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[14] [15] The New Testament portion was released first, in 1950, as the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, [16] [17] with the complete New World Translation of the Bible released in 1961. [18] [19] It is not the first Bible to be published by the Watch Tower Society, but it is its first translation into English.
Christianity. "The eye of a needle" is a portion of a quotation attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels : "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
John 3:16. John 3:16 is the sixteenth verse in the third chapter of the Gospel of John, one of the four gospels in the New Testament. It is deemed one of the most popular verses from the Bible and is a summary of one of Christianity's central doctrines; the relationship between the Father (God) and the Son of God (Jesus).
5:6 →. Matthew 5:5 depicted in the window of a Trittenheim church. Book. Gospel of Matthew. Christian Bible part. New Testament. Matthew 5:5 is the fifth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It is the third verse of the Sermon on the Mount, and also the third of what are known as the Beatitudes.
Noah and the "baptismal flood" of the Old Testament (top panel) is "typologically linked" with (it prefigures) the baptism of Jesus in the New Testament (bottom panel). The four senses of Scripture is a four-level method of interpreting the Bible . In Christianity, the four senses are literal, allegorical, tropological and anagogical .
Matthew 5:44, the forty-fourth verse in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament, also found in Luke 6:27–36, [ 1] is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This is the second verse of the final antithesis, that on the commandment to "Love thy neighbour as thyself". In the chapter, Jesus refutes the teaching of some that one ...
The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. [ 1] It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. A Jewish priest and then a Levite come by, both avoiding the man. A Samaritan happens upon him, and though Samaritans and Jews were ...
The Deuteronomic Code also extends [77] the seventh-year manumission rule by instructing that Israelite slaves freed in this way should be given livestock, grain, and wine as a parting gift; [78] the literal meaning of the verb used, at this point in the text, for giving this gift seems to be hang round the neck. [27]