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Cleansing of the Temple
[Bible]The cleansing of the Temple is the event in which Jesus drove the merchants and money changers out of the Temple in Jerusalem. Recorded in all four Gospels, it is read as a passage that raises questions about the true meaning of the Temple and of worship.
Jehovah
[Bible]Jehovah is the proper name of the God of Israel in the Old Testament. It is written with four Hebrew consonants (YHWH), and scholars often read it as "Yahweh."
Micaiah
[People]Micaiah, the son of Imlah, was a prophet in the time of Ahab, king of Israel. When four hundred prophets predicted victory, he alone prophesied Ahab's defeat (1 Kings 22; 2 Chronicles 18).
Peter's Denial
[Bible]Peter's denial is the episode on the night of Jesus' arrest in which the disciple Peter, in the courtyard of the high priest's house, denied three times that he knew Jesus. It is recorded in all four Gospels.
Euphrates
[Bible]The Euphrates is a great river of western Asia. In the Bible it appears as one of the four rivers into which the river flowing out of the Garden of Eden divided, and as the northeastern boundary of the land promised to Abraham's descendants.
Irenaeus
[People]Irenaeus was a Church Father who served as bishop of Lyon in Gaul in the late second century. In *Against Heresies* he refuted Gnosticism and emphasized the four Gospels and the rule of faith, profoundly influencing the formation of orthodox theology in the early church.
Ephron
[People]Ephron, the son of Zohar, was a Hittite who appears in Genesis 23. He owned the field and cave of Machpelah near Hebron and sold them to Abraham for four hundred shekels of silver, and the cave became Sarah's burial place.
Healing of the Blind Man at Bethsaida
[Bible]The healing of the blind man at Bethsaida is a miracle in which Jesus spat on the eyes of a blind man at Bethsaida and laid his hands on him twice, restoring his sight in stages. Of the four Gospels, it appears only in Mark 8:22–26.
Elisheba
[People]Elisheba was the wife of Aaron, mentioned in Exodus 6:23. The daughter of Amminadab of the tribe of Judah and the sister of Nahshon, she bore four sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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.
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."
Julius Wellhausen
[People]Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918) was a German Old Testament scholar and Orientalist. He is widely known for systematizing the Documentary Hypothesis, which holds that the Pentateuch was composed from four sources (J, E, D, and P).
Rock of Rimmon
[Bible]The Rock of Rimmon was a rocky area toward the wilderness where six hundred Benjamites who survived the war with the other tribes of Israel during the period of the judges took refuge and remained for four months (Judges 20:47).
Theudas
[People]Theudas is a figure whom Gamaliel cited as an example in his speech before the Sanhedrin in Acts 5. He is said to have presented himself as someone of great importance and to have gathered about four hundred followers, but he was slain and his followers were scattered.
Reuel (son of Esau)
[People]Reuel was a son of Esau and his wife Bashemath. He appears in the genealogies of Esau in Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1, and his four sons became chiefs in the land of Edom.
Bill Bright
[People]Bill Bright (1921–2003) was an American evangelist who founded the student ministry Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) in 1951. He also wrote the evangelistic booklet The Four Spiritual Laws and produced the film Jesus.
B. B. Warfield
[People]B. B. Warfield (1851–1921) was an American Presbyterian theologian. He taught at Princeton Theological Seminary for thirty-four years and is a leading representative of Old Princeton theology, known especially for his defense of the doctrines of biblical inspiration and inerrancy and for his cessationism.
Herman Bavinck
[People]Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) was a Dutch Reformed theologian. He taught at the Theological School in Kampen and at the Free University of Amsterdam, and he wrote the four-volume Reformed Dogmatics.
Genesis 23
[Bible]Genesis 23 recounts the death of Sarah at the age of 127 in Hebron and Abraham's purchase of the field and cave of Machpelah from Ephron the Hittite for four hundred shekels of silver, where he then buried Sarah.
Charles Simeon
[People]Charles Simeon (1759–1836) was an evangelical priest of the Church of England. He ministered at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, for fifty-four years, trained preachers, and took part in founding the Church Missionary Society (CMS).