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• Centurion

  [Bible]

  A centurion was a Roman army officer who commanded a unit of roughly one hundred soldiers. The New Testament mentions several centurions, including the centurion of Capernaum, whose faith Jesus commended; the centurion at the cross; and Cornelius.

• Cornelius

  [People]

  Cornelius is a Roman centurion stationed at Caesarea who appears in Acts 10. After hearing Peter's preaching, he received the Holy Spirit and was baptized, and he is remembered as the central figure in the event through which the gospel was opened to the Gentiles.

• Julius

  [People]

  Julius was a Roman army centurion mentioned in Acts 27. He was responsible for escorting Paul, then a prisoner, from Caesarea to Rome.

• Longinus

  [People]

  Longinus is the name that later tradition gave to the soldier who pierced Jesus' side with a spear at the crucifixion, or to the centurion who confessed, "Truly this man was the Son of God." The name does not appear in the Bible.

• Luke 7

  [Bible]

  Luke 7 is the chapter in which Jesus heals a centurion's servant in Capernaum, raises a widow's son at Nain, answers a question from John the Baptist, and forgives the sins of a sinful woman in the house of Simon the Pharisee.

• Acts 10

  [Bible]

  Acts 10 is the chapter in which Cornelius, a Roman centurion at Caesarea, and the apostle Peter each receive a vision and then meet, after which the Holy Spirit falls on the Gentiles listening to Peter's sermon and they are baptized.

• Matthew 8

  [Bible]

  Matthew 8 recounts how Jesus, after coming down from the mountain where he delivered the Sermon on the Mount, heals a leper, a centurion's servant, and Peter's mother-in-law, calms a storm, and casts out demons in the country of the Gadarenes.

• Matthew 8:16–17

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage that interprets Jesus' evening healing of the demon-possessed and the sick as the fulfillment of Isaiah 53:4. It is frequently cited in discussions of whether healing is included in Christ's atonement.

• Acts 27

  [Bible]

  Acts 27 is the chapter in which Paul, being taken to Rome as a prisoner, encounters the tempestuous wind Euroclydon near Crete and drifts for fourteen days. Although the ship is wrecked, all 276 people aboard reach land alive.

• Acts 10:44–46

  [Bible Verses]

  This passage describes how, while Peter was preaching in the house of Cornelius, the Holy Spirit fell on the Gentile listeners, and they spoke with tongues and magnified God. It marks a turning point in the mission to the Gentiles and is frequently cited in discussions of Spirit baptism and speaking in tongues.

• Healing of the Centurion's Servant

  [Bible]

  The healing of the centurion's servant is a miracle in which Jesus, at Capernaum, healed the sick servant of a Roman army centurion by his word alone. Recorded in Matthew 8 and Luke 7, the account is known for Jesus' commendation of a Gentile's faith.

• Raising of the Widow's Son at Nain

  [Bible]

  A miracle in which Jesus met a funeral procession near the gate of the town of Nain in Galilee, raised a widow's only son from the dead, and restored him to his mother. It is recorded only in Luke 7:11-17.

• God-fearers

  [Bible]

  "God-fearers" is a term for Gentiles in the New Testament era who believed in the God of the Jews and took part in synagogue worship but did not convert to Judaism by receiving circumcision. The expression appears frequently in the Book of Acts.

• Nain

  [Bible]

  Nain was a small village in southern Galilee. It is mentioned only once in the Bible, in Luke 7:11, as the setting of the account in which Jesus raised a widow's only son.

• Aleppo Codex

  [Bible]

  The Aleppo Codex is a manuscript of the Hebrew Old Testament believed to have been produced in Tiberias, Galilee, in the first half of the tenth century. It is regarded as one of the most accurate witnesses to the Masoretic Text.

• Hermit

  [Christian Life]

  A hermit is a person who lives alone in a remote place apart from the world, cultivating faith through prayer and ascetic discipline. The tradition originated with the monks of the Egyptian desert in the third and fourth centuries.

• Sennacherib

  [People]

  Sennacherib was a king of Assyria in the late eighth and early seventh centuries BC. During the reign of Hezekiah king of Judah, he invaded Judah and besieged and threatened Jerusalem, but he withdrew without taking the city.

• Abolitionist Movement

  [History]

  The abolitionist movement was a social movement of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that sought to end the slave trade and slavery by law. In Britain, Quakers, evangelical Anglicans, and Methodists were at the center of the movement.

• 1 Corinthians 11:11-12

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in which Paul, while addressing the question of head coverings in worship at the Corinthian church, states that "in the Lord" man and woman depend on each other and that all things are of God. It is frequently cited in discussions of women's ordination, with debate centering on how it relates to the preceding argument about the order of man and woman.

• Iconoclastic Controversy

  [History]

  The Iconoclastic Controversy was a theological and political dispute in the Byzantine Empire during the eighth and ninth centuries over whether it was legitimate to make and venerate images (icons) of Christ and the saints. It was largely settled with the restoration of icon veneration in 843.