Sentences with phrase «which jesus»

Jesus is saying that if someone wants to become His disciple, then He welcomes them, and will reveal the Father to them so that they can share in the friendship which Jesus has with the Father.

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

The first day of the week is the day on which Jesus rose from the dead.

This led them to assert not only that Jesus expected the imminent and catastrophic end of the world and God's establishment of a new order through his divine messenger, the Son of man, but also that this was the only way in which Jesus conceived the kingdom of God.

The other Evangelists mention only the Passover celebration at which or before which Jesus died.

Easter triumph in love is God's writing his «O.K.. That's the way things are and that's the way I am» — writing it across the tree on which Jesus hung on that fateful day.

At this point, whether in good circumstances or bad, Christian faith and especially that aspect of it which Jesus called the kingdom of God, becomes highly relevant.

We have looked at the types of understanding of the kingdom most influential in the twentieth century; at the position which this author holds to be most acceptable; at the ideological framework of the times within which Jesus spoke and the evangelists later wrote; and in particular at the parables as giving our clearest evidence of the mind of Christ upon this matter.

For John this was the occasion on which Jesus delivered to his disciples the gift of the Holy Spirit.

In different words, but with the same spirit, there is reflected here the message which Jesus took from the prophet Isaiah and made the keynote of his ministry, «The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted» (Isa.

The Greek word for tempt or ensnare, which Jesus uses to accuse the people who ask him this question, is a hunting term.

The Hebrew Bible, on which Jesus was nurtured, is full of wars; the blood of battle oozes from its pages.

This is the true gospel which Jesus commissioned his disciples to teach, not just in words but primarily in deeds.

Resurrection was now the event in which Jesus left the tomb to show himself to his disciples and the Easter complex now had to be completed with an act of ascension to heaven.

Sin is an attitude of the soul, and the prime essential for the elimination of sinful acts is that «ethical inwardness» which Jesus proclaimed so vitally in the Sermon on the Mount.

For example, Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century, claimed to verify her discovery of the cross on which Jesus had died by placing it against the bodies of sick people and watching, when she did so, their immediate recovery.

If the burial story were historical, and it consequently showed that the tomb from which Jesus rose was identifiable, we would expect some further interest to have been taken in it by the early church.

Goguel rightly points out that if «the resurrection was only the reversal of the undeserved fate to which Jesus had submitted and nothing more than his rehabilitation... it would not have created a new order of things.

The secret lies in the net with which Jesus» «fishers of people» will make their catch.

D. E. Nineham points out that «most commentators accept at any rate the basic facts of the story, arguing that Christians would have been unlikely to invent a tradition in which Jesus receives hurried burial from a pious Jew, and his own followers have no part in the proceedings ’15 and then goes on to add that «scholarly opinion has perhaps been a little inclined to overlook the possible influence of the Old Testament on the story».16

In so doing, those who are «wise» lose out on the intimate relationship which Jesus shares with the Father and with us.

Only Jesus can judge the heart, but given that LDS teachings contradict Bible teachings, one has to ask which Jesus?

This is the baptism of John which Jesus goes through here.

In the current era of privatized religion, this mode of interpretation has led to believing that the Song is basically about the way in which Jesus loves me as an individual, even to the point of overlooking my faults in order to praise my inner and outer beauty.

When we lose our focus on Christ, we begin to talk a lot about stuff Jesus didn't say much about, and we don't talk much about the things about which Jesus had a whole lot to say.

If we are truly learning how to be in that relation with God and the world in which Jesus of Nazareth stood, we shall not turn away from those who see from another place.

The papacy is infallable, and his holiness the Pope stands in the place of St. Peter — the rock upon which Jesus built his church.

Yet the value - revolution which the Jesus movement called for entailed more than just a switching of chairs in the political paradigm.

This fever which Jesus rebukes in just a natural, every day, run of the mill fever.

On the other side, the party of continuity is «the Catholic center,» or simply «the Catholic Church,» which «remains the continuing community to which Jesus promised he would send the Spirit, and the Spirit will lead us into, and keep us in, the truth....

Well since Paul made up all his stuff, most of which Jesus never talked about, (dying for sins) etc...

We will see later that this would have a unique and tremendous significance in John's portrayal and expression of what Jesus said about Himself, and the words and ideas in which Jesus spoke about Himself, both when He confronted the Temple Establishment, and when He prayed to the Father at the Last Supper.

Considering the context of His remarks, we might as well imprison folks for calling other people names... which Jesus likens to murder.

’16 These words point back to the way in which Jesus began to answer man's basic cry by what he taught during his earthly ministry.

On Sunday, churches around the world read from the Gospel of John and heard the story of Lazarus, in which Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, as part of Lazarus Sunday.

Doctors and relief workers call it «The Lazarus Effect,» referring to the biblical miracle in the Gospel of John in which Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.

Evangelicals and Catholics do not know how or when Christian unity will come about but look forward to that day when we are fully united in the common witness for which Jesus Christ himself prayed.

The expiation of sin achieved by Jesus» priestly sacrificial death on the cross is brought to fulfilment in the Eucharist of which Jesus is the heavenly high priest.

There is a sense in which the Jesus of history (Historie) becomes the Jesus of my history (Geschichte) which is possible when the «theocentric basis and sanction» (Ibid., p. 143.)

McDonald cited a New Testament passage in which Jesus gathered the 5,000 and fed them with five loaves and two fishes.

She came to see this as a moment of genuine human doubt permitted by God the Father, in which Jesus shows the greatest love, faithfully commending his Spirit to the Father.

Following this, the course also looks as numerous texts from the Gospel of John in which Jesus promises eternal life to those who believe in Him for it (cf. John 1:12 - 13; 3:14 - 16; 5:24; 6:35 - 40; 10:27 - 30; 11:25 - 26).

The search by the Hebrews for a true understanding of God, from Abraham to Egypt, from the Promised Land to exile, witnesses as a whole to the love of God and to the requirement for justice on our part, and forms the matrix out of which Jesus» teachings developed.

The two extreme answers are: one, that God simply determined that he be uniquely present in Jesus; or two, that God offers to all men essentially the same relation to himself which Jesus realized.

The awareness on which Jesus insists is intended to prevent us from reflecting on our extraordinary position.

Howard Thurman has written movingly of the way in which Jesus had an appeal for his ex-slave grandmother that Paul could never have.

The same is true to some degree of John the Baptist, although he does not attain the fulness of self - divestation which Jesus alone could attain because he was the Son of God.

This was a perversion of something which Jesus had actually said, as we have seen.

Renunciation of self is the principle that validates the total commitment to God and his kingdom which Jesus demanded.

This is the path which Jesus chose and which he trod voluntarily.