26Six months later in Nazareth, a city inthe rural province ofGalilee, the heavenly messenger Gabriel made another appearance. This time the messenger was sent by God27to meet with a virgin named Mary, who was engaged to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David himself.28The messenger...
Jesus’ Appearance to the Disciples in Galilee - After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now this is how he
This is because a language like English reckons things after their static appearance and their category, whereas Semitic languages reckon behaviors, and things after their behaviors. When we say in English: "the dog is in the street", we mean to say that the thing called dog is located in...
“But come with me first, an hour only, to my home. My son is lost in dark thoughts. I — I do not understand him, and only you have ever lifted his mood.” “Only an hour… my daughter, since her child has died, sits in the shadow. She will not listen to us, but she wil...
He is one of the most commonly painted figures in Western art. But what do we really know about his appearance? Read more Documentary evidence outside of the New Testament is limited. The most detailed record of the life and death of Jesus comes from the four Gospels and other New Testame...
"He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised and we esteemed him not. ...
Catholics believe that after the consecration at Mass, “the Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true man, is truly, really, and substantially contained” in the Eucharist under the appearance of bread and wine (Council of Trent, Decree on the Eucharist). The Catholic view of the Eucharist was...
And risking the appearance of too much spirituality, let me suggest that to bring glory to God may be the best reason to pray for healing and deliverance, even outweighing one’s desire for personal comfort. Certainly we could not be wrong in attributing that depth of holy commitment to ...
28About eight days after Jesus said these things, he took Peter, John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.29As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed and his clothes flashed white like lightning.30Two men, Moses and Elijah, were talking with him.31They were clot...
Not everyone wants a part of this debate. Some Christians roll their eyes whenever they encounter a question about Jesus’ appearance. They say the Easter story has nothing to do with color and Jesus’ message. They cite scripture likeGalatians 3: 28, 29: (“There is neither Jew nor Gentil...