Sentences with phrase «roman government»

This did not mean Jesus condoned everything the Roman government was doing.

a: a country or region brought under the control of the ancient Roman government b: an administrative district or division of a country

The Roman government put no restraint on him so long as he did it in his own house.

The Roman government, like all organized forms of human life, disliked two kinds of people outlaws, who were below the level and would not live up to it, and saviors, who were above the level and would not live down to it.

These include the Roman Government, the religion of the time, and the considerable emphasis on education.

a method of torture that hadnt even been invented yet laid out in detail hundreds of years before it happened... unless you think that the ordinary men who had God's hand to write the bible could influence the roman government and ways of torture... then of course there's the resurrection..

I find it hard to believe the pastor is quoting scripture in support of Roman government.

Jesus never once looked to the Roman Government for anything.

Jesus never asked the Roman government to help him with healing services.

That means he was basically a traitor and a thief because he was collecting taxes for an occupying Roman government.

What remains of the Roman government decides to let people suffer and maybe even die because it refused to recognize the right of the US federal government to rule over it.

In Acts the Jews continually blocked the missionary activity of the church by attempting to take its representatives into custody, whereupon the Roman government would step in to offer protection.

And I'm pretty sure that when the apostle Peter wrote his letter to the persecuted Church of Asia Minor, encouraging his fellow Christians to be brave in the face of oppression by the Roman government, he was not referring to Christians getting snubbed at Domitian's inauguration ceremony.

Don't forget that while he was on the earth Christ's biggest issue was not with the Roman government or with non-believers, but with the religious establishment.

We have much of Roman history of the time period, records of many actions of the Roman government, but to date no one has found independent confirmation of any such census at the time.

A tiny, hunted minority with ABSOLUTELY no influence on government, talking to his people with the expectation that the Roman government would read it.

Those listening to him would have had clear memories of injustice, ridicule, heavy taxation, and even genocide at the hands of the tyrannical Roman government.

The Roman government was threatened by the increase of this new movement.

The Roman government wanted to put an end to this movement.

He NEEDED the Roman government to accomplish his goals.

And yet for those who were tired of oppression and abuse from the Roman government, such a cry was filled with hope for change and deliverance.

And not only that, but as with all Jewish people about 2000 years ago in Israel, they were heavily taxed by the oppressive Roman government.

I imagine the crowd wanted Jesus to teach about the evils of the Roman government, the wasteful ways they spent their money on luxury and wars, and how Jewish tax - collectors were traitors of the Jews, traitors of God, and condemned to suffer for eternity in hell.

Besides, with no better case against Paul than theirs was, they were endangering themselves with the Roman government.

And yet the title the Roman government gave him was «The King of the Jews.»

Their primary method of contending with the Roman government was through terrorism and covert violence.

The Roman government always had a difficult time collecting taxes from the Jewish people, because many of the Jews had no qualms whatsoever about killing a Gentile who wanted to take their money to support the pagan Roman government.

Eventually though, the Roman government found a way to collect their taxes and keep their tax collectors from getting killed.

They were told by the Roman Government to collect a certain amount of money from the people, and send that money in.

Judas wanted the Roman government overthrown.

They hated the Roman government and anybody remotely associated with it.

However, it could be argued that the analogous group to modern government were the Sadducees or the Roman government, who held the political power at the time.

An impartial reading of the Gospels, apart from the conditioning of an excessively juridical and rationalistic theological tradition, makes it unmistakeably clear that it was not God who demanded the death of Jesus; but the Jewish religious leaders and the imperial Roman government whose hierarchial power was threatened by the Gospel Message Jesus was preaching.

John 18:36 shows Jesus talking to the Roman government that his Kingdom was no part of this world so his followers were not either.

Of this the Roman government was well aware, for there were Jews everywhere in the empire who looked to Jerusalem as their metropolis.

The Zealots, as Josephus tells us, refused to recognize the Roman government because «they held God to be the only Governor and Master,» and rather than acknowledge any man as master they endured indescribable sufferings.

6, a certain Judas of Galilee had led an abortive rising against the Roman government, an underground resistance movement remained in being, and broke out sporadically from time to time, until at last they succeeded in precipitating a full - scale rebellion in AD.

The end of the first period may be fixed at the point where expansion was checked (temporarily) by the repressive action of the Roman government under Nero in the winter of A.D. 64/5.

Persian Christians could no longer be suspected as an ally of the Roman government.

Another reason, the Christians had to suffer under Roman government was because they thought Christianity was a denigrating factor upon family.

The Roman government and the Jewish Pharisees of the time created Christianity to control the unruly mobs being instigated by the real, only human Jesus Christ.

Jesus also states you can not have two masters Matt 6:24 yet Paul states to obey the government in Romans 13:1 - 7, which many of the church fathers of the 2 - 4th centuries disagreed with because they were getting killed by the Roman government right and left.

Their is no historical reference to jeebus, and that includes the fact that the roman government kept track of all punishments, like crusifiction

No doubt they felt genuine indignation at the injustice of Jesus» condemnation and death, but they were also anxious to counteract any impression that Christianity was a subversive movement and Jesus a political agitator against the Roman government.

So when he speaks of salvation in these verses, he means temporal, physical salvation from enemies like the Roman government.

So when you take the Acts 15 four laws and pair them with the Roman government's laws, you end up with all seven.

We would have raised on outcry against the tax itself, and how it was unfair and unjust and way more than Caesar needed, and how the Roman government was wasting what money it did have.

The persecutions were not all from the Roman government.

And if they were, they were likely to be connected to the Roman government (like the tax collectors) and seen as Roman Quislings.

Not exact matches

«I will make absolutely certain religious orders like the Little Sisters of Poor are not bullied by the federal government because of their religious beliefs,» Trump wrote in October in a letter to the leaders of Roman Catholic organizations.