The mighty jot and tittle

The mighty jot and tittle

(Mat 5:18 KJV) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

I’ve read this verse many times in the past and wondered just what was this jot and tittle. So I got my Vine’s Dictionary out and here is what I found out.

The jot is the English translation of the Greek word iota. Iota is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word jod. Jod is the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Now why did Jesus call out this one letter of the Hebrew alphabet? I think jod was used because it is the smallest Hebrew letter in the Hebrew alphabet and even the smallest letter can not be removed from the Word of God without doing great damage to the Word of God.

I’ll give you an example of what would happen to me if the English letter m was missing from the King James bible. (1 Cor 1:26 KJV) For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: I fall in that group of “not many wise men after the flesh” for I earner a bachelors degree in science with a major in electrical engineering and am a registered professional electrical engineer in the state of California and listed in who’s who of electrical engineers. Without the letter m, the above verse would read “not any wise men after the flesh” and I would not be called and would be lost for ever. I thank God for the small as well as the large things he has done for us.

The tittle is a small horn shaped superscription used to change the letter below it. An example is the number one “1” is changed to first “1st” with the st superscription.

There will come a day when heaven and earth will pass away but even then Christ’s words will not pass away as we are told in Matthew (Mat 24:35 KJV) Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. These two verses in Matthew are Jesus’ defense of the inerrancy of the scriptures but he goes on in his defense when he declares that the scriptures can not be broken in John (John 10:35 KJV) If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;.

All of these verses should stop the mouths of those that say since we don’t have the original writings, the bible must have errors in it.