“When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments
did you take up? They said unto Him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand,
how many baskets full of...
Matthew's Gospel demonstrates that Jesus was a superior teacher, and there is no good reason to view Jesus as either a first century wisdom sage, or apocalyptic prophet. According to Matthew, he w...
What the Sadducees believed. The Sadducees were the conservatives of the time. They held that only the written Torah was authoritative, rejecting the oral law completely. What The Pharisees believe...
“And He said unto the disciples, The days will come when you shall desire
to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you shall not see it”
Luke 17:22.
WHILE the Lord was yet on earth the days...
Covetousness, lust, and greed are all heart sins from which most other sins originate. For this reason, in addition to the First Commandment, the Tenth Commandment is arguably the most important Co...
The Samaritans (שומרונים Shomronim, in Hebrew) are a small tribe of people who live near Shechem (Nablus) who call themselves Bnei Yisrael. Religiously, they are the adherents to Samaritanism, a pa...
One who truly loves God with all his being must, by definition of this love
for God, love his neighbor as himself. Elsewhere Jesus makes clear that even
those different than us, having a differen...
The Essenes were a Jewish religious group that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE that some scholars claim seceded from the Tzadokite priests. Being much fewer in number than...
The Pharisees (Perushim – ―separated ones‖ – in Hebrew) was a movement of Jews during the time of the Second Beit Hamikdash (Holy Beit Hamikdash) who were in opposition to the Sadducees and Helleni...
The Sadducees (also known as the Tzadokites - Tzadokim in Hebrew) were a group of priests who were opposed to the Pharisees. The group was founded in the second century BCE and ceased to exist afte...
THIS blind man, whose eyes Christ had opened, was a very shrewd fellow and wonderfully straightforward and
determined. What he did know could not be beaten out of him, neither could he be led to d...
This essay examines the rebel angel characters of Milton’s “Paradise Lost” against the backdrop of the English Civil War. I propose that the rebel angels in the epic help describe the different fa...
“A great multitude, when they had heard what great things
He did, came unto Him.”
Mark 3:8.
THE opposition of the great ones of the earth did not, after all, hinder the cause of Christ. The Phar...
"But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate." (Revelation 2:6, KJV)
The truth is, that Jesus himself was despised and rejected by the Phariseees. It is be...
It was July and in the searing heat perhaps one heard the bloodcurdling screams before one saw the actual ruins of the city. Jerusalem smoked and flamed as Titus’ legions, V Macedonica, X Fretens...