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What we do know is that Jesus was a Jew and a descendant from the tribe of Judah. He was specifically a descendant of David, King of Israel, who was described by the prophet Samuel as not being black or dark skinned but looking "ruddy," meaning red or reddish color. And Samuel said to Jesse (David's father and a person in the lineage of Jesus ...
They had sex like any normal couple at the time and from it produced a large family of four sons and (at least) two daughters. The children Mary and Joseph produced were named James, Joseph, Simon, Judas (Jude) and at least two daughters. Those in their small hometown of Nazareth were well acquainted with the family and personally knew the ...
The word translated "race" in Romans 9:3 comes from the Greek word suggenes (Strong's Concordance Number #G4773). The word means a relative (by blood) and by extension a fellow countryman. Thayer's Greek Definitions agrees with this assessment. A more accurate translation of Romans 9:3 is, "Causing me even to wish myself to be accursed from ...
David represented the 13th generation from Abraham in the family tree (the 33rd Biblical generation on earth). He was the youngest of Jesse's eight sons. The prophet Samuel anointed David Israel's new king c. 1025 B.C. when he was roughly fifteen years old. He would not end up ruling, however, until he turned thirty years old in 1010.
The first James in Scripture is the son of Zebedee and Salome (cf. Matthew 27:56 with Mark 15:40) who is the Apostle John's older brother (making him Jesus' cousin). This identifies Zebedee and Clopas as being the same individual. The second James, a son of Alpheus, was a disciple of Christ. It is not at all clear whether this is the same James ...
Three of the four Gospel accounts record their attempt to get someone near Jesus to get his attention and let him know what they want. But while He (Jesus) was still speaking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and His brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak with Him (Matthew 12:46, HBFV, see also Mark 3:31, Luke 8:19).
Frankincense is one of several gifts brought by the Parthian Magi when they came to worship Jesus Christ sometime after his birth. Frankincense, which is yellowish in color, is a dry, rather odorous resin that although grown in Palestine was also imported from Arabia (Jeremiah 6:20, Isaiah 60:6).
A Roman historian named Gaius Suetonius Tranquillas, who was the chief secretary of Emperor Hadrian and who had access to the imperial records, mentions Jesus in a section he wrote concerning the reign of Emperor Claudius. He refers to Christ using the variant spelling of "Chrestus." "Because the Jews at Rome caused continuous disturbances at ...
The travels of Mary and Joseph from Egyptian territory all the way north to Nazareth is a journey of more than 140 miles (225 kilometers, see Luke 2:39 - 40)! Jesus spends his childhood and young adult years living in Nazareth (which fulfills the prophecy stated in Matthew 2:23). After the death of his step-father sometime between his 12th and ...
Mary is the first human Jesus chose to reveal himself alive to, early Sunday morning, after God brought him back from the dead the previous day (Mark 16:9 - 11, John 20:11 - 18). Jesus miraculously appears to two men while they are walking to Emmaus (Luke 24:13 - 33), a small village that was roughly seven miles (11.2 kilometers) from Jerusalem.