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The sayings form part of the Stations of the Cross, a Christian meditation that is often used during Lent, Holy Week and Good Friday. The Dominican author Timothy Radcliffe sees the number seven as significant, as the number of perfection in the Bible. He writes that as God created the world in seven days, "these seven words belong to God's ...
Two boats and a helicopter, the instruments of rescue most frequently cited in the parable, during a coastguard rescue demonstration. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each ...
3:Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? 4:For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.' 5:But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,'
The chorus goes: To live by the sword you must die by the sword. Heavy metal band Judas Priest, included the song "Sword of Damocles" in their 2014 album Redeemer of Souls. Its chorus goes: Truth will find it's reward If you live and die by the sword. Heavy metal band Accept, included the song "Die by the Sword" in their 2017 album The Rise of ...
The Parable of the Friend at Night (also known as the Parable of the Friend at Midnight or of the Importunate Neighbour) is a parable of Jesus which appears in Luke 11:5–8. In it, a friend eventually agrees to help his neighbor due to his persistent demands rather than because they are friends, despite the late hour and the inconvenience of it.
[a] is a psalm in the Bible. The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Tanakh, and a book of the Old Testament of the Bible. In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 21. In Latin, it is known as Deus, Deus meus. [1]
"As you know, the Passover is two days away — and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified." The hypothetical Q source , widely considered by scholars to be a collection of sayings of Jesus used, in addition to the Gospel of Mark, by the authors of the Luke and Matthew Gospels, is not thought to contain any predictions of the death ...
In the Gospel of John, the prediction is preceded by the assertion in 13:17–18 that Jesus knew that Judas Iscariot would betray him: "If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled: He who eats my bread lifted up his heel against me."