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• William Arthur NoblePeople

  William Arthur Noble (1866–1945) was a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the northern branch of American Methodism. He served in Korea from 1892 to 1934 and, after the death of William James Hall, took over and expanded the Methodist mission in Pyongyang.

• Mattie Wilcox NoblePeople

  Mattie Wilcox Noble (1872–1956) was an American missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church. From 1892 to 1934 she worked alongside her husband, William Arthur Noble, in evangelism and education among women in Seoul, Pyongyang, Suwon, and elsewhere. She also kept a mission journal over forty-two years.

• Healing of the Royal Official's SonBible

  The healing of the royal official's son is the miracle in which Jesus, while at Cana in Galilee, healed by his word alone the son of a royal official in Capernaum. It is recorded in John 4:46-54, and the Gospel of John calls it the "second miracle" or sign that Jesus performed after coming into Galilee.

• AhimelechPeople

  Ahimelech was the priest of Nob during the reign of King Saul. He was put to death at Saul's command for giving the fleeing David the holy bread and the sword of Goliath.

• Desmond TutuPeople

  Desmond Tutu (1931–2021) was a South African Anglican archbishop. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his opposition to apartheid, the system of racial segregation, and served as chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

• AbiatharPeople

  Abiathar was a priest in the days of Saul and David. The sole survivor of the massacre at Nob, he served David, but when Solomon came to the throne he was removed from the priesthood for having sided with Adonijah.

• DoegPeople

  Doeg was an Edomite who served as King Saul's chief herdsman. He denounced Ahimelech, the priest of Nob who had helped David, to Saul, and at Saul's command he killed eighty-five priests and the people of the city of Nob (1 Samuel 21–22).

• AhitubPeople

  Ahitub is the name of several members of priestly families in the Old Testament. It most often refers to the grandson of Eli and father of Ahimelech, the priest of Nob, though other priests bore the same name.

• 1 Samuel 22Bible

  1 Samuel 22 records how David, having fled from Saul, gathers a band of followers at the cave of Adullam, and how the priests of Nob, who had helped David, are killed at Saul's command by Doeg the Edomite.

• 1 Samuel 21Bible

  In this chapter David, fleeing from Saul, obtains the showbread and the sword of Goliath from Ahimelech the priest at Nob, then escapes danger by feigning madness before Achish, king of Gath.

• Parable of the MinasBible

  The Parable of the Minas is a parable of Jesus found in Luke 19:11-27. It tells of a nobleman who goes to a far country to receive a kingdom, entrusts one mina to each of ten servants, and on his return settles accounts with them.

• OsnapparPeople

  Osnappar is a figure mentioned only once, in Ezra 4:10, where he is described as the "great and noble" one who resettled various peoples in Samaria and in the land west of the Euphrates River. He is commonly identified with the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.

• Martin Luther King Jr.People

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was an American Baptist minister and a leader of the African American civil rights movement. He led a nonviolent movement to end racial discrimination in the United States and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

• T. S. EliotPeople

  Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) was an American-born British poet and critic. After publishing *The Waste Land*, he was baptized into the Church of England in 1927, and in 1948 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

• Nehemiah 5Bible

  Nehemiah 5 recounts how, during the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, it came to light that poor people were selling their children into servitude because of debts and taxes. Nehemiah then compelled the nobles and officials to stop charging interest and to return the property they held in pledge. The chapter closes with Nehemiah recalling his own conduct as governor, when he declined the governor's allowance.

• Albert SchweitzerPeople

  Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) was an Alsatian theologian, philosopher, organist, and physician. His The Quest of the Historical Jesus left a major mark on historical Jesus research, and his medical work at Lambaréné in Gabon, Africa, earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.

• John R. MottPeople

  John R. Mott (1865–1955) was an American Methodist lay leader. He led the Student Volunteer Movement, the YMCA, and the World Student Christian Federation, chaired the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.

• Mother TeresaPeople

  Mother Teresa (1910–1997) was a Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India, to care for the poor, the sick, and the dying. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was canonized by the Catholic Church in 2016.

• Theodore BezaPeople

  Theodore Beza (1519–1605) was a French-born Reformer. He succeeded John Calvin as leader of the church in Geneva and is known for his editions of the Greek New Testament and for his systematization of Reformed theology.