What motivation then led to this saying being added to the text of Luke? In this article, the argument is made that a numerical motivation is at the heart of the addition. Luke 23.34a was added in order that there be seven sayings and not six that Jesus spoke from the cross. This ...
It is clear from Matthew and Mark that just before Jesus breathed his last, he "cried out again in a loud voice" (Matthew 27:50, cf. Mark 15:37). John gives us the content of this loud cry: "It is finished!" Those who are defeated go out with a whimper, but the victor announc...
“About fifteen years ago I was requested by a canon from Cádiz to compose instrumental music on the seven last words of Jesus on the cross. “It was customary at the Cathedral of Cádiz to produce an oratorio every year during Lent, the effect of the performance being not a little ...
Those believing in the secret rapture also quote Jesus in saying He will come as a thief in the night, meaning it will be secret. Jesus said inMatthew 24:43-44“But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and...
Seven Angels With Seven Plagues - I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them
and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour,45for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.46Jesus called out with a loud voice, 'Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.' When he had said this, he breathed his last." (Luke 23:44...
Just as Jesus said,“In the last days the eagles will be gathered at the carcass.”(Matthew 24:28) We hear about people in the gate, who are constantly making very dramatized claims that they have suddenly accepted Jesus. However, a sustained effort to tear at the tough meat of the wor...
Seven Veils is named for the biblical character Salome, whose seductive dancing as she shed those veils earned her a grisly prize: the severed head of John the Baptist, the ascetic prophet who predicted the coming of Jesus Christ.The title is just as suggestive, however, of Egoyan’s ...
(三自会), but it is often heard that he sent a letter from prison to confess that he never gave up his faith and even left his last words “I (because of) believe in Christ and die”. (At that time, many saints sent messages saying that they did not fall because they wanted t...
Of course, seven is not always lucky:Many people think there are seven nail holes in a horseshoe –itself a lucky symbol –but actually there are usually eight. Anyway, the hundreds of horseshoes in place for Lt. Colonel Custer's last stand against the Cheyenne in the 1876 Battle of the...