But Jesus did not keep a Nazirite vow, because he is often found drinking wine – his critics accuse him of drinking far, far too much of it (Matthew chapter 11, verse 19). If he had had long hair, and looked like a Nazirite, we would expect some comment on the discrepancy between ...
32They are like children sitting in the marketplace calling out to each other, ‘We played the flute for you and you didn’t dance. We sang a funeral song and you didn’t cry.’33John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’34Yet ...
Question : In the Book of Revelation we find the verse, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty" (Revelation 1:8). But what do you do with Revelation 22:13, which appears to be Jesus speaking (see verse 16), wh...
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. 20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented ...
Have you noticed how that last verse in many hymns is about coming home, going to heaven? Let’s sing Swing low sweet chariot coming for to carry me home. How many this Sunday morning want to more fully come home to the Holy Trinity? Let us pray. Dear Father, we often feel homeless...
They probably go to church that supports Tennessee’s Anti-Drag Law, and the pastor backs up his bigotry by quoting a Bible verse that says, “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the ...
Luke 10:1 Some manuscripts seventy; also in verse 17 Luke 10:15 That is, the realm of the dead Luke 10:27 Deut. 6:5 Luke 10:27 Lev. 19:18 Luke 10:35 A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer (see Matt. 20:2). Luke 10:42 Some manuscripts but only one thing is...
Rev 14:10he, also, is drinking of the wine of the fury of God, blended undiluted in the cup of His indignation, and he shall be tormented in fire and sulphur in the sight of the holy messengers and in the sight of the Lambkin.” ...
37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The ...
The narrative of the changing the water into wine concludes with a transitional verse:"After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days." (2:12)Jesus goes to Capernaum not only with his disciples, but with his whole ...