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Heinrich Meyer suggests that Peter's assertion "Yes" makes it "clear that Jesus had hitherto been in the habit of paying the tax". [6]The story ends without stating that Peter caught the fish as Jesus predicted, [7] nor does the text specify the species of the fish involved, but three West Asian varieties of tilapia are referred to as "St. Peter's fish", in particular the redbelly tilapia.
This has become known popularly as the "153 fish" miracle. In the Gospel of John, [6] seven of the disciples—Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, the sons of Zebedee (James and John), and two others—decided to go fishing one evening after the Resurrection of Jesus, but caught nothing that night. Early the next morning, Jesus (whom they had not ...
Revelation 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, [1][2] but the precise identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. [3] This chapter contains the accounts about the woman, the dragon, and ...
Jerome: "The word here ‘makes a man common’ is peculiar to Scripture, and is not hackneyed in common parlance.The Jewish nation, boasting themselves to be a part of God, call those meats common, of which all men partake; for example, swine’s flesh, shell fish, hares, and those species of animals that do not divide the hoof, and chew the cud, and among the fish such as have not scales.
Christ and the woman taken in adultery, drawing by Rembrandt. Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is a most likely pseudepigraphical [1] passage (pericope) found in John 7:53 – 8:11 [2] of the New Testament. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives.
The Sermon of the Beatitudes (1886-96) by James Tissot. Book. Gospel of Matthew. Christian Bible part. New Testament. Matthew 5:29 is the twenty-ninth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. It is the third verse of the discussion of adultery.
Tombs in the Valley of Hinnom, the location of the tophet, just outside the city of ancient Jerusalem, where Moloch rituals were performed according to 2 Kings 23:10. [ 1 ] Moloch, Molech, or Molek[ a ] is a word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices that are ...
Vale of tears. " Vale of tears " (Latin: vallis lacrimarum) is a Christian phrase referring to the tribulations of life that Christian doctrine says are left behind only when one leaves the world and enters Heaven. The phrase appears in some translations of Psalm 84:6, which describes those strengthened by God's blessing: "As they pass through ...