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Court of the Gentiles
[Bible]The Court of the Gentiles was the large outermost court of the Jerusalem temple as enlarged by Herod, a space that non-Jews were also permitted to enter. It is commonly understood to be the site where Jesus cleansed the temple.
Parable of the Net
[Bible]The Parable of the Net is a parable in Matthew 13:47-50 in which Jesus likens the kingdom of heaven to a net that gathers fish of every kind. It teaches about judgment, declaring that at the end of the world the angels will separate the wicked from among the just.
Works of the Flesh
[Bible]The works of the flesh are a catalog of sins that the apostle Paul lists in Galatians 5:19–21 in contrast to the fruit of the Spirit. The list includes sexual immorality, idolatry, strife, and drunkenness, among other items, and closes with "and such like." The New Korean Revised Version renders it as fifteen items.
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
[Bible]The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple is the event in which Joseph and Mary brought the infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem and presented him to God after the period of purification prescribed by the Law had passed. It is recorded in Luke 2.
Symbolic Actions of the Prophets
[Bible]The symbolic actions of the prophets are acts by which Old Testament prophets conveyed God's message visibly, not only in words but through gestures, objects, and their own lives.
Parables of the Kingdom
[Bible]The parables of the kingdom are the parables in which Jesus described the reign of God with the words "The kingdom of heaven is like unto…"; in the narrower sense, the term refers to the seven parables of Matthew 13.
Healing of the Blind Man at Bethsaida
[Bible]The healing of the blind man at Bethsaida is a miracle in which Jesus spat on the eyes of a blind man at Bethsaida and laid his hands on him twice, restoring his sight in stages. Of the four Gospels, it appears only in Mark 8:22–26.
Parable of the Barren Fig Tree
[Bible]The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree is a parable of Jesus found in Luke 13:6–9. In it, the owner of a vineyard wants to cut down a fig tree that has borne no fruit for three years, but the vinedresser asks him to leave it one more year. The parable calls for repentance and illustrates the patience of God.
Crossing of the Jordan
[Bible]The crossing of the Jordan is the event in which the Israelites, led by Joshua and preceded by the Ark of the Covenant, crossed the Jordan River on dry ground and entered Canaan. It is recorded in Joshua 3–4.
Massacre of the Innocents
[Bible]The Massacre of the Innocents was the killing, ordered by King Herod, of all male children two years old and under in Bethlehem and its surrounding region in an attempt to eliminate the newborn "King of the Jews." It is recorded only in Matthew 2.
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.
Healing of the Centurion's Servant
[Bible]The healing of the centurion's servant is a miracle in which Jesus, at Capernaum, healed the sick servant of a Roman army centurion by his word alone. Recorded in Matthew 8 and Luke 7, the account is known for Jesus' commendation of a Gentile's faith.
Consecration of the Priests
[Bible]The consecration of the priests was the seven-day ceremony in which Moses installed Aaron and his sons as priests of Israel. The command for it is recorded in Exodus 29, and its performance in Leviticus 8.
Parable of the Growing Seed
[Bible]The Parable of the Growing Seed is a parable of Jesus found only in Mark 4:26–29. It describes the kingdom of God through the image of seed sown in the ground that grows, without the sower knowing how, until the harvest.
Healing of the Royal Official's Son
[Bible]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.
Anointing of the Sick
[Worship & Rites]The Anointing of the Sick is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, a rite in which a priest prays over a gravely ill or frail elderly person and anoints him or her with consecrated oil. Protestant churches do not recognize it as a sacrament.
Resurrection of the Body
[Doctrine & Theology]The resurrection of the body is the Christian doctrine that on the last day the bodies of the dead will be raised and reunited with their souls. It is one of the articles confessed in the Apostles' Creed.
Parable of the Great Banquet
[Bible]The Parable of the Great Banquet is a parable of Jesus recorded in Luke 14:15–24. When the invited guests make excuses and fail to come, the host calls in the poor and people from the roadsides to fill his banquet.
Bride of the Lamb
[Bible]The Bride of the Lamb is an expression in the Book of Revelation for the bride who is married to the Lamb, Jesus Christ. It is commonly read as a symbol of God's redeemed people, that is, the church.
Book of the Covenant
[Bible]The Book of the Covenant is the book that Moses read aloud to the people in Exodus 24:7. In scholarship and in the church, the name is commonly applied to the collection of laws in Exodus 20:22–23:33.