Jesus covered many topics in his public teaching: forgiveness, prayer, marriage, helping the poor, revenge, etc. Yet, despite the oppressive nature of the Roman government, it seemed to Jesus as a nonissue. Politics apparently was of little interest to Jesus. However, there was a powerful gr...
What Language Did Jesus Speak? While historians and scholars debate many aspects of Jesus' life, most agree on what language he mainly spoke. Read more Why Jesus Was Betrayed by Judas Iscariot Once one of Jesus’s most trusted disciples, Judas became the poster child for treachery and cowardic...
Jesus came around and tried to wash all of our feet, but I told him he couldn’t wash mine. I was too embarrassed. We had been walking around in the mud and the animal droppings that day. My feet were filthy, and they stank. There was no way I was going to let Jesus wash my ...
of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee; 3Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew, the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 4Simon the Patriot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus. ...
37A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 38As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, ...
” And Joab sent Uriah to David.7When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered.8And David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah departed from the king’s house, and a gift...
He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. 3The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” 4Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’” 5The devil led him up to a high ...
On the contrary, according to the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion, Judas Iscariot had to indicate to the soldiers whom Jesus was because they could not tell him apart from his disciples. Further clouding the question of what Jesus...
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. New King James Version Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was...
…43“I suppose the one who was forgiven more,” Simon replied. “You have judged correctly,” Jesus said. 44And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her...