After all, as the early Clark Pinnock rightly says, "Unreserved commitment to Jesus requires us to look at the Bible through his eyes."6 We shall call to the witness stand several statements made by our Lord, but in particular I want to give attention to Matthew 5:17-18. A careful ...
The phrase "love your enemies" is a well-known teaching of Jesus found in the New Testament of the Bible. It is specifically found in the Gospel of Matthew, in the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 5:44 (NIV), where Jesus says: "But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for thos...
No, Jesus did not write the New Testament. There are no surviving records of anything written directly by Jesus. We do not even know if he knew how to...Become a member and unlock all Study Answers Start today. Try it now Create an account Ask a question Our experts can answer ...
And, of course, most Christians believe that the entire Jesus story, as told in the Bible, is completely true. Did Jesus exist or is it all a myth? Pixabay (modified by Catherine Giordano) Biblical scholarship is a very complex field of study. One area of research delves into the ...
Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.
25 Of course, Jesus also did many other things, and I suppose that if every one of them were written down, the world couldn’t contain the books that would be written. Read full chapter John 21:25 in all English translationsInternational Standard Version (ISV) Copyright © 1995-2014 ...
Moreover, at this stage in history, Jesus’ personal name was largely replaced by his title, Christ. Why does Tacitus call Pilate “procurator” instead of “prefect”? Most scholars believe that the NT title (“prefect”) was correct, and Tacitus had this title wrong. Van Voorst writes,...
In the specific analysis of the Bible, there arethree leading languagesthat have to be considered: Greek(Koine Greek) Hebrew Aramaic Each had its own particular use and, in order to identify which of them was the language that a central historical and religious figure like Jesus would have sp...
And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me.’New American BibleAnd the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least...
The word forbookin the Greek isbiblos. However, in theological thought today,biblosusually refers to theBible, not to theSeptuagint(LXX), the version from which Jesus likely quoted. There is no question that theSeptuagintwas the most important early Greek translation of the Old Testament, there...