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• Golden Rule

  [Bible]

  The Golden Rule is the traditional name for the teaching of Jesus "whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them" (Matthew 7:12; Luke 6:31).

• Essenes

  [Bible]

  The Essenes were a Jewish sect active around the time of Jesus, known for their communal life and strict purity regulations. They are not named in the Bible and are known from extra-biblical sources such as Josephus and Philo.

• Annas

  [People]

  Annas was a former Jewish high priest in the time of Jesus and the father-in-law of Caiaphas. He was the first person before whom Jesus was brought after his arrest, and he also appears at the interrogation of the apostles.

• Olivet Discourse

  [Bible]

  The Olivet Discourse is a lengthy address that Jesus delivered to his disciples on the Mount of Olives during the final week of his public ministry. In it he taught about the destruction of the Jerusalem temple, his second coming, and the signs of the end of the world. It is recorded in Matthew 24–25, Mark 13, and Luke 21.

• Jacob's Well

  [Bible]

  Jacob's Well is the well near Sychar in Samaria where Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman in John 4. The Samaritans remembered it as the well given to them by their ancestor Jacob.

• Parables of the Kingdom

  [Bible]

  The parables of the kingdom are the parables in which Jesus described the reign of God with the words "The kingdom of heaven is like unto…"; in the narrower sense, the term refers to the seven parables of Matthew 13.

• Gerasa

  [Bible]

  Gerasa is the region across the Sea of Galilee where, according to Mark 5 and Luke 8, Jesus healed a demon-possessed man. Matthew's account of the same event calls the place "Gadara."

• Parable of the Barren Fig Tree

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree is a parable of Jesus found in Luke 13:6–9. In it, the owner of a vineyard wants to cut down a fig tree that has borne no fruit for three years, but the vinedresser asks him to leave it one more year. The parable calls for repentance and illustrates the patience of God.

• Q Source

  [Bible]

  The Q source is a hypothetical collection of the sayings of Jesus that scholars posit as the source of material found in both Matthew and Luke but absent from Mark. No manuscript copy of it survives.

• Simon the Leper

  [People]

  Simon the Leper was a resident of Bethany in whose house Jesus was dining shortly before His Passion when a woman poured ointment on His head. He is mentioned by name only in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark.

• Lazarus Saturday

  [Feasts & Seasons]

  Lazarus Saturday is the Saturday immediately before Palm Sunday and commemorates Jesus' raising of the dead Lazarus at Bethany. It is observed chiefly by the Orthodox Church and by churches of the Eastern liturgical tradition.

• Mammon

  [Bible]

  Mammon is a word of Aramaic origin that Jesus used to refer to wealth. In Matthew 6 and Luke 16, it is portrayed as a master that opposes God and holds people in servitude.

• Farewell Discourse

  [Bible]

  The Farewell Discourse is the extended charge and prayer that Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper on the night before his arrest, recorded in John 13–17. It includes the new commandment, the promise of the Holy Spirit as the Comforter, and the parable of the vine.

• Parable of the Friend at Midnight

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Friend at Midnight is a parable of Jesus recorded in Luke 11:5–8. It teaches about prayer through the story of a man who receives a guest at midnight and asks his neighbor for bread.

• Parable of the Growing Seed

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Growing Seed is a parable of Jesus found only in Mark 4:26–29. It describes the kingdom of God through the image of seed sown in the ground that grows, without the sower knowing how, until the harvest.

• Parable of the Great Banquet

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Great Banquet is a parable of Jesus recorded in Luke 14:15–24. When the invited guests make excuses and fail to come, the host calls in the poor and people from the roadsides to fill his banquet.

• The Door of the Sheep

  [Bible]

  "The door of the sheep" is the expression Jesus uses in John 10, where he compares himself to the door of a sheepfold, saying, "I am the door of the sheep." It is commonly read to mean that salvation and life are reached through him.

• Restoration of Peter

  [Bible]

  The restoration of Peter is the event in which the risen Jesus, on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias in Galilee, asked Peter three times, "Lovest thou me?" and entrusted him with the charge "Feed my sheep." It is recorded in John 21.

• The Widow's Two Mites

  [Bible]

  The widow's two mites refers to the incident in which Jesus, watching at the treasury of the Temple in Jerusalem, saw a poor widow put in two mites, all that she had, and declared that she had put in more than anyone else. It is recorded in the Gospels of Mark and Luke.

• Messianic Judaism

  [Denominations]

  Messianic Judaism is a religious movement whose adherents believe Jesus to be the Messiah of Israel while seeking to maintain Jewish identity and Jewish practices such as the Sabbath and the biblical feasts.