Mark's gospel is playing with that issue ... and anoints his feet and the disciples criticize her for for anointing him. Jesus says, "she's already anointed me for my burial and her action ...
Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...
This anointing of Jesus was a symbol of his imminent death. The word Messiah means ‘anointed one’. It was common for the dead to be anointed before they were buried.
Luke portrays Jesus’ family observantly going to Jerusalem, but in Matthew they avoid the city. This Gospel was apparently written in the mid-80s. The traditional point of origin is Antioch in Syria, ...
The Death of Jesus: Four Gospel Accounts, is an online, self-paced mini-course written and narrated by Philip A. Cunningham, former Executive Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at ...
It has often been called the "spiritual gospel" because of the way that it portrays Jesus. If Matthew's Jesus resembles Moses and Luke's Jesus resembles a Greek philosopher or a semi-divine hero ...
Crafted from pure olive oil sourced from the Galilee, where Jesus once walked, anointing oil from Jerusalem ... This ritual ...
Singer and evangelist Kas Shobayo, popularly known as Kas Beats, has stated that gospel musicians deserve to be paid for ...
In 2 Timothy Paul says, “Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus” (2:3). Following this Paul speaks of his imprisonment for the preaching of the Gospel, “the gospel ...
Jesus was part of the crowd around John and was baptized by John. In Luke’s account, in prayer and subsequent to his baptism, ...