Sentences with phrase «elder brother jesus»

This is how the ancient prophets spoke about the Messiah — their eldest brother Jesus.

Not exact matches

Once again, the parable, we are told, was by way of a defense of what Jesus was doing against the censures of the pious, who are slyly satirized in the figure of the smug elder brother («I never once disobeyed your orders!»).

But I'm finding that «Jeremy Myers» is just as big a name in this family where the biggest name of all among the lesser brethren (Jesus being elder brother to us all) is probably the one none of us is listening for... and it's the «least».

I have seen too much: — an arrogant pastor that told me to leave the grounds and slammed the church door behind him; another that told me «all bisexuals are promiscuous» and thought this was not bigotry nor prejudice; — a young well - meaning pastor that was my bodyguard once, and never returned to feed the poor in their tent - villages; — a wonderful older brother that helped feed the poor but was scolded by his church too many times for being corrupted by his friendship with me; — an elder with weight identity issues that had medical intervention who talked down to me since I had gender identity issues and medical intervention (I laughed during the meeting because the hypocrisy was amazing...); — an elder that was like Jesus without condemnation towards me, and amazing... but we had to meet in my home far away from his rejecting church.

Some interpreters suppose that these brothers and sisters were either Joseph's children by a previous marriage (in which case Jesus would not have been Joseph's eldest son) or not really brothers and sisters of Jesus but his cousins.

On arrival, Paul met with the brethren in general and went the next day to give his report to James, the brother of Jesus, and the elders of the Jerusalem church.

There must be an elder brother, of another sort altogether from the one described in Jesus» parable, who will volunteer to let himself be flogged to death, crucified, or what you will, after seeing which the father, his legal honor satisfied, can welcome the returning son.