Ephesians 4:25-32; Luke 3:19-22 [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PASSAGES that we find in one of the Gospels but not in the others. The raising of Lazarus, for example, is recorded only in John. The birth of John the Baptist, certain of the Lord’s parables, such as the Good Samaritan, and Jesus’ washing of the disciples’ feet are found in only one Gospel, not the others. It may be that the people who first witnessed one of these events or heard a certain teaching were important to the local community and emphasized it in their preaching. Thus this episode found a place in the…
Galatians 2:16-20; Mark 8:34-9:1 [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]
1 Corinthians 1:18-24; John 19:6-11 13-20 25-28 30-35 [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]
Ephesians 4:17-25; Mark 12:1-12 [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]
Ephesians 4:14-19; Mark 11:27-33 [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]
Ephesians 3:8-21; Mark 11:23-26 [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]
Ephesians 2:19-3:7; Mark 11:11-23 [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]
Ephesians 1:22-2:3; Mark 10:46-52 [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]
The New Testament says nothing about the early life of Jesus’ Mother. But in the Church’s tradition, Mary, like other significant people in the history of Israel, was born by the direct intervention of God. According to the second-century Protevangelium of James, her parents, Joachim and Anna, were righteous but childless. Once when Joachim, a rich man, went to the temple to offer his gifts to the Lord, he was not allowed to do so, because he had not raised up offspring in Israel. Saddened by this rejection, he researched to see whether all the righteous in Israel had had…