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John 3:16 is the sixteenth verse in the third chapter of the Gospel of John, one of the four gospels in the New Testament.It is the most popular verse from the Bible [1] and is a summary of one of Christianity's central doctrines—the relationship between the Father (God) and the Son of God (Jesus).
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. The World English Bible translates the passage as: "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill." For a collection of other versions see BibleGateway Matthew 5:17.
Matthew 5:18 is the eighteenth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount.In the previous verse, Jesus has stated that he came not to destroy the law, but fulfill it.
In the Gospel of Luke, after the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus, the Court elders ask Pontius Pilate to judge and condemn Jesus in Luke 23:2, accusing Jesus of making false claims of being a king. While questioning Jesus about the claim of being the King of the Jews, Pilate realizes that Jesus is a Galilean and therefore under Herod's jurisdiction ...
This verse is very similar to Luke 12:58.In the Gospel of Matthew this verse could be interpreted as practical advice for staying out of prison. In Luke the context makes clear that it is an eschatological metaphor, with the judge being God and prison eternal punishment. [1]
The Galilean cities had witnessed Jesus' miracles firsthand, making their unbelief more culpable than that of notoriously wicked Gentile cities. Nature of Repentance: The passage emphasizes the importance of repentance as a response to divine revelation. Jesus expected that His miracles would lead to a change of heart and behavior.
For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world.
Augustine: "Whereas Matthew relates that there were two who were afflicted with dæmons, but Mark and Luke mention only one, you must understand that one of them was a person of note, for whom all that country was in grief, and about whose recovery there was much care, whence the fame of this miracle was the more noised abroad."