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The renowned orator Demosthenes (384–322 B.C.) made derogatory comments in his speeches, using the word "barbarian". In the Bible's New Testament, St. Paul (from Tarsus) – lived about A.D. 5 to about A.D. 67) uses the word barbarian in its Hellenic sense to refer to non-Greeks (Romans 1:14), and he also uses it to characterise one who ...
Representation of Barabbas by James Tissot (1836–1902). Barabbas (/ b ə ˈ r æ b ə s /; Biblical Greek: Bαραββᾶς, romanized: Barabbās) [1] was, according to the New Testament, a prisoner who rebelled against the Roman occupying forces and who was chosen over Jesus by the crowd in Jerusalem to be pardoned and released by Roman governor Pontius Pilate at the Passover feast.
New Testament: Matthew 12:42 is the 42nd verse in the twelfth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Content ... Both a woman and a barbarian, and ...
The New Testament [a] (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, ...
A notable example in the New Testament occurs in the Acts of the Apostles 1:23–26 where the eleven remaining apostles cast lots to determine whether to select Matthias, or Barsabbas (surnamed Justus) to replace Judas. [citation needed] The Eastern Orthodox Church still occasionally uses this method of selection.
Galatians 3:28 is the twenty-eighth verse of the third chapter in the Epistle to the Galatians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is a widely commented-upon biblical passage among Paul's statements. [1] It is sometimes cited in various Christian discussions about gender equality and racism.
He is considered to have been one of the first bishops of Laodicea, [1] or the first bishop of Cyrene. [2]There is also a Lucius mentioned in Romans 16:21. There is no way of knowing for sure whether this is the same person, but Origen identifies the Lucius in Romans with the evangelist Luke (Comm. Rom. 10.39)
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, ISBN 0-19-515462-2; Fredriksen, Paula Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity ISBN 0-679-76746-0; Fredriksen, Paula (1988. From Jesus to Christ ISBN 0-300-04864-5; Meier, John P., A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical ...