Sentences with phrase «raising of a dead man»

The reader, therefore, is alerted to what the characters in the drama do not know; that is, what is really going on here is not only a family crisis in Bethany but the crisis of the world, not only the raising of a dead man but the giving of life to the world.

What is really going on here is not only a family crisis in Bethany but the crisis of the world, not only the raising of a dead man but the giving of life to the world.

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The walls are covered, ceiling to floor, with the signatures and drawings of former House pages, young men and women — now old men and women, or dead ones — who, like you, once had the unique opportunity, not even open to congressmen themselves, to raise and lower the American flag that flies over the House of Representatives when the body sits in session.

Galatians 1:1 «1 Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead), 2 and all the brethren who are with me,»

But Abraham speaks over the head of the rich man, over the heads of the Pharisees, in what sounds like a direct address to us church types who claim faith in a certain Galilean raised from the dead, «If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.»

Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

the one is the old theocratic messianic title, given to anointed kings in ancient times; the other is the new apocalyptic title of the heavenly Man, the celestial Anthropos, Urmensch, the Primal Man, who is to appear at the end of days, raise the dead, and judge the whole world — angels, demons, and men.

Paul — who of course antedates Mark — takes his departure from an earlier type of doctrine, according to which Jesus was no doubt the Christ during his earthly life, but secretly; his «glory» he laid aside, temporarily, when he became man, and he resumed it when raised from the dead «by the glory of God the Father; (Rom.

Thus, like Luke, Matthew embodies in a Resurrection story the conviction of the Church that the raising of Jesus from the dead, as the Lord of all men, meant that its task must be to witness to him and to preach him as Lord to all the nations, although, as Acts shows, the realization that the gospel was meant for all nations, and not only for the Jews, came gradually as a result of further revelation, and could not have been an instruction given at Easter.

But I have to come out of the closet and admit that I've never seen a «miracle», like someone's sight restored, or a limb replaced, or cancer cured, or the lame walk, or someone brought back to life (I'll have to tell you the story some time of a guy who tried to get me to sneak into the back room of a funeral home just before the funeral was about to begin to pry open the coffin and raise the man from the dead.

This man, Jesus of Nazareth, whom you put to death, God raised from the dead and we are witnesses of the fact.

Christian faith is utterly theocentric; it is centered in God himself, in God as he discloses himself in the focal event from which that faith takes its origin — Jesus Christ, Man of Nazareth and Lord raised from the dead and abiding for ever in «the bosom of the Father

Out of the ruins, once more, God would raise up those who should truly serve and obey him; and this divine Rule was to be inaugurated — so Mark and his fellow Christians believed — when the Son of Man, who was identical with Jesus crucified, raised from the dead, and exalted to heaven, should return on the clouds to hold the Last Judgment, when he should come «in power» with the angels of God to reign with his elect over a renewed earth.

The first affirmation we are making when we confess that God raised Jesus from the dead is that the resurrection hope which we hold for all men has already become for us a living reality in the case of this man Jesus.

In the last chapter we explained that the «resurrection of the dead» expresses the hope that the whole of a man's life from beginning to end will be raised before the divine Judgment Seat and be accepted by God as possessing something of value which will give it an eternal meaning.

The first Christians attached great importance to the name of Jesus: «Let it be known to all of you and to the whole people of Israel», says Peter addressing the Jewish hierarchy after the healing of the lame man, Acts 4.10 - 12, «that it is in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, and whom God raised from the dead, that this man now stands in your presence healed.

Hey denvervet, I bet you believe in a talking burning bush, the parting of the red sea, that Abraham is the father of all nations that's why he had more than one wife, that Mary saw an angel and became pregnant, that Jesus raised a man from the dead... sounds pretty obsurd to me!..

«1 Paul, an apostle — sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — 2 and all the brothers and sisters1 with me, To the churches in Galatia: 3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever and ever.

The stories of Jesus performing miracles; healing the sick, raising the dead and forgiving men their sins had traveled far and wide by word of mouth.

They saw, or claimed they saw those who had seen, a certain man called Jesus of Nazareth who wandered about Galilee and Judea attended by a devoted band of followers, performing marvelous cures of the sick, raising the dead.

It means that we draw certain inferences from the fact that of the three men who died on Good Friday afternoon, only one was raised from the dead.

