,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 where you can find a list of other scriptures on the same topic.
\n–Look at 7a. When another scripture reference is given, it is called a cross-reference and may contain ideas that help you better understand this verse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Teaching your class how to use the study aids may be more fun if you write several verse references\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding footnotes–on slips of paper and put them in a jar. Let your students pick them one at a time, look them up, and see what they can learn from the footnotes. A slightly more complicated version of this activity would be to create a Jeopardy game that uses the footnotes to find the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcquestions\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that go along with the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcanswers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that you give. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}