Questions tagged [jesus]
Jesus of Nazareth is the central figure of the Christian New Testament.
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Was Jesus' cry in Mark 15:34-36 misunderstood for vinegar?
We read in Mark 25:34-36 how Jesus calls out "Eli, Eli..." before his death on the cross. The words are misinterpreted by some who say that he is calling Elijah. One person, however, runs ...
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When and for how long was Jesus fully dwelling within the Father, reflecting the concept of 'full habitation' mentioned in John 14:20? [duplicate]
"How do the analysis of the preposition εν in John 14:20, the correlations with other biblical verses such as:
Judges (A) 20:23, Judges (A) 21:7, 1 Samuel 2:1, 1 Samuel 10:22, 1 Samuel 23:2, 1 ...
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Why does Jesus say that calling anyone a fool will send us to hell?
I don't understand why Jesus says that calling anyone a fool will send us to hell. Does Jesus not want me in heaven? What happened to repentance? And faith in Jesus and his resurrection?
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Does Gabriel refer to Jesus as 'the Lord their God' meaning 'Israel's Lord and God'?
Speaking, prophetically, of the one to be born to Zacharias, Gabriel, the angel, says :
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be ...
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What does John 1:4 mean?
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
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In context, the verse appears to be talking about the pre-incarnate Christ (this is in the section that begins "in the ...
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Does Hebrews 9:26 indicate when Jesus first appeared?
Hebrews 9:26
for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of ...
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Is it a valid to see Jesus in the boat in Luke 5:3-4 and out of the boat in John 21:4-6 as symbolic physical presence with respect to the call?
In Luke 5:3-4 Jesus was in the boat when initiating the miraculous catch leading into the call for Peter to leave fishing for fish to fish for men (Luke 5:10-11) at the beginning of Jesus ministry on ...
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Parable of the Wicked Tenants (Mark 12:6, Matthew 21:37 Luke 20:13) - Does it imply that God did not send Jesus to Die?
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants (also call the Parable of the Landowner, etc.) is related in all three synoptic gospels with only minor variations. What struck me recently in reading it again is ...
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Did the imparting of the "gospel of Jesus Christ" start with the ministry of Jesus, or with the ministry of John the Baptist, or are they entwined?
Benson commentary on Mark 1:1-3:
The evangelist (Mark) speaks with strict propriety in this sentence ...
"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." Mark 1:1 NASB
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Is there any connection between the words "Nazarene" and "Nazarite"?
In Acts 24:5–18 Paul was accused of being the "leader of the sect of the Nazarenes". Some scholars assume that the term "Nazarite" which means consecrated, originated the name of ...
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What is the meaning of placing a sign on the chest?
A priest wears on his chest a breastplate, and inscribed on it are the precious gemstones of the twelve tribes of Israel. In the visions of John called the book of revelation one wears on his chest ...
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The date of Jesus' death supposed contradiction
John 19:31 says Jesus died before a High Sabbath. If we assume that High Sabbath is one of the seven annual Sabbaths then it'd be that the High Sabbath fall's on the first day of the feast of ...
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No man knows the day or the hour...Is the statement Jesus made to be considered timeless, or does Jesus now know the day and the hour?
When Jesus said
"No one knows the day or the hour" (Matt 24:36, Mark 13:32)
to His disciples what was the context? Did Jesus mean He wouldn't know until that very day and hour (like the ...
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Is "Seeing the Light" after "the suffering of His soul" a reference to the Resurrection of Jesus in Isaiah 53:11?
It is acknowledged by nearly all Christian denominations that Isaiah 53 is a prophetic reference to the crucifixion and substitutionary Death of none other than Jesus Christ.
And verses 8-10 ...
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Is chokhmah jesus?
The word Chokhmah (wisdom) is used in the Bible: (Prov 8:22–31), (Job 28:12–13, 20–1, 23–27), (Prov 8:22–31; cf. Sir 24:4; Wisdom 9:9–10).
