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• Holy SaturdayFeasts & Seasons

  Holy Saturday is the Saturday of Holy Week, the day between Good Friday and Easter on which the church remembers that Jesus Christ lay in the tomb.

• NahshonPeople

  Nahshon was the leader of the tribe of Judah during the wilderness period after the Exodus. The son of Amminadab and the brother-in-law of Aaron, he appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.

• AmminadabPeople

  Amminadab was a man of the tribe of Judah, the son of Ram and the father of Nahshon and Elisheba. He was the father-in-law of Aaron, and his name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.

• HezronPeople

  Hezron, the son of Perez and grandson of Judah, is an Old Testament figure whose name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ. The clan of the Hezronites within the tribe of Judah descended from him.

• RamPeople

  Ram was an Old Testament figure of the tribe of Judah, the son of Hezron and the father of Amminadab. His name appears in the genealogies of David in Ruth and 1 Chronicles and in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.

• MariologyDoctrine & Theology

  Mariology is the field of theology concerned with the identity and role of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. Understandings differ considerably among the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions.

• Special RevelationDoctrine & Theology

  Special revelation is a theological term for God's disclosure of Himself and His saving will through particular means such as prophecy, historical events, Jesus Christ, and Scripture, as distinguished from general revelation through nature and conscience.

• Light to the GentilesBible

  "Light to the Gentiles" is an expression in the Book of Isaiah describing the mission given to the Servant of God to bring salvation beyond Israel to all nations. The New Testament applies it to Jesus Christ and to the preaching of the gospel.

• Psalm 16Bible

  Psalm 16, titled "Michtam of David," is a psalm of trust confessing that the LORD alone is the psalmist's good and inheritance and that the LORD will not abandon him even in the face of death. The New Testament cites it as testimony to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

• PatmosBible

  Patmos is a small island in the Aegean Sea. In Revelation 1:9 it appears as the place where John was staying "for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ" and where he received his revelation.

• Truth (Biblical Concept)Bible

  In the Bible, truth denotes what is genuine rather than false. In the Old Testament it refers to the faithfulness of God, and in the New Testament it refers especially to Jesus Christ and his word.

• Romans 3Bible

  Romans 3 concludes that Jews and Gentiles alike are under sin and declares that the righteousness of God is received not by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 3Bible

  In 1 Corinthians 3, Paul rebukes the factional strife in the Corinthian church, teaching that ministers are merely God's fellow workers, that the church's only foundation is Jesus Christ, and that the church is the temple of God.

• Romans 5Bible

  Romans 5 describes the peace with God and the hope enjoyed by those who have been justified by faith, and it contrasts the sin and death that entered through Adam with the grace and life that come through Jesus Christ.

• Galatians 1Bible

  Galatians 1 is the first chapter of Paul's letter to the churches of Galatia. Immediately after the greeting, Paul rebukes believers who have turned to "another gospel." He then defends his apostleship and his gospel as coming not from man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ, recounting his activities after his conversion.

• 2 John 1Bible

  2 John 1 is the whole of 2 John, a book consisting of a single chapter. In this short letter "the elder" urges the elect lady and her children to love one another and warns them against deceivers who deny that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.

• Anne (Mother of Mary)People

  Anne is known from the second-century apocryphal Protoevangelium of James as the wife of Joachim and the mother of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. She does not appear in the canonical Bible.

• IsaiahBible

  Isaiah is the first of the prophetic books of the Old Testament and consists of sixty-six chapters. It contains prophecies of judgment, restoration, and the Messiah, and Christians have long read it as a book containing many passages that point to Jesus Christ.

• BoazPeople

  Boaz is a man of Bethlehem who appears in the Book of Ruth. He married Ruth, a Moabite woman, and fathered Obed. He was the great-grandfather of David and is listed in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.

• Isaiah 9:1–7Bible Verses

  Isaiah 9:1–7 is a prophecy proclaiming that light will shine on the land of Galilee, darkened by the Assyrian invasion, and that a child will be born who will reign on the throne of David with judgment and with justice. Christians read it as a prophecy of the birth of Jesus Christ and of his ministry in Galilee, and it is widely read at Christmas.