Sentences with phrase «testimony against jesus»

Mark and Matthew report that the council tried to get testimony against Jesus that would justify a sentence of death, but though many false witnesses were found, they did not agree in their testimony (Mk 14:55 - 59; Mt 26:59 - 61).

Fulfillment: Matthew 26:59 - 60 Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, in order that they might put Him to death; and they did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward.

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he joined with others in launching a «confessing church» that bore uncompromising testimony to the lordship of Jesus Christ and against the false gods of Blood, Soil, and Volk.

The sayings in Mark 13:9 - 13 all reflect detailed knowledge of events that took place — or ideas that were current — after Jesus» death: trial and persecution of Jesus» followers, the call to preach the gospel to all nations, advice to offer spontaneous testimony, and the prediction that families would turn against one another are features of later Christian existence, not of events in Galilee or Jerusalem during Jesus» lifetime.

And if Judas knew of Jesus» claim to be Messiah, why was this testimony not produced against Jesus at his examination before the high priest?

Or, as Jesus told his apostles when he sent them off to preach the good news, «Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet, in testimony against them.»

I have protested against confining the significance of Jesus Christ to a divine rescue expedition, but the plain testimony of two thousand years of Christianity is that Jesus Christ does rescue us in the supreme sense that through his deed, culminating on Calvary, he opens up the right road to fulfillment and provides grace — which, as Kenneth Kirk once said, is God's love in action — to enable us to walk that road, even in times of stress and even though we are quite likely to stumble and fall again and again.

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

Jesus told his disciples, if people in a certain place wouldn't hear the word, for them to shake the dust off their feet as a testimony against them.