Sentences with phrase «of the temple priests»

purports to be the words of one Shemaiah, prominent among the exiles in Babylonia, addressed chiefly to Zephaniah, the senior priest in charge of the temple priests in Jerusalem:

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Japanese company Nisseieco Co. Ltd. unveiled a «robot priest» they have programmed to help with tasks at Buddhist temples, including the reading of Buddhist scripture during funeral ceremonies.

This can be verified in Jerimiah 7:21, as well as by noting that G - d reduced access to sacrifices all through the entire Tanach; originally each man was a priest in his own home, offering sacrifices whenever and wherever (Cain, Abel, Abraham), but at Mt. Sinai it was reduced to a single place (the tabernacle / temple) and to assigned priests; this was fine for 40 years of wandering, but as soon as they entered «the promised land», the tabernacle traveled with the army, and those left behind as settlers in the new land had no more access to it.

These were their beliefs — There was no organized set of gods; each city - state had its own patrons, temples, and priest - kings.

6And the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, «It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood.»

After having run priests out of the temple with a whip and advising his disciples to carry a sword, I'm not sure he might be inclined to do nothing.

Before Judas proceeded to leave this world, he decided that all people should have at least a good memory of him and he went to the high priests and told them he had turned in guiltless blood, and additionally he threw the wage of betrayel (30 silver coins) into the temple, so that all people of Isreal should get convinced that he had been a righteous man, having made a mistake.

The entire economy of the city of Jerusalem was built on temple activities, bathing before the offerings for a fee, dressing for going to the temple, for a fee, buying the offerings, for a fee, paying the priests, temple entrance fees, food prep fees, growing and feeding the animals for the sacrifices, being paid for them, in the thousands and thousands at festival times, ALL in Jewish currency only, which was required for their rituals, and most people used Roman currency for their civil affairs.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

declares that the important moment in the life of Jesus came with his «seizure and occupation of the temple in Jerusalem... the essential point is that Jesus drives out the priests, the merchants, and holds the Roman garrison [Roman indeed!]

Pakki Mishri is the formal engagement ceremony where the rings are exchanged in the presence of the priest, either in a temple or at home.

Luke says, «to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, who had come out against him.»

We saw in Luke 1:5 that Zacharias was a priest, of the division of Abijah, and it was his turn to serve in the temple.

Our founding fathers made religious ministries tax exempt straight out of the Bible: Furthermore, be aware of the fact that you have no authority to impose tax, tribute, or toll on any of the priests, the Levites, the musicians, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or the attendants at the temple of this God.

People look at this from the stand point of NOW... the early religious building were built to overwhelm and scare people so as to control them... early religious structure were not for the people to ENTER... they were places where the priest visited to SERVE THE GODS THAT LIVE OR VISITED THERE... AND GET MESSAGES FROM THE SECRET UNSEEN GODS to convey to the people... this goes back even before the great Egyptian temples and gods... way way back into prehistory.

Once, when he came upon a drunken scene, probably in connection with the temple sacrifices, where priests and prophets, as he says, reeled with wine and staggered with strong drink until the tables were full of «vomit and filthiness,» he was greeted with the intoxicated jeers of the people's religious leaders: «Whom will he teach knowledge?

for a crap load of reasons, like, he had his hand over her mouth, she'd been knocked unconscious, he was a soldier, temple priest, person of power.

As a result, the literal and tangible sacrificial apparatus of the Jews became to the Christians symbolic of another kind of religious system altogether, whose temple is heavenly, not earthly, whose high priest once for all has entered the holy place of divine communion, where believing souls may follow him, (Hebrews 10:19) whose sacrifice is voluntary self - giving, and whose consequence is an open way for all to «draw nigh unto God.»

Herbert's pious advice makes for a refreshing read, but the chief charms of this volume are the insights it affords into Herbert's art; by examining the priest at work in the temple, we better know The Temple itself.

While Jesus socialized with those the temple priests would condemn, and healed the «unclean» lepers, he used those opportunities to teach about the love of God and the wideness of God's mercy.

In contrast with the priest from the temple, and the scribe from the synagogue, Jesus was listened to gladly by the common people, and finally it was not the irreligious, but the religious authorities who had Jesus put to death, for He constituted too severe a threat to the vested interests of religion.

I have never heard of him actually attending a rabbinical school per se, however, very little is known of him prior to age 13, when he was instructing the priests at the temple.

