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• Captain of Fifty

  A captain of fifty is an Old Testament title for a person who governed or commanded a unit of fifty people. The title appears in passages such as Exodus 18 and 2 Kings 1.

• Ruler of Tens

  A ruler of tens was a leader placed over a unit of ten Israelites who governed them and judged minor disputes. The office appears in Exodus 18 and Deuteronomy 1.

• Captain of Thousands

  A captain of thousands is the biblical term for a leader who governed or commanded a unit of one thousand. In the Old Testament it denotes a judicial and military office within Israel; in the New Testament it refers chiefly to a commander in the Roman army.

• Exodus 18

  Exodus 18 is the chapter in which Jethro, the priest of Midian, brings Moses' wife and two sons to him in the wilderness and praises God. He then advises Moses, who is worn out from judging the people, to appoint rulers of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens to share the work.

• Ruler of the Synagogue

  The ruler of the synagogue was the official responsible for leading worship and assemblies in Jewish synagogues during the New Testament period. Jairus in the Gospels and Crispus and Sosthenes in the Acts of the Apostles are identified as rulers of the synagogue.

• Hananiah (Ruler of the Citadel)

  Hananiah was the ruler of the citadel (fortress) of Jerusalem mentioned in Nehemiah 7:2. After the city wall was rebuilt, Nehemiah placed Jerusalem in his charge together with Nehemiah's brother Hanani. Scripture describes him as a faithful man who feared God above many.

• Crispus

  Crispus was the ruler of the synagogue in Corinth who, together with his entire household, believed in Jesus during the apostle Paul's ministry there. He is recorded as one of the few people whom Paul personally baptized.

• Jairus

  Jairus was a ruler of the synagogue named in the Gospels of Mark and Luke. He sought Jesus' help for his dying twelve-year-old daughter, and Jesus raised her to life.

• Sosthenes

  Sosthenes is a first-century figure in the New Testament. The Book of Acts presents him as a ruler of the synagogue in Corinth, and First Corinthians names him as the "brother" who joined Paul in sending the letter. Scholars disagree over whether the two references refer to the same person.

• Zebul

  Zebul is a figure in Judges 9 who served as the official (ruler) in charge of the city of Shechem during Abimelech's rule. He secretly informed Abimelech of Gaal's rebellion and drove Gaal out of the city.

• Raising of Jairus's Daughter

  The raising of Jairus's daughter is the miracle in which Jesus restored to life the twelve-year-old daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, after she had died. The account appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

• Peace of Augsburg

  The Peace of Augsburg was a religious settlement proclaimed on September 25, 1555, at the Imperial Diet of Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire. By allowing the ruler of each territory to choose between Catholicism and Lutheranism, it granted Lutheranism legal recognition for the first time.

• Malchiah (Son of Rechab)

  Malchiah, the son of Rechab, was the ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem in the time of Nehemiah. During the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, he repaired the Dung Gate.

• Woman with the Issue of Blood

  The woman with the issue of blood is an unnamed woman who, according to the Synoptic Gospels, suffered for twelve years from bleeding that would not stop and was healed when she touched the garment of Jesus.

• Nicodemus

  Nicodemus is a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews who appears only in the Gospel of John. He came to Jesus by night and spoke with him about being born again, and after Jesus' death he joined Joseph of Arimathea in burying him.

• Philip the Tetrarch

  Philip the Tetrarch was a son of Herod the Great who ruled as tetrarch over Ituraea and Trachonitis, the region northeast of the Sea of Galilee. In the New Testament, his name appears in Luke 3:1.

• John 3:3–5

  The passage in which Jesus tells the Pharisee Nicodemus, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." It is the source of the expression "born again" (regeneration), and denominations differ over whether being "born of water and of the Spirit" refers to baptism.

• Mark 5

  Mark 5 is the chapter in which Jesus heals a demon-possessed man called "Legion" in the country of the Gerasenes and, after returning across the sea, heals a woman who had suffered from an issue of blood for twelve years and raises the daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue.

• Talitha Koum

  Talitha koum is the Aramaic phrase Jesus spoke when he raised the dead daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue. It appears in Mark 5:41 and means "Little girl, arise."

• Gog and Magog

  Gog and Magog are names that appear in Ezekiel 38–39 and Revelation 20 for hostile forces that come against the people of God in the last days. Magog also appears in Genesis 10 as a son of Japheth.