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John 13:35 “This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples when you love each other.” The Good News: Love is a connector as powerful as family.When you love a friend, God, or a co ...
R. T. France explains the verse, in context with the subsequent verse 35: "The sword Jesus brings is not here military conflict, but, as vv. 35–36 show, a sharp social division which even severs the closest family ties. … Jesus speaks here, as in the preceding and following verses, more of a division in men’s personal response to him."
Part of the verse He who seeks to know that Shedim exist should place fine ashes around his bed, and in the morning the footprints of Shedim will appear like roosters footprints, in the ashes. the verse speaks not of rooster feet can be interpreted as seeing like the footprints of roosters in the daily life of a countryman but of "human" feet ...
The accusation seems to be that unlike the austere John the Baptist, Christ lived like ordinary people, conversing with them. Lapide gives a couple of possible reasons for this, 1) "that His affability might allure those whom John’s austerity would terrify," 2) that Christ leave an example in everything, food, drink, clothing, etc., that it is not the things themselves, but an excessive love ...
Psalm 119:28 “My spirit sags because of grief. Now raise me up according to your promise!” The Good News: This verse is conveying the feeling of being emotionally exhausted and sad.When we ...
Matthew 5:44, the forty-fourth verse in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament, also found in Luke 6:27–36, [1] is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This is the second verse of the final antithesis, that on the commandment to "Love thy neighbour as thyself". In the chapter, Jesus refutes the teaching of some that one ...
A nearby sign decorating the wall behind her displayed a Bible verse from the Book of Psalms: Your word is like a lamp that guides my steps, a light that shows the path I should take.
The Greek word for compassion is ἐσπλαγχνίσθη, which is, "pitied them from His inmost bowels." Lapide notes that, "there is no animal so simple, careless, improvident, so exposed to be the prey of wolves and other wild beasts, and therefore so needing a keeper, as a sheep."