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• Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

  The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is a parable of Jesus found in Luke 18:9–14. It tells how a tax collector who pleaded for mercy, rather than a Pharisee who boasted of his own righteousness, went home justified. The parable teaches about humility and the proper attitude in prayer.

• The House Built on the Rock

  The house built on the rock is a parable Jesus told at the close of His sermons in Matthew 7 and Luke 6. It compares the person who hears His words and does them to a man who built his house upon a rock, and the person who hears but does not do them to a man who built his house upon the sand.

• Parable of the Sheep and the Goats

  The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats is Jesus' teaching in Matthew 25:31-46, in which the returning Son of Man judges all nations by separating them as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats. Through this scene Jesus teaches that whatever is done for the least of his brethren is done for him.

• Parable of the Unjust Judge

  A parable of Jesus in Luke 18:1–8. Even an unjust judge grants the plea of a persistent widow, and God will all the more avenge his elect. The parable teaches that believers ought always to pray and not lose heart.

• Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

  A parable that Jesus tells in Matthew 18 in answer to Peter's question about forgiveness. A king forgives a servant a debt of ten thousand talents, but the servant refuses to forgive a fellow servant's debt of a hundred denarii and is punished. The parable teaches the relationship between the forgiveness received from God and the forgiveness extended to one's neighbor.

• The Good Shepherd

  The Good Shepherd is a figurative expression Jesus used of himself in John 10. It portrays the true leader as a shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep, in contrast to the hireling and the thief.

• Parable of the Two Sons

  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.

• Healing of the Paralytic

  The healing of the paralytic is a miracle in which Jesus, in a house in Capernaum, pronounced the forgiveness of sins over a paralyzed man who had been let down through the roof, and then made him rise and walk. The account appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

• The Ten Lepers

  An account in which Jesus heals ten lepers on his way to Jerusalem, but only one of them, a Samaritan, returns to give thanks. It appears only in Luke 17:11-19.

• The Vine and the Branches

  A figurative saying in John 15 in which Jesus compares himself to a vine and his disciples to its branches, teaching that they bear fruit only by abiding in him.

• Healing of the Gerasene Demoniac

  The healing of the Gerasene demoniac is the miracle in which Jesus healed a demon-possessed man who lived among the tombs in a Gentile region on the far side of the Sea of Galilee. It is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

• Feeding of the Four Thousand

  The Feeding of the Four Thousand (Korean *chilbyeong-ieo*, "seven loaves and two fish") is the miracle in which Jesus fed a crowd of more than four thousand people with seven loaves of bread and a few small fish. It is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark.

• Healing of the Man Born Blind

  The healing of the man born blind is a miracle in which Jesus restored the sight of a man who had been blind from birth by anointing his eyes with clay and sending him to wash in the Pool of Siloam. It is recorded in John 9.

• Ark of the Covenant

  The Ark of the Covenant was a gold-overlaid wooden chest made at God's command in the time of Moses. It held the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments and was kept in the Most Holy Place of the tabernacle and later of the temple. It is also known as the "Ark of the Law."

• Cursing of the Fig Tree

  The cursing of the fig tree is an event in which Jesus, after entering Jerusalem, cursed a fig tree that was full of leaves but bore no fruit, after which the tree withered. It is recorded in Mark 11 and Matthew 21.

• The Resurrection Chapter

  The Resurrection Chapter is a name for 1 Corinthians 15 in the New Testament. It is the chapter in which Paul deals most extensively with the resurrection of Christ and the bodily resurrection of believers on the last day.

• Gifts of the Holy Spirit

  The gifts of the Holy Spirit are the various abilities and ministries that the Holy Spirit distributes to believers for building up the church. Lists of them appear in 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12, Ephesians 4, and elsewhere.

• The Seven Signs of the Gospel of John

  The seven signs of the Gospel of John is the collective term for seven events recorded in chapters 1–12 of John's Gospel, which calls Jesus' miracles "signs." The Gospel presents these events as indications that reveal who Jesus is and lead people to faith.

• The Love Chapter

  The Love Chapter is the name given to 1 Corinthians 13 in the New Testament. In this chapter Paul describes, in an almost hymnlike manner, the necessity, character, and permanence of love as a more excellent way than the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

• Languages of the Bible

  The languages of the Bible are the original languages in which the Bible was first written. The Old Testament was written mainly in Hebrew, with some portions in Aramaic, and the New Testament was written in Greek, specifically ancient Greek.