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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."
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.
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.
Serug
[People]Serug is a figure in the genealogy of Shem in Genesis 11. He was the son of Reu, the father of Nahor, and the great-grandfather of Abraham. His name also appears in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.
Spikenard
[Bible]Spikenard, or nard, is a costly aromatic ointment made from a plant of the Himalayan region. It is best known as the ointment a woman of Bethany poured on Jesus, and it also appears in the Song of Solomon.
Assarion
[Bible]The assarion was a small copper coin used in the Roman Empire during the New Testament era. It appears when Jesus cites the price of sparrows to speak of God's care (Matthew 10:29; Luke 12:6).
Immaculate Conception
[Doctrine & Theology]The Immaculate Conception is the Catholic doctrine that the Virgin Mary was preserved free from original sin from the first moment of her conception. It is distinct from the Virgin Birth, the teaching that Mary bore Jesus as a virgin.
Signs and Wonders
[Bible]"Signs and wonders" is a biblical word pair referring to the marvelous works God performs to reveal his will and power. The Old Testament applies the phrase mainly to the Exodus, and the New Testament to the ministry of Jesus and the apostles.
Ochlos
[Bible]Ochlos (ὄχλος) is the Greek word used in the New Testament for the "crowd," the large gatherings of people who followed or surrounded Jesus. In Korea the term became widely known through the attention that Minjung theology gave to it.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
[History]The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church in the Old City of Jerusalem, built on the site traditionally identified as Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified, and as the tomb in which he was buried. First built under Constantine the Great in the fourth century, it is now administered jointly by several denominations.
Living Water
[Bible]Living water is a biblical expression for "water that is alive," that is, water that springs up and flows from a source. It represents the life and salvation God bestows, as well as the eternal life and the Holy Spirit that Jesus gives.
Salmon
[People]Salmon is an Old Testament figure of the tribe of Judah, the son of Nahshon and the father of Boaz. His name appears in the genealogies of Ruth and 1 Chronicles and in the genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke.
Sea of Tiberias
[Bible]The Sea of Tiberias is the name the Gospel of John uses for the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. On its shore the risen Jesus appeared to seven disciples and charged Peter, "Feed my sheep."
Swaddling Clothes
[Bible]Swaddling clothes are the cloths or bands used to wrap a newborn infant. In the Bible they are best known from Luke 2, where Mary wraps the newborn Jesus in swaddling clothes and lays him in a manger.
Sceva
[People]Sceva was a Jewish priest (or high priest) mentioned in Acts 19. He is known for an incident in Ephesus in which his seven sons tried, and failed, to cast out evil spirits by invoking the name of Jesus whom Paul preached.
Augustus
[People]Augustus (63 BC–AD 14) was the first emperor of the Roman Empire. He appears in Luke 2:1 as "Caesar Augustus," who issued the decree for the census, and he provides the historical backdrop for the account of Jesus' birth.
Judah (Son of Jacob)
[People]Judah was the fourth son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Judah, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Davidic royal line descended from him, and the New Testament presents Jesus as his descendant.