Jesus is referred to as “Jesus of Nazareth” or “the Nazarene” because He grew up in the town of Nazareth. However, this title also points to fulfilled prophecies and a reminder of humble roots.
Jesus grew up to become a spiritual teacher. Scholars deduce from his teachings that Jesus was well versed in the Hebrew scriptures. According to the Bible Jesus began his teaching career in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, which historians assume to have fallen somewhere ...
I wouldn’t trade my upbringing for anything in the world. I grew up in a little small industrial town, Jackson, Michigan, and was in a beautiful family. My mom and dad were both teachers. My dad taught college biology and zoology. My mom was a high school English and public speaking ...
I grew up in what you would call a “blue collar” family. My Grandfathers worked in their respective trades: my Dad’s father as an auto mechanic and my Mom’s father as a maintenance man/operator in the boiler room of an ice cream factory. My Dad got a job at the General Motors ...
34When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside,35and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet,dressed and in...
all directions—streaming in from the east, pouring in from the west, sitting down at God’s kingdom banquet alongside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Then those who grew up ‘in the faith’ but had no faith will find themselves out in the cold, outsiders to grace and wondering what happened...
“What can we do that’s the most valuable to everybody else and to ourselves and to our own family?”– James Patterson I think a lot of it comes from my family. I grew up in pretty much a house full of women: mother, grandmother, three sisters, two female ...
Jesus has been in Judea. Now the scene shifts from Judea in the south to the north in Galilee, the region in which Jesus grew up. Jesus is at a wedding in Cana, with his disciples and his mother. It is a "big deal," with many guests and festivities planned to last for days ...
In one episode, SG-1 come upon a small population of people who had developed from ancient norsemen (vikings, if you will) into what was basically a 17th century society. Instead of retaining their original pantheon, they had developed a cult centering solely on Freyr who, in reality, was...
and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and escaped to Egypt. He stayed there until Herod’s death, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might ...