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El apéndice de la Traducción Interlineal del Reino dice sobre Mateo 27:40 que “There is no evidence that the Greek word stau·rosʹ here meant a cross such as the pagans used as a religious symbol for many centuries before Christ” [“No hay prueba de que la palabra griega stau·rosʹ significara aquí una cruz como la que los paganos usaron como símbolo religioso durante muchos siglos antes de Cristo”], y continúa diciendo que los escritores del Nuevo Testamento usaron la palabra “to mean the same thing as in the classical Greek, namely, a simple stake, or pale, without a crossbeam of any kind at any angle. There is no proof to the contrary.” [“con el mismo significado que en el griego clásico, a saber, un simple madero, o estaca, sin travesaño de ninguna clase en ningún ángulo. No hay prueba de lo contrario.”] El léxico clásico de referencia, el de Liddell, Scott y Jones, da como segunda acepción de σταυρός “cross, as the instrument of crucifixion” [“cruz, como instrumento de crucifixión”], cita Mateo 27:40 entre los pasajes correspondientes a esa acepción, y recoge que Luciano describe la forma como la letra griega T.

Claim ID claim-bible-torture-stake-lsjConcerns 1985Declaración explícita

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Declaración explícita · 1985 Verificado

El apéndice de la Traducción Interlineal del Reino dice sobre Mateo 27:40 que “There is no evidence that the Greek word stau·rosʹ here meant a cross such as the pagans used as a religious symbol for many centuries before Christ” [“No hay prueba de que la palabra griega stau·rosʹ significara aquí una cruz como la que los paganos usaron como símbolo religioso durante muchos siglos antes de Cristo”], y continúa diciendo que los escritores del Nuevo Testamento usaron la palabra “to mean the same thing as in the classical Greek, namely, a simple stake, or pale, without a crossbeam of any kind at any angle. There is no proof to the contrary.” [“con el mismo significado que en el griego clásico, a saber, un simple madero, o estaca, sin travesaño de ninguna clase en ningún ángulo. No hay prueba de lo contrario.”] El léxico clásico de referencia, el de Liddell, Scott y Jones, da como segunda acepción de σταυρός “cross, as the instrument of crucifixion” [“cruz, como instrumento de crucifixión”], cita Mateo 27:40 entre los pasajes correspondientes a esa acepción, y recoge que Luciano describe la forma como la letra griega T. Source: The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, 1985Source: A Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell, Scott and Jones), 1940Source: New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), 2013

La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: El apéndice de la organización basa su argumento en el sentido clásico de la palabra y en W. E. Vine, Hermann Fulda (1878) y Paul Wilhelm Schmidt (1904); la nota de estudio actual sobre Mateo 20:19 repite que en griego clásico el verbo significaba “to fence with pales, to form a stockade, or palisade” [“cercar con estacas, formar una empalizada o valla”].

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The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, “Appendix 3C: “Torture Stake””

1985 · pp.1149-1151 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“There is no evidence that the Greek word stau·rosʹ here meant a cross such as the pagans used as a religious symbol for many centuries before Christ. … The inspired writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures wrote in the common (koi·neʹ) Greek and used the word stau·rosʹ to mean the same thing as in the classical Greek, namely, a simple stake, or pale, without a crossbeam of any kind at any angle. There is no proof to the contrary.”

The organisation's appendix on the cross. It cites W. E. Vine's Expository Dictionary, Lewis and Short's Latin dictionary, Hermann Fulda (1878), Paul Wilhelm Schmidt (1904) and an illustration of the crux simplex taken from Justus Lipsius, De cruce libri tres (Antwerp, 1629, p. 19).

Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, Appendix 3C: “Torture Stake”

Nota de confianza. Appendix opened in full on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026; page markers 1149, 1150 and 1151 read from the page-number spans. I have not opened Vine, Fulda, Schmidt or Lipsius to check those citations against the printed originals.

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Notes. The appendix concludes: 'Evidence is, therefore, completely lacking that Jesus Christ was crucified on two pieces of timber placed at right angles.'

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-nwtv-int-app3c

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A Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell, Scott and Jones), “σταυρός”

1940 · entry σταυρός · Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, revised by Sir Henry Stuart Jones · Clarendon Press, Oxford; digital text hosted by the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University

“σταυρός, ὁ, A. upright pale or stake … of piles driven in to serve as a foundation, Hdt.5.16, Th.7.25. II. cross, as the instrument of crucifixion, D.S.2.18, Ev.Matt. 27.40, Plu.2.554a … its form was represented by the Greek letter T, Luc. Jud.Voc. 12. b. pale for impaling a corpse, Plu. Art. 17.”

The standard classical Greek lexicon gives both senses. Its second sense is 'cross, as the instrument of crucifixion', and among the passages it cites for that sense is Matthew 27:40 — the very verse the Kingdom Interlinear appendix uses to argue the opposite. It also records Lucian describing the shape of the σταυρός as the letter T.

Nota de procedencia y verificación for A Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell, Scott and Jones), σταυρός

Nota de confianza. The Perseus entry page was opened on 19 September 2026 and the entry text extracted and read directly from the page HTML. I did not consult a printed copy of LSJ, so no page number of the printed lexicon is recorded.

Procedencia del escaneo. Perseus Digital Library's digitisation of the 1940 ninth edition; the page itself carries the imprint 'Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.'

Notes. The Kingdom Interlinear's own parousia appendix (3B) cites Liddell and Scott approvingly; the same lexicon flatly contradicts its stauros appendix.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-nwtv-lsj-stauros

Publicación primaria de los testigos de Jehová Verificado

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), “Study note on Matthew 20:19, 'executed on a stake'”

2013 · study note, Matthew 20:19 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“This is the first of over 40 occurrences of the Greek verb stau·roʹo in the Christian Greek Scriptures. This is the verb for the Greek noun stau·rosʹ, rendered “torture stake.” … In classical Greek, it meant “to fence with pales, to form a stockade, or palisade.””

The current study note, which rests the case on the classical rather than the koine sense of the verb.

Nota de procedencia y verificación for New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), Study note on Matthew 20:19, 'executed on a stake'

Nota de confianza. Study note read on the nwtsty Matthew chapter 20 page on wol.jw.org, 19 September 2026.

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Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-nwtv-nwtsty-note-matt-20-19

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