Sentences with word «messiahship»

This above all is clear, clear beyond all doubt, that during his ministry Jesus did not set the question of Messiahship in tile foreground.

From this contradiction they escaped in part by claiming that Jesus» divine nature or messiahship descended on him at his baptism and left him just before his death on the cross.

The meaning of the concept of messiahship as applied to Jesus must occupy us, at least briefly, later in this discussion.

Furthermore, it is in keeping with his conception of his own messiahship, or at least of a special vocation from God, as he states it in response to a query of John the Baptist, «Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?»

In both Matthew and Luke, however, an element in the kerygma receives emphasis which is not prominent in Mark, that, namely, which declared that Christ was «born of the seed of David,» and so qualified for Messiahship according to prophecy.

The evidence for Jesus» Messiahship during his earthly career is further strengthened by the explicit cries of the demons, who «knew him,» (Mark 1:34) and by the confession of Peter (Mark 8:29)-- which now moves back from the first resurrection appearance (I Cor.

Matthew's purpose here is clearly to establish the authentic messiahship of Jesus.

Here, as elsewhere, he acts out, rather than explicitly describes, his lowly messiahship.

In the popular mind messiahship was associated with the political and military role of the «Son of David.»

The charge as written shows that Jesus was officially executed by the Romans, and on the charge of claiming to be king — of course a distortion of the true messiahship as Mark and Jesus himself understood it.

But it does seem more probable that the disciples came to the conviction of Jesus» Messiahship only when they came to understand the significance and meaning of his death.

Many Christian scholars hold that Jesus interpreted his role [and the meaning of messiahship] in terms of the Suffering Servant pattern.

The New Testament does not get even this far, since it ignores political theory and pushes the political character of Jesus» Messiahship into the background or into heaven («My kingdom is not of this world,» John 18:30).

So the continuity between the historical Jesus and the kerygmatic Christ is already more than merely chronological; it is material in that it is a continuity between implicit and explicit messiahship.

In his case, the question had only to do with the future; Kingdom, like Messiahship, comes from God.

(Mark 14:62) As we have seen, this theory of the messianic secret, or rather of Jesus» secret Messiahship, was Mark's answer to the question which his fundamental thesis, that Jesus was already Messiah during his earthly ministry, at once suggested:

(The case for Jesus» conscious messiahship, however, is considerably less strong.

Probably because of a conviction of the nature of his own messiahship, but certainly because of his conviction that the kingdom of God meant the righteous rule of God in a redeemed community for this world and the next, he made the kingdom of God and not the triumph of Israel the supreme note in his teaching.

For the rest, all the points of the Pauline preaching reappear: the Davidic descent of Jesus, guaranteeing His qualification for Messiahship; His death according to the Scriptures; His resurrection according to the Scriptures; His consequent exaltation to the right hand of God as Lord and Christ; His deliverance of men from sin into new life; and His return to consummate the new Age.

Since Jesus was the Messiah, whatever belonged essentially to his significance belonged also to the essential meaning of Messiahship.

Though the Acta Pilati purports to be a report by Pontius Pilate containing evidence of Jesus Christ's messiahship and godhead, there is no record in early Christian lore of Pilate's conversion to Christianity.

In response to John the Baptist's question about his Messiahship, he replied: «the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news preached to them.»

This recognition lies at the root of Jesus» unwillingness to have his followers going around Galilee saying that he is the Messiah hut not understanding the nature of his messiahship.

The messiahship of Jesus is evidenced not only by the voice of the Spirit, but by his human life and death.

But «corporate personality,» demonology, Messiahship, apocalypticism, the Logos - doctrine, and many other mental categories in the Bible are not modern.

This wasn't really an issue for me, since my faith was, and is, based on believing that Jesus of Nazareth is in fact the resurrected Lord of the entire world (to roughly paraphrase how N.T. Wright puts it) and that the resurrection is God the Father's vindication of Jesus» messiahship (as a sinless, suffering servant that, mystery of mysteries, turns out to be God Himself, incarnate).

This may mean what through the influence of Professor C. H. Dodd has come to be called realized eschatology, the belief that Jesus had brought the Kingdom to fulfillment in his own person and he was thereby affirming his messiahship.4 It seems to me more probable that Jesus meant primarily though perhaps not solely to declare the possibility of entrance into the Kingdom here and now by repentance, the acceptance of God's forgiveness, and the assumption of the obligations of discipleship.

But from the point of view of Judaism, Jesus is the first of the series of men who acknowledged their Messiahship to themselves and the world.

The Jews ask for a plain nonparabolic witness from Jesus, but he refuses, partly because his conception of the messiahship can not be made to fit the Jewish expectation, and partly because their unbelief is perceived to flow not from inadequate evidence but from the will not to believe (10:26).

A public announcement of the messiahship, therefore, without this deeper interpretation of it, would be foolhardy.

We have already noted that as early as Luke 2:41 - 52 the tension between suffering and Sonship is present; here the problem is the acceptance of a messiahship without suffering.

These words of promise lead to further controversy about his messiahship among the crowd (verses 40 - 44).

And so the woman has seen something that the disciples themselves had not seen up until now: that Jesus» messiahship is a suffering one, and that it will lead to death.