Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
The doctrine of the Essenes is this:–That all things are best ascribed to God. They teach the immortality of souls, and esteem that the rewards of righteousness are to be earnestly striven for; and when they send what they have dedicate…
Was the ministry of Jesus 3 1/2 years or 70 weeks?
"The Gospels record that exactly seventy weeks – four hundred and ninety days – transpired from the day that Yeshua was baptized in water until the day he fulfilled his initial missio…
In response to the query on why Jesus’ disciples did not fast like those of John the Baptist, Jesus tells the parable of New Wine in Old Wineskins in the Gospels viz. Matthew 9:14–17, Mark 2:21–22, and Luke 5:33–39.
Interestingly, Luke ad…
Mark 14:49:
Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts,
and you did not arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.
I understand this as "although I was everyday in the temple, you didn’t come to arrest me. But as …
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts are all written in a narrative style, but are treated as biographies of Jesus and his apostles. Are there other examples in the ancient world of a biographical account of a real person being written in …
Why did the disciples, and the mother of James and John, seem so concerned about their status within the group of disciples? eg Mark 9 – but others too.
I am wondering if there is more to this than pride – which is surely part of the answe…
The Vatican library contains a medieval manuscript of the four Gospels in Hebrew (vat. ebr. 100)
This site publishes the manuscripts with an English translation. The authors see in it an – at least partially – original text, with good reas…
Acts 8:34-40
New American Standard Bible 1995
34 The eunuch answered Philip and said, “Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself or of someone else?” 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture h…
All four gospels record Peter denying Jesus 3 times, but it seems they record different events. Either they can all be reconciled to three, or there were more than three denials. Looking at the contexts of the denials, it seems that Peter …
Why does Mary Magdalene tell the John and Peter:
we do not know where they have laid him (see John 20:2)
if she and the other women were already told by the angels that Jesus had risen (see Luke 24:1-12)?
Matthew 27:24 KJV — When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but
that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands
before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just
person: see ye to it.
Mark 15:…
Luke 17:33-37 says,
“Remember Lot’s wife.
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever
shall lose his life shall preserve it.
I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the
one shall be …