2他们一见到彼拉多,就开始控告耶稣,他们说∶“我们抓住这个人,他使我们的民众误入歧途,他反对向凯撒交税,还说他是基督,是王。” 3所以,彼拉多问耶稣∶“你是犹太人的王吗?” 耶稣回答道∶“正是,你说的对。” 4然后,彼拉多对祭司长和人群说∶“我查不出这...
10 When they arrived at Atad[a] (meaning “Threshing Place of Brambles”), beyond the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn funeral service, with a seven-day period of lamentation for Joseph’s father. 11 The local residents, the Canaanites, renamed the place Abel-mizraim (mea...
You need some life insurance unless you are single, childless, and have enough assets to pay for a funeral. I would skip any more exotic insurance packages and get a term life policy. Once you have kids, everything changes. The odds of dying are low, so the insurance isn’t expensive....
“with hard service in mortar and brick and all manner of hard service in the field;” that they were sometimes forced to make brick without straw. The whereabouts of these store-cities, and the precise meaning of the term applied to them, has been a matter of much conjecture, and the ...
The threat of wind gusts to 100 mph and low humidity has triggered National Weather Service offices from the Desert Southwest to the Rockies and Plains to issue a variety of weather alerts warning of the potential for damaging winds and fast-moving fires. ...
“she despised David in her heart,” 2 Samuel 6:16. Abishai wanted to behead Shimei for his insolence. But David’s refusal echoes his words at Abner’s funeral: “What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?”“Let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David...
Many years ago I was the guest speaker at a church where a family had just lost a child. The pastor explained to me that they would take up an offering for the family to help with funeral expenses and assured me they would still take up the customary offering to cover my expenses trave...
his mother and she a widow.' The only sign that his spirit left to give a hint of the final scene was a placid and heavenly expression on his face as if he had met death with a smile, as he passed into rest. The funeral services were held in Shwifat and the next day in Beirut...
Will not have me to his funeral." To decline the invitation to a marriage was a gross insult (Mt 22:1-46). It was unusual in Galilee to have a "ruler of the feast" as in Judea (Joh 2:1-25). There was no formal religious ceremony connected with the Hebrew marriage as with us-...
PASSAGE THREE One of our most firmly entrenched ideas of masculinity is that a real man doesnt cry. Although he might shed a discreet tear at a funeral, hes expected to quickly regain control. Sobbing openly is fbr girls. This isnt just a social expectation. One study found that women ...