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Song of Simeon
[Bible]The Song of Simeon is the short hymn of praise that Simeon sang in the Temple while holding the infant Jesus, recorded in Luke 2:29-32. It is also called the Nunc Dimittis, from its opening words in Latin.
Preexistence of Christ
[Doctrine & Theology]The preexistence of Christ is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ existed with the Father before his human birth and before creation.
Matthew 1:23
[Bible Verses]Matthew 1:23 is Matthew's testimony that the prophecy that a virgin would bear a son, whose name would be called Emmanuel, "God with us," was fulfilled in the birth of Jesus. It is one of the best-known Christmas verses and the central text in the debate over the virgin birth.
Simeon and Anna
[People]Simeon and Anna are two devout Jews in Luke 2 who recognized the infant Jesus as the Messiah and bore witness to him when he was presented at the Temple in Jerusalem. Simeon left a hymn of praise and a prophecy, and Anna is called a prophetess.
Matthew 1:22–23
[Bible Verses]Matthew 1:22–23 is the Gospel writer's comment interpreting Jesus' conception by the Holy Spirit as the fulfillment of Isaiah 7:14. Cited every Christmas as the basis for the name "Emmanuel" ("God with us") and for the doctrine of the virgin birth, the passage is also debated over its rendering "virgin."
Raising of Lazarus
[Bible]The raising of Lazarus is an event recorded in John 11, in which Jesus, at Bethany, raised Lazarus from the tomb after he had been dead four days. It is commonly regarded as the last and greatest of the signs in the Gospel of John.
Manger
[Bible]A manger is a trough that holds feed for livestock. In the Gospel of Luke, it is where the newborn Jesus was laid, and in the Christmas story it serves as a symbol of Jesus' coming in lowliness.
Archelaus
[People]Archelaus was a son of Herod the Great who ruled Judea after his father's death. He is mentioned only once in Scripture, in Matthew 2:22, as the reason Joseph's family settled in Nazareth after returning from Egypt.
Geneva Bible
[Bible]The Geneva Bible is an English Bible published in 1560 in Geneva, Switzerland, by English Protestant exiles. Widely read for its verse numbering and extensive marginal notes (commentary printed alongside the text), it was the most popular Bible in the English-speaking world before the King James Version.
Brothers of Jesus
[Bible]A collective term for James, Joseph (Joses), Simon, and Judas, who are called the "brothers" of Jesus in the New Testament, together with his unnamed sisters. Christian traditions differ in their understanding of how these individuals were related to Jesus.
City of David
[Bible]The City of David is a phrase used in Luke 2 for Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, identifying it as the hometown where David was born and raised. In the Old Testament, the same original-language expression refers instead to the stronghold of Zion in Jerusalem.
Chuza
[People]Chuza was the steward of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. He was the husband of Joanna, one of the women who ministered to Jesus and his company out of their own means, and he is named only once in Scripture, in Luke 8:3.
Albrecht Ritschl
[People]Albrecht Ritschl (1822–1889) was a German Lutheran theologian who taught at Bonn and Göttingen. He built a theological system centered on justification, reconciliation, and the kingdom of God, and he is regarded as a leading representative of late nineteenth-century liberal theology.
Scottish Reformation
[History]The Scottish Reformation was the mid-sixteenth-century transformation in which Scotland broke with the Roman Catholic Church and adopted a Calvinist Protestant church order. Led by John Knox, it reached its turning point with the decisions of Parliament in 1560. It is regarded today as one of the roots of worldwide Presbyterianism.
Luke 11
[Bible]Luke 11 is the chapter in which Jesus teaches his disciples the Lord's Prayer and persistent prayer, addresses the Beelzebub controversy and the sign of Jonah, and then rebukes the Pharisees and lawyers.
Rosetta Sherwood Hall
[People]Rosetta Sherwood Hall (1865–1951) was an American Methodist medical missionary. She arrived in Korea (Joseon) in 1890 and for more than forty years devoted herself to medical care for women, the training of women physicians, and the education of the blind.
Mark
[People]Mark is a figure of the early church who appears in the New Testament book of Acts and in the Epistles. In Acts he is called "John, whose surname was Mark," and he worked alongside Paul, Barnabas, and Peter. He is traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of Mark.
Nazareth
[Bible]Nazareth was the small village in Galilee where Jesus Christ grew up. It appears only in the New Testament, and its name became widely known because Jesus was called "Jesus of Nazareth."
Wedding at Cana
[Bible]The Wedding at Cana is an event recorded in John 2:1-11 in which Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee. The Gospel of John calls it Jesus' "first sign."
Diakonia
[Bible]Diakonia is a Greek word meaning "service," "ministry," or "office." In the New Testament it refers to the service of Jesus, almsgiving, the ministry of the word, and church office.