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• Gaza

  [Bible]

  Gaza was a major Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast in southwestern Canaan. It appears in the Samson narrative in Judges and in Acts 8, where Philip met the Ethiopian eunuch on "the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza."

• Sychar

  [Bible]

  Sychar is a town in the region of Samaria mentioned in John 4, where Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman beside Jacob's well. Scholars disagree about its exact location.

• Genealogy of Jesus

  [Bible]

  The genealogy of Jesus is the record of the ancestry of Jesus Christ found in Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38. Matthew traces the line downward from Abraham to Jesus, while Luke traces it upward from Jesus to Adam.

• Wilderness of Judea

  [Bible]

  The Wilderness of Judea is the arid land that descends east of Jerusalem and the hill country of Judah toward the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley. Scripture presents it as the place where David hid from Saul and where John the Baptist preached repentance.

• Elam

  [Bible]

  Elam was an ancient nation and territory east of Mesopotamia, in what is now southwestern Iran. It first appears in Genesis as the name of a son of Shem; in the prophetic books it is an object of both judgment and restoration; and in Acts it is named as the homeland of some of those present at Pentecost.

• Light of the World

  [Bible]

  An expression Jesus used of himself (John 8:12) and of his disciples (Matthew 5:14). It denotes one who reveals God's truth and salvation to a world in darkness.

• Abaddon

  [Bible]

  Abaddon is a Hebrew word meaning "destruction" or "place of destruction." In the Old Testament it appears alongside Sheol as a designation for the realm of the dead, and in Revelation 9:11 it is the name of the angel of the bottomless pit.

• John R. Mott

  [People]

  John R. Mott (1865–1955) was an American Methodist lay leader. He led the Student Volunteer Movement, the YMCA, and the World Student Christian Federation, chaired the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.

• Heart (Bible)

  [Bible]

  In the Bible, the heart refers not only to the emotions but to the whole inner person, the seat of thought, will, and judgment. It is regarded as the place where a person's relationship with God is determined.

• 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.

• Romans 6

  [Bible]

  Romans 6 answers the question of whether believers who are under grace may continue in sin. It explains that those who have been united with Christ's death and resurrection through baptism have been freed from servitude to sin and have become servants of God.

• Alexander Van Alstyne

  [People]

  Alexander Van Alstyne (1831–1902) was a blind American musician and teacher of the nineteenth century. He is known chiefly as the husband of the hymn writer Fanny Crosby.

• Bethany

  [Bible]

  Bethany was a village on the slope of the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. In the Gospels it appears as the home of Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary, and as the place where Jesus stayed during Holy Week.

• 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.

• Court of the Gentiles

  [Bible]

  The Court of the Gentiles was the large outermost court of the Jerusalem temple as enlarged by Herod, a space that non-Jews were also permitted to enter. It is commonly understood to be the site where Jesus cleansed the temple.

• Fig Tree

  [Bible]

  The fig tree, together with the grapevine and the olive tree, is one of the fruit trees most characteristic of the land of Israel. In the Bible it symbolizes peace and abundance, and it frequently serves as a figure for the people of Israel.

• Biblical Archaeology

  [History]

  Biblical archaeology is a field of study that excavates and examines sites and artifacts from the lands and periods described in the Bible in order to illuminate the historical and cultural background of the biblical record. It began in the nineteenth century and took systematic shape in the twentieth.

• Gospel of Peter

  [Bible]

  The Gospel of Peter is an ancient Greek gospel bearing the name of the apostle Peter. It is not part of the biblical canon, and only a fragment dealing with the passion and resurrection of Jesus survives.

• Amarna Letters

  [History]

  The Amarna Letters are a collection of clay-tablet correspondence discovered in 1887 at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt. Written in cuneiform, they were exchanged in the mid-fourteenth century BC between the Egyptian royal court and both the great powers of the ancient Near East and the rulers of the city-states of Canaan.

• Millerite Movement

  [History]

  The Millerite movement was an interdenominational end-times movement in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. It arose after the Baptist lay preacher William Miller predicted that Christ would return around 1843–1844.