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• Acts of Peter

  The Acts of Peter is a New Testament apocryphal work generally dated to the late second century. It recounts how the apostle Peter contended with Simon Magus in Rome and was martyred by being crucified upside down.

• Bar Kokhba Revolt

  The Bar Kokhba Revolt was the last major uprising of the Jews of Judea against the Roman Empire, lasting from 132 to about 135. Its leader, Simon, was hailed as the Messiah, but the revolt failed, and he is often cited as a leading example of a "false messiah."

• Luke 7

  Luke 7 is the chapter in which Jesus heals a centurion's servant in Capernaum, raises a widow's son at Nain, answers a question from John the Baptist, and forgives the sins of a sinful woman in the house of Simon the Pharisee.

• Acts 8

  Acts 8 describes the great persecution that followed the martyrdom of Stephen and the scattered believers who preached the gospel wherever they went. It recounts Philip's preaching in Samaria and on the desert road to Gaza, including the accounts of Simon the sorcerer and the Ethiopian eunuch.

• Gregory VII

  Gregory VII (Hildebrand, d. 1085) was pope from 1073 to 1085. He led reforms prohibiting simony and the appointment of clergy by secular rulers, and he clashed with Emperor Henry IV in the Investiture Controversy.

• Basilides

  Basilides was a Christian Gnostic teacher who taught in Alexandria, Egypt, in the first half of the second century. The Church Fathers treated him as a leading representative of heresy, and they attribute to him the claim that Simon of Cyrene was crucified in place of Jesus.

• 2 Peter 1:5–10

  A passage that urges believers to add to their faith, in turn, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love, and in this way to make their calling and election sure. It is frequently cited in discussions of sanctification and the assurance of salvation. Denominations differ in emphasis on how election relates to human effort.

• 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.

• Judas Iscariot

  Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ. He handed Jesus over to the chief priests for thirty pieces of silver. His actions and death are recorded in the Gospels and the Book of Acts.

• Alabaster Box

  An alabaster box (Korean okhap, 玉盒) is a small stone vessel for holding perfumed ointment. The term is best known from the Gospel accounts of a woman who poured costly ointment from an alabaster box on Jesus.

• Spikenard

  Spikenard, or nard, is a costly aromatic ointment made from a plant of the Himalayan region. It is best known as the ointment a woman of Bethany poured on Jesus, and it also appears in the Song of Solomon, where the KJV renders it "spikenard."

• Peter's Vision of the Sheet

  The vision the apostle Peter received while praying in Joppa, in which a great sheet containing unclean animals was let down from heaven (Acts 10). It led to the acceptance of the Gentile Cornelius.

• Fishers of Men

  A phrase Jesus used when He called disciples who were fishermen on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, likening the work of bringing people to God to catching fish. It appears in Matthew 4:19 and Mark 1:17.

• James (Brother of Jesus)

  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.

• Acts 10

  Acts 10 is the chapter in which Cornelius, a Roman centurion at Caesarea, and the apostle Peter each receive a vision and then meet, after which the Holy Spirit falls on the Gentiles listening to Peter's sermon and they are baptized.

• 2 Peter 1

  The first chapter of 2 Peter. After the greeting, it urges believers to add virtue, knowledge, and other qualities to their faith, grounds the apostle's testimony in what he saw on the mount of the Transfiguration, and addresses the authority of prophecy spoken by men moved by the Holy Spirit.

• 2 Peter

  Second Peter is one of the General Epistles of the New Testament, a three-chapter letter written in the name of the apostle Peter. It warns against false teachers and urges believers to live godly lives as they await the return of Christ.

• Mark 1:15

  "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel" is Jesus' first proclamation in the Gospel of Mark. It is regarded as a summary of Jesus' entire teaching, and scholars have long debated whether the kingdom of God has already come or is yet to come.

• James (Son of Zebedee)

  James, the son of Zebedee, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus and the brother of the apostle John. According to the Book of Acts, he was killed with the sword by King Herod, and he is the only one of the Twelve whose martyrdom is recorded in Scripture.

• Crucifixion of Jesus

  The crucifixion is the event in which Jesus Christ, sentenced by the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, was nailed to a cross and died at Golgotha outside the walls of Jerusalem. All four Gospels record this event.