The apostle John tells us it was after Jesus gave words of encouragement to His disciples in John 14 concerning His immediate death. After concluding these words Jesus told his disciples, "Arise, let us go from here" (John 14:31b). They walk together to the Mount of Olives, down to Ked...
beencallous, cruel, and given to wanton executions (Philo,On the Embassy to Gaius, 300–302). He was finally dismissed from office for executing a group of Samaritans (Josephus,The Antiquities of the Jews, 18.85–89), and he probably sent Jesus to his death without anguishing over the ...
Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.” 30Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him. Jesus Predicts His Death 31He then began to teach them that the Son of Manmust suffer many thingsand be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law,and that he must ...
“Peter’s Denial” “Pilate and Christ” “King Herod’s Song” “Could We Start Again, Please?” “Judas’s Death” “Trial Before Pilate” “39 Lashes” “Superstar” “Crucifixion” “John 19:41” Controversies The play was controversial from the outset. The notion that Jesus Christ ...
1 Peter 1:18-19 (NKJV) knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” ……. Everything which God ha...
“To the strongest,”these were Alexander the Great’s last words spoken on June 11, 323 BC, when asked to whom his vast empire should belong after his death Famous last words. They get a lot of attention as the one saying them has something important to say usually before they die. ...
After the death however of Wilson in 1929, the Society of the Nazarene withered away. Wilson’s family did not even allow the Banks to continue to use the Nazarene name. While conducting a healing mission in California, John Gayner Banks met Ethel Tulloch, a top postal union leader. The ...
1 Peter 1:16 says, “For the Scriptures say, ‘You must be holy because I am holy,’” and I appreciate that many Christians use that verse as reminder of the ways they are to conduct their lives. But too often they consider holiness only in terms of what it can do for them, such...
38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the...
Bolt, Peter Geoffrey