We at D33 would like to wish our readers a Happy New Year! As the first post of 2025, we wanted to highlight the top five viewed blog posts in 2024. Here they are:

1. Why Is It Called “Passion” Week? There was a huge bump in viewership this past year during Easter that made this the top viewed blog post of 2024 (this was written in 2019). If you didn’t know, it’s not because Jesus was “passionate” about dying on the cross. But etymology may have something to do with it.

• Thoughts about the NA29 and UBSGNT6. Our colleague and friend, John J.H. Lee, guest wrote this post in 2019 regarding some concerns about updated editions of the two most used Greek New Testaments. These editions are still not out yet, so John’s concerns may still be applicable today.

• The Shocking News of Peter O’Brien and Plagiarism. This post, written over eight years ago, still remains in the top 5 viewed posts of each year. Stan drew parallels between modern commentary writing conventions and plagiarism, stating that the way commentaries are being written these days is a recapitulation of other previous commentaries, which is a sort of plagiarism. Throughout the years, Stan was misunderstood, in that some readers thought he was dismissing plagiarism, but in fact, he used the occasion to note that commentary writing today is a type of plagiarism.

• Using Greek. This is the only post written in 2024 that made it to the top 5. Dave points out an example of Greek incorrectly used and makes the point that if one has not studied Greek (or Hebrew), including pastors and teachers, one should not pretend to know Greek (or Hebrew, or any other ancient language for that matter)!

• A Permanent Text of the ESV Bible? They Must Be Joking. This was another older post (2019) that continues to gain high viewership on our blog. The ESV Committee has since retracted their decision, so we can read this post with that decision in mind and be charitable in our reading. However, we think that perhaps our comments had some influence on their decision to retract their decision, in which case we appreciate their consideration of our thoughts, even if they may have sounded harsh at the time.

Honorable mention: Library of New Testament Greek series by Bloomsbury/T&T Clark. This was also a post in 2024, announcing a new series with Bloomsbury/T&T Clark focusing on books and monographs in New Testament Greek. The series already has three volumes out, with several other volumes to follow in the coming years.

We thank our readers for engaging with our thoughts, and we hope to continue to post interesting articles on issues pertaining to biblical studies, biblical scholarship, Christian higher education, and church and culture.

— David I. Yoon