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Mar 22, 2021 · Jesus made time for women and treated them with care and respect. We gain an intimate glimpse of Jesus’s relationships with women in his friendship with two sisters. We first meet Mary and Martha in Luke, when Jesus is at their house. Martha is busy serving. Mary is sitting at Jesus’s feet, learning with the disciples.
Mar 27, 2024 · “Give me a drink,” Jesus requested (v. 7). He was going to show the woman that while she assumed she could meet His needs, she was actually the one in need. She needed water—and Jesus is the eternal fountain (John 4:10; see also Ps. 63:1; Isa. 12:3). The woman, however, was still thinking in physical terms, as verses 11–15 make clear.
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If Peter is saying in verse 18 that Jesus was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit, then he’s saying at the beginning of verse 19 that “in [the Spirit], [Jesus] went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison.” Many interpreters have taken Peter to be saying that, either between Jesus’s death and resurrection or after it, Jesus underto...
These interpretations have at least one thing in common. They see Jesus doing something—locally, if not bodily—after his death and burial but before his ascension and session in heaven. One problem with such interpretations, though, is they affirm an activity of Jesus that appears nowhere else in Scripture. We should be cautious about advancing suc...
There’s another way to interpret Peter’s words that avoids these difficulties and accounts for the context of these verses within Peter’s argument. The one who does the proclaiming of verse 19 is not the risenJesus. It’s Jesus who preaches, to be sure, but he preaches in the Holy Spirit. The timing of this proclamation is not the window between the...
These words would have brought tremendous pastoral encouragement to Peter’s first readers. Many of them were Gentiles, who’d been redeemed from worthless and wicked lives (1 Pet. 1:18, compare 4:3–4; cf. Eph. 2:12). These believers were being persecuted for their faith, a reality explicitly addressed in 1 Peter 3:8–17. Notwithstanding this persecut...
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What Jesus Says About Women: You Are Not "Less Than". by christine caine Women. At dawn one morning, Jesus went to the temple to teach. The people gathered round, ready to be taught — but the Pharisees rushed up, bringing a woman with them. Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery,” they said. — John 8:4.
- You are justified-completely forgiven and made righteous. - Romans 5:1. Romans 5:1 reminds us that we have been declared righteous by God because we have faith in Jesus Christ.
- You are God’s Masterpiece created in Christ Jesus to do the things He planned for you long ago. - Ephesians 2:10. This verse means that we are created by God, and that He has a purpose for our lives.
- You are a new creation, the old you is gone. - 2 Corinthians 5:17. Say goodbye to sin and rebellion, and say hello to your new life in Christ! When we confess and repent our sins, we acknowledge that we are imperfect people loved by a perfect God.
- You are loved. - 1 John 3:3. God's love for you is everlasting, unconditional and transforming! When you know that God loves you and has a plan for your life, it can give you a sense of purpose.
Dec 21, 2022 · The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” —John 4:25-26. I can feel the goosebumps that the Samaritan woman most likely experienced. Those words are not without extreme power, and they are undeniably special.
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Both men and women are “sons of God” (Gal. 3:26). Both men and women in Christ are of the seed of Abraham and co-heirs of the promise! and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven, (1 Cor. 11:5, YLT)
