All the things we think we know about the life of Jesus don’t begin to be written down until about 100 years after the presumed date of Jesus’ death. The details appear in the four gospels, Matthew, Luke, Mark, and John, but they were not written by them. The writers are apostles...
For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. John 17:23 I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as Yo...
Some authorities take these passages to mean that Jesus personally administered the rite of baptism during the early days of his ministry. The Synoptics – Matthew, Mark and Luke – are silent on the subject. Matthew 3:13-17 tells us: “Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, ...
“Jesus, it is all I know, Jesus it is what everyone else is doing, Jesus, I’m not as bad as the next guy, why do I need to change?” I can picture Him then writing in the sand some more, “Because your sin stinks, I want to give you a pure heart, a clean heart, a ch...
but even to some who did not follow him, and his disciples, ( Mark 9:38 ) and some did this in the name of Jesus, who do not appear to have any true faith in him, and knowledge of him; as the vagabond Jews, exorcists, and the seven sons of Sceva, ( Acts 19:13 Acts 19:...
And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest: And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth. But he denied... And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew. And ...
Mark 14:32-42 New International Version Gethsemane 32They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples,“Sit here while I pray.”33He took Peter, James and Johnalong with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.34“My soul is overwhelmed with sor...
Jesus Preached the Gospel of God and the Gospel of the Kingdom Because Jesus is God, the gospel as referred to by Jesus and as proclaimed by Him is the gospel of God.Mark 1:14-15states, “Now after John had been delivered up into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel...
What separated them from the rest of the Jews of their day, was their relationship to Jesus. They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?” Then Peter, filled with t...
Now for the most challenging aspect of “just as Jesus did.” Jesus did all of this as one man, powerfully anointed by the Holy Spirit and in the love and direction of His Heavenly Father. We are also called to be anointed by the Spirit of God and promised that both Jesus and His ...