Recently I saw an interpretation postulating that Chokhmah ...
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At the event of Jesus' last Passover, did Jesus bless/thank God or the bread?
Matthew 26:26-27 KJV
25 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. 26 And he took the cup, and gave ...
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Why did Jesus turn a productive fig tree into an unproductive one?
In the Septuagint, the translation of Genesis 38:21 is: "And he asks the men of the place, saying, 'Where is the holy harlot that was by the wayside?'". In this context, the Greek ...
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The geneology of Jesus according to John and Mark
If we focus only in the gospels of Mark and John, do these gospels try to promote the idea that Jesus was a decendant of King David, or they try to promote the idea, that a man do not have to be a ...
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Who raised Jesus from the dead?
Who raised Jesus from the dead?
Father
Ephesians 1:20
which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
Jesus
John 2:19-21
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Was the "Kingdom at Hand" (Matthew 4:17) postponed by the Jewish rejection of Jesus; did they have the power to trump Jesus's anticipation?
At Hand Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand (Matt. 4:17) Also see Be sure of this, that the Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. (Luke 10:11). The Greek is gar eggiken e basileia ton ouranon ...
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Was Jesus tired due to the stress of the journey, or was he tired from being in routes and among people who weren't his primary focus, the Jews? [closed]
Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.
Jn. 4:6 NET
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What are the scriptural implications of Jesus' usage, Sons of the Kingdom in Matthew 13:38?
Chapter 13 of Matthew contains several parables concerning the Kingdom of God. The illustration of The Weeds is one of them. In Jesus's interpretation of it, He stated that the good seed represent ...
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How to reconcile these statements by John the Baptist and Jesus?
(Jesus): What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger (Elijah) ahead of you, who will ...
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Is there any hint as to the Criteria Jesus was given by the Father for Choosing specific Apostles in Luke 6:12-16?
We know who was chosen but is there any indication of a criterion the Father gave to Jesus to choose them? Or is there subsequent conduct of the Apostles that would reveal that Criterion?
This was ...
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According to John 14:16-21, is Jesus the Comforter and Spirit of truth?
It appears that Jesus is speaking in third person because he states that he will send another comforter in v16 and then goes back to first person by saying that he will come to comfort the disciples ...
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Does "great tribulation" (Matthew 24:21) refer to a massive End Time trauma, or is it a general description of the Conquest of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.?
The NIV translated this verse as "great distress" (thlipsis megale, Gk.). "Distress being a common word used throughout the N.T. epistles to describe the adverse conditions that ...
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Cannibalism as God's judgement Ezekiel 5:9-10
In Ezekiel 5
9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the ...
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How can we tell what our gifting, calling and anointing are? [closed]
What is gifting, calling and anointing of the Holy Spirit
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St. Simeon the God-receiver and the Septuagint [closed]
St. Simeon the God-receiver was one of the seventy two scholars who came to Alexandria to translate the Holy Scriptures into Greek. God promised him that he would not die until the promised Messiah, ...
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What did Jesus mean when He said 'I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.'
I am studying what Jesus means when he said that he is the light of the world in John 8:12. Light as I understand it is used in the bible to contrast with darkness. Darkness being the deeds of evil ...
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Matthew 5:23-24 Confession and forgiveness
So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and ...
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Why are "Tax collectors and Sinners" usually mentioned together by the Pharisees?
If sinners refers to the hard core, notoriously evil people (1 Timothy 1:9), why are tax collectors singled out? (When Jesus is caught eating with them, Luke 15:1, Mark 2:15, Matthew 9:11, 11:19, Luke ...
