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analysis will explore the meaning of Jesus baptism in relation to faith and the position of the Christian in the often skeptical a...

of the Sower in Matthew 13:3-23. This parable talks of a farmer sowing the seed is not to be taken literally. The farmer is an ana...

in a primarily passive manner (Weaver, 1995). To put it simply, in the other gospels, for the most part, Jesus is silent. In John,...

cycle of Easter. Forty days of Lent are honored prior to Easter; this is a reminder of the cost of the victory of the cross. Pente...

In fifteen pages an exegesis of this passage from the gospels of Matthew and Luke is presented. Thirteen sources are cited in the...

that Jesus did not want anything wasted: "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted. So they gathered them and f...

However, the light strikes each man in varying degrees of intensity. This becomes the means by which Caravaggio penetrates the "su...

was neither a hearer nor a companion of the Lord; but afterwards, as I said, he accompanied Peter, who adapted his teachings as ne...

Aquinas goes on to explain Christs sacrifice through suffering in that it came out of Christs love and obedience for mankind. This...

says, emphasizing that God will bring justice to his chosen ones who cry out for his help. These truth are put in a series of ques...

is believed that Johns Gospel was written much later than the other three and this could be one reason for the differences. Other ...

knowledge which is only knowable and obtainable without the aide of the senses. Secondly, the Synoptic Gospels speak as Christ b...

scholars. In Matthew 25, Jesus says that when the hungry are fed and the blind can see and the naked are clothed, that will signif...

seems to be known about the education of Mark. The author of this gospel is believed to have been John Mark, the cousin of Barnaba...

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

still prevalent in Christian theology, that the all of scripture if divinely inspired and therefore completely correct. On the o...

that not only are the documents logically from a particular time period, but they are evaluated in the context of history. Thus, i...

therefore, offers interpretation of them through various reflections, narratives, and discourses (John, 2003). The first sign is t...

ordinary Jewish resident who grew up in Nazareth in Galilee (Attridge, 1998). He lived and died as a Jew and He had to have been i...

Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). At age 30, Jesus began His ministry. He g...

- the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; there is no other Lord but Him, He is God over heaven and over earth and onl...

it is not always easy to let go of what is of this earth; worldly possessions are so hard to come by, some people make them the fo...

a point (Born, 1988). For instance, in verse 24, the Jews ask Jesus "how long" He will keep them "in suspense" - "If you are the C...

of Jesus ministry. Delimiting the passage The student researching this topic should note that theological scholars agree that the...

in these passages. Ostensibly, this is a saying of Jesus and part of his ministry. Therefore, if one substitutes the word light to...

womens movement, "women all across the continent began to claim the right to name and define themselves" (p. 4). In relating this ...

Henry interpret the journey of the master as Jesus journey to the Kingdom of Heaven (Wesley, 2005; Henry, 2005). In Mark 13, we re...

is the fourth Book in the New Testament. The Book was written when John was in Ephesus (Smith, 1884). There is some question about...

and Death are also stressed as fulfilling the prophecies of scripture, specifically in Isaias (Jacquier, 2005). Matthew 5:1-7:29,...

seen in both 1 Thess. 5:2 and Rev. 3:3; 16:15. The point of this passage is to communicate that the time of the parousia cannot be...