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• Idumea

  [Bible]

  Idumea is the Greek name for the region south of Judea where the Edomites of old migrated and settled. In the Bible it appears in Mark 3:8 as one of the places from which crowds came to Jesus.

• Peleg

  [People]

  Peleg is a son of Eber in the genealogy of Shem in Genesis. His name is accompanied by the explanation that "in his days was the earth divided," and he belongs to the line that runs through Abraham to the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.

• Perez

  [People]

  Perez was one of the twin sons born to Judah and Tamar. He is recorded in the genealogies of Ruth and Matthew 1 as an ancestor of David and of Jesus Christ.

• Kenan

  [People]

  Kenan was the son of Enosh, Adam's grandson, and the father of Mahalalel. He appears in the antediluvian genealogy of Genesis 5. In Luke's genealogy of Jesus, his name is given as Cainan.

• Tamar

  [People]

  Tamar is chiefly the woman in Genesis 38 who bore Perez and Zerah to her father-in-law Judah and whose name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ. The Hebrew name means "palm tree."

• Antisemitism

  [History]

  Antisemitism is hostility toward and discrimination against Jews as an ethnic and religious group. In Christian history, the charge that "the Jews killed Jesus" long served as its justification.

• Christmas Dawn Caroling (Saebyeoksong)

  [Christian Life]

  Christmas dawn caroling (saebyeoksong) is a custom of Korean churches in which members go in groups, in the early hours of Christmas Day, to the homes of fellow members and sing Christmas hymns to announce the birth of Jesus.

• Daughter of Zion

  [Bible]

  The Daughter of Zion is a poetic Old Testament expression that personifies Jerusalem and its inhabitants as a woman. It appears frequently in the Prophets and in Lamentations, and the New Testament quotes the title in its accounts of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem.

• Alabaster Box

  [Bible]

  An alabaster box is a small stone vessel for holding perfumed ointment. It is best known from the Gospel accounts of a woman who poured costly ointment from an alabaster box on Jesus.

• Gabbatha

  [Bible]

  Gabbatha is the name of a place in Jerusalem mentioned in John 19:13. It refers to the "Pavement" where Pontius Pilate sat on the judgment seat and presented Jesus before the Jews.

• 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.

• Pilate's Wife

  [People]

  Pilate's wife was the wife of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who presided over the trial of Jesus. She appears only in Matthew 27:19, where, because of a dream, she sent word to her husband to have nothing to do with "that just man."

• Forgiveness of Sins

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The forgiveness of sins is God's pardoning of human sin, by which he no longer holds a person liable for the guilt and punishment that sin incurs. Protestants generally understand it as a grace grounded in the cross of Jesus Christ and received through repentance and faith.

• Kyrios

  [Bible]

  Kyrios (κύριος) is a Greek word meaning "lord" or "master." The Septuagint used it to render the name of God, and in the New Testament it is the principal title for Jesus Christ.

• Gadara

  [Bible]

  Gadara was a Hellenistic city southeast of the Sea of Galilee. In Matthew 8:28, the "country of the Gadarenes" is the place where Jesus healed two demon-possessed men.

• Blasphemy

  [Bible]

  Blasphemy is the dishonoring of God's name and majesty by word or deed. The Old Testament law punished it with death, and in the Gospels Jesus is accused of this offense.

• Redeemer

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A redeemer is one who pays a price to recover a person or property that has been sold or bound. In Christianity, the term is a title for God, and especially for Jesus Christ, who delivers humanity from sin and death.

• False Christ

  [Bible]

  "False Christ" is a biblical term for someone who claims to be the Christ (the Messiah), or is venerated as such, and leads people astray. Jesus used it in a warning during his teaching on the end times.

• Bride of the Lamb

  [Bible]

  The Bride of the Lamb is an expression in the Book of Revelation for the bride who is married to the Lamb, Jesus Christ. It is commonly read as a symbol of God's redeemed people, that is, the church.

• Two-Source Hypothesis

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Two-Source Hypothesis holds that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were written using both the Gospel of Mark and a hypothetical collection of the sayings of Jesus called "Q." It is one of the leading theories proposed to explain the Synoptic Problem.