"Ephraim in the wilderness The City of Ephraim or Ephraim in the wilderness () is a city or village in Judea referred to in the New Testament in Gospel of John (). According to the narrative, after Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead, the Pharisees and Chief Priests began to plot to put Jesus to death, so He retired to Ephraim with his disciples to stay there. They left Ephraim shortly before Jesus' final Passover, arriving in Bethany six days before the Passover (John 12:1). The New King James Version and World English Bible call Ephraim a ""city"", whereas"
"by Jesus is only recorded in the Gospel of Luke. Jesus arrived at the village of Nain during the burial ceremony of the son of a widow, and raised the young man from the dead. The location is the village of Nain in Galilee, two miles south of Mount Tabor. This is the first of three miracles of Jesus in the canonical gospels in which he raises the dead, the other two being the raising of Jairus' daughter and of Lazarus. Following the healing, Jesus fame spread ""throughout all Judea and all the surrounding region"". In the Cambridge Bible for"
"in al-Imran (3) 49. Muslim scholar and judge al-Baydawi (d. 1286) wrote how it was recorded that many thousands of people came to Jesus to be healed, and that Jesus healed these diseases through prayer only. Medieval scholar al-Tha`labi wrote about how these two particular diseases were beyond medical help, and Jesus' miracles were meant to be witnessed by others as clear signs of his message. Jesus is believed to have raised people from the dead, as mentioned in al-Imran (3) 49. Although no detail is given as to who was raised or the circumstance, at least three people are"
"Jesus, but mentioned Lazarus only occasionally. Al-Ṭabarī, for example, in his ""Taʾrīk̲h̲"" talks of these miracles in general. Al-T̲h̲aʿlabī, however, related, closely following St. John's Gospel: ""Lazarus [""Al-ʿĀzir""] died, his sister sent to inform Jesus, Jesus came three (in the Gospel, four) days after his death, went with his sister to the tomb in the rock and caused Lazarus to arise; children were born to him"". Similarly, in Ibn al-At̲h̲īr, the resurrected man is called ""ʿĀzir"",which is another Arabic rendering of ""Lazarus."" Ṭabarī, i, 187, 731, 739 Ibn al-At̲h̲īr, i, 122, 123 T̲h̲aʿlabī, ""Ḳiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ"", Cairo 1325/1907-8, ii, 307. On"
"inerrant and infallible in the autographs. ""There is one God, eternally coexistent in three Persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. ""Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of Virgin Mary, died on the cross for the sins of mankind, was buried, and rose from the dead on the third day following. He ascended to heaven where He is presently seated at the right hand of God to make intercession for the believer. At a time known only to the Father, He will return in power and glory to receive"
"Raising of Lazarus The raising of Lazarus or the resurrection of Lazarus is a miracle of Jesus recounted only in the Gospel of John (John 11:1–44) in which Jesus brings Lazarus of Bethany back to life four days after his burial. In John, this is the last of the miracles that Jesus performs before the Passion and his own resurrection. Lazarus is the brother of Martha and Mary. The family lives in the village of Bethany, about two miles east of Jerusalem on the south-eastern slope of the Mount of Olives. According to John 11:1-44, Jesus receives a message that"
"one-third to the poor people of the nearby communities, some of whose children had been kidnapped by the Pharisees, to be sold as slaves. Lorber does not reveal Jesus as one of three ""separate"" divine persons in a holy Trinity according to teachings of the main Christian churches. Like man, who has been created totally in God's image, God consists of three different persons - body, soul and spirit - each with his own individual activity, but nevertheless man is only ""one"" human being. Likewise Jesus is the only ""one"" divine being existing in himself eternally out of a well"
"Jesus called them to follow him. James was one of only three apostles whom Jesus selected to bear witness to his Transfiguration. James and John (or, in another tradition, their mother) asked Jesus to grant them seats on his right and left in his glory. Jesus rebuked them, and the other apostles were annoyed with them. James and his brother wanted to call down fire on a Samaritan town, but were rebuked by Jesus. The Acts of the Apostles records that ""Herod the king"" (traditionally identified with Herod Agrippa) had James executed by the sword. He is the only apostle"
"of Kings."" Earlier in the Gospel narrative, these hypotheses about Jesus' identity were provided in by those in the court of Herod Antipas when he wondered if Jesus was John the Baptist restored to life. In the three Gospel accounts, after asking about the views of ""the multitudes"", Jesus asks his disciples about their own opinion: ""But who do you say that I am?"" Only Simon Peter answers him: ""You are the Christ, the Son of the living God"". Only in Jesus blesses Peter for his answer, and later indicates this revelation is the foundational rock of the Church. This"
"not to be enjoined as an article of faith (Hebrews 4:12; 2 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Timothy 3:15-17). 2. In one God, eternally existing in three persons, namely the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 43:10-11; Matthew 28:19; Mark 12:29). 3. That Jesus Christ is the only Begotten Son of the Father, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and born of virgin Mary (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 3:16-17)., that Jesus Christ died on the cross, and was buried and raised from the dead; that He ascended to heaven and is today at the right hand of the Father as"
"the Ministry of Jesus on earth, before his death, Jesus commissioned his Twelve Apostles to, among other things, raise the dead. In the New Testament, Jesus is said to have raised several persons from death. These resurrections included the daughter of Jairus shortly after death, a young man in the midst of his own funeral procession, and Lazarus, who had been buried for four days. According to the Gospel of Matthew, after Jesus's resurrection, many of those previously dead came out of their tombs and entered Jerusalem, where they appeared to many. Similar resurrections are credited to the apostles and"
