Humility and sacrifice. “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And bei...
” (v.25). Of course Jesus didn’t utter this as a disrespectful insult; that would’ve been inconsistent with his entire way of being. The word “foolish” was more akin to “slow-of-heart,” like the Texas-expression
The Gospels reveal her to be of practical character.Origenand other early textual interpreters usually viewed her as distinct from the mystical Mary ofBethany, who anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair (John 12:3–7), and from the penitent woman whose sins Jesus pardoned for ano...
The Body and Blood of Jesus and the Word of Jesus. In John's gospel what important act does Jesus take in the Last Supper discourse to demonstrate the role of the Disciples to the world? Washing of the Feet How was the passion of Christ glorious It showed the fulfillment of God's plan...
Bible Verses About Healing - The Bible speaks often of miraculous healing through the work of Jesus Christ and through faith in God. Find Scripture that will encourage you and help you focus on finding comfort through the healing of Christ both spiri... ...
John 13:6-9 – Peter speaks out to the Lord in front of the apostles concerning the washing of feet. John 13:36; 21:18 – Jesus predicts Peter’s death. Peter was martyred at Rome in 67 A.D. Several hundred years of papal successors were also martyred. ...
The fact that Joseph and Mary brought the dove/pigeon sacrifice rather than the lamb shows that, contrary the claims of the prosperity preachers,Jesus’s earthly parents were not blessed by God with financial and material wealth.(Of course, in a sense, Mary broughtTHELamb, but she was still...
This attitude of servant hood is being taught here in the act of the washing of another persons feet. Note how he states he has done this for our example, and how the master is not greater than the slave. He says13:17 ‘If you know these things, you are blessed if you...
Nimrod. She was also called Beltis. Belits was the wife of Bel-Nimrod. She was called "the Queen of Fertility" and also known as "the Great Mother" (similar to how some revere Mary, the mother of Jesus today) and essentially was also Ishtar in the Assyrian triad (Clare, pp. 222-...
We’ll think of Jesus during his earthly ministry with little children gathered at his feet and blind people being gently touched by his soft hand – and not think of the whip in the temple or the rough carpenter’s hands praying in agony. I have even seen Crosses that bear upon them ...