34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. 35 He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. 36 For these things took place that the Scripture...
It does so, in the same sense as we might say, for instance, that the sprinkling of the paschal blood saves us: that is to say, it foreshadowed something which does as a fact save us. This St. Peter expresses by the adjective which may be rendered "in antitype." The thing it ...
because Jesus’ blood makes us acceptable in the eyes of God. The Testator’s death has bought us an eternity that could not have been offered, had not Jesus been hung on that cross by the very people He had come to save. Where is all of this spelled out for us? In the Epistles ...
John shows God’s grace in becoming one of us, flesh and blood (1:14), and dying and rising again so that by believing we might have life in his name. (20:31) Acts shows God’s grace flooding out to all the world–starting in Jerusalem, ending in Rome; starting with...
We can learn that it is the blood of Jesus that washes away our sins.Acts 4:12reminds us that, “… there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” We also learn that salvation is on an indiv...
constrain you, to tarry a bit longer with each of us, individually, in the quiet of our day, so that we too, as we take you in, as willing recipients of communion, your body and your blood, might in the near future be as they were…“their eyes were opened, and they knew him”...
John shows God’s grace in becoming one of us, flesh and blood (1:14), and dying and rising again so that by believing we might have life in his name. (20:31) Acts shows God’s grace flooding out to all the world–starting in Jerusalem, ending in Rome; starting with...