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According to Lapide, the meaning of the verse is that if the holiness of the temple makes the sacrificing priests blameless, who break the Sabbath, in like manner the disciples, since Jesus is greater and holier than the temple. And in fact, as God, Jesus is considered the Lord of the temple and the recipient of the sacrifices. [1] [2]
The Good News: When your heart is under strife, call upon the Lord through prayer, and He will answer you. He will guide you to salvation and to happier times. He will guide you to salvation and ...
Psalm 136 is the 136th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. ". The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.
Verse 1 is recited by the sheaves of barley in Perek Shirah. [13] [14] Verse 14 is said in Selichot. [14] Sephardi Jews recite verse 14 after the prayer of Ein Keloheinu in the morning service. [15] This verse is also used as a popular Jewish song called Atah takum, with the refrain ki va moed. [16] Psalm 102 is said in times of community ...
Sometimes the verse of Psalm 136:1 is added at the end. "O give thanks unto/to the Lord, for He is good: For His mercy/love endureth/endures forever." This part of the prayer is prayed either right after the first part of the prayer before a meal or separately from the first part of the prayer at the end of a meal.
He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father (John 14:12). Lutheran theologian Harold Buls suggests that the "greater works" involve "send[ing] out the message of eternal life in great streams" to the gentiles, being the message which Jesus had only given to the Jews.
According then to the first interpretation it will be pointed, He who is least in the kingdom of heaven, is greater than he; according to the second, He who is less than he, is in the kingdom of heaven greater than he." [3] Chrysostom: " The kingdom of heaven, that is, in the spiritual world, and all relating thereto. But some say that Christ ...
Gregory the Great: He that thinks he ought to do to another as he expects that others will do to him, considers verily how he may return good things for bad, and better things for good. [ 4 ] Chrysostom : Whence what we ought to do is clear, as in our own cases we all know what is proper, and so we cannot take refuge in our ignorance.