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The sculpture was originally announced by Joseph L. Wirthlin, the church's Presiding Bishop, during general conference in October 1956. The artwork would be part of a monument on Temple Square to commemorate the restoration of the Aaronic priesthood, to be dedicated on May 15, 1957, the 128th anniversary of the event.
It depicts three of Christ's apostles (Peter, James, and John) appearing as heavenly messengers, with their hands on the head of a kneeling Smith. The act of laying on of hands by the apostles was part of Smith's ordination to the Melchizedek priesthood. Cowdery, at Smith's side with a bowed head, waits for his own ordination. [1]
High priests are typically more experienced leaders within the priesthood. The term derives in part from the Epistle to the Hebrews, which describes Jesus as "a high priest after the order of Melchizedek" (5:10; see also 6:20). Movement founder Joseph Smith ordained the first high priests on June 3, 1831. [1] High priests are organized into ...
The majority of Chazalic literature attributes the primary character of psalm 110 as King David [6] who was a "righteous king" (מלכי צדק) of Salem (Jerusalem) and, like Melchizedek, had certain priest-like responsibilities, while the Babylonian Talmud understands the chapter as referring to Abram who was victorious in battling to save his nephew Lot and merited priesthood. [7]
The gospels describe how, after his initial capture, Jesus was brought before Caiaphas – a high priest in the Jewish Sanhedrin. [4] Honthorst depicts the moment that Caiaphas asks Jesus if he truly claims to be God. The scene takes place at night. Jesus and Caiaphas are separated by a table upon which a candle provides the only light.
John F. Herring Jr. was born in Doncaster, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire c.1820, to the well-known 19th-century artist John Frederick Herring Sr. (1795–1865), who at the time, was considered one of England's great Sporting and Equestrian artists, patronized by the English aristocracy. [1]
Hebrews 7 is the seventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The author is anonymous, although the internal reference to "our brother Timothy" (Hebrews 13:23) causes a traditional attribution to Paul, but this attribution has been disputed since the second century and there is no decisive evidence for the authorship.
John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut.He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists.