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Luke 23:34
[Bible Verses]Luke 23:34 records the prayer Jesus offered on the cross for those who were crucifying him: "Father, forgive them." It is traditionally counted as the first of the Seven Last Words from the Cross. The verse also raises a textual question, because the prayer is absent from some early manuscripts.
Belshazzar
[People]Belshazzar is the king of Babylon who appears in Daniel 5. He is remembered for the banquet at which the fingers of a man's hand wrote on the wall of the royal palace, and for losing his kingdom and his life that same night.
Daniel 8
[Bible]Daniel 8 records Daniel's vision of a ram and a male goat in the third year of King Belshazzar, together with its interpretation by the angel Gabriel. The chapter features a "little horn" that defiles the sanctuary and the "two thousand and three hundred days."
Matthew 15
[Bible]Matthew 15 recounts the dispute over handwashing and the tradition of the elders, the faith of a Canaanite woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon, healings beside the Sea of Galilee, and the feeding of the four thousand.
Revelation 6
[Bible]Revelation 6 depicts the Lamb opening the first through the sixth of the seven seals. In succession appear the four horses and their riders, the cry of the martyrs beneath the altar, cosmic upheaval, and "the great day of his wrath."
Revelation 4
[Bible]Revelation 4 records John's vision, seen through a door opened in heaven, of the throne of God and the worship offered by the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures around it.
Tidal
[People]Tidal was the king of Goiim mentioned in Genesis 14. Allied with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, he was one of the four kings who fought against five kings, including the king of Sodom.
Revelation 13:16-18
[Bible Verses]In this passage the beast that rises out of the earth causes all people to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads, so that no one may buy or sell without the mark, and its number is given as six hundred threescore and six (666). The identity of the "mark of the beast" and of "666" has prompted countless speculations, and the passage becomes the subject of renewed controversy whenever a new technology appears.
Isaiah 49:6
[Bible Verses]Isaiah 49:6 is a verse in which God tells his servant that, beyond restoring Israel, he will make him "a light to the Gentiles" so that salvation may reach "unto the end of the earth." It is frequently discussed because of questions about the servant's identity and because the Book of Acts cites it as a basis for the mission to the Gentiles.
Luke 6:20
[Bible Verses]Luke 6:20 is the first beatitude of the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke. In it, Jesus tells his disciples that the poor are blessed and that the kingdom of God is theirs. The verse is frequently interpreted and discussed in comparison with the Beatitudes in Matthew, which speak of "the poor in spirit."
Brothers of Jesus
[Bible]A collective term for James, Joseph (Joses), Simon, and Judas, who are called the "brothers" of Jesus in the New Testament, together with his unnamed sisters. Christian traditions differ in their understanding of how these individuals were related to Jesus.
Dalmanutha
[Bible]Dalmanutha is a place on the shore of the Sea of Galilee mentioned in Mark 8:10. Jesus went there by boat after the feeding of the four thousand. Matthew's account of the same scene gives the place name as Magadan.
Magadan
[Bible]Magadan is a place named in Matthew 15:39 as the destination to which Jesus traveled by boat after feeding the four thousand with seven loaves and a few fish. It is thought to have been a district on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, but its exact location is unknown.
Zechariah 1
[Bible]Zechariah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Zechariah. It opens with a call to the people who had returned from exile to "turn ye unto me," followed by the first two of the prophet's eight night visions: the man riding a red horse among the myrtle trees, and the four horns and the four craftsmen.
Son of Man
[Bible]"Son of Man" is a biblical expression meaning literally "son of a human being." In the Old Testament it refers to a human being; in Daniel 7 it describes a figure who comes with the clouds of heaven; and in the Gospels it is the term Jesus most often used to refer to himself.
Micaiah
[People]Micaiah, the son of Imlah, was a prophet in the time of Ahab, king of Israel. When four hundred prophets predicted victory, he alone prophesied Ahab's defeat (1 Kings 22; 2 Chronicles 18).
Bill Bright
[People]Bill Bright (1921–2003) was an American evangelist who founded the student ministry Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) in 1951. He also wrote the evangelistic booklet The Four Spiritual Laws and produced the film Jesus.
Irenaeus
[People]Irenaeus was a Church Father who served as bishop of Lyon in Gaul in the late second century. In *Against Heresies* he refuted Gnosticism and emphasized the four Gospels and the rule of faith, profoundly influencing the formation of orthodox theology in the early church.
Herman Bavinck
[People]Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) was a Dutch Reformed theologian. He taught at the Theological School in Kampen and at the Free University of Amsterdam, and he wrote the four-volume Reformed Dogmatics.
Ruth 3
[Bible]Ruth 3 is the chapter in which Ruth, following Naomi's instructions, goes to the threshing floor at night and asks Boaz to take up the responsibility of a kinsman-redeemer, and Boaz promises with an oath to do so.