Passover might be the best holiday for food. Not only is the Seder full of some of the homey, delicious dishes that define Jewish cuisine likebrisketandmatzo ball soup, but each portion of the meal is there for a reason. A Passover Seder is both a meal and a ceremony that tells the ...
This scribe then theoretically deleted the prōtō of 6:1 by using dots of the word—which was the customary way at that time of correcting errors in a manuscript—and and then wrote in deutero, "second." A third copyist then came along, and not noticing the dots over prōtō, or not...
Jesus ate figs, which we know from the fact that on his way to Jerusalem, he reached for a fig tree but it was not the season for figs. At the Last Supper
or Easter bread. Lamb is a traditional Easter dish in many Christian traditions because it symbolizes Jesus Christ as the "Lamb of God" who sacrificed Himself for the redemption of humanity. In the Old Testament, the Passover lamb was sacrificed and eaten during the Passover f...
Heaven was out there somewhere, waiting. Heaven would come later. But these words of Jesus did not reflect that at all.“I am…”It’s present tense. It’s not talking about a God of their experience or a God of their ancestors. And it doesn’t depict a God out there in the futur...
I was well aware of all the risks of violence and child sex trafficking going on in the world at the time. So you can bet that, while I’m not a fast runner, I can promise you the fastest half mile I’ve ever run was when I ran the half mile from that meet up spot to that...
eaten. He will also remove all the forbidden parts of the cow. Yes, believe it or not, the Torah forbids us to eat certain parts of a kosher cow, like the sciatic nerve; the peritoneum; various attachments to the liver, to the intestines, and to the skirt steaks; various membranes, ...
Pontius Pilate. As was the custom at the time of the Feast of Passover, Pilate gave the crowds the choice as to which of the two prisoners should be freed: Jesus, or Barrabas, a notorious criminal. Ironically, the same crowd who had welcomed Jesus with palm branches a few days earlier...
“mistakes” apply to bigger issues. Maybe when Mark says that Jesus was crucified the dayafterthe Passover meal was eaten (Mark 14:12; 15:25) and John says he died the daybeforeit was eaten (John 19:14)—maybe that is a genuine difference. Or when Luke indicates in his account of...
We bought a house after a few months of renting a room from another local Jewish gal (who has since moved to Houston). I found a job at a contact public defender’s firm within just 2 weeks of being here full time, was there for about a year, got pregnant and it was awful and ...