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Did God forcefully make the Pharisees to not believe in Jesus? [closed]
Jesus accuses the Pharisees that if they believed Moses, they wold have believed him as Moses wrote about him in John 5:46-47
46For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about
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Why did Satan allow Jesus to be killed? [closed]
1 Corinthians 2:8 says:
the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for
if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of
glory
Mark 8:31-33 says:
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Why did Jesus say his testimony is not valid in John 5:31 and in John 8:14 Jesus says his testimony is valid? [duplicate]
Why did Jesus say his testimony is not valid in John 5:31 and in John 8:14 Jesus says his testimony is valid?
John 5:31 - If I bear witness concerning Myself, My testimony is not
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Why does John use a double "Verily, verily," (John 1:53, et al.) when the other Gospel writers use only one?
"Verily I say unto you" is common in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but John consistently uses the double "Verily, verily (Gk.amen, amen). (3:3, 3:5, 3:11, 5:19, 5:24, 25, 6:26, 32, 47, 53, 8:...
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Was "Verily, I say unto you" (Matthew 8:10) a phrase unique to Jesus, or was it taken from the Rabbis? What was the original source of this phrase?
Was this phrase one that Jesus coined to emphasize His authority, or did He adopt it from the rabbinical schools? Was it a common phrase by the Greek orators, or the Roman poets?
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Forgiven because or therefore forgiven in Luke 7:47
Was the woman of Luke 7:47 forgiven because she loved much or did she love much as a result of being forgiven ? What does the grammar of the Greek say ? ( or is the Greek vague and it could go either ...
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Was the use of the woman's hair to clean Jesus' feet considered an indecent act (Luke 7:36-50)?
As I was thinking about the cultural view of women's hair in the modern Middle East, and in the Ancient Near East too, it raised significant questions for me about the story in Luke 7:36-50 (I'm ...
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How does the reference to the "Lord of Glory" in 1 Corinthians 2:8 relate to the Book of Enoch?
None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. NET 1 Corinthians 2:8
And he said unto me: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask me regarding ...
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What prayers of Jesus did the Father answer in Hebrews 5:7?
“In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.”
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Who is "your God" in John 8:54?
For a large part of John 8, Jesus is having a discussion with the Jews about who his Father is and who their Father is.
John 8:54 Authorized KJV
Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is ...
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Why is Jude 1:5 translated 'Jesus' instead of 'Joshua'?
Jude 1:5 has major textual variants. One reads
"Ὑπομνῆσαι δὲ ὑμᾶς βούλομαι, εἰδότας ὑμᾶς ἅπαξ πάντα, ὅτι Ἰησοῦς λαὸν ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου σώσας τὸ δεύτερον τοὺς μὴ πιστεύσαντας ἀπώλεσεν"
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How could Nicodemeus anoint Jesus body with spices after the women left, if the stone was already in place?
John 19:38-40 - Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of
Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him
remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he ...
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Did Jesus commit the HOLY spirit in to the hands of the father ? Luke 23:44-48
From Luke's GOSPEL
I am asking last word of Jesus at the cross:
Luke 23:46 - Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your
hands I commit My spirit.” And when He had said this, He ...
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Why are all being told to partake of the emblems of the last supper? [closed]
Luke 22 is a great description of this event. Jesus said, "Keep on doing this in remembrance of me." It occurred on the night of the Passover, a celebration occurring once a year. Jesus' ...
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If Matthew thought Jesus was God why does he have a genealogy? [closed]
If Matthew believed Jesus is God and was the ‘word’ and existed before the world was created, why does he have a genealogy for Jesus in Matt 1?
Matt 11:28 - 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and ...
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How is Jesus from Judah's tribe? [closed]
Jesus had no biological father and we know that, according to the Pentateuch, the tribal lineage is passed through the father and the mother's genealogy is irrelevant. The argument of Zelophehad's ...
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Does God share all things with Jesus?
"and what is mine is all yours, and what is yours is mine; and I have been glorified in them. " Bible LXX Pbro. Guillermo jünemann beckchaefer
and all things that are mine are yours and ...
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What was Jesus afraid of? [duplicate]
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:28 KJV
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