Sentences with phrase «mighty works»

She is the People of God immersed in the world, and often tempted by idols and always needs to hear the «mighty works of God» which converted her to the Lord; she always needs to be called together afresh by Him and reunited....

As the ground of their hope of acceptance, the protestors urge, according to Matthew, that they have prophesied and done mighty works in Jesus» name.

Each interpretation presupposed a particular pattern of eschatological outlook; and it is clear that the earliest Christology was really, as the term suggests, an eschatology, in which the central figure was the same — the risen, glorified Christ who had lived and talked and done mighty works in Galilee but had died on a cross outside Jerusalem, who was now at the right hand of God, and was soon to come in glory to inaugurate the New Age.

Yet, as New Testament scholar NT Wright has persuasively shown, Jesus «never performed mighty works simply to impress».

God's mighty works as creator and redeemer are rehearsed here from a postexilic perspective.

Not necessarily the actual appearance of tongues of fire or the fact that people of many nations heard the apostles speaking in their own languages; such mighty works, wonders and signs, seen without the Spirit's gift of sight, can be ignored or dismissed, or can be used to reduce Christianity to a faith in crass wonderments.

«Jeff Garvin is an amazing attorney; a lawyer of highest integerity, great experience, tremendous talent, and mighty work ethic.

Moreover, the basic motif of the annual festival, which we have seen to enshrine the messianic hope, was a conviction of the immediate and mighty working of God in the affairs of his people.

2:7), and on the other hand we have the gospel portraits of a Jesus who manifests his divinity in his miracles, omniscience, and mysterious elusiveness, and the similar description of him in Acts as «Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs» (Acts 2:22).

Some have said that He demonstrates His deity in His power to do mighty works; and they use miracles as a proof of His being God.

And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.

And found Matt 23 where Jesus said «for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day».

Mark now tells of the healing of a blind man at Bethsaida (8:22 - 26), one of the cities denounced by Jesus for failing to repent in spite of the mighty works done in them (Mt 11:21; Lk 10:13).

What Mark put together was a narrative of the mighty works and death of Jesus — a book largely devoted to explaining why Jesus had died — and he had to write it in haste in the midst of danger, not for Jews, but for Gentile converts.

for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes» (Matt.

«And they took offense at him,» with the result that Jesus «could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands upon a few sick people and healed them.

Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen.

The mighty works of God that have been done and are being done by the Legionaries and Regnum Christi are manifest to all whose vision is not clouded by prejudice.

if you do not give God credit for his mighty works and excellent greatness then by default you choose «incredible explanations».

«Then he began to upbraid the cities where most of his mighty works had been done,» Matthew says, «because they did not repent.»

Finally, the Proclamation led up to an appeal to the hearers to give their personal assent to the «Good News»; to implement it by turning in repentance and trust to God, who by His «mighty works» had made a new people for Himself; and to signify the same by baptism into the fellowship of the Church, thereby accepting God's forgiveness and entering into new relations with Him.

In two sermons of Acts various elements of the public ministry are mentioned, but without chronological order the «mighty works and wonders and signs» of 2.22 are not different facts occurring in that order in the public ministry; the only «order» one might sense is a certain parallel to the order in the immediately preceding prophecy from Joel 2.28 - 32.

Praise God, they would perform a mighty work!

They, therefore, counseled him to go to Jerusalem and do his mighty works there, where all the prophets had spoken and where there would be an attentive crowd.

Nor did it occur to Marcus to write his book for Jewish readers anyway; what he put together was a narrative of the mighty works and death of Jesus — a book largely devoted to explaining why Jesus had died — and he wrote it, not for Jews, but for Gentile converts and «listeners to the word.»

Mighty work.

The prophecies are fulfilled; God has shown His «mighty works»; the Messiah has come; He has been exalted to the right hand of God; He has given the Spirit which according to the prophets should come «in the last days.»

After this, Luke quotes a pronouncement of woe against Chorazin and Capernaum for their failure to repent in spite of the mighty works Jesus had done there (Lk 10:13 - 15; cf. Mt 11:21 - 24).

And they were amazed and wondered, saying,... «we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.»

We can rejoice and sing for joy at the work of His hands (Psalm 92:4), at the glorious and mighty works of Jesus (Luke 19:37), and at the truth that through all our days and in all our wandering, just as the Israelites, our God has been with us and blessed us and carried us and we have lacked nothing (Deuteronomy 1:31, 2:7).

In the New Testament, the Greek word for hour, hora, is more often used in reference to kairos time than to cronos time: «The hour [hora] comes and now is when the true worshiper...» Hora is used in many gospel stories of mighty works to identify the moment of healing and in those cases it is usually translated «instantly.»

We have what they did not have — a body of Christian Scriptures in which the teachings and «mighty works» of Jesus are recorded.

It is the point of continuity between God's mighty work of creation and the beginnings of his acts in human history.

They had forbidden him to do this because he was not one of them, but Jesus said, as Mark reports, «Do not forbid him; for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon after to speak evil of me.

(a) He did mighty works.

Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappodocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God» [Acts 2:1 - 11].