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Matthew 28
[Bible]Matthew 28 is the final chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. It records the resurrection of Jesus and the empty tomb, the chief priests' bribing of the guards, and the Great Commission given to the eleven disciples on a mountain in Galilee.
John 11
[Bible]John 11 is the chapter of the Gospel of John that records Jesus raising Lazarus at Bethany after he had been dead four days, and how this event led the chief priests and Pharisees to plot Jesus' death.
Azariah (High Priest)
[People]Azariah was high priest during the reign of Uzziah, king of Judah. When Uzziah entered the temple to burn incense himself, Azariah followed him in with eighty priests and withstood him. The account appears in 2 Chronicles 26.
Levites
[Bible]The Levites were members of the Israelite tribe descended from Levi, the son of Jacob. Rather than receiving land as an inheritance, they were set apart for the work of the tabernacle and the temple. Among them, the descendants of Aaron became priests.
Leviticus 8
[Bible]Leviticus 8 is the chapter in which Moses, as the LORD commanded, washes, clothes, and anoints Aaron and his sons, then offers a sin offering, a burnt offering, and the ordination offering to install them as priests.
Jeremiah 33
[Bible]Jeremiah 33 contains a promise of restoration given to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guard. It speaks of the healing of Jerusalem, the return of the captives, a "Branch of righteousness" who will spring from David, and the promise that the covenant with David and with the Levitical priests will not be broken.
Ezekiel 40
[Bible]Ezekiel 40 is the first chapter of the vision of the new temple, which forms the final section of the Book of Ezekiel (chapters 40–48). In a vision Ezekiel is brought to a very high mountain in the land of Israel, where he watches a man whose appearance shines like brass measure the temple's wall, gates, courts, and priests' chambers.
Leviticus 9:22–23
[Bible Verses]In this scene Aaron, having completed his first sacrifices as high priest, lifts up his hands and blesses the people; he then blesses them again together with Moses, and the glory of the LORD appears. The passage is frequently cited as a biblical background for the benediction pronounced at the close of worship.
Anathoth
[Bible]Anathoth was a priestly city in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin and the hometown of the prophet Jeremiah. It is best known for the account of Jeremiah's purchase of a field there during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem.
Division of Abijah
[Bible]The division of Abijah was the eighth of the twenty-four priestly divisions established in the time of David for rotating temple service. In the Gospel of Luke, Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, is introduced as a priest belonging to this division.
Epistle to the Hebrews
[Bible]Hebrews is the nineteenth book of the New Testament. It presents Jesus Christ as the true High Priest who fulfilled the sacrifices and priesthood of the Old Testament, and it exhorts its readers to hold fast to the faith.
Malachi 3:10
[Bible Verses]A verse in which God commands His people to bring all the tithes into the storehouse and prove Him, promising to open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing. It stands at the center of debates over tithing, and in Korean Protestant churches it is the principal text for teaching on the tithe.
Numbers 6:24–26
[Bible Verses]Numbers 6:24–26 is the Aaronic Blessing, the words God instructed Aaron and his sons to use in blessing the people of Israel. One of the oldest prayers in the Bible, it is widely used today as a benediction at the close of worship.
Jeremiah (Prophet)
[People]Jeremiah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered from the final years of the Kingdom of Judah into the early period of the Babylonian exile. He warned of the destruction of Jerusalem, prophesied the "new covenant," and is known as "the weeping prophet."
Zechariah and Elizabeth
[People]Zechariah and Elizabeth were a priestly couple in Luke 1 who remained childless into old age. As the angel Gabriel had foretold, they became the parents of John the Baptist.
Caiaphas
[People]Caiaphas was the high priest in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus. He led the council that examined Jesus and handed him over to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, and he is recorded as the son-in-law of Annas.
Parable of the Wedding Feast
[Bible]The Parable of the Wedding Feast is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 22:1-14. A king invites guests to his son's wedding feast, but they refuse; he then has people gathered from the highways to fill the feast. Luke 14 contains a similar "Parable of the Great Banquet."
Parable of the Two Sons
[Bible]The Parable of the Two Sons is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 21:28-32. It contrasts a son who refused his father's request but afterward changed his mind and went to work with a son who said he would go but did not.
Sanhedrin
[Bible]The Sanhedrin was the supreme council in Jerusalem during the New Testament period. Presided over by the high priest, it dealt with the religious and judicial affairs of the Jewish people.
Annas
[People]Annas was a former Jewish high priest in the time of Jesus and the father-in-law of Caiaphas. He was the first person before whom Jesus was brought after his arrest, and he also appears at the interrogation of the apostles.