but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them. When [Jesus] was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them (Reminiscing ...
When the war broke out in 1939, Anglican poet W. H. Auden put the case bluntly:We must love one another or die. A year later, he wroteNew Year Letter(January 1,1940),a long poem considering “what is possible and what is not” in such a time. Most of the poem is addressed to ...
Another factional war broke out within Jerusalem, between Johanan ben Levi and Eleazar ben Simon (another Levite). Johanan’s gang “slew moreover many of the priests” and stormed the temple with such bloodlust that the blood of the Levites spilt upon the altar: “they wen...
But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that he drives out demons.”Matthew 9: 34 (NIV) In yesterday’s post, I wrote about the spiritual revival that broke out while I was in high school. I wrote about the fact that I was merely an observer of the revival because...
God gave Adam and Eve only one rule and they broke it. Man’s track record since has not improved. Man has a sinful nature and we cannot avoid sin. Only Jesus was without sin because while He is fully man, He is also fully God. You cannot get through a day without sinning but th...
74Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. 75And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly. ...
- 2000 years ago, Jesus told the unbelieving religious leaders what season and holiday he would return, by mentioning the words from a special prayer. How does the Hallel fit into, and shape, Messianic prophecy? Traditional predictions about Jesus fulfil
26 Now as they were eating,[d] Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” 27 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you; 28 for this...
- The cup of suffering – either from punishment or from persecution- is waiting for all of us. The first baptism of Jesus was by water. The second baptism of Jesus was by spirit. The last baptism of Jesus was suffering and death. - Mat 20:22 But Jesus
“He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread. He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold as a slave, whose feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in iron until the time that His word came. The word of the Lord tried him.” Psalm 105...