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Chrysostom: " The Lord having banished that fear which haunted the minds of His disciples, adds further comfort in what follows, not only casting out fear, but by hope of greater rewards encouraging them to a free proclamation of the truth, saying, Every man who shall confess me before men, I also will confess him before my Father which is in heaven.
The setting is near Caesarea Philippi, northeast of the Sea of Galilee and within the Tetrarchy of Philip, and is at the beginning of the final journey to Jerusalem which ends in the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus. [2] Peter's Confession begins as a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples in Matthew 16:13, Mark 8:27 and Luke 9:18. Jesus ...
Therefore, Luke reports Jesus as declaring: "Every one who acknowledges me before men, the Son of man also will acknowledge before the angels of God" . Matthew modifies this Q saying to read: "Every one who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven" (Matt. 10:32). Apparently, Luke has preserved the ...
James Dunn, in his book Christology in the Making, [9] examines the development of this doctrine in early Christianity, noting that it is "beyond dispute" [10] that in John 1:1–18, "the Word is pre-existent, and Christ is the pre-existent Word incarnate," [10] but going on to explore possible sources for the concepts expressed there, such as ...
(Rom. 1:16) Confess God both confidently, and openly, for Christ says: "Whosoever shall be ashamed of Me, and of My words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when He shall come in His majesty." (Luke 9:26) [5] Nicodemus comes to Jesus by night. (1873) German theologian Justus Knecht highlights two doctrinal points that come from this ...
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant fragmentary manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century, and the earliest complete manuscript being the Codex Sabaiticus from the 11th century.
Glorious Appearing: The End of Days is the 12th book in the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.Released on Tuesday, March 30, 2004, this book sees the surviving believers awaiting the return of Jesus Christ as the war of Armageddon and the seven-year Tribulation period draws to its climax.
Jesus The Man: A New Interpretation from the Dead Sea Scrolls, Decoding the Real Story of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. London: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385403344. Thiering, Barbara (1996). Jesus of the Apocalypse: The Life of Jesus After the Crucifixion. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385405591. Thiering, Barbara (1998). The Book That Jesus Wrote: John's Gospel ...