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'For my name's sake' echoes 'for my sake' in verse 18. [30] The second half of this verse is unclear. Both 'to the end' and 'saved' can have multiple meanings. Elsewhere in Matthew 'to the end' can refer to the destruction of the Temple in 70, the Second Coming of Jesus, the end of persecution, the close of the age, or the end of an individual ...
"Victimae paschali laudes" is a sequence prescribed for the Catholic Mass and some [who?] liturgical Protestant Eucharistic services on Easter Sunday.It is usually attributed to the 11th-century Wipo of Burgundy, chaplain to Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II, but has also been attributed to Notker Balbulus, Robert II of France, and Adam of St. Victor.
Eddy and Boyd see no major impact on the authenticity of the passage or its meaning regardless of the use of either term by Tacitus. [ 29 ] Whatever the original wording of Tacitus, another ancient source about the Neronian persecution, by Suetonius , apparently speaks of "Christians": "In Suetonius' Nero 16.2 , ' christiani ', however, seems ...
In the letters to the early Christian churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9, Jesus makes reference to a synagogue of Satan (Greek: συναγωγή τοῦ Σατανᾶ, synagoge tou satana), in each case referring to a group persecuting the church "who say they are Jews and are not".
This account of persecution is part of a general theme of anti-Christian persecution by both Romans and Jews, one that starts with the Pharisee rejection of Jesus's ministry, the cleansing of the Temple, and continues on with his trial before the High Priest, his crucifixion, and the Pharisees' refusal to accept him as the Jewish messiah.
this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. it will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me. 2. Take this, all of you, and eat of it: for this is my body which will be given up for you. Take this, all of you, and drink from it: for this is the chalice of my blood,
Verse 18, "They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment", is quoted in Mark 15:24; Matthew 27:35; Luke 23:34; John 19:24. [ 13 ] Verse 22, "I will declare your name to my people; in the assembly I will praise you", is quoted Hebrews 2:12 .
Matthew 5:11 is the eleventh verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.It is the ninth verse of the Sermon on the Mount.Some commentators consider this verse to be the beginning of the last Beatitude, [who?] but others disagree, [who?] seeing it as more of an expansion on the eighth and final Beatitude in the previous verse.