Why is it important to learn Jehovah’s thinking on matters now? Pamodi ki é inportanti nu prende pensa sima Jeová désdi gósi? jw2019 Questions: Why was Jesus baptized? Perguntas: Pamodi ki Jizus batizadu? jw2019 What question must you ask yourself, and why is this importa...
Some scholars have linked his surname “Iscariot,” to Queriot (or Kerioth), a town located south of Jerusalem in Judea. “One of the things that might set Judas apart from the rest of Jesus's disciples is that Judas is not from Galilee,” says Robert Cargill, assistant professor of ...
A Jew was permitted to travel2,000 cubitson the Sabbath (Exod. 16: 29 and Num. 35: 5), about 1.2 km. (¾ mile), and the Mount of Olives was within this distance from Jerusalem (Acts 1: 12). What do you eat on Shabbat?
For instance, it was a long-held belief that places like Nazareth, where the Bible says Jesus grew up in the New Testament, and Sodom and Gomorrah in the Old Testament were fictional until archaeologists dug the remains of those ancient towns out of the ground, and the town of Bethlehem, ...
is anAggadahdepicted in the BabylonianTalmudas one of the reasons forHanukkah. In the story, the miracle occurred after the liberation of theTemple in Jerusalemduring theMaccabean Revolt, and it describes the finding of a jug of pure oil that was to be enough to light the lamp for one day...
Man has thus been warring with one other from the beginning of time, and it will not cease until Jesus comes back to set up His Millennium Kingdom from the city of Jerusalem. And until that glorious event finally occurs, we will all have to put up with a certain amount of evil from ...
trees. Sitting about 200 feet above sea level, it was one of a few mountain ridges east of Jerusalem and afforded a good view of the city. The valley of Kidron lies between the mountain and Jerusalem, and the whole region was a place Jesus often visited in his travels t...
wisdom is the created equivalent of the uncreated Word of God (Colossians 1:15), and its purpose is to take the scattered elements of creation and slowly but surely assemble them into the City of God (Psalm 46:4, 87:3, Hebrews 11:10) also known as the New Jerusalem (Revelation 3:12...
Likewise the writer of this psalm was in Babylon longing to be greed to go back to Jerusalem, was he not? Agathonbanitohen says: 6 May 2023 at 8:26 PM Personally, I love praying the imprecatory Psalms. The Breviary teaches us that we’re not praying them to wish evil; G...
Bethlehemlies 10 kilometres south of the city of Jerusalem, in the fertile limestone hill country of the Holy Land. Since at least the 2nd century AD people have believed that the place where the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, now stands is where Jesus was born. ...