18) The parables which most closely resemble Jesus' are those in the Old Testament and rabbinic literature ... exemplary story (sometimes called illustration). It is unfortunate that the word ...

Discover the universal message of Jesus' human ancestry in the New Testament, connecting him to the divine and emphasizing ...

Jesus says to the Samaritan women ... prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament. As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of baptism ...

"the books," an expression Hellenistic Jews used to describe their sacred books several centuries before the time of Jesus. Christians adopted the phrase "Old Testament" to refer to these sacred ...