How many prophecies are there in the Old Testament of the Bible about Jesus? Scholars offer differing answers, generally ranging from about 200 to 400. Jesus the Prophet Jesus accurately predicted his death and resurrection, the rise of false prophets, the fall of Jerusalem, the worldwide ...
Matthew, a clever opportunist, boldly made up a Jewish genealogy of Jesus and put in the beginning part of the Gospel of Matthew(geneology of Jesus), and made Jesus a very faithful slave like "son of Jehovah and David." It is Matthew's great contribution that the Gospel of Matthew is f...
… Our conclusion is simply this—the scrolls confirm the accuracy of the biblical text by 99 percent.” In the New Testament era, the disciples of Jesus went out in pairs. Their oral transmission of the news of Jesus and the quoting of Scripture was verified by their traveling partners. ...
The conviction about Jesus’ messiahship and resurrection had very little to do with the Old Testament. But once these things became the basis of Christian profession, then the Old Testament was used to demonstrate or to enhance belief. When it comes to the historical question about the ...
A Summary of the Old Testament (St. Jerome) By St. Jerome (Excerpt from Letter 53 to Paulinus of Nola) Genesis, we shall be told, needs no explanation; its topics are too simple — the birth of the world, the origin of the human race, the division of the earth, the confusion of ...
Jesus on the cross that read, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews,” he had it written in three languages: Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. When artists painted Christ on the cross, they took the first letters of the title in Latin spelling INRI to depict the sign for sake o...
The New Testament, by contrast, DIFFERENTIATES the identities of God and Satan totally. What is joined at the conceptual hip in the Old Testament is separated and forever severed in the New. Jesus, it could be argued, IS the DYNAMIC DIFFERENTIATION of...
the superior glory of the New Testament is emphasized, not as in conflict with the Old, but as the perfect fulfillment of a revelation still incomplete, yet sanctioned by divine authority. It is noteworthy that the New Testament writers and the Lord Jesus himself did not hesitate on occasion ...
Which two Old Testament characters appeared with Jesus at the transfiguration? How did Jesus reveal the one who would betray him? Where was Jesus crucified? For how many days did Jesus appear to his disciples after his resurrection? Who went with Paul on his first missionary journey?
There was a recognised and respectedplace for prophetic women leadersin Israelite society. “The biblical evidence . . . makes clear that prophecy was a role open to women on an equal basis with men.”[9]Moreover, Deborah Gill and Barbara Cavaness state, “The highest Old Testament religious...