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Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus (sometimes spelled Zaccheus; Ancient Greek: Ζακχαῖος, Zakchaîos; Arabic: زَكَّا, romanized: Zakka; Hebrew: זכי, romanized : Zakkay, "pure, innocent") [1] was a chief tax-collector at Jericho in the Bible. He is known primarily for his faith in climbing a sycamore tree to see Jesus and also his generosity ...
James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord ( Latin: Iacobus from Hebrew: יעקב, Ya'aqov and Greek: Ἰάκωβος, Iákōbos, can also be Anglicized as "Jacob"), was a brother of Jesus, according to the New Testament. He was the first leader of the Jerusalem Church of the Apostolic Age. Traditionally, it is believed he was ...
In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden ( Biblical Hebrew: גַּן־עֵדֶן, romanized: gan-ʿĒḏen; Greek: Εδέμ; Latin: Paradisus) or Garden of God ( גַּן־יְהֹוֶה, gan- YHWH and גַן־אֱלֹהִים, gan- Elohim ), also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Genesis 2–3 ...
The burning bush (or the unburnt bush) refers to an event recorded in the Jewish Torah (as also in the biblical Old Testament ). It is described in the third chapter of the Book of Exodus [1] as having occurred on Mount Horeb. According to the biblical account, the bush was on fire but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name. [2]
The Bible-pitch video is gold for anti-Trump memes and mockery, the kind of material that’s tailor-made for “Saturday Night Live” without its writers changing a word. Read more: Calmes: The ...
How much more will Dollar Tree prices be? The price cap on items at Dollar Tree stores will now be $7. In 2021, the company raised the base price of items from $1 to $1.25. The cap was also raised ...
The Tree of Jesse originates in a passage in the biblical Book of Isaiah which describes metaphorically the descent of the Messiah and is accepted by Christians as referring to Jesus. The various figures depicted in the lineage of Jesus are drawn from those names listed in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke .
The agony of Jesus in the Garden is the first station of the Scriptural Way of the Cross (modern version of the Via Crucis) and the first "sorrowful mystery" of the Dominican Rosary, and it is the inspiration for the Holy Hour devotion in the Eucharistic adoration. It has been a frequent theme in Christian art depicting the life of Jesus .