When he says, Blessed are those who dwell in Your house, he is thinking of the priests and temple officials.

17 ff., clearly had pointed significance in Israel after the establishment of Jerusalem as the capital by David and the building of Solomon's temple (Salem, v. 18, = Jerusalem; Melchizedek is not only king, but «priest of the God most high» to whom Abraham gives «a tenth of everything») The later Temple tax (tithe = tenth) is here given ultimate precedent and example in Abraham.

In Psalm 84:3, he was jealous of the birds, now in Psalm 84:4, he is a bit envious of the priests and temple officials.

They are forms for prayer, probably used in the temple with the guidance of a priest by persons in distress.

But even broader contributions await release in the priests, pastors, rabbis, lay leaders, and grass - roots members of religious communities (i.e., congregations) Approximately 124 million members of 320,000 churches and temples are served by 246,000 clergymen and rabbis.

Are we saying that the Christianity we grew up with is actually a syncretistic religion, containing elements of not only ancient Christianity, but also of Roman pagan worship, complete with temples (buildings) and paid employees (priests and others)?

And although there were no female priests, the divorced and widowed daughters of priests ate temple food that was forbidden to lay people (Leviticus 22:13), so they were not perceived to be lacking in holiness.

When Jesus family left Palestine to escape Herod, his family stayed in Egypt for years according to the Gospels until he reappears in the temple of Jerusalem with a great knowledge that awed the priests.

Not the high priest in the temple in Jerusalem or the baptism of John the Baptist in the Jordan River brings the ultimate salvation, but rather keeping Jesus» words, as they are conserved in the Sayings Gospel — to be sure, on the condition that they are really kept, observed, and not just conserved.

Not only was there a majestically magnificent temple, but numbers of gorgeously robed priests, and a ritualistic order of service that put Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic liturgists to shame in the elaborateness with which the Buddha was honored by reverential and multiplied bowings and meticulously crafted ritual forms.

Within this large design, the violence of the crucifixion and the temple priesthood's highly active part in it are highlighted by smaller touches characterized by ironic reversals: the loyal Peter cowardly denies Jesus, and Joseph of Arimathea» the Sanhedrin member» bravely claims him; the Jewish high priest pronounces Jesus blasphemous and worthy of death, while the Roman centurion supervises the execution and proclaims Jesus the «Son of God.»

One was a priest, another was a member of the aristocracy of that period, possibly both were returning from worshiping in the temple in Jerusalem.

His act of clearing the temple of money - changers upset the priests.

In contrast, while the priests in the Jerusalem temple were standing and offering daily the sacrifices of bulls and goats, Jesus Christ offered for all times a single sacrifice for sills and he sat down at the right hand of God.

In the Jerusalem temple there were a large number of priests.

As John Howard Yoder points out, if Jesus had committed any acts of violence in the temple clearing, it would provided clear legal pretext for the Scribes and chief priests to arrest him.

Christ humbeled himself, he criticized the arch priests of the temples, the Catholic priests and bishops of today most of them act like the arch priests and hypocrites that crucified Jesus.

So it was, that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

[52] Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, «Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs?

If we follow Jesus, we do not need priests, temples, sacrifices, a holy - of - holies and so on.

Equating modern churches, pastors and practices with ancient Jewish synagogues, temples and priests and practices (such as tithing to the Levites) seems to be done primarily for the purpose of raising money.

We take him to be some kind of a prankster, because his use of oil and wine seems to be a spoof of the actions of the priest in worship at the temple.

You are the temple of God where God now resides and you are the priest of your very own temple, You!

2 A. Jepsen, Nabi (Munich, 1934), probably goes too far in distinguishing between Yahwistic prophetism in North and South but he very properly points to the fact of frequent mention of priest, temple, and sacrifice in reports of the activities of prophets in Judah (I Sam.

Other rituals included are that to be followed by the priest when covering the temple kettle drum; Ritual for the Repair of the Temple; daily sacrifices to the gods of the city of Uruk, etc. 17

The temple is a visible embodiment of self - assertive ideology by king and priest that makes God a sure patron.

Furthermore, by the time of Jesus even the utterance of the Name was allowed only on a very few occasions, by the priests in the liturgy of the temple.

Herod called the experts together: the theologians, chief priests, the captain of the temple police, the best of all teachers with great speaking skills, the pastors and elders, the seminary - trained professors with their Ph.D. s and Doctorates of Ministry.