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Matthew 12:41
[Bible Verses]Matthew 12:41 records Jesus' warning to those who demanded a sign: the men of Nineveh, who repented at Jonah's preaching, will condemn "this generation" at the judgment. The verse is often cited as a call to repentance and as a revelation of who Jesus is.
Corban
[Bible]Corban is a Hebrew word meaning "an offering given to God." In the New Testament it appears in Mark 7:11, in a passage where Jesus criticizes the practice of using a vow to avoid supporting one's parents.
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.
John 10:3–4
[Bible Verses]A passage in which Jesus, using the figure of a shepherd and his sheep, says that the shepherd calls each of his sheep by name and goes before them, and that the sheep follow because they know his voice. It is frequently cited in discussions of the personal relationship between Christ and believers and of the divine call.
Josephus
[People]Josephus (c. 37 – c. 100) was a first-century Jewish historian. He wrote The Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews, and his works are among the extrabiblical sources most frequently consulted in studying the background of the New Testament.
Matthew 19:9
[Bible Verses]A saying of Jesus: "Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery." Denominations differ in their positions on divorce and remarriage depending on how they understand this so-called "exception clause."
The Woman Caught in Adultery
[People]The woman caught in adultery is an unnamed woman who appears in John 7:53–8:11. She is the central figure in the account in which Jesus told her accusers, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
Matthew 23
[Bible]Matthew 23 is the chapter in which Jesus rebukes the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees with seven pronouncements of "Woe unto you" and laments over Jerusalem. It contains 39 verses.
Mark 2
[Bible]The second chapter of the Gospel of Mark, in which Jesus forgives and heals a paralytic in Capernaum, calls Levi the tax collector, and disputes with the scribes and Pharisees over fasting and the Sabbath.
John 8:7
[Bible Verses]John 8:7 is the verse in which Jesus says to those about to stone a woman taken in adultery, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." It is a classic text on mercy and forgiveness, but it raises a textual problem: the entire story is absent from the oldest manuscripts.
Matthew 5:20
[Bible Verses]Matthew 5:20 is the verse in the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus tells his disciples that unless their righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, they will not enter the kingdom of heaven. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between law and grace and between justification and sanctification.
John 8:11
[Bible Verses]John 8:11 records Jesus' words to the woman brought to him after she was caught in adultery: "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." The verse is often cited because it joins forgiveness with a call to a new life. Discussion of the verse also addresses the fact that the passage containing it is absent from the oldest manuscripts.
Proselyte
[Bible]A proselyte (Greek prosēlytos) is, in New Testament usage, a person born a Gentile who came to believe in the God of Israel and formally entered the Jewish community through circumcision and other rites.
Matthew 24
[Bible]Matthew 24 is the chapter in which Jesus, after foretelling the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, teaches his disciples on the Mount of Olives about the signs of the end, the great tribulation, and the coming of the Son of Man, and urges them to keep watch.
Phylacteries
[Bible]Phylacteries are small leather boxes containing parchment inscribed with passages from the Law, together with the straps by which Jews bind them to the forehead and arm during prayer. In the New Testament they are mentioned once, in Matthew 23:5.
John 8
[Bible]John 8 opens with the account of Jesus declining to condemn the woman caught in adultery. It also contains his declaration "I am the light of the world" and a long dispute with the Jews over his identity.
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."
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.
Mark 7:18–19
[Bible Verses]In this passage Jesus explains to his disciples that food entering a person from outside cannot defile that person. Its closing clause, often rendered "declaring all foods clean," is frequently debated because translations and interpretations differ over whether it abolishes the Old Testament food laws.
Matthew 15
[Bible]Matthew 15 recounts the dispute over handwashing and the tradition of the elders, the faith of a Canaanite woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon, healings beside the Sea of Galilee, and the feeding of the four thousand.