“Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, (30) who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.” ...
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 1 Corinthians 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends...
Paul after his first imprisonment at Rome, we may feel tolerably certain that he was acquainted with the Gospel or St. Luke, so that there is no improbability in his quoting from it. His reference to another saying of the Lord Jesus in Acts 20:35 gives additional probability to it. The...
(Even relatively good men in that society might have chuckled a bit at the notion of bothering about a female relative’s opinions.) And likewise, if Jesus had no younger siblings who were also sons of His mother, it would be perfectly normal to entrust Her to a faithful close friend (...