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• Bethsaida

  [Bible]

  Bethsaida was a town on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The Gospels identify it as the hometown of the apostles Philip, Andrew, and Peter, and it is where Jesus healed a blind man and rebuked the town for failing to repent.

• Aramaic

  [Bible]

  Aramaic was the language of the ancient Arameans and served as the common language of the Near East during the Assyrian and Persian periods. Portions of Ezra and Daniel in the Old Testament were written in it, and it is widely regarded as the language Jesus spoke in everyday life.

• Bethphage

  [Bible]

  Bethphage was a village near the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. The Synoptic Gospels present it as the place where Jesus Christ, just before entering Jerusalem, sent his disciples to bring him a donkey.

• Caesarea Philippi

  [Bible]

  Caesarea Philippi was a city on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, near the sources of the Jordan River. The Gospels present it as the place where Jesus asked His disciples, "But whom say ye that I am?" and where Peter made his confession of faith.

• Sign

  [Bible]

  A sign is a token that God displays to reveal His will and power, or the authority of one He has sent. The Gospel of John calls the miracles of Jesus "signs" and records them as evidence intended to lead people to faith.

• Covenant of Grace

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The covenant of grace is a theological term for the covenant in which God promised to grant salvation freely, through Jesus Christ, to humanity fallen into sin. It is a central concept of Reformed covenant theology.

• Obed

  [People]

  Obed is the son of Boaz and Ruth in the Book of Ruth. He was the father of Jesse and the grandfather of David, and his name also appears in the genealogies of Jesus Christ in Matthew and Luke.

• Tyre

  [Bible]

  Tyre was a Phoenician port city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In the Old Testament it appears as a neighboring kingdom that dealt with David and Solomon and as a target of the prophets' oracles of judgment. In the New Testament it is a Gentile region visited by Jesus and Paul.

• Breaking of Bread

  [Bible]

  The breaking of bread is an expression derived from the Jewish mealtime custom of breaking bread by hand and sharing it. In the New Testament it refers to the meals of Jesus and to the communal meals and the Lord's Supper of the early church.

• Cornerstone

  [Bible]

  A cornerstone is an important stone set at the corner of a building to align its walls and stabilize its structure. It appears in Psalm 118 and Isaiah 28, and the New Testament takes up the image as a reference to Jesus Christ.

• Type (Biblical Typology)

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A type is a concept in biblical interpretation holding that Old Testament persons, events, and institutions prefigure Jesus Christ, who was to come, and his work of salvation.

• Herod's Temple

  [Bible]

  Herod's Temple is the Second Temple in Jerusalem as extensively renovated and expanded by Herod the Great beginning in the late first century BC. It is the "temple" of the New Testament, frequented by Jesus and the early church, and it was destroyed by the Roman army in AD 70.

• Lawyer (New Testament)

  [Bible]

  In the New Testament, especially the Gospel of Luke, a lawyer was an expert who studied and interpreted the Law of Moses. The best-known example is the lawyer who asked Jesus how to inherit eternal life, which prompted the parable of the Good Samaritan.

• 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.

• Maundy Thursday

  [Feasts & Seasons]

  Maundy Thursday is the Thursday immediately before Easter. A Holy Week observance, it commemorates the Last Supper that Jesus shared with his disciples, at which he instituted the Lord's Supper and washed the disciples' feet.

• Arphaxad

  [People]

  Arphaxad was the son of Shem, the son of Noah. In the genealogies of Genesis he is one link in the line running from Shem to Abraham, and his name also appears in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.

• Nain

  [Bible]

  Nain was a small village in southern Galilee. It is mentioned only once in the Bible, in Luke 7:11, as the setting of the account in which Jesus raised a widow's only son.

• Cyrene

  [Bible]

  Cyrene was a Greek city on the northeastern coast of present-day Libya in North Africa. In the New Testament it appears as the hometown of Simon, who carried the cross for Jesus, and as the place of origin of early Christian evangelists who preached the gospel to Gentiles in Antioch.

• Rufus

  [People]

  Rufus appears in the Gospel of Mark as a son of Simon of Cyrene, the man compelled to carry the cross of Jesus. Scholars differ on whether he is the same Rufus whom Paul greets in Romans 16.

• Mary, Wife of Clopas

  [People]

  Mary, the wife of Clopas, was one of the women who stood by Jesus at his crucifixion. A New Testament figure, she appears under this name only in John 19:25.