"his companion describe the events of that week. They tell about Jesus' trial, crucifixion, and burial. They also share that some of the women who followed Jesus discovered the tomb in which Jesus was buried empty. The unnamed man then proceeds to explain the writings of the prophet Moses concerning God's Messiah or Christ. When the three travelers reach Emmaus, they share a meal. During the blessings of the meal, it is revealed to Cleopas and his companion that the unnamed man who accompanied them is none other than Jesus whom God has raised from the dead. In that moment"
"hell, except for Judas, Cain, and Herod the Great. This is followed by a flashback described by a gardener to the night when angels, fiery chariots, and God, descended to earth, and resurrected Jesus. Bartholomew is present at the scene, and is shown the highest level of heaven so that he can see the liturgy going on there to celebrate the resurrection. Bartholomew then has a flashback about a divine visitation at the Mount of Olives. Meanwhile, Thomas is busy resurrecting ""Siophanes"" (possibly a transcription error and meant to read ""Theophanes""), his son. On returning to life, Siophanes describes what"
"Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, the only-begotten, born of the Father before all ages. Light from light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in essence with the Father; through Him all things were made. For us and for our salvation, he came down from heaven and was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man. He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried. He rose on the third day according to the"
"no less a person than St Augustine. All four Gospels name her as one of the small group of women who found the tomb empty, all but Luke name her as one of the many women present at the Crucifixion, and Luke names none of ""the women who had followed him from Galilee"", which would include her. Matthew and Mark both name her as one of the small group who placed the body in the tomb. Prior to the Crucifixion, however, the only explicit mention of her is in , in which she is one of only three named of"
"church commemorates her together with Martha and Lazarus on 29 July. Mary, the wife of Clopas, is named only once in the New Testament, in , where she is listed as one of four women standing by the Cross, the others being Mary the mother of Jesus, her sister (or perhaps cousin, the Aramaic words being the same), and Mary Magdalene. An alternative reading is that the list is of only three women, and that Mary of Clopas is also the sister (or cousin) of Mary the mother of Jesus, as some traditions maintain. The passage could also be interpreted"
"four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) in the Bible, as well as being the focus of the subsequent books of the New Testament. Some stories common to all four Gospels include that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, subsequently traveled as an itinerant preacher and healer, took on twelve apostles, miraculously fed 5000 people at least once, entered Jerusalem on a donkey, drove merchants from the Second Temple, predicted his betrayal by one of his disciples, was crucified, but resurrected from death. It must be noted that each gospel represents a different perspective, with some different information and"
"The Three Marys The Three Marys or Maries is a term referring to the women mentioned in the canonical gospels narratives of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, several of whom were, or have been considered by Christian tradition, to have been named Mary (a very common name for Jewish women of the period). The Gospels give the name Mary to several individuals. At various points of Christian history, some of these women have been conflated with one another. Another woman who appears in the Crucifixion and Resurrection narratives is Salome, who, in some traditions, is identified as being one of"
"is recorded that Joseph of Arimathea was assisted in the burial process by Nicodemus, who brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes and included these spices in the burial clothes per Jewish customs. Although no single gospel gives an inclusive or definitive account of the resurrection of Jesus or his appearances, there are four points at which all four gospels converge: All four gospels report that women were the ones to find the tomb of Jesus empty. According to Mark and Luke, the ""announcement"" of Jesus' resurrection was made to several women. According to Mark and John, Jesus ""appeared first"""
"Resurrection of Jesus The resurrection of Jesus or resurrection of Christ is the Christian religious belief that, after being put to death, Jesus rose again from the dead: as the Nicene Creed expresses it, ""On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures"". According to the New Testament, after the Romans crucified Jesus, he was anointed and buried in a new tomb by Joseph of Arimathea but God raised him from the dead and he appeared to witnesses before he ascended into heaven, to sit at the right hand of Father. Paul the Apostle declared that ""Christ"
"resurrection, and the post-resurrection appearances. Some scholars argue that Jesus' use of three important terms: Messiah, Son of God, and Son of Man, added to his ""I am the..."" and his ""I have come..."" statements, indicate Jesus saw himself in a divine role. Bray says Jesus probably did teach his disciples he was the ""Son of God"", because if he had not, no first century monotheistic Jew would have tolerated the suggestion from others. Jesus also called himself the ""Son of Man"" tying the term to the eschatological figure in Daniel. In the Hebrew Bible, three classes of people are"
