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Gadara
[Bible]Gadara was a Hellenistic city southeast of the Sea of Galilee. In Matthew 8:28, the "country of the Gadarenes" is the place where Jesus healed two demon-possessed men.
Mark 6:13
[Bible Verses]A verse recording that the twelve disciples, sent out by Jesus, cast out demons and healed the sick by anointing them with oil. It is frequently cited in support of anointing the sick and of divine healing ministry, and interpreters differ over its relationship to the Catholic sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.
Parable of the Two Sons
[Bible]The Parable of the Two Sons is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 21:28-32. It contrasts a son who refused his father's request but afterward changed his mind and went to work with a son who said he would go but did not.
Two Witnesses
[Bible]The Two Witnesses are two prophetic figures in Revelation 11 who prophesy for 1,260 days, are killed by the beast, and then come back to life and ascend to heaven. Interpreters differ over who they are.
Two-Source Hypothesis
[Doctrine & Theology]The Two-Source Hypothesis holds that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were written using both the Gospel of Mark and a hypothetical collection of the sayings of Jesus called "Q." It is one of the leading theories proposed to explain the Synoptic Problem.
Two Kingdoms Doctrine
[Doctrine & Theology]The two kingdoms doctrine is a Protestant teaching that God governs the world in two ways: through a spiritual government, in which he rules faith by his Word, and through a temporal government, in which the state and the law preserve social order.
The Two Natures of Christ
[Doctrine & Theology]The two natures of Christ is the doctrine that Jesus Christ possesses, in one person, both a truly divine nature (divinity) and a truly human nature (humanity). It was formally defined at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
The Widow's Two Mites
[Bible]The widow's two mites refers to the incident in which Jesus, watching at the treasury of the Temple in Jerusalem, saw a poor widow put in two mites, all that she had, and declared that she had put in more than anyone else. It is recorded in the Gospels of Mark and Luke.
Feeding of the Five Thousand
[Bible]The Feeding of the Five Thousand is the miracle in which Jesus Christ fed a crowd of about five thousand men, not counting women and children, with five loaves of bread and two fish. It is recorded in all four Gospels.
Lot's Daughters
[People]Lot's daughters are the two daughters of Lot who appear in Genesis 19. They escaped with their father when Sodom was destroyed and later bore sons by him, becoming the ancestors of the Moabites and the Ammonites.
Sending of the Seventy
[Bible]The Sending of the Seventy is an event in which Jesus appointed seventy others, apart from the Twelve, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every town he intended to visit. It is recorded only in Luke 10.
Hypostatic Union
[Doctrine & Theology]The hypostatic union is the Christological teaching that in the one person of Jesus Christ true divinity and true humanity are joined in a single hypostasis (person), without being mixed or divided.
Revelation 11:4
[Bible Verses]Revelation 11:4 identifies the "two witnesses" of Revelation 11 as "the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks." The imagery comes from the vision in Zechariah 4. Interpreters disagree about who the two witnesses are. In Korea, groups regarded as heretical have frequently cited the verse in support of their teachings.
Tablets of the Covenant
[Bible]The Tablets of the Covenant are the two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. Scripture also calls them the tables of testimony and records that they were kept inside the Ark of the Covenant.
Ezekiel 17
[Bible]Ezekiel 17 uses the parable of two eagles and a vine to rebuke the king of Judah for breaking his covenant with Babylon and relying on Egypt. The chapter closes with God's promise of restoration: He will plant a tender twig from the top of a cedar on a high mountain.
Matthew 18:20
[Bible Verses]Matthew 18:20 records a promise of Jesus: "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." It is widely used to offer comfort that Christ is present even in small gatherings, although some interpreters note that its original context concerns the church's judgment and prayer.
The Seventy Disciples
[Bible]The Seventy Disciples were a group of disciples whom Jesus Christ appointed in addition to the Twelve and sent ahead of him, two by two, into every city and place he was about to visit. They appear only in Luke 10. Some manuscripts and translations give their number as seventy-two.
Dyothelitism
[Doctrine & Theology]Dyothelitism is the Christological doctrine that Jesus Christ possesses two wills, a divine will and a human will, in one person. It was formulated in opposition to monothelitism.
Aram-naharaim
[Bible]Aram-naharaim, meaning "Aram of the two rivers," is an Old Testament place name. It is generally understood to refer to northern Mesopotamia along the upper Euphrates, particularly the region around Haran. Following the Septuagint, many translations render it as "Mesopotamia" in most of its occurrences.
The House Built on the Rock
[Bible]The house built on the rock is a parable Jesus told at the close of His sermons in Matthew 7 and Luke 6. It compares the person who hears His words and does them to a man who built his house upon a rock, and the person who hears but does not do them to a man who built his house upon the sand.