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David and Jonathan were, according to the Hebrew Bible 's Books of Samuel, heroic figures of the Kingdom of Israel, who formed a covenant, taking a mutual oath. Jonathan was the son of Saul, king of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, and David was the son of Jesse of Bethlehem, of the tribe of Judah, and Jonathan's presumed rival for the crown.
Etching by Jan Luyken illustrating the ending of the parable, from the Bowyer Bible. The Parable of the Friend at Night (also known as the Parable of the Friend at Midnight or of the Importunate Neighbour) is a parable of Jesus which appears in Luke 11:5–8. In it, a friend eventually agrees to help his neighbor due to his persistent demands ...
Elihu (biblical figure) The Wrath of Elihu (1805) by William Blake; one of his series of illustrations of the Book of Job. Elihu (Hebrew: אֱלִיהוּא ’Elihu, 'my God is he') is a critic of Job and his three friends in the Hebrew Bible 's Book of Job. He is said to have been the son of Barachel and a descendant of Buz, who may have been ...
Asbury Theological Seminary Bible scholar Ben Witherington III confirms the New Testament account of Mary Magdalene as historical: "Mary was an important early disciple and witness for Jesus." [ 46 ] He continues, "There is absolutely no early historical evidence that Miriam's (Mary's) relationship with Jesus was anything other than that of a ...
Order in the Christian part. 4. John 15 is the fifteenth chapter in the Gospel of John in the New Testament section of the Christian Bible. It is part of what New Testament scholars have called the ' farewell discourse ' of Jesus. It has historically been a source of Christian teaching and Christological debate and reflection, and its images ...
Héliodore Pisan after Gustave Doré, "The Crucifixion", wood-engraving from La Grande Bible de Tours (1866). It depicts the situation described in Luke 23.. The illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours are a series of 241 wood-engravings, designed by the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the ...
Certain officials informed the king that the three Jewish youths Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, who bore the Babylonian names Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and whom the king had appointed to high office in Babylon, were refusing to worship the golden statue. The three were brought before Nebuchadnezzar, where they informed the king that God ...
Christ healing the paralytic at Capernaum by Bernhard Rode 1780. Healing the paralytic at Capernaum is one of the miracles of Jesus in the synoptic Gospels (Matthew 9:1 – 8, Mark 2:1–12, and Luke 5:17–26). [1][2][3][4] Jesus was living in Capernaum and teaching the people there, and on one occasion the people gathered in such large ...