Thoughts

Why English Bibles say Jesus hung on a tree? Someone at church brought up this question and I looked it up. It has to do with the English word "tree". The Etymology of tree means wood, or wooden structure, in Old/Middle English. The archaic meaning also refers to gallows. And in Greek, the words used for Jesus' hanging tree is ξύλον xulon. The Greek word used for the living tree is δένδρον dendron. ξύλον means wood, the Chinese translation is correct. Modern English confuses people here. Greek word for cross is also different: σταυρός stauros.