Sentences with phrase «eunuch from»

I can't help but think of the Ethiopian eunuch from Acts 8.

Since you were able to copy and paste today's definition of eunuch from freedictionary (dot) com and can now cut and paste the original text you somehow think since you can paste «A» and now past «B» that they must now equal your «BS».

But you think since you have found the original text and can past today's definition of eunuch from Free Dictionary dot com that this somehow proves you're right???? What?

But the old words, barring eunuchs from the assembly and limiting the access of foreigners, claimed authority too.

For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs from the kingdom of heaven's sake.

Not exact matches

Well it would take care of the pedophile priest problem «For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.

Jesus also promoted the idea that all men should castrate themselves to go to heaven: «For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.

Speaking for God, he announced: «Do not let the foreigner joined to the LORD say, «The LORD will surely separate me from his people»; and do not let the eunuch say, «I am just a dry tree.»

It claims descent from the Ethiopian eunuch converted by Philip in Acts 8, and dates formally to the preaching of Frumentius in the early fourth century and the acceptance of Christianity in A.D. 330.

Well the eunuchs born that way and those made eunuchs by other men are exempt from the requirement to get married and have children, so, therefore you must have decided to become «eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven» so line up and I will cut off your genitals!

I think also of the Ethiopian eunuch (from Acts 8), a man who was ethnically and sexually «other,» who was welcomed and baptized without question or hesitation into the early church, but who would no doubt fail all of Mark Driscoll's rigid categories for a what makes «real man» were he a part of the American evangelical church today.

and the eunuch said yes and he said well what prevents me now from being baptized, and Philip said.

Read about Philip when he witnessed to the eunuch and asked him if he understood the scriptures, and Philip expounded those to him more perfectly from Isaiah.

Eunuchs so born from their mother's womb.

Jesus imply that born eunuchs are not required to abstain from s - e-x-u-a-l relationships such as a committed, same s - e-x marriage.

12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, there are eunuchs who were made by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way because of the kingdom of heaven.

When Philip In Acts 8 had finished teaching the Ethiopian Eunuch about Jesus from the old testament till the present moment why did Philip baptise him with water if all it took was belief in Jesus?

The Greek historian Herodotus, author of «History of the Persian Wars» wrote just 25 years after the reign of Xerxes and provides some insight into his might and cruelty, including the fact that 500 young boys were gathered each year from the kingdom and castrated to serve as eunuchs in the Persian court.

Jesus referred him to the classes of those who customarily didn't want to marry or couldn't marry - monks (for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - men damaged by the practice of making eunuchs for use as governmental servants (Egypt generally) and the class of people who «from their mother's womb «are not suited (for women?)

He added a puzzling statement: «For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.»

Mat 19:12 «For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.

For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.

Let me interject here that the research being done about inter-sex children, those who are born «eunuchs» from their mother's womb, is shedding new light into this whole issue of gender identity and sexual attraction.

The Holy Spirit included this not so small detail because it is what gives this story its object lesson for the church and it explains the significance of the question the eunuch asks Philip, «What prevents me from being baptized?»

Matt 19: 12» For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.»

Philip told the eunuch about Jesus, convinced him that Jesus was the fulfillment of the very scripture he was reading, and that no handicap, physical or otherwise, would exclude a person from full fellowship in Christian faith.

If this Ethiopian Eunuch was all alone and far away from home, then nobody would have seen or known what he did on this deserted road in Israel, and therefore, his baptism could not have been a public testimony to anyone.

3 Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, «The Lord will surely separate me from his people»; and let not the eunuch say, «Behold, I am a dry tree.»

The lack of a response from the three thousand eunuchs in the south - east corner of the Grove will also have helped.

«Searching for that perfect man who will sweep me off my feet, take care of me and will love me and only me,» and is essentially a eunuch as far as I can tell, and it's just like a really... it's the good guys, even good guys who could be a potential prince run away from that kind of thing.

Zhesan and Tianxin steal medicine from the Imperial Hospital and give it to the eunuch.

Zed and Oh, buddies banished from their village, encounter everybody from Abraham (Hank Azaria) to Cain (David Cross) to — I hope I'm not giving anything away here — Zaftig the Eunuch (Kyle Gass).

In addition, Nordan memorably and brilliantly creates his own fictional postage stamp of a place, Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, where, in the words of one of his stories, «freaks grow like magic from the buckshot and gumbo, where eunuchs roam the Delta flatscape looking for Episcopalians.»

The common characters who enter their lives — from an opinionated Sikh taxi driver to their frugal and frenetic landlord — are as carefully revealed as the eunuchs and dervishes Dalrymple meets.