'I cannot take down messages in the darkness, but they have given me the signal which means "Consent".' 'Come, that is pretty good,' said Peter. 'And now I must be moving. You take a hint from me. When you hear big firing up to the north get ready to beat a quick retreat,...
[181]While some cultures are quite restrained in their mourning, in the Middle East the norm is loud, unrestrained crying and wailing. Luke's account of the mourning at Jairus' house at the death of his daughter uses an additional word to describe mourning practices,koptō, "to beat one'...
1:44Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. 1:45Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." ...
That is why Jesus said to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves, because there are wolves among us. Jesus said to beware of men (religeous men) who will deliver you up to council and beat you in their synagogues.(that can mean verbally as well since we have laws in place now...
3 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the tem...
But before he gets to his point, before he gets to the Father breaking in to Jesus’ baptism to declare his love for his son, Mark takes a beat and gives us some context. He introduces us to John the Baptist, the man God chose to prepare the world for God’s in-breaking. John is...
Like gold to aery thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th’ other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, ...
We daily see how great a gift is life; we know it not, we have not seen the divine secret, we feel the pulse beat, but we see not the power by which it is moved. We are our own mysteries. Life itself is a religion. Life is a continual prayer. How weak we are, yet how ...
He made his début in 1880 as an outside right, a late replacement in the team as England beat Wales by 3-2 at Wrexham. In 1882, he played as outside left in a record away performance at Belfast in Ireland. Harry scored one goal of England’s thirteen, without reply from the Irish...
as that they should be hated by all men, persecuted from city to city, beat in the synagogues, delivered up to councils, and brought before kings and governors; seeMatthew 10:17; yet he did not so fully and distinctly speak of these things, as here and at this time: his reason for...