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The term "Great Tribulation" occurs four times in the New Testament: Matthew 24:21, Acts 7:11, Revelation 2:22, and Revelation 7:14. Some take the words of Jesus in Matthew 24:21 to be describing a period of intense persecution and tribulation at the end of the age, prior to Jesus's return.
New Testament scholar Robert H. Stein says "all these things" in Luke 21:36 and in Mark 11:28 and in Mark 13:30 are identical phrases used 26 times in the New Testament; 24 of those all have the antecedent they refer to just before the expression itself. In these passages, that is the destruction of the Temple.
The Hebrew scriptures were an important source for the New Testament authors. [13] There are 27 direct quotations in the Gospel of Mark, 54 in Matthew, 24 in Luke, and 14 in John, and the influence of the scriptures is vastly increased when allusions and echoes are included, [14] with half of Mark's gospel being made up of allusions to and citations of the scriptures. [15]
[17] [18] [19] Irenaeus uses the phrase New Testament several times, but does not use it in reference to any written text. [18] In Against Marcion, written c. 208 AD, Tertullian writes of: [20] the Divine Word, who is doubly edged with the two testaments of the law and the gospel. And Tertullian continues later in the book, writing: [21] [d]
It directly precedes the Parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14:15–24. [1] [2] In the Gospel of Matthew, the parallel passage to the Gospel of Luke's Parable of the Great Banquet is also set as a wedding feast (Matthew 22:1–14). [3] In New Testament times, a wedding was a very sacred and joyous thing. Some even lasted up to or more than a ...
John 3 is the third chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It deals with Jesus ' conversation with Nicodemus , one of the Jewish pharisees , and John the Baptist 's continued testimony regarding Jesus.
The Anchor Bible Commentary Series, created under the guidance of William Foxwell Albright (1891–1971), comprises a translation and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Intertestamental Books (the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Deuterocanon/the Protestant Apocrypha; not the books called by Catholics and Orthodox "Apocrypha", which are widely called by Protestants ...
Mark 14 is the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It contains the plot to kill Jesus , his anointing by a woman, the Last Supper , predictions of his betrayal , and Peter the Apostle 's three denials of him.