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Luke 2 is the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament, traditionally attributed to Luke the Evangelist, a companion of Paul the Apostle on his missionary journeys. [1] It contains an account of Jesus 's birth in Bethlehem , "its announcement and celebration", [ 2 ] his presentation in the Second Temple , and an incident from ...
[4] The farmer's conversation with himself is self-centred: first-person pronouns occur 11 times. [4] The farmer's foolishness lies particularly in the fact that wealth cannot guarantee the future: the Day of Judgment arrives sooner than he expects. [5] Ellicott's Commentary notes the difference between the fool's approach and the psalmist's:
In Christianity, the Sermon on the Plain refers to a set of teachings by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, in 6:20–49. [1] This sermon may be compared to the longer Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew. [2] Luke 6:12–20a details the events leading to the sermon. In it, Jesus spent the night on a mountain praying to God.
A bronze mite, also known as a Lepton (meaning small), minted by Alexander Jannaeus, King of Judaea, 103–76 BC and still in circulation at the time of Jesus [1]. The lesson of the widow's mite or the widow's offering is presented in two of the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:41–44 and Luke 21:1–4), when Jesus is teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem.
The evangelist, Luke, begins his "orderly account" with the following statement: . 1 Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us, 3 it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very ...
The prescribed readings for the Sunday were taken from the Epistle to the Romans, speaking of the duties of a Christian (Romans 12:1–6), and from the Gospel of Luke, the finding in the Temple (Luke 2:41–52). The unknown poet takes the parents' search for the lost Jesus as the starting point to depict the general situation of man who lost Jesus.
So we read, "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all," Isa. 53:6; and again, "Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls." 1 Peter 2:25. [4]
Luke 2:5 γυναικί (woman) – Byz omitted by Alexandrian text-type. Luke 2:7 φατνη (manger) – א A B D L W Θ Ξ 700 τη φατνη (the manger) – Ψ 053 f 1 f 13 Byz τω σπηλαιω φατνη (the cave's manger) – Origen (via Epiphanius) Luke 2:9 καὶ ἄγγελος (and the angel) – Alexandrian text-type