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John 6:63
[Bible Verses]John 6:63 is the verse in which Jesus tells disciples who found his teaching on the bread of life hard to accept that "it is the spirit that quickeneth" and that his words "are spirit, and they are life." It is often cited in discussions of the power of the Word, and it was one of the key texts in the Eucharistic controversies of the Reformation.
John 6:35
[Bible Verses]John 6:35 records the saying in which Jesus identifies himself as "the bread of life" and declares that whoever comes to him and believes in him will never hunger or thirst. It is counted as the first of the "I am" sayings in the Gospel of John and is often cited in discussions of faith and the Eucharist.
Caesarea
[Bible]Caesarea was a Roman-era port city on the Mediterranean coast. According to Acts, it was where Cornelius was converted and where Paul was held in custody for two years. It is distinct from Caesarea Philippi in the northern interior.
Matthew 18:18–19
[Bible Verses]After describing how to deal with a brother who has sinned within the community, Jesus gives the disciples the authority to "bind and loose" and promises an answer to prayer in which two agree. The passage is frequently cited as a basis for church discipline, for united prayer, and for "binding" prayer, and its interpretation varies among denominations.
Nathan's Parable
[Bible]Nathan's parable is the story of a poor man's ewe lamb, told by the prophet Nathan to convict David of his sin after David lay with Bathsheba and caused the death of her husband Uriah (2 Samuel 12:1-4).
Rizpah
[People]Rizpah was the daughter of Aiah and a concubine of King Saul. She is known from 2 Samuel 21 for guarding the bodies of her two executed sons and of Saul's grandsons from the beginning of harvest until rain fell.
Merab
[People]Merab was the elder daughter of Saul, the first king of Israel. An Old Testament figure, she was promised to David as his wife but was instead given in marriage to Adriel the Meholathite. Her younger sister was Michal, who became David's wife.
Nadab (King of Israel)
[People]Nadab was the son of Jeroboam, the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He succeeded his father and reigned for two years before being assassinated in a revolt led by Baasha. His death brought the dynasty of Jeroboam to an end.
Monophysitism
[Doctrine & Theology]Monophysitism is the Christological position that in the incarnate Jesus Christ the divine and human natures are united into a single nature. The Council of Chalcedon rejected it in 451 and confessed "two natures, one person" as orthodox teaching.
Apostolic Succession
[Doctrine & Theology]Apostolic succession is the teaching that the authority and offices of the Church have been handed down without interruption from the apostles of Jesus Christ. Denominations differ on whether this succession is primarily a succession of office or a succession of teaching.
Amnon
[People]Amnon was the firstborn son of David, an Old Testament figure who raped his half-sister Tamar and was killed two years later by her full brother Absalom. His story is told in 2 Samuel 13.
Judas of Galilee
[People]Judas of Galilee was a Jew who led an uprising against a Roman census in the early first century AD. In Acts 5:37, Gamaliel cites him as an example of a failed movement.
Limbo
[Doctrine & Theology]Limbo is the place where the souls of unbaptized infants, or of the righteous who died before Christ, were believed to dwell. The concept developed in medieval Roman Catholic theology and is generally not accepted by Protestants.
Elah (King of Israel)
[People]Elah was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Baasha. According to 1 Kings 16, he reigned for two years and was killed by his servant Zimri while drunk. His death brought the dynasty of Baasha to an end.
Phrygia
[Bible]Phrygia is the name of an inland region of west-central Asia Minor (modern Türkiye). It is mentioned three times in the Acts of the Apostles, and Paul passed through it on two occasions.
Hamutal
[People]Hamutal was the wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. She is identified as the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, and her name appears in the Bible only in the accession records of her two sons.
Elah
[People]Elah was the fourth king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Baasha. He reigned two years in Tirzah and was killed while drunk in a revolt led by his servant Zimri.
Tahpenes
[People]Tahpenes was the queen of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, around the time of David and Solomon. She is mentioned twice in 1 Kings 11 as the sister-in-law of Hadad the Edomite.
Husham
[People]Husham was one of the kings who reigned over Edom before any king ruled over Israel. He came from the land of the Temanites, succeeded Jobab, and was succeeded by Hadad the son of Bedad.
Subordinationism
[Doctrine & Theology]Subordinationism is the view that, within the triune God, the Son and the Holy Spirit are inferior to the Father in essence or divinity. Since the Nicene Creed, the orthodox church has rejected this position.