Luke wrote about that saying Jesus explained and began “at Moses and all the prophets... and expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” (Luke 24:27) King David set the stage: Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your Torah. (Psalm 119...
Why does Jesus speak in parables? The very word itself has become inextricably linked to Jesus because of how much that rhetorical style dominates the first three Gospels. As a method of teaching, it is a bit eccentric, but the images it conveys are memorable. ...
let alone believed in and been obedient and faithful to the contents and provisions of these two Documents combined together as One single Scroll. This is something similar to what Jesus said, when he said
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In this passage we see something of Mark’s insight into the passion of Jesus: “the passion story is not simply about the passion of Jesus, but the passion the community experiences in its living out of the gospel in the world” (Senior,The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, 63...
to the animal sacrifices of Judaism and the elaborate human sacrifices of Canaanite and Olmec worship. Later, especially in Christianity, a table was substituted, often called a Communion Table, because here were placed the elements of the communion meal, which celebrated the sacrifice of Jesus. ...
Paul is shocked. He is awestruck. The saints who cared for him, and had accepted him in their homes, willingly giving their time and talent due to the good news of Jesus that he brought them, were walking away from Jesus. Walking away from the One who had called them into the grace ...
Matt.18:10 –“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.” Jesus’ use of “their angels” (hoi angeloi auton) in reference to “one of these little ones” (enos ton micron...
(Col.1:27) Jesus said, "I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever - the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in ...
“I considerChristianity to be a teaching that gives meaning to life … and thus it makes absolutely no difference to me whether Jesus Christ was God or not.”[16]But the Church has understood that to look at Christianity in this way is to bring it completely to nothing. It is not ...