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• John 8

  [Bible]

  John 8 opens with the account of Jesus declining to condemn the woman caught in adultery. It also contains his declaration "I am the light of the world" and a long dispute with the Jews over his identity.

• Luke 22

  [Bible]

  Luke 22 records Judas's plot to betray Jesus, the Last Supper and the institution of the Lord's Supper, the prayer on the Mount of Olives, the arrest of Jesus, Peter's denial, and the interrogation before the council.

• Baruch

  [People]

  Baruch was the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah in the final years of the southern kingdom of Judah. He wrote on a scroll the prophecies Jeremiah dictated and read them aloud to the people in the temple.

• Shaphan

  [People]

  Shaphan was a scribe in the reign of King Josiah of Judah. He read before the king the Book of the Law found during the repair of the Temple and thus played a part in the events that set Josiah's religious reform in motion.

• Tertius

  [People]

  Tertius was the amanuensis who took down the apostle Paul's Epistle to the Romans, a first-century Christian who added his own greeting in Romans 16:22.

• Ezra (Person)

  [People]

  Ezra was a priest and scribe of Judah in the Persian period who returned from Babylon to Jerusalem and taught the law of Moses. He appears in Ezra 7–10, Nehemiah 8, and elsewhere.

• Shebna

  [People]

  Shebna was a high-ranking official under King Hezekiah of Judah and served as scribe in the delegation that negotiated with the Assyrian commander Rabshakeh. Isaiah rebuked him for hewing out a tomb for himself on high and prophesied that his position would pass to Eliakim.

• Rehum and Shimshai

  [People]

  Rehum and Shimshai were officials who served in the region of Samaria during the Persian period. According to Ezra 4, they sent a letter to King Artaxerxes accusing the Jews of rebuilding Jerusalem and thereby brought the work to a halt.

• Mark 12:28-34

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage a scribe asks which commandment is the greatest, and Jesus answers by joining the command to love God from Deuteronomy with the command to love one's neighbor from Leviticus. The passage is widely cited as a summary of the whole Law, and denominations differ in how they emphasize the relationship between law and love.

• Book of Baruch

  [Bible]

  The Book of Baruch is a work attributed to Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches include it in the canon (in Catholic terminology, as a deuterocanonical book), while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha and do not include it in the Bible.

• Rehum

  [People]

  Rehum was a Persian provincial official mentioned in Ezra 4. Together with Shimshai the scribe, he sent a letter to King Artaxerxes that brought the rebuilding work in Jerusalem to a halt.

• Gemariah

  [People]

  Gemariah was a high official of Judah in the reign of King Jehoiakim and the son of Shaphan the scribe. Baruch read the prophecies of Jeremiah aloud in his chamber, and when the king burned the scroll, Gemariah pleaded with him not to burn it (Jeremiah 36).

• Ahikam

  [People]

  Ahikam was an official in the reign of King Josiah of Judah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, and the father of Gedaliah, governor of Judah. He is known for protecting Jeremiah when the prophet's life was in danger.

• Neriah

  [People]

  Neriah is a figure in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah. He was the son of Maaseiah and the father of Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, and of Seraiah, an official of King Zedekiah.

• Ezra 7:10

  [Bible Verses]

  This verse records that Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD, to keep it, and to teach it in Israel. Because it presents the sequence of study, practice, and teaching, it is frequently cited in discussions of the proper disposition of ministers of the Word and of teachers.

• Ezra

  [Bible]

  Ezra is the fifteenth book of the Old Testament, a historical book recounting how the people of Judah who returned from the Babylonian exile rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem and restored their community around the Law.

• Gedaliah

  [People]

  Gedaliah was the man Babylon appointed to govern the people left in the land of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem. He ruled from Mizpah until he was assassinated by Ishmael.

• Seraiah

  [People]

  Seraiah was a high priest in the final years of the Kingdom of Judah who was executed by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, after the fall of Jerusalem. He is recorded as the father of Jehozadak (Jozadak) and as an ancestor of Ezra.

• Achbor

  [People]

  Achbor was an official under King Josiah of Judah and one of the delegation sent to the prophetess Huldah to inquire about the book of the law found in the temple. The same name also belongs to the father of Baal-hanan, a king of Edom.

• Jeremiah 38

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 38 recounts how, near the end of the siege of Jerusalem, the princes cast Jeremiah into a miry cistern, Ebed-melech the Cushite rescues him, and King Zedekiah secretly summons him and hears the word urging him to surrender.