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Jesus was asleep on a cushion in the stern, and the disciples woke him and asked, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?" [1] The Gospel of Mark then states that: He then rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?"
This is the seventh precept that Jesus gave to his disciples, "that they should pray for peace for their host." If the house is deserving the peace prayed for will come to the house. [1] Lapide notes that peace is personified in this verse, as if the person of peace were rejected by the house and so left, taking the apostles with him. [2]
The words Peace be with you (Ancient Greek: Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν 1]) is a common traditional Jewish greeting [5] (shalom alekem, or שלום לכם shalom lekom; [1] cf. 1 Samuel 25:6 [4]) still in use today; [3] repeated in John 20:21 & 26 [4]), but here Jesus conveys the peace he previously promised to his disciples (John 14:27; John 16: ...
Chrysostom: "How then did He enjoin them, that when they should enter any house they should say, Peace be to this house, as also the Angels sung, Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace to men. (Luke 2:14) That is the most perfect peace when that which is diseased is lopped off, when that which introduces strife is taken away, for so only ...
The latest image is a stark contrast to how He is portrayed in paintings and pictures who appears leaner with long flowy hair. Earlier this year a picture re-emerged that showed what Jesus might ...
Michael Licona suggests that John has redacted Jesus' authentic statements as recorded in Matthew, Mark and Luke. Where Matthew and Mark have Jesus quote Psalm 22:1, John records that "in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, Jesus said, 'I am thirsty'." Jesus' final words as recorded in Luke are simplified in John into "It is finished." [12]
Nicodemus Visiting Jesus was inspired by the Gospel of John, 3:1-21.. There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]