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Elymas (/ ˈɛlɪməs /; Ancient Greek: Ἐλύμας; [ 1 ]c.1st century AD), also known as Bar-Jesus (Ancient Greek: Βαριησοῦς, [ 1 ] Imperial Aramaic: Bar-Shuma, Latin: Bariesu), is a Jew described in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 13, [ 2 ] in the New Testament. He is referred to as a mágos (μάγος), which the King James ...
Paul[ a ] also named Saul of Tarsus[ b ], commonly known as Paul the Apostle[ 7 ] and Saint Paul, [ 8 ] was a Christian apostle (c.5 – c. 64/65 AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. [ 9 ] For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic ...
Gethsemane. Gethsemane (/ ɡɛθˈsɛməni /) [a] is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion. It is a place of great resonance in Christianity. There are several small olive ...
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Luca Giordano, 1690, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio, 1600. The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and the "road to Damascus" event) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early ...
Engraved plaque containing Apostle Paul's sermon, at the Areopagus, Athens, Greece. The Areopagus sermon refers to a sermon delivered by Apostle Paul in Athens, at the Areopagus, and recounted in Acts 17:16–34. [1][2] The Areopagus sermon is the most dramatic and most fully-reported speech of the missionary career of Saint Paul and followed a ...
The lesson of the widow's mite or the widow's offering is presented in the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:41–44, Luke 21:1–4), in which Jesus is teaching at the Temple in Jerusalem. The Gospel of Mark specifies that two mites (Greek lepta) are together worth a quadrans, the smallest Roman coin. A lepton was the smallest and least valuable coin ...
5. Acts 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas to Cyprus and Pisidia. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of ...
v. t. e. The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extant Christian documents. They provide an insight into the beliefs and controversies of early ...