Sentences with phrase «jewish cultus»

Now this is really a public appearance of Jesus at the center of the Jewish cultus, the strongest kind of challenge to all those who were hitherto in control there.

In Hebrews 2:17 and 4:14 - 16 the Jewish cultus of the temple is brought to mind and Christ is seen as the supreme sacrifice which assuages God's anger and enables us to come before Him.

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Both Jesus and Paul followed the usual Jewish custom of giving thanks before partaking of food, and the example of Jesus has made grace before meat an important part of the Christian cultus.

According to Acts 8:1 he was present when Stephen was stoned and approved of his condemnation; and Stephen had rejected the temple cultus, maintaining that the Jewish people had killed the prophets and «the righteous one» (Acts 7:52).