John the Baptist represents the last of the Old Covenant prophets. Mary exemplifies the obedient servant of the Lord. The Pharisees are a consistent foil to Jesus' message. The scribes (Scripture ...

Large wine bottles simply didn't exist. Wine was sometimes put into earthenware vessels, but these were fragile and highly ...

From the context of Matthew’s calling as one of the Twelve Disciples (Matthew 9:9), it is not surprising that most scholars ...

John’s rebuke to the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism ... “Muslims in this country are proud that the Christian prophet, John the Baptist, lived here and that Jesus healed ...

the mother of St. John the Baptist; (3) the Nativity, or birth, of Our Lord; (4) the Presentation of the Child Jesus in the temple—His parents offered Him to God; (5) the finding of the Child ...

As a child growing up in a Baptist church in Missouri, I was admonished continually to make reading the Bible a part of life’s everyday routine. There was a suggestion that having the Bible translated ...

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

A jury found that the defendants didn’t violate Joy Banner’s right to free speech or the Louisiana Open Meetings Law. But ...

was a Pharisee (see John 3). And in Luke 13:31, a Pharisee comes to warn Jesus that Herod wanted him killed. But perhaps the most interesting and consequential mention of "friendly" Pharisees ...