New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples...
Then I remembered an incident from Mark 4 in which Jesus had just finished a full day of preaching and teaching by the shores of Galilee. He instructed the disciples to go to the other side of the sea. Initially, they took Jesus at His word, got into a boat with Him, and headed ...
The article questions the extent to which Galilee at the time of Jesus was a Jewish settlement. A wide range of Greek and Roman relics in the area indicated that Jesus may have been part of a Classical culture. New findings are beginning to indicate that Galilee was in fact a Jewish ...
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.Berean Standard BibleThis is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in...
47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. 48 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.” 49 The royal official said, “Sir, co...
Jews were told long-ago, that: You are a stiff necked people, hard to deal with”. And also, that: “you are of your father, the Devil”. Those, plus the turning over of the tables the “Money Changers” were doing business on in the Temple, are what make Jews hate Jesus. One...
And in Matthew 26:73 Peter is recognized to be from Galilee when he speaks. The Anglicized name Jesus, to give another example, probably started out as the Hebrew name ישוע (possibly pronounced as Yesuha, but that's a guess), became the Greek name Ιησους (possibly...
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee. John 7-17 King James Version 7 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles...
Jesus, Jesus’ followers, and the earliest Christians were frequently considered a Jewish sect by their Roman masters, much as the Essenes or the Pharisees. Due to a long tradition of friendly relations between the various leaders of Judea and Rome, the Jews had been granted special privilege ...
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