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In the Book of Acts, Christianity is referred to as "The Way". The NIV renders Paul's words in Acts 24:14 as "I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect." Rayburn suggests that this was a Christian self-designation, although it did not survive as a title. [3]
The term "disciple" represents the Koine Greek word mathētḗs (μαθητής), [3] which generally means "one who engages in learning through instruction from another, pupil, apprentice" [4] or in religious contexts such as the Bible, "one who is rather constantly associated with someone who has a pedagogical reputation or a particular set of views, disciple, adherent."
Although it would appear from these verses that John the Baptist was uncertain about Jesus being the Messiah, the traditional understanding from many church fathers, as seen in the next section, is that John merely sent his disciples to Christ so that "they might learn from Himself that He was the very Messiah, or Christ, that when John was dead they might go to Him."
Matthew drops the mention of the meeting of the disciples taking place upon a mountain, as he has already used that passage to set the location of the Sermon on the Mount at Matthew 5:1. Eduard Schweizer considers this verse a somewhat awkward insertion of Markan material into Matthew's narrative.
In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. [ 6 ] This application of "light compared with darkness" also appears in 1 John 1:5 which applies it to God and states: "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all".
The love of Christ for his disciples and for humanity as a whole is a theme that repeats both in Johannine writings and in several of the Pauline Epistles. [12] John 13:1, which begins the narrative of the Last Supper, describes the love of Christ for his disciples: "having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end."
A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God (ESV). In the Hebrew texts, "the way of the LORD" is "the way of Y-WH," using the Holy Tetragrammaton, [95] [96] the Divine Name of the God of Israel revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 3:13-15). In this way the Gospel ...
Praise the Lord is a Christian greeting phrase used in various parts of the world in English, as well as other languages. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The salutation is derived from the Bible , where it and related phrases occurs around two hundred and fifty times (cf. Psalm 117:1–2 ).