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• Barabbas

  Barabbas was the prisoner whom Pontius Pilate, during the trial of Jesus, offered for release in keeping with the Passover custom. All four Gospels report that the crowd demanded his release instead of Jesus' and that he was set free.

• High Priestly Prayer

  The High Priestly Prayer is the extended prayer of Jesus Christ recorded in John 17. Jesus offered it just before his Passion for himself, for his disciples, and for those who would later believe. It takes its name from the idea that he intercedes for his people as a high priest does.

• John 19:34–35

  After Jesus died on the cross, a soldier pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water came out. The passage then states that the one who saw this bears true witness. It is read as confirmation of Jesus' actual death and is often interpreted symbolically in connection with baptism and the Lord's Supper.

• Elymas

  Elymas, also called Bar-Jesus, was a Jewish sorcerer who, according to Acts 13, opposed the preaching of Paul and Barnabas at Paphos on Cyprus and was struck temporarily blind.

• Resurrection

  Resurrection refers both to the event in which Jesus Christ, having died on the cross, rose again, and to the Christian belief that on the last day the dead will be raised bodily.

• Shincheonji

  Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (Shincheonji), is a new religious movement founded by Lee Man-hee in 1984 in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Major Korean Protestant denominations, including the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap), the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapdong), and the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church, have declared it heretical.

• Mary

  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.

• Ascension

  The Ascension is the event in which the risen Jesus Christ, after appearing to his disciples for forty days following his resurrection, was taken up into heaven, and it is also the doctrine concerning that event. It is confessed in the Apostles' Creed and commemorated in the liturgical calendar on Ascension Day.

• Parable

  A parable is a form of speech that conveys spiritual truth through comparison with everyday objects or stories familiar to the listener. In the church the term usually refers to the parables of Jesus recorded in the Gospels, which deal chiefly with the kingdom of God.

• 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.

• James (Brother of the Lord)

  James is a New Testament figure identified as "the Lord's brother" and was a leader of the early church in Jerusalem. Tradition holds that he wrote the Epistle of James.

• Matthew 19:3–9

  A passage in which Jesus, questioned by the Pharisees about divorce, answers by appealing to the order of marriage established at creation and names "fornication" as an exception. It is frequently discussed because denominations differ on how far it permits divorce and remarriage.

• Mark 10:2-12

  The passage in which the Pharisees ask Jesus whether divorce is lawful, and Jesus answers by appealing to the order of creation: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." It is among the texts most frequently cited in discussions of marriage, divorce, and remarriage, and interpreters differ over whether it allows any exceptions.

• Temptation of Christ

  The temptation of Christ is the event in which Jesus Christ, after his baptism, fasted for forty days in the wilderness and was tempted by the devil. It is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

• The Transfiguration

  The Transfiguration is the event, recorded in the Synoptic Gospels, in which Jesus was transformed in appearance on a high mountain before Peter, James, and John, and Moses and Elijah appeared and talked with him.

• The Ten Lepers

  An account in which Jesus heals ten lepers on his way to Jerusalem, but only one of them, a Samaritan, returns to give thanks. It appears only in Luke 17:11-19.

• Peter's Denial

  Peter's denial refers to the episode on the night of Jesus' arrest when the disciple Peter, in the courtyard of the high priest's house, denied three times that he knew Jesus. It is recorded in all four Gospels.

• Resurrection Appearances

  The resurrection appearances are the occasions on which Jesus Christ, having died on the cross and risen again, showed himself to his disciples and others before his ascension.

• Anointing at Bethany

  The anointing at Bethany is the event in which a woman poured costly ointment on Jesus in Bethany, near Jerusalem, a few days before his crucifixion. Jesus said that she had prepared beforehand for his burial.

• Salome

  Salome was a female disciple who followed Jesus from Galilee. According to the Gospel of Mark, she watched the crucifixion and went to the tomb with spices on the morning of the resurrection.