When was Jesus born? When did he die? What was his socioeconomic class? How did he fit in the religious, political and ...

If you have ever struggled to wrap your mind around the biblical doctrine of election predestination , you are not alone ...

From the context of Matthew’s calling as one of the Twelve Disciples (Matthew 9:9), it is not surprising that most scholars ...

Visit the homepage for more information. In Mark, we have a clear silhouette of a devout Jewish mother who is concerned about the activity of her son, Jesus. Most of the background for our assertions ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...

One more wouldn’t muster interest. For the apostles, theologian Michael Ramsey once wrote, “the Gospel without the Resurrection was not merely a Gospel without its final chapter: It was not a ...

In 111 A.D. Pliny the Younger wrote in a letter to Emperor Trajan ... According to the Gospel, even the demons (Mark 1:27) and the weather (Mark 4:41) obey Him. The several references in the ...

(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark Twain and Charles ... Carnegie in an 1889 essay, “The Gospel of Wealth,” in which the steel baron wrote, “We accept and welcome ...

The Talmud purports to be the written version of the oral Torah that ... not man for the sabbath” (Mark 2:27), possibly reflecting a tradition later expressed in writing as, “Rabbi Jonathan ...

Kool wrote. Many of the Venetian coins have images depicting St. Mark the Evangelist, who is traditionally ascribed as the author of the Gospel of Mark, as well as Latin inscriptions that can be ...