# Life of Brian Moments of Biblical Interpretation **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609 "2018-09-20T01:14:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609/21 "2018-09-21T18:40:40Z")
In the Gospel According to Monty Python, the former leper is complaining to Brian that being cured makes his begging gig harder because no one wants to give money to a former leper. Brian mutters that there’s no pleasing some people. The leper responds “That’s what Jesus said, sir!” I can well believe Jesus actually said this. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609/22 "2018-09-21T19:49:19Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Now Hebrew _does_ have another meaning for the root GML- leading to one of my favorite dumb middle-school jokes, wherein [Psalms 13:6](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+13%3A6&version=MEV) is translated as “I will sing to God, for there is a camel on me.” Paraphrasing the greatest hit of Lesley Gore, c. 1964: “You would sing too, if it happened to you!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609/23 "2018-09-21T19:51:00Z")
> [@Ignotus](#): > > That’s the rather enticing explanation for that weird simile I was told as a kid (and have doubtlessly passed on to others!); but, sadly,[not all scholars seem to agree](https://www.studylight.org/language-studies/aramaic-thoughts.html?article=224). At least, it seems like Aramaic doesn’t have to be invoked: Thanks! I had no idea of this. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609/24 "2018-09-21T22:24:33Z")
“Harold be thy name”. ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609/25 "2018-09-21T22:39:24Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > Thanks! I had no idea of this. _Au contraire_, my friend: _I_ should thank _you_, who prompted my Google search for a cite! Now, just don’t mindlessly take it for the truth for the next forty years! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609/26 "2018-09-21T22:47:08Z")
God owns a Plymouth, among other cars. He drove Adam and Eve out of the garden in his Fury. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609/27 "2018-09-21T22:50:06Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > God owns a Plymouth, among other cars. He drove Adam and Eve out of the garden in his Fury. He took Elijah away in a Tempest. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609/28 "2018-09-22T00:01:13Z")
Not from the Bible, but we can’t forget, round John Virgin from Silent Night. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609/29 "2018-09-23T15:33:47Z")
I live in the only state mentioned in the Bible. _Genesis 8:13:_ By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the **ark and saw** that the surface of the ground was dry. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609/30 "2018-09-23T21:19:29Z")
> [@Patx2](#): > > Not from the Bible, but we can’t forget, round John Virgin from Silent Night. Our congregation always sings that one right after “Bringing in the Sheeps”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-moments-of-biblical-interpretation/821609.md?page=1)