He wiped His spit in a blind man’s eyes to heal them.

He used this method because ancient Israelites believed spit had some healing properties they’d spit (their *own* spit) into their wounds following this superstition.

I’d find it offensive for someone to spit in my eyes personally but if I was blind at I could suddenly see after it I would be buzzing

I wish Jesus would heal my astigmatism

Here’s another, Jesus didn’t have a surname and neither did most Israelites. “Christ” is a title derived from a Greek phrase meaning *”the anointed One”* - equivalent to *Messiah*

Now that's something I didn't know

I did not know they did not have surnames

Most cultures didn’t have surnames for a while, we only started adopting them en masse later on.

That's why their names are always like "Steve of xyz" because they used where they're from to identify themselves right

Exactly

That or patronymics, where they’d be distinguished by their fathers name. So “Robert John’s son”

Which became “Johnson”

In Wales we did the same, if your name was Dafydd and your father was called Gruffydd your full name would be ‘Dafydd ap Gruffydd’

Welsh is amazing

Its got quite the reputation

I speak it, one of 500,000 that can.

Wooow

I guess its probably rarer than being able to speak Sanskrit or the like

Does gen Gymraeg gormod o cytseiniaid, ein llafariaid yn gwahanol i’r rhain mewn Saesneg. W yn llafariad mewn Cymraeg er enghraifft. Mae llawer o llyffrenau dwbl yn fel Ll ac Dd yn llyfrenau ei hunain, hyd yn oed. Maer gynta dim yn sŵn mewn Saesneg a mae’r ail yn D meddal.

AHHHHH STOP IM HAVING A STROKE

What does that translate to

That’s something I wrote just today discussing the language.

It means

*“Welsh doesn’t have too many consonants, our vowels are just different to that of English. ‘W’ is a vowel in Welsh for example. Many double letters like ‘Ll’ and ‘Dd’ etc are all actually one letter each. The former forms a sound that doesn’t appear in English and the latter is a soft D.”*

Interesting

Beautiful spoken language, has a rhythmic flow to it

Yes its famous for poetry right

And something relating to sheep

Wales has as many sheep as people, and some Welshmen would raid English border towns to steal livestock, hence the derogatory phrase “sheep shagger” which I find more amusing than offensive.

Thats based

Its cool how much you know about Wales

Yes it sounds like a term of affection

Thanks, I’m proud of my country and have spent some time studying our history, culture and legends for the sake of my heritage.

Did you know the first prose literature in all of Britain is a compilation of Welsh myths and oral tradition written in Middle Welsh? It’s called the Mabinogi.

I did not know that

If you have a link to an English translation of that I would read it

Sure I’ll have a ganders

http://www.mabinogi.net/translations.htm

I’ve not read that translation myself so I’m not sure how good it is but that’s what I found with a google search. Otherwise you can buy books online in either English or Welsh, though I’d imagine the latter would be worthless to you 😂

Yes

Well maybe as an artifact

Not as a book

Ima save that link I like reading old stuff