For to Him, as to a physician, man «was delivered» to heal the bite of the serpent; as to life, to raise what was dead; as to light, to illumine the darkness; and, because He was Word, to renew the rational nature.

He ends with the notion that God will «have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead» (17:24 - 33).

Having spent most of my life surrounded by some incredible women of God who knew the Word, lived the Word, spoke the Word, led Bible Studies, preached powerful sermons to thousands at a single gathering and so on, had the ability to heal with the Word, raise the dead, cast out Demons with the Power of the Word and so on I have come to the conclusion that «MAN» has distorted what God has always intended for His church.

By the way Peter never identified himself as the rock... Explain to me these passages, Acts 4:8 - 11» then, Peter, filled with holy spirit, said to them: «Rulers of the people and older men, 9 if we are this day being examined, on the basis of a good deed to an ailing man, as to by whom this man has been made well, 10 let it be known to all of YOU and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Naz · a · rene», whom YOU impaled but whom God raised up from the dead, by this one does this man stand here sound in front of YOU.

Wasp you are right in away It did all come from the point of a spear, stuck into a man on a cross to ensure his death, this scenario set up a scene where within 3 days many folks were talking about this same dude raising from the dead healed of all wounds.

Most Christian movies are trying to present at least a portion of the gospel (Jesus was the son of God, allowed himself to be killed as a sacrifice for man's sins and was the first raised from the dead with a promise to raise all those who believed and accepted his sacrifice).

There are in this last group four miracles: the raising of the ruler's daughter from the dead, the healing of the woman with a continuous menstrual hemorrhage, the restoration of sight to two blind men, and the enabling of a dumb man to speak (Matt.

Anyone who believes there is an invisible man in the sky, or believes in «immaculate conception», or best of all, that JC was raised from the DEAD needs to have their head examined!

A huge black prison inmate, falsely accused of murder, has the suggestive name of John Coffey and the power to cure the sick and raise the dead, but he ends up executed anyway, despite his jailers» awareness that they are killing an innocent man.

Peter pointed to the man who had been lame all his life and said to the Sanhedrin, «It is because of Jesus, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you hardy and well» (4:10, AP).

Melisandre has five - plus seasons of sliding out of her clothes, drinking poison, taking baths, burning people alive, using a man's seed to birth shadow assassins, and RAISING JON SNOW FROM THE GODDAM DEAD.

By the same token, the more David Cameron is forced to say he'll serve out the full term, the greater the doubt that will be raised in the public's mind, not least because there is an army of disgruntled Tory candidates who will happily brief any passing member of the media that David Cameron is a political dead man walking.

After going through a series of dead - end relationships, 28 - year - old Robin said Deanna helped her realize it was time to raise her standards and go after higher caliber men.

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The horror - film tropes resurface only intermittently in their later films: a hand bursting out of the ground, recalling the final shot of Carrie, during the prison break in 1987's Raising Arizona (a shot also used in The Evil Dead); the wood chipper that in Fargo (1996) is put to the grisly use that Marty had intended for his incinerator; Anton Chigurh's slasher murders in No Country for Old Men (2007); and, most acutely of all, in Barton Fink (1991), a film about a writer's worst nightmare, writer's block, complete with sweating wallpaper, expanding plumes of blood, and a hellfire climax.

Some other memorable moments that emerged while compiling this: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep (both Oscar - nominated) and Tom Waits on the downward spiral in Hector Babenco and William Kennedy's bleak «Ironweed»; John Huston's lyrical direction of the posthumously released adaptation of James Joyce's «The Dead»; the joyous Cajun -, zydeco -, R&B and gospel - flavored soundtrack of «The Big Easy,» gumbo for the ears; the consummate character actor John Mahoney breaking out (at least for me) in «Tin Men,» «Suspect» and «Moonstruck» and and Hunter delighting in «Raising Arizona,» «Broadcast News» and just about anything that came after; plus two British indies: Emily Lloyd as a cheeky 16 - year - old in David Leland's delightful comedy - drama «Wish You Were Here»; and one of the great cult films of the decade, Bruce Robinson's savagely witty «Withnail and I» with Richard E. Grant and Paul McCann.

Soon, she and several other children from her quiet suburban neighborhood of Garrison Oaks would be orphaned and forced into apprenticeships with a man who could raise the dead and make light from darkness.

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, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,