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Western Wall
[History]The Western Wall is the exposed above-ground portion of the ancient retaining wall that supports the western side of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. A remnant of Herod's Temple, it has become the most important place of prayer in Judaism.
Lysanias
[People]Lysanias is a figure named once in Scripture, in Luke 3:1, as tetrarch of Abilene. He appears in the chronological notice that dates the beginning of John the Baptist's ministry.
Rhoda
[People]Rhoda was a young girl in Jerusalem who appears in Acts 12. When Peter, newly released from prison, knocked at the gate of the house of Mary the mother of Mark, Rhoda recognized his voice and told those gathered inside.
Zechariah and Elizabeth
[People]Zechariah and Elizabeth were a priestly couple in Luke 1 who remained childless into old age. As the angel Gabriel had foretold, they became the parents of John the Baptist.
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.
Tiberius
[People]Tiberius was the second emperor of the Roman Empire. His name appears once in Scripture, in Luke 3:1, where it serves as the reference point for dating the beginning of John the Baptist's ministry.
Abilene
[Bible]Abilene is a place name that appears once in Scripture, in Luke 3:1. It was a small territory in the Anti-Lebanon mountains northwest of Damascus. According to Luke, Lysanias was its tetrarch when John the Baptist began his ministry.
Susanna
[People]Susanna is a woman named once in Scripture, in Luke 8:3. She was one of the women who accompanied Jesus and the Twelve and ministered to them out of their own substance.
Spring of Harod
[Bible]The Spring of Harod is the spring beside which the judge Gideon encamped with his army before fighting the Midianites (Judges 7:1). There he sent home those who were afraid and selected three hundred men by the way they drank water.
Leviticus 3
[Bible]Leviticus 3 sets out the procedure for the peace offering, presented from the herd or the flock (cattle, sheep, or goats). It declares that all the fat belongs to the LORD and closes with a perpetual statute forbidding the eating of fat and blood.
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.
John Heron
[People]John W. Heron (1856–1890) was the first medical missionary formally appointed by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian Church) for service in Joseon Korea. He served as the second director of Jejungwon and was the first person buried in the Yanghwajin Foreign Cemetery.
Habakkuk 3:17–18
[Bible Verses]Habakkuk's confession that even if the fig tree, vine, olive, field, flock, and herd all fail, he will still rejoice in the LORD. The passage is cherished as a song of faith whose joy does not depend on circumstances.
Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery
[History]The Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery is a foreign cemetery on the hill above Yanghwa Ferry in Hapjeong-dong, Mapo District, Seoul, South Korea. It began in 1890 with the burial of the medical missionary John Heron. It holds the graves of missionaries who worked in Korea and their families, as well as diplomats, journalists, and others.
Gadara
[Bible]Gadara was a Hellenistic city southeast of the Sea of Galilee. In Matthew 8:28, the "country of the Gadarenes" is the place where Jesus healed two demon-possessed men.
Nevius Mission Policy
[History]The Nevius Mission Policy was a mission policy adopted by the Presbyterian missions in Korea in the early 1890s, based on methods proposed by John Nevius, a missionary to China. At its core are the three-self principles, under which the local church propagates itself (self-propagation), governs itself (self-government), and supports itself financially (self-support), together with systematic Bible study.
Hill of Moreh
[Bible]The hill of Moreh is a hill in the Jezreel Valley mentioned in Judges 7:1. When Gideon fought the Midianite army, the Midianites encamped in the valley by this hill.
Deuteronomy 16
[Bible]Deuteronomy 16 sets out the laws for keeping Israel's three pilgrimage feasts: Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. It also commands the appointment of judges who are to judge justly and forbids setting up Asherah poles or sacred pillars.
Judges 7
[Bible]Judges 7 recounts how Gideon, following God's instructions, reduces his army to three hundred men and defeats the vast Midianite host with trumpets, pitchers, and torches.