"that of Jesus', when the former, out of betrayal, led the Roman soldiers to arrest Jesus who by then was ascended to the heavens. This transformation of appearance was so identical that the masses, followers of Christ, and even the Mother of Jesus, Mary, initially thought that the one arrested and crucified was Jesus himself. The gospel then mentions that after three days since burial, Judas' body was stolen from his grave, and then the rumors spread of Jesus being risen from the dead. When Jesus was informed in the third heaven about what happened, he prayed to God to"
"only son of an unnamed widow. When Jesus saw the dead son being carried out and the mourning widow, he felt compassion for her. He walked towards the bier or stretcher, touched it, stopped the funeral procession and told the man: ""Young man, I say to you, arise!"" The man came alive, sat up, and began to speak. The people who were standing around were all struck by the event, seen as a sign that 'a great prophet' had arisen among them, and the report of it spread widely across Judea and the surrounding region. Nain is not mentioned in"
"but now Mark has Peter, James, and John as witnesses to this. Elijah and Moses disappear and they head down the mountain. On the way down the mountain, Jesus tells them to keep what had happened to themselves until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They are confused as to what he means but do not ask him to clarify himself. They ask him about Elijah (Elias) and he says: It was commonly believed that Elijah would reappear before the coming of the Messiah, as predicted in Malachi 4. Matthew 17:13 states that the three of them"
"all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you sound. This is the stone which was set at naught by you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, by which we must be saved"". Acts of the Apostles 4:10-12. ″For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus″.1 Timothy"
"touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my father."" New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III says John is the only evangelist with a ""keen interest"" in portraying women in Jesus' story, yet, the ""only Easter event narrated by all four evangelists concerns the visit of the women to the tomb of Jesus."" Mary Magdalene and the other women go to anoint Jesus' body at the tomb, but find the body gone. Mary Magdalene is inconsolable, but she turns and Jesus' speaks to her. He calls her by name and she recognizes him. Witherington adds, ""There are certain parallels"
"a centurion, and several women who watched from a distance two of whom were present during the burial. Luke is the only gospel writer to omit the detail of sour wine mix that was offered to Jesus on a reed, while only Mark and John describe Joseph actually taking the body down off the cross. There are several details that are only found in one of the gospel accounts. For instance, only Matthew's gospel mentions an earthquake, resurrected saints who went to the city and that Roman soldiers were assigned to guard the tomb, while Mark is the only one"
"another name for Jesus in heaven, in his pre-human and post-resurrection existence. They say the definite article at Jude 9—referring to ""Michael the archangel""—identifies Michael as the only archangel. They consider Michael to be synonymous with Christ, described at as descending ""with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet"". They believe the prominent roles assigned to Michael at Daniel 12:1 and Revelation 12:7, 19:14, 16, are identical to Jesus' roles, being the one chosen to lead God's people and as the only one who ""stands up"", identifying the two as"
"well: Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael and Joel. Medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides made a Jewish angelic hierarchy. The New Testament makes several references to angels, but uses the word ""archangel"" only twice, at Thessalonians 4:16 (""For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first"", KJV) and Jude 1:9 (""Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee"", KJV)."
"that Nicodemus assisted Joseph with burial. According to the First Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 15:4), Jesus was raised from the dead (""on the third day"" counting the day of crucifixion as the first) and according to the canonical Gospels, appeared to his disciples on different occasions before ascending to heaven. The account given in Acts of the Apostles says that Jesus remained with the apostles for forty days, whereas the account in the Gospel of Luke makes no clear distinction between the events of Easter Sunday and the Ascension. However, most biblical scholars agree that St. Luke also"
"peoples. Then the Unbegotten and Innominable Father, seeing what discord prevailed among men and among angels, and how the Jews were perishing, sent His Firstborn Nûs, Who is Christ, to deliver those Who believed on Him from the power of the makers of the world. ""He,"" the Basilidians said, ""is our salvation, even He Who came and revealed to us alone this truth."" He accordingly appeared on earth and performed mighty works; but His appearance was only in outward show, and He did not really take flesh. It was Simon of Cyrene that was crucified; for Jesus exchanged forms with"
"Raising of the son of the widow of Nain The raising of the son of the widow of Nain is an account of a miracle by Jesus, recorded in the Gospel of Luke. Jesus arrived at the village of Nain during the burial ceremony of the son of a widow, and raised the young man from the dead. () The location is the village of Nain, two miles south of Mount Tabor. This is the first of three miracles of Jesus in the canonical gospels in which he raises the dead, the other two being the raising of Jairus' daughter"
"seen as the same as Mary Magdalene. Luke refers to a number of people accompanying Jesus and the twelve. From among them he names three women: ""Mary, called Magdalene, ... and Joanna the wife of Herod's steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources"" (Luke 8:2-3). Mary Magdalene and Joanna are among the women who went to prepare Jesus' body in Luke's account of the resurrection, and who later told the apostles and other disciples about the empty tomb and words of the ""two men in dazzling clothes"". Mary Magdalene is the most"