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An Angel Comes To Joseph In A Dream

Joseph was going to divorce Mary quietly, but an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream and told him not to be afraid. (Approximately July, 6 B.C.)...

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Jesus Is Baptized In The Jordan River Sept, 25 A.D.

Jesus came to the Jordan to be baptized by John....

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Messianic Prophecy in the Bible

Audio by Shahar. Introduction. What is the Messiah. The Torah. The Image of God. Abraham - The First Hebrew. The Jewish Messiah. Messiah Jew and Gentiles. The Seed of the Woman - Genesis 3:14-15. The Seed of Abraham - Genesis 22:17-18. The Tribe of Judah - Genesis 49:10. The Star of Jacob - Numbers 24:17. The Seed of David - Psalm 132:10-11. A Prop...

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Resurrection of the Dead from Catholic Apologetics

"By 'resurrection' Christians do not mean only the return to life in the body of a dead human being; it means taking on a completely new existence. We believe that the souls of all those who have died will be reunited to their bodies; but those bodies will have different characteristics. We Catholic Christians profess this belief often when we pr...

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Jesus Reading Isaiah Scroll

Jesus was reading from a scroll of the prophet Isaiah, when He spoke the incredible words, "today this Scripture is fulfilled."...

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Jesus Before Annas and Caiaphas by Alfred Edersheim

IT was not a long way that they led the bound Christ. Probably through the same gate by which He had gone forth with His disciples after the Paschal Supper, up to where, on the slope between the Upper City and the Tyropoeon, stood the well-known Palace of Annas. There were no idle saunterers in the streets of Jerusalem at that late hour, and the tr...

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Matthew the Tax Collector

Levi was a custom-house official. The Talmud distinguishes between the tax collector and the custom house official. The Gabbai collected the regular real estate and income taxes and the poll tax; the Mockhes, the duty on imports, exports, toll on roads, bridges, the harbor, the town tax, and a great multiplicity of other variable taxes on an unlimi...

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The Hill of Calvary

Located outside the second wall. The actual site of the Cross is still under discussion. [Model of Ancient Jerusalem during the time of Jesus and the second (Herod's) Temple, before its destruction in 70 AD. Built by archaeologists according to various historical sources: Josephus, the Mishnah, the Talmuds, the Tosephta, and the New Testament as we...

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The Palace of the High Priest Caiphas

This is where informal meetings of a small Sanhedrin were held. Peter denied Jesus in one of these courts. [Model of Ancient Jerusalem during the time of Jesus and the second (Herod's) Temple, before its destruction in 70 AD. Built by archaeologists according to various historical sources: Josephus, the Mishnah, the Talmuds, the Tosephta, and the N...

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