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According to certain studies, the public life of women in the time of Jesus was far more restricted than in Old Testament times. [1]: p.52 At the time the apostles were writing their letters concerning the Household Codes (Haustafeln), Roman law vested enormous power (Patria Potestas, lit. "the rule of the fathers") in the husband over his "family" (pater familias) which included his wife ...
The word spouse may be replaced by wife or husband as appropriate or by partner in marriage [14] The phrase through divine assistance may be replaced by the words with God’s help [ 14 ] The phrase so long as we both on earth shall live may be replaced by the words until it shall please the Lord by death to separate us [ 14 ]
Chapter 14 continues, without interruption, Jesus' dialogue with his disciples regarding his approaching departure from them. H. W. Watkins describes the chapter break as "unfortunate, as it breaks the close connection between these words and those which have gone immediately before ()", [4] although Alfred Plummer, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, identifies John 14 as the ...
The Word's glory is dependent on the Father's presence in his monogenes Son (cf. John 17:5); monogenes (μονογενοῦς 6]), meaning 'only', 'unique', 'precious' (cf. Hebrew 11:17 about Isaac), or 'born from the one', used four times in the Gospel of John (1:14,18; 3:16, 18), and once in 1 John 4:9 to demonstrate the 'very special ...
The Parable of the Great Banquet or the Wedding Feast or the Marriage of the King's Son is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew 22:1–14 [1] and Luke 14:15–24. [2] It is not to be confused with a different Parable of the Wedding Feast recorded in the Gospel of Luke.
Another Trijicon scope marked with 1 John 1:7: "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin." The Trijicon biblical verses controversy refers to the stamping of Bible verse references (e.g. " Rev 21 :23") onto optical sights for rifles ...
The statement in John 14:26: "the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name" is within the framework of the "sending relationships" in John's gospel. [15] In John 9:4 (and also 14:24 ) Jesus refers to the father as "him that sent me", and in John 20:21 states "as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you" where he sends the disciples.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. The New International Version translates the passage as: children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.