Forrest Snavely
Precisely fifty days after the resurrection of Jesus, something extraordinary happened: When the day of Pentecost arrived, [the followers of Jesus] were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they...
Nevertheless, several of the Fathers observed that before the Resurrection of her Son, she had sinned. St. John Chrysostom mentions the Wedding at Cana where she presumed to instruct Him (John 2:3-4). Here was proof of her mortality. Receiving the Holy Spirit once more at Pentecost, she...
(for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.The first day of ...
That is, what Christians did was to say, “Rather than celebrate in immorality the birth of Mithra, a false god who was never really born and who cannot save you, let us celebrate in joyful righteousness the birth of Jesus, the true God incarnate who is the Savior of the world.” ( ...
The effects of his life, the response to his teachings, the experience of his death, and the belief in his resurrection were the origins of the Christian community. When the Apostle Peter is represented in the New Testament as confessing that Jesus is “the Christ, the Son of the living ...