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Meeting of the Lord, Russian Orthodox icon, 15th century. The event is described in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:22–40).According to the gospel, Mary and Joseph took the Infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days (inclusive) after his birth to complete Mary's ritual purification after childbirth, and to perform the redemption of the firstborn son, in obedience to the Torah (Leviticus ...
The Gospel in Brief (Russian: Краткое Изложение Евангелия) is a 1892 synthesis of the four gospels of the New Testament into one narrative of the life of Jesus by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. [1]
The structure of Acts parallels the structure of the gospel, demonstrating the universality of the divine plan and the shift of authority from Jerusalem to Rome: [38] The gospel – the acts of Jesus: The presentation of the child Jesus at the Temple in Jerusalem; Jesus' forty days in the desert; Jesus in Samaria/Judea; Jesus in the Decapolis
A gospel tract in the Christian sense is a leaflet with a gospel message. It is typically a short presentation of the Gospel lasting only a few pages, and is typically printed on small pieces of paper. [47] Estimated numbers of tracts distributed in the year 2000 amount to around 5 billion.
The gospel or good news is a theological concept in several religions. In the historical Roman imperial cult and today in Christianity , the gospel is a message about salvation by a divine figure, a savior, who has brought peace or other benefits to humankind.
In Christianity, the Sermon on the Plain refers to a set of teachings by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, in 6:20–49. [1] This sermon may be compared to the longer Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew. [2] Luke 6:12–20a details the events leading to the sermon. In it, Jesus spent the night on a mountain praying to God.
Gospel of Cerinthus – around 90-120 AD according to Epiphanius, [12] this is a Jewish gospel identical to the Gospel of the Ebionites, and apparently a truncated version of the Gospel of Matthew, according to the Hebrews; Gospel of Apelles – mid to late 2nd century, a further edited version of Marcion's edited version of Luke; Gospel of ...
Per the Bible, Jesus grew up in Galilee and much of his ministry took place there. [29] The language spoken in Galilee and Judea during the 1st century amongst the common people was most frequently the Semitic Aramaic tongue, [30] [31] [32] and most scholars support the theory that Jesus spoke Aramaic, although he may have also spoken Hebrew and perhaps had some fluency in Greek.