The easiest way to read the Greek New Testament! (now even easier!)

You mentioned not studying vocabulary every fifth week. Why is this?

Just purchased your vocabulary system and reading 1 John.

Does the biblical Greek course mastery Biblical Greek offer help a person with no biblical Greek background learn, read, translate, and know biblical Greek fluently from start to finish.

Lots to think about.

Sorry I’m a little late to this video. When creating the spreadsheet o vocabulary to import into flash card deluxe, where do find the complete list vocabulary for each book.

Hi,Could you share the table shown in the video by "OrderComparison.pdf" ? Thank you!

I normally read a Reader's Greek New Testament and look up the words I don't know at the bottom of the page. I think I will now read through all the words at the bottom of the page that occur rarely and try to memorise them and then read the chapter afterwards.

I like your approach. It is better than reading a random list of Bible verses.

As a modern Greek speaker, I would suggest learning the modern Greek language first which comes directly from Koine Greek. The similarities in terms of vocabulary, cases and syntax are remarkable. Plus, I would suggest doing away with the artificial Erasmian pronunciation and use the modern Greek one. It sounds more Dutch and Germanic than it does Greek. If any pronunciation is close to the Koine Greek, it is the modern Greek language.

Paul said "God chose the foolish things of the world to put the wise men to shame" ( 1 Cor 1:27 ). Its a pity that it was these very 'wise me', greek scholars of greek philosophy who currupted the early Christian church resulting in doctrines and creeds that bore no resemblence to the true Gospel. ( Example 'Logos' 'Phsyke' 'hades' all three with a different meanings in greek and the New testement!)

To read Greek Is to understand it, in to your own languages.

One of the best ways to learn I find is through daily dose of Greek app it breaks down the Greek verse by verse

What exactly is Hepaxtagometer?
I do not find a translation.

Very helpful. One of the problems I have is that Flashcards helps you memorise the lexical form. However, most of the words that you encounter when reading the text are not in their lexical form and often bare little resemblance to the lexical form making them barely recognizable. It seems desirable to learn the forms of the word at the same time as the lexical for to aid word recognition.

In my opinion this may be the best video on the channel.

Would love to see a video like this breaking down the best way to tackle the books of the Hebrew Old Testament

I just wanna be able to read the Gospel in its original language(Greek), Cuz we need to listen to Jesus and if you obey Him you're saved

Thank you brother! You give me a lot of hope. I just dropped Greek I and it was incredibly discouraging.

I've had a wild june-december. I was long-distance with my wife due to VISA reasons and had to move back to the UK, work a supermarket job - to satisfy a UK VISA - whilst runnning my two businesses. I've worked 7 day weeks - across all 3 jobs - for 6 months. I wake up for work at 3:45am and only get home the same time in the afternoon for 45 hr's a week at the supermarket. Whilist there I manually shift 4,000kg of stock a day and average a half-marathon in walking a day.

Yet amongst this, two habits have kept me grounded - meditative prayer with the scriptures and reviewing my MNTG flashcards. Getting to the end of this journey knowing that I've still been able to keep up on Greek memorization makes me feel such a sense of joy. I finish the supermarket job on Christmas Eve and all I can think about is diving straight back in to where I left off with my Tyndale GNT 6 months ago.

This wouldn't be possible without the hard hours that Darryl put in to create this system which works, even during the busiests periods of life.


Thanks Darryl and Happy Christmas!

Hey, this is a great way to learn vocabulary. Beucause of my languange (Spanish) and how the economy is in my country (Argentina) I had to be creative. I use Quizlet for bulding flashcards. I put the words by frequency using a PDF I found in Academia where it list all the words of the NT with the frequency, the PDF is in Spanish thankfully making the creation of the flashcard way easy. Then I just order the intervals as I see it more fit and I work throuth it. Is a leanthy process but is the most effective form I found.

Great reminder of how great this system is. I started on January 5, 2022 using the system that Darryl outlines in this video. Almost 1 year in, and by year's end I will have read 13 books of the Greek New Testament without any vocabulary aids, and I already know a full 45% of the total NT vocabulary.

I'm super thankful for the system and structure you've developed. I'm near finishing the book of Ephesians in the order you recommend. Instead of using a flashcards app, I've just been using the Tyndale Greek New Testament Reader's Edition. I review the vocabulary words at the bottom of the page before reading, marking the harder to learn words with one or two dots (depending on difficulty), so I only review words which I still need to learn. I also review previously learned biblical books and read through an EGGNT to keep up with syntactical learning. Your videos are an encouragement to keep pressing on in this endeavor that I may know Christ and be conformed to His image. Soldier on, brother!

I learned Greek by reading an interlinear, with no lexicon or grammar book. I've also read parts of Euclid's Elements and just read some of Aristotle's History of Animals, though some names of animals I had to look up.
If you know π.χ. εκατον and αρχειν, you might could figure out what an εκατονταρχ[ο|η]ς is (both spellings occur in Acts); similarly εμοσχοποιησαν, though a hapax, is obvious from its parts. Do you adjust new word counts for already knowing parts of words?
What do you suggest for learning the Aramaic NT, which is much bigger than half of Daniel? On top of which the language changed during the intervening centuries.

this concept feels very appealing to do during my beginning Greek studies if I run across a paradigm I've yet to learn I should move on maybe but chapter by chapter seems appealing to do to just improve and feel comfortable during my begginer studies

Also, how can I use Logos or Accordance to build chapter, or, book-by-book vocabulary? Also, can you show how you actually use Flash Card Deluxe to do this?

Do you have any recordings of yourself reading the LXX or Greek NT?

Great system! Flashcards work.

This seems all a recipe for simply decoding Greek not learning Greek. Far more advisable to actually learn Greek via Greek then read the New Testament.

Working on James, my 12th book in the GNT thank you for selling the student edition, are you planning to do that with Hebrew as well?

Thank you for the video and its encouragement. Our method for learning Greek New Testament vocabulary long ago was to learn the words in our Greek Grammars and then learn more words by their usage as you mentioned. However, I can see the wisdom in your approach. I am excited to try it in 2023! Well done! Thanks!

Thank you for this! Question: How many hrs/week, or min/day are your timelines based on?

Thanks for the excellent comparison of approaches. I’m biased, but yours wins! 🥳

This is great stuff! I'd be interested in seeing a similar approach to the Hebrew Bible. Thank you for the insight!

Gracias, senor, for the video

Teacher, I'm from Brazil. Please, turn on the subtitles in English, só that I can study you videos. Thank you.