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428 articles found for “John the apostle”

• Bethesda

  [Bible]

  Bethesda was a pool by the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem where Jesus, on the Sabbath, healed a man who had been ill for thirty-eight years (John 5:1–18).

• Gospel

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The gospel means "good news." In Christianity it refers to the message that God saves people through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

• Mark 13:32–33

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage Jesus says that only the Father knows "that day and that hour" of his return, and he urges his hearers to keep watch. It is often cited against date-setting eschatology, and the phrase "neither the Son" has long been a point of contention in Christological debate.

• Lord's Day

  [Bible]

  A New Testament expression that, in Revelation 1:10, refers to the day on which Christians gathered for worship and, in the Epistles, to the last day, when Christ will return to judge.

• Christian Perfection

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Christian perfection is the teaching that believers can attain, in this life, a state of wholly loving God and neighbor. Systematized by John Wesley, it is regarded as a distinctive feature of Methodist and Holiness theology.

• Seven Seals

  [Bible]

  The seven seals are the seals that close the scroll held in the hand of God in Revelation 5–8. As the slain Lamb opens them one by one, war, famine, death, martyrdom, and cosmic upheaval follow in succession.

• Luke 5

  [Bible]

  Luke 5 is the chapter in which Jesus calls Simon Peter, James, and John as disciples by the lake of Gennesaret, heals a leper and a paralytic, calls Levi the tax collector, and answers a question about fasting.

• Revelation 2:8–11

  [Bible Verses]

  Revelation 2:8–11 is the letter from the risen Christ to the church in Smyrna. It encourages a suffering church and contains no rebuke. In Korean Protestant churches, its words "be thou faithful unto death" are often cited at ordination services and in sermons.

• Theodore Beza

  [People]

  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.

• Charles Wesley

  [People]

  Charles Wesley (1707–1788) was a priest of the Church of England and a hymn writer. With his elder brother John Wesley, he led the Methodist movement, and he is said to have written more than 6,500 hymns during his lifetime.

• Patmos

  [Bible]

  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.

• James (Brother of Jesus)

  [People]

  James is recorded as a brother of Jesus and became the leader of the church in Jerusalem after Jesus' resurrection. Church tradition identifies him as the author of the Epistle of James.

• Mark 10:45

  [Bible Verses]

  Mark 10:45 is a saying of Jesus: "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." The verse unites the theme of servant leadership with the meaning of substitutionary redemption and is a central text for the doctrine of the atonement.

• Hyssop

  [Bible]

  Hyssop is a plant used in Old Testament purification rites to sprinkle blood or water. It appears in connection with the Passover, the rite for cleansing from leprosy, Psalm 51, and the crucifixion scene in the Gospel of John.

• Theodore of Mopsuestia

  [People]

  Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350–428) was an early church theologian and biblical commentator and the leading representative of the Antiochene school. He served as bishop of Mopsuestia and was condemned after his death over Christological questions.

• Acts 19

  [Bible]

  Acts 19 records Paul's stay in Ephesus during his third missionary journey. There he baptizes disciples who had received only John's baptism, teaches for two years in the school of Tyrannus, and faces a riot stirred up by the silversmiths who made shrines of Artemis.

• Rhoda

  [People]

  Rhoda was a young girl in Jerusalem who appears in Acts 12. When Peter, newly released from prison, knocked at the gate of the house of Mary the mother of Mark, Rhoda recognized his voice and told those gathered inside.

• Acts 4:12

  [Bible Verses]

  Acts 4:12 records Peter's declaration before the Jewish supreme council: "Neither is there salvation in any other." It is a leading text for the confession that Jesus Christ alone is the way of salvation, and it is frequently cited in discussions of the salvation of adherents of other religions and of those who have never heard the gospel.

• Acts 3:17

  [Bible Verses]

  Acts 3:17 is a verse from Peter's sermon in Solomon's Porch. In it, Peter says that the people of Jerusalem and their rulers, who delivered Jesus to death, did so "through ignorance." The verse is often cited in discussions of the relationship between ignorance and guilt, its connection to the call to repentance, and the question of Jewish collective responsibility.

• Seven Churches of Asia

  [Bible]

  The seven churches of Asia are the seven churches in the Roman province of Asia to which Christ sent letters in Revelation 2–3. They are the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.