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• Body of Christ

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Body of Christ is a New Testament expression that likens the church to a single body with Jesus Christ as its head and believers as its members. It is used to describe both the unity and the diversity of the church.

• Bride of Christ

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Bride of Christ is a biblical image that likens the church to a bride united with Jesus Christ in a marriage covenant. It expresses the love between Christ and the church, the church's purity, and the eschatological consummation of their relationship.

• Parousia

  [Bible]

  Parousia (παρουσία) is a Greek word meaning "presence" or "arrival." In the New Testament it refers chiefly to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

• Infancy Gospel of Thomas

  [History]

  The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an early Christian apocryphal work that collects miracle stories from the childhood of Jesus between the ages of five and twelve. It is thought to have been written around the second century. Despite the similar name, it is a different book from the Gospel of Thomas found at Nag Hammadi.

• Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The humiliation and exaltation of Christ is a Christological term referring jointly to the state in which Jesus Christ was made low by becoming man, even unto death (humiliation), and the state in which he was raised high, from his resurrection to his place at the right hand of God (exaltation).

• Protoevangelium of James

  [History]

  The Protoevangelium of James is a New Testament apocryphal work that appears to have been written in Greek around the second century. It recounts the birth and upbringing of Mary and the birth of Jesus. Although it was not included in the canon, it had a major influence on Marian tradition and on depictions of the Nativity.

• Alexander (Son of Simon)

  [People]

  Alexander was a son of Simon of Cyrene, the man who carried Jesus' cross, and the brother of Rufus. He is mentioned by name only once, in Mark 15:21.

• The Imitation of Christ

  [Christian Life]

  The imitation of Christ is an attitude of faith that seeks to live according to the character and life of Jesus Christ. The term also refers to a fifteenth-century devotional book of the same title, traditionally attributed to Thomas à Kempis.

• Song of Simeon

  [Bible]

  The Song of Simeon is the short hymn of praise that Simeon sang in the Temple while holding the infant Jesus, recorded in Luke 2:29-32. It is also called the Nunc Dimittis, from its opening words in Latin.

• Rabboni

  [Bible]

  Rabboni is an Aramaic form of address meaning "my teacher." It is used twice in the New Testament to address Jesus and is best known as the word Mary Magdalene spoke when she recognized the risen Jesus.

• Sect of the Nazarenes

  [Bible]

  The "sect of the Nazarenes" is the expression the advocate Tertullus used in Acts 24 for the followers of Jesus when he brought charges against Paul. The Greek word behind "sect" here is closer to "sect" or "faction" than to "heresy" in the modern doctrinal sense.

• Moneychangers

  [Bible]

  The moneychangers were people who, in the time of Jesus, exchanged pilgrims' money within the Temple in Jerusalem for the currency used to pay the Temple tax and to buy sacrificial animals. They appear in the account of Jesus' cleansing of the Temple.

• Gergesa

  [Bible]

  Gergesa is one of the names given to the region on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee where Jesus healed a demon-possessed man. The name appears in some Greek manuscripts but not in others.

• Communication of Attributes

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The communication of attributes is the Christological teaching that the attributes of both the divine and human natures in the one person of Jesus Christ are together ascribed to that one person. Because the doctrine is closely tied to the understanding of the Lord's Supper, Lutheran and Reformed churches explain it in different ways.

• Judea

  [Bible]

  Judea is the New Testament name for the southern region of Palestine centered on Jerusalem. The name derives from the territory of the tribe of Judah and the kingdom of Judah in the Old Testament. Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, lies within this region.

• New Testament Quotations of the Old Testament

  [Bible]

  The practice by which New Testament writers reproduce or borrow the words of the Old Testament to explain Jesus Christ and the church, and the passages in which they do so. These quotations are treated as a key resource for understanding the relationship between the Old and New Testaments.

• Matthew 1

  [Bible]

  The first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. It records a genealogy from Abraham to Jesus arranged in three periods of fourteen generations each and, focusing on Joseph, recounts how Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit and how Jesus came to be born.

• Matthew 28

  [Bible]

  Matthew 28 is the final chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. It records the resurrection of Jesus and the empty tomb, the chief priests' bribing of the guards, and the Great Commission given to the eleven disciples on a mountain in Galilee.

• Matthew 6

  [Bible]

  Matthew 6 is the central portion of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus teaches that almsgiving, prayer, and fasting are not to be done to be seen by others, gives the Lord's Prayer, and urges his hearers to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness rather than wealth and anxious concerns.

• Matthew 14

  [Bible]

  Matthew 14 records Herod's execution of John the Baptist, Jesus' feeding of the five thousand with five loaves and two fish, and His walking on the sea.