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• Mary the Mother of James

  [People]

  One of the women who followed Jesus from Galilee and ministered to him, she witnessed his crucifixion and burial and went to the empty tomb on the morning of the resurrection.

• Empty Tomb

  [Bible]

  The empty tomb is the event in which women went to the tomb of Jesus early on the first day of the week, the third day after his crucifixion and burial, and found the stone moved away and his body gone. All four Gospels record it.

• John 20

  [Bible]

  John 20 opens with Mary Magdalene's discovery of the empty tomb and recounts the appearances of the risen Jesus to Mary, to the disciples, and to Thomas. The chapter closes with a statement of the book's purpose.

• Joanna

  [People]

  Joanna is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward. She ministered to Jesus and his disciples out of her own means and was one of the women who brought news of the empty tomb to the apostles on the morning of the resurrection.

• Mary Magdalene

  [People]

  Mary Magdalene was a woman disciple who followed Jesus from the time of his Galilean ministry. All four Gospels record that she witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus and the empty tomb, and the Gospel of John presents her as the first person to meet the risen Jesus.

• Mary

  [People]

  Mary is the woman presented in the New Testament as the mother of Jesus Christ. Protestants and Catholics both confess the virgin birth, but they differ in their understanding of Mary's status and of the veneration due to her.

• Betrothal

  [Bible]

  In the Bible, betrothal (espousal) is the stage before marriage in which a man and a woman become legally bound to each other. It appears in Old Testament law and in the account of Mary and Joseph, and it also serves as an image of the relationship between God and his people and between Christ and the church.

• Preexistence of Christ

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The preexistence of Christ is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ existed with the Father before his human birth and before creation.

• John 20:31

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse in which the author of the Gospel of John states the purpose of the book: that readers might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing they might have life through his name. It is frequently cited as a key to reading the Gospel of John as a whole.

• Chuza

  [People]

  Chuza was the steward of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. He was the husband of Joanna, one of the women who ministered to Jesus and his company out of their own means, and he is named only once in Scripture, in Luke 8:3.

• Diakonia

  [Bible]

  Diakonia is a Greek word meaning "service," "ministry," or "office." In the New Testament it refers to the service of Jesus, almsgiving, the ministry of the word, and church office.

• Reunification and the Church

  [Controversies]

  Reunification and the Church refers to the debate over how the church should understand and pursue the overcoming of the division between North and South Korea and the proclamation of the gospel in North Korea. One position gives priority to peace and exchange, while the other gives priority to evangelism and religious freedom.

• Matthew 5:39

  [Bible Verses]

  Matthew 5:39 is the verse in which Jesus teaches his hearers not to resist an evil person and, if someone strikes them on the right cheek, to turn the other also. It stands at the center of interpretive debates that extend beyond the prohibition of personal retaliation to questions of war, violence, and military service.

• Matthew 5:38–42

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus teaches a life of non-retaliation in place of the principle of retaliation, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." Because it bears on nonviolence and pacifism, state authority, and the protection of victims, it has received a range of interpretations.

• John 10:16

  [Bible Verses]

  In the Good Shepherd discourse, Jesus says that he has "other sheep... which are not of this fold" whom he must also bring, so that there will be "one flock" (KJV: "one fold") under one shepherd. The verse is often cited in support of the mission to the Gentiles and of church unity, and interpreters differ over the identity of the "other sheep."

• Parable of the Friend at Midnight

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Friend at Midnight is a parable of Jesus recorded in Luke 11:5–8. It teaches about prayer through the story of a man who receives a guest at midnight and asks his neighbor for bread.

• Parable of the Tares

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Tares is a parable of Jesus about the kingdom of God and the final judgment. In it, an enemy sows tares in a wheat field, and the owner lets them grow alongside the wheat until the harvest. It appears only in the Gospel of Matthew.

• Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl

  [Bible]

  The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl are two brief parables of Jesus recorded in Matthew 13:44-46. They convey the worth of the kingdom of God by depicting a person who discovers it and joyfully sells everything he owns to obtain it.

• Crusades

  [History]

  The Crusades were a series of military expeditions undertaken by Catholic Western Europe from the late eleventh to the late thirteenth century at the call of the popes, with the stated aim of recovering Jerusalem and the other holy places from Muslim powers.

• Book of the Wars of the Lord

  [Bible]

  The Book of the Wars of the Lord is an ancient Israelite book cited once, in Numbers 21:14. It is thought to have been a collection of poems celebrating the battles God fought on Israel's behalf, and it is no longer extant.