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King's Highway
[Bible]The King's Highway is the road the Israelites under Moses named when they asked Edom and Sihon king of the Amorites for permission to pass through their lands. It is known as an ancient trade route running north and south across the plateau east of the Jordan River.
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.
Prohibition of Interest
[Bible]The prohibition of interest is an Old Testament legal provision that forbade charging interest when lending money or food to a poor neighbor. It appears in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy and reflects the law's concern for protecting the vulnerable.
Titulus Crucis
[Bible]The titulus crucis was the placard stating the charge against Jesus Christ, fastened above him on the cross at his crucifixion. All four Gospels record that it bore the words "the King of the Jews."
Lord's Day
[Bible]A New Testament expression that, in Revelation 1:10, refers to the day on which Christians gathered for worship and, in the Epistles, to the last day, when Christ will return to judge.
Circumcision Party
[Bible]The circumcision party is a New Testament expression for believers of Jewish origin who had been circumcised. It is used especially of those among them who required Gentile believers to be circumcised and to keep the Law of Moses.
Minor Prophets
[Bible]The Minor Prophets are the twelve prophetic books, Hosea through Malachi, that appear at the end of the Old Testament. The name refers to the books' brevity, not to any lesser importance.
Priestly Divisions
[Bible]The priestly divisions were a system, described in 1 Chronicles 24, in which David divided the priests descended from Aaron into twenty-four groups that took turns performing the temple duties. The system reappears in the Gospel of Luke as the "course of Abia" (the division of Abijah), to which Zacharias belonged.
Investigative Judgment
[Doctrine & Theology]The investigative judgment is a doctrine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church teaching that since 1844 Christ has been conducting a judgment in the heavenly sanctuary, examining the records of believers before His Second Coming.
Firstborn
[Bible]The firstborn are the first offspring of the womb among both people and livestock. The Old Testament law required that the firstborn be set apart and given to God or bought back by payment of a price (redemption).
Prologue of John
[Bible]The Prologue of John is John 1:1–18, the opening section of the Gospel of John, which declares that the "Word" (Logos), who existed from the beginning, became flesh and came into the world.
Great White Throne Judgment
[Bible]The Great White Throne Judgment is the final judgment scene that John saw in a vision, recorded in Revelation 20:11-15. Before a great white throne, the dead are judged according to their works, and whoever is not found written in the book of life is cast into the lake of fire.
Third Heaven
[Bible]The third heaven is the heaven to which the apostle Paul says he was caught up in 2 Corinthians 12, the only place the expression appears in Scripture. It is commonly understood as the highest heaven, where God dwells.
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.
Anointing at Bethany
[Bible]The anointing at Bethany is the event in which a woman poured costly ointment on Jesus in Bethany, near Jerusalem, a few days before his crucifixion. Jesus said that she had prepared beforehand for his burial.
Former Prophets
[Bible]The Former Prophets is the collective name for Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings, the books that stand at the beginning of the Prophets division of the Hebrew Bible. Christian Bibles usually classify these books as historical books.
Critical Text
[Bible]The critical text is an original-language text of the Bible reconstructed by comparing and examining the many extant biblical manuscripts and selecting the readings judged closest to the original. The term usually refers to the Greek text of the New Testament.
Four Horsemen
[Bible]The Four Horsemen are the four figures, riding a white horse, a red horse, a black horse, and a pale horse, who appear in succession in Revelation 6 as the Lamb opens the first four of the seven seals.
Body of Christ
[Doctrine & Theology]The Body of Christ is a New Testament expression that likens the church to a single body with Jesus Christ as its head and believers as its members. It is used to describe both the unity and the diversity of the church.
Nile River
[Bible]The Nile is a river in northeastern Africa that flows northward through Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean Sea. In the Bible it is the setting of Pharaoh's dream, which Joseph interpreted, of the birth of Moses, and of the ten plagues.