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THE GOSPELS 199 See also: The Fall 30–35 ■ The Flood 40–41 ■ The Exodus 74–77 ■ The Suffering of Job 146–47 ■ The Lord’s Prayer ...
200 E arly in His ministry, Jesus selects 12 disciples. This is a step to securing His legacy and has huge significance: the 12 ...
201 See also: Jesus Embraces a Tax Collector 242–43 ■ Peter’s Denial 256–57 ■ The Great Commission 274–77 Peter) and his brother ...
202 encouraging resistance to foreign control and religion. As their name implies, they are “zealous” in asserting the ancestral ...
203 which continued into the 4th century. The reputation of these men, and the esteem in which they were held, grew as the Churc ...
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO PERSECUTE YOU MATTHEW 5:44, SERMON ON THE MOUNT US_204-209_Sermon_on_the_Mount.indd 20 ...
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206 success are rejected as Jesus declares that those who appear to have been overlooked in their present life shall receive God ...
207 There are several parallels in Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount that would not have been lost on His audience, for it strongly ec ...
208 SERMON ON THE MOUNT God. They must be confident that God’s goodwill is all they need for their lives to flourish. Instead of ...
THE GOSPELS 209 Jesus warns against judging others in The Parable of the Mote and the Beam (c.1619) by Domenico Fetti. The paint ...
210 DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO TO YOU LUKE 6:31, THE GOLDEN RULE T he saying, “Do to others what you would have them ...
211 See also: Sermon on the Mount 204–09 ■ The Lord’s Prayer 212–13 ■ The Good Samaritan 216–17 THE GOSPELS a list of dos and do ...
212 THIS, THEN, IS HOW YOU SHOULD PRAY MATTHEW 6:9, THE LORD’S PRAYER C hristianity’s most famous prayer, which was taught to th ...
213 Reciting the Lord’s Prayer was once a daily ritual in many Christian families, as shown in this illustration from Berlin, da ...
214 O ne of the many reasons the Bible is still so popular today is its use of story. As humans, we are captivated by the power ...
215 See also: The Good Samaritan 216–17 ■ The Prodigal Son 218–21 ■ Workers in the Vineyard 223 THE GOSPELS Unsurprisingly, only ...
216 WHEN HE SAW HIM, HE TOOK PITY ON HIM LUKE 10:33, THE GOOD SAMARITAN T he Parable of the Good Samaritan is one of several sto ...
THE GOSPELS 217 reader an insight into the theology of the author of Luke. Given that he was probably a Greek-speaking Gentile, ...
218 O f all of the allegorical and moral tales that Jesus told during His ministry, the parable of the prodigal son is one of th ...
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