If you labor hard to be a good Christian, concentrating on good works, it’s only natural to take Martha’s part. She’s tired, frazzled at trying unassisted to offer Jesus appropriate.
In this passage, Jesus is barred from entering a Samaritan village. That rejection was preceded by a long history, 700 years of enmity between Samaritans and Jews. Jesus seems to.
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The religious authorities of Jesus’ time wouldn’t have approved of him visiting the Gerasene demoniac. He traveled to a gentile city to talk to a violently insane man who lived.
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Nicodemus is the man to whom Jesus described the importance of being “born again.” Throughout Jesus’ ministry, Nicodemus does become a new, more honest, braver man. For him as for.
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Pentecost shows God’s intention to restore harmony among all humankind.
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John wrote the Book of Revelation in the first century after Jesus’ crucifixion, aiming his criticisms, admonitions and prophesies at the religious and political problems of his day. Two thousand…
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