While we normally think of Jesus as Master and Teacher, He has called His disciples (and us) friends. This devotion looks at Jesus calling Judas friendwhile he was betraying Him. ... They gave Jesus the reverence that He deserved. Then, during Passover, Jesus told them He would call the...
Was Mary a Widow When Jesus Died? When Jesus was 12 years old, He and his parents went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. After the festival was over, Jesus’ parents joined a large caravan of friends and family members to begin their three-day journey back to Nazareth. After one ...
not just one day. In fact, the other eight times that John uses the word "Passover", he uses it to refer to the festival as a whole, rather than merely to the opening meal. In fact, the Passover seder is not the only ritual meal that is eaten during the Passover festival. The ...
For instance, opinions are divided as to where Pilate resided when in Jerusalem, whether in the magnificent palace built by Herod the Great, or in the castle of Antonia; as to where was the palace occupied by Herod Antipas during the Passover; whether Annas and Caiaphas occupied different...
Christian belief holds that Jesus came with his followers to Jerusalem during the Passover festival, and created a disturbance at the Temple by overturning the tables of the moneychangers there. He was subsequently arrested on the orders of the Sanhedrin and the high priest, Joseph Caiaphas for...
Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead; they made,
But His presence remained with them at the continual celebration of this new Christian Passover of the Communion. Though He had vanished from their eyes as He would return to the Father, yet through the Spirit which He had promised to be in His stead, He was there with them to remain- ...
He turned the water into a wine of higher quality than any served during the wedding. The event is depicted as the first sign of Jesus’ glory and his disciples’ belief in him. After the wedding, Jesus, Mary, and his disciples traveled to Jerusalem for the Jewish holiday of Passover. ...
leads to the shedding of Jesus’ blood for permanent and total forgiveness of all of our sins – can we also use that same analogy and say that the shed blood of the lambs used in the Passover for divine protection could also lead to the shed Blood of Jesus having divine protection in...
14Now the Passoverand the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.2“But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.” ...