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According to the New Testament, was Joseph Jesus’ biological father or just his adoptive father? The annunciation stories in Matthew and Luke claim that Jesus was conceived without a human father, but later in the Gospel of Luke, Joseph is listed as Jesus’ parent and father (Luke 2:27, 33, 48; 4:22).
we can know when Jesus was born. Zacharias the father of John the baptist was from the house of Abija, we read in Luke 1.5. In Davids time the yearly service of the highpriest priests was divided in 24 houses, each makíng the service in the temple in Jerusalem for half a month. .
In addition to the honor and status implied by the value of the gifts of the magi, scholars think that these three were chosen for their special spiritual symbolism about Jesus himself—gold representing his kingship, frankincense a symbol of his priestly role, and myrrh a prefiguring of his death and embalming—an interpretation made popular in the well-known Christmas carol “We Three ...
Back in those days the father would hand the hand of his daughter to the groom and they were married but I do not think that they laid as man and wife until after Jesus was born this is the only explanation I can figure and I do believe that Jesus was not born in December even though I’d go with it and I celebrated you know that the shepherds ...
Philippians 2:6-9 says that Jesus did not consider himself to be equal to God, this also explains how Jesus, when on earth as a perfect human, often prayed to his Father in heaven and that God, after he resurrected Jesus, exalted Him above everything else.
Their three gifts seemed to demonstrate their prescient understanding of the three distinct persons who shared a single “nature” within the Trinity, as well as the different roles of the two separate but inseparable natures in the single person—the incarnate Jesus. The second-century church father Irenaeus of Lyons alluded to this role of ...
Her father’s name Penuel (Face of God) is a prefigurement for that which Hanna will gaze on, and her Asherite identity points to a tribal territory plentiful in bread (Gen 49:20) and oil (Dt 33:24), like Jesus, staples of life.
Where the parables are simply understood but nevertheless often explained in detail, these ‘Jesus Sayings’ are obscure and unexplained within the text. The ‘voice’ speaking them is cryptic and thus unfamiliar. Jesus in the Gospels speaks of fish, vines, grain and donkeys. Jesus in the Thomas Sayings speaks of lions and gender issues.
Jesus ultimately does end up getting married to his bride, the church, those that believe he is the Son of God, born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, condemned to the cross as an innocent man, buried and risen from the dead on the third day by the matchless power of God the Father, and now sits in glory on a throne in heaven ruling a kingdom ...
when jesus talk about seed…its talk about deliverance of his teaching…the seed is the word that come out from jesus mouth…the kind of groom is the kind of heart who receive the teaching…that is why jesus us focusing on seen but blind..listening but deaf….its same with what jesus explain in john chapter 14 where he convince his people ...