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According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel ( Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being lowered from heaven ( Acts 10:11 ). A voice from heaven told Peter to kill and eat, but since the vessel (or ...
Cleaning symbiosis is a mutually beneficial association between individuals of two species, where one (the cleaner) removes and eats parasites and other materials from the surface of the other (the client). Cleaning symbiosis is well-known among marine fish, where some small species of cleaner fish, notably wrasses but also species in other ...
Salmon (biblical figure) Lunette in the Sistine Chapel of Salmon with Boaz and Obed. Salmon ( Hebrew: שַׂלְמוֹן Śalmōn) or Salmah (שַׂלְמָה Śalmā, Greek: Σαλμών) is a person mentioned in genealogies in both the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and in the New Testament . He was the son of Nahshon, married "Rachab" of ...
The Bible mentions animals from varying regions of the Middle East. The ostrich, for instance, a denizen of the torrid regions, and the camel, of the waterless districts around Palestine, are mentioned side by side with the roebuck and deer of the woody summits of Lebanon. This variety, greater probably in Palestine than in any other country in ...
Take the Bible for example. Though recognized as the word of the Lord, filled with his commandments and teachings, it has a surprising number of Christian jokes.
Cleaner fish. Cleaner fish are fish that show a specialist feeding strategy [1] by providing a service to other species, referred to as clients, [2] by removing dead skin, ectoparasites, and infected tissue from the surface or gill chambers. [2] This example of cleaning symbiosis represents mutualism and cooperation behaviour, [3] an ecological ...
Matthew 7:10. "The Sermont on the Mount", woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder, from his "Passion Christ und Antichrist", Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (1582). Matthew 7:10 is the tenth verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This verse presents the second of a ...
1. Matthew 17 is the seventeenth chapter in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament section of the Christian Bible. Jesus continues his final journey to Jerusalem ministering through Galilee. William Robertson Nicoll identifies "three impressive tableaux" in this chapter: the transfiguration, the epileptic boy and the temple tribute.