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• Empty Tomb

  [Bible]

  The empty tomb is the event in which women went to the tomb of Jesus early on the first day of the week, the third day after his crucifixion and burial, and found the stone moved away and his body gone. All four Gospels record it.

• Joseph of Arimathea

  [People]

  Joseph of Arimathea was a member of the Jewish council who, after Jesus died on the cross, asked Pilate for the body and laid it in his own new tomb. He appears in all four Gospels.

• 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."

• Institutes of the Christian Religion

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Institutes of the Christian Religion is a systematic work of Protestant theology by the Reformer John Calvin. First published in 1536, it was revised several times before the final edition was completed in 1559. It is regarded as a foundational text of Reformed and Presbyterian theology.

• Healing of the Paralytic

  [Bible]

  The healing of the paralytic is a miracle in which Jesus, in a house in Capernaum, declared the forgiveness of sins to a paralyzed man who had been lowered through the roof, and then raised him up so that he walked. The account appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

• 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.

• Servant Songs

  [Bible]

  "Servant Songs" is a scholarly term for four poems in Isaiah 40–55 concerning "the servant of the LORD." They are found in Isaiah 42, 49, 50, and 52:13–53:12, and the New Testament applies them to Jesus Christ.

• Philippians

  [Bible]

  Philippians is the eleventh book of the New Testament, a letter the apostle Paul wrote while imprisoned to the church at Philippi in Macedonia. It has four chapters, and because its exhortation to "rejoice" recurs throughout, it is also called the "Epistle of Joy."

• Mary Magdalene

  [People]

  Mary Magdalene was a woman disciple who followed Jesus from the time of his Galilean ministry. All four Gospels record that she witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus and the empty tomb, and the Gospel of John presents her as the first person to meet the risen Jesus.

• James the Son of Alphaeus

  [People]

  One of the twelve disciples of Jesus, distinguished from James the son of Zebedee by the addition of his father's name. He is traditionally also called "James the Less," although it is uncertain whether the two are the same person.

• Psalm 4

  [Bible]

  Psalm 4 is an eight-verse prayer psalm whose superscription identifies it as a psalm of David. The psalmist asks God to answer him in distress, rebukes those who pursue vain things, and closes with trust in the LORD that allows him to lie down and sleep in peace.

• Matthew 4

  [Bible]

  Matthew 4 is the chapter in which Jesus is tempted by the devil in the wilderness, goes to Galilee and begins to preach, "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand," and calls four fishermen to be his disciples.

• 2 Samuel

  [Bible]

  Second Samuel is a historical book of the Old Testament that records the period after Saul's death, when David became king over Judah and then over all Israel. It has twenty-four chapters.

• Proverbs 30

  [Bible]

  Proverbs 30 contains the words of Agur the son of Jakeh. It consists of questions about the Creator, a declaration of the purity of God's word, a prayer asking for neither poverty nor riches, and observational sayings grouped in the pattern of "three things, yea, four."

• 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.

• Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem

  [Bible]

  The Triumphal Entry is the event in which Jesus, shortly before His Passion, rode into Jerusalem on a donkey while the crowds welcomed Him with shouts of "Hosanna." It is recorded in all four Gospels, and the church commemorates it on Palm Sunday.

• Arrest of Jesus

  [Bible]

  The arrest of Jesus is the event in which, on the night after the Last Supper, a crowd led by Judas Iscariot seized Jesus at Gethsemane. All four Gospels record it, and it leads directly to the trial and crucifixion of Jesus.

• Presbyterian Church of Chosen

  [History]

  The Presbyterian Church of Chosen was the first General Assembly organization of Korean Presbyterianism, formed in Pyongyang in September 1912 by seven presbyteries. It was renamed the Presbyterian Church in Korea in 1949, and many Presbyterian denominations today regard it as their common root.

• Alexandria

  [Bible]

  Alexandria is a port city on the Mediterranean coast of northern Egypt. It is mentioned four times in the Bible, all in the Book of Acts. It was the hometown of Apollos and, according to tradition, the place where the Septuagint was translated.

• Shihor

  [Bible]

  Shihor is the name of an Egyptian watercourse mentioned four times in the Old Testament. It refers to the Nile or one of its branches and also appears in descriptions of the southern boundary of the land of Israel.