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The fact that she is always mentioned with her husband, Aquila, disambiguates her from different women revered as saints in Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Lutheranism, such as (1) Priscilla of the Roman Glabrio family, the wife of Quintus Cornelius Pudens, who according to some traditions hosted St. Peter circa AD 42, and (2) a third-century virgin ...
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]
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 1:1 in the page showing the first chapter of John in the King James Bible. The traditional rendering in English is: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Other variations of rendering, both in translation or paraphrase, John 1:1c also exist:
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]
Book: Gospel of John: ... John 1:11 is the eleventh verse in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in the New ... The New International Version translates the ...