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Epiphanius' On Weights and Measures [5] preserves a tradition that he was a kinsman of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who employed him in rebuilding Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina, and that Aquila was converted from Roman paganism to Christianity but, on being reproved for practicing astrology, converted from Christianity to Judaism. [6]
Then he set sail for Syria, taking Priscilla and Aquila with him." Acts 18:26: "When Priscilla and Aquila heard him preaching in the synagogue, they took him aside and explained the way of God even more accurately." Romans 16:3: "Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in the ministry of Christ Jesus."
The Prologue to St. John's Gospel, 1:1-18, is read on Christmas Day at the principal Mass during the day in the Roman Catholic Church, a tradition that dates back at least to the 1570 Roman Missal. [38] In the Church of England, following the Book of Common Prayer (1662), St. John 1:1-14 is
The majority of scholars see four sections in the Gospel of John: a prologue (1:1–18); an account of the ministry, often called the "Book of Signs" (1:19–12:50); the account of Jesus's final night with his disciples and the passion and resurrection, sometimes called the Book of Glory [33] or Book of Exaltation (13:1–20:31); [34] and a ...
John 1:18 is the eighteenth verse in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. This verse concludes the prologue to the Gospel of John, which is also called the "Hymn to the Word". Its message recalls verse 1, asserting that there is no other possibility for humans to know God except through Jesus ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. The New International Version (NIV) translates the passage as: The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. [1]
Augustine: "What Light it is to which John bears witness, he shows himself, saying, That was the true Light." [3]Chrysostom: "Or thus; Having said above that John had come, and was sent, to bear witness of the Light, lest any from the recent coming of the witness, should infer the same of Him who is witnessed to, the Evangelist takes us back to that existence which is beyond all beginning ...
Chrysostom: "Forasmuch however as with us, the one who witnesses, is commonly a more important, a more trustworthy person, than the one to whom he bears witness, to do away with any such notion in the present case the Evangelist proceeds; He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.