Where 1.6 Billion Muslims Live. A Chart and a Map.
65% of all Muslims live east of Karachi.
Fewer than one in five Muslims speaks Arabic
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Your list for West of Karachi is missing a lot of majority Muslim countries- who don’t speak Arabic.
The non-Arab-speaking countries seem to be included on his list above left (central Asia, Turkey etc).
Thanks so much, Bob, for this challenge! I never have seen it like that before!
Actually, just one small point. It doesn’t say “go make disciples among the nations.” The commission includes two direct verbs: “going” and “disciple” with the direct object: “all the people groups” that is of the Earth. I know that that may seem to be cutting hairs, but this is an extremely important point. Brad Vaughn in a recent IJFM article is trying to deny this as well as others in that age cohort, it seems.
Our Lord wants us to disciple every ethno-nation to the edges of the field just as Dr. Donald McGavran so clearly taught us.
Mark Kreitzer
While it is true that poreuthentes is a Greek participle it is not true that it should be translated like an English gerund (a form that is derived from a verb but functions like a noun: e.g, asking, thinking, etc.). In the Matthew passage poreuthentes “fits the typical structural pattern for the attendant circumstance participle” (NET Bible, p. 1744, note 2) with the participle picking up the mood of the main verb. Since matheusate is an aorist active imperative, poreuthentes should be translated “Go.” Jesus’ instructions are proactive; we are to move out into the world, not simple make disciples when we happen to be there. (The interested student should turn to Dan Wallace’s Greek Gammar Beyond the Basics for a forty-some page discussion of the participle in Greek.)
I decided to check this grammatical “rule” (rules being generalized statements of the way language works) so with the help of Accordance I found that in the New Testament there are twenty-seven occasions where poreuthentes is followed by a main verb in the imperative mood. The result? In every case the participle should be translated as an imperative.
There is a strong temptation to convince a congregation of the correctness of one’s interpretation by adding the always popular “the Greek says.” If in fact the Greek DOES say that, then okay. But all too often it is the interpretation that lacks internal verification; instead, it’s supported by the slogan.”
-Dr. Robert H. Mounce is president emeritus of Whitworth College and the author of numerous resources. Most recently, he has worked on a number of new interlinears with co-author Bill Mounce: (NASB/NIV); (KJV/NIV); (NLT/TNIV) and was involved in the translation of the NIV, NLT, NIrV, and especially the ESV