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- Judas Iscariot
Judas is named among the Twelve, becomes the betrayer, and dies before the resurrection mission of the apostolic body. Acts explains the vacancy filled by Matthias. - Judas Maccabeus
Leader of the revolt and Temple rededication. - Jude
Jude urges its readers to contend for the faith amid disruptive teachers. It draws on Israel's Scriptures and other Jewish traditions, including material associated with 1 Enoch. The greeting identifies a Jude who is… - Judges
Judges portrays cycles of oppression and rescue that develop into escalating moral and social breakdown. Its deliverers are not uniformly exemplary, and its closing stories expose severe violence within Israel. - Judges & early leaders
Judges, deliverers, women in the judge narratives, Ruth's family, and Samuel show Israel before and during the transition to monarchy. - Judith
Judith portrays a threatened community and a widow whose prayer, courage, and strategy reverse an apparently overwhelming enemy's power. The story's conspicuous historical combinations call for literary attention… - Judith
Widow who saves her people in a book with varied canonical reception. - Justin Martyr
Second-century Christian apologist whose First Apology defends Christians before Roman authorities and describes baptism, Sunday assembly, Scripture reading, and the Eucharist. - Justin Martyr describes worship
Justin's First Apology describes baptism, Sunday assembly, Scripture readings, prayers, and the Eucharist to a Roman audience. - Kingdom divides: Israel and Judah
Following Solomon, the northern kingdom of Israel and southern kingdom of Judah develop separate royal and worship histories. - Kingdom teaching & parables
Jesus teaches through parables, signs, scriptural arguments, and sayings about his identity and the kingdom. - Kings & royal households
Saul, David, Solomon, the divided kingdoms, royal households, reforms, coups, and Jerusalem's fall form the monarchy cluster. - Lachish falls and its people are deported
Assyrian reliefs depict siege engines, defenders, and people leaving Lachish for exile. They provide a local view of the devastation accompanying the campaign against Judah. - Lament as faithful prayer
The Psalms preserve complaint, protest, petition, remembrance, and praise. Psalm 13 moves from perceived abandonment to trust without explaining away the crisis. Psalm 88 ends in darkness. Jesus' cry in Mark 15 takes… - Lament over Jerusalem
Lamentations gives liturgical voice to grief, confession, and hope after the city's devastation. - Lamentations
Lamentations gives poetic voice to Jerusalem's devastation through grief, accusation, confession, and fragile hope. Its ordered acrostic forms contain suffering without making the suffering tidy or resolving the… - Lateran Synod against monothelitism
The synod rejects monothelite teaching before the sixth ecumenical council's later definition. - Latin American bishops meet at Medellín
The second general conference of Latin American bishops studies the region's social and pastoral transformation in light of Vatican II. Its documents become a major reference point for Catholic life in Latin America. - Lawrence of Brindisi
Capuchin priest, preacher, diplomat, and biblical scholar known for linguistic learning and for preaching amid the confessional conflicts of early modern Europe. - Leah
Jacob's wife and mother of several tribal ancestors. - Leo sends the Tome to Flavian
Leo writes to Flavian about Christ's divinity and humanity in response to the Eutychian controversy. The letter later becomes a central document considered at Chalcedon. - Leo the Great
Pope whose preaching and Tome to Flavian gave an influential Latin account of Christ's full divinity and full humanity. - Leonides's execution reshapes Origen's household
Eusebius recounts the execution of Origen's father Leonides and the confiscation of family property. The teenage Origen must then support a household while continuing his studies. - Let all God’s angels worship him
Hebrews commands angelic worship of the Son using wording attested in the Greek form of Deuteronomy 32:43; Psalm 97:7 is a related proposed source. - Levi
Son of Jacob and Leah and ancestor of the priestly tribe. - Leviticus
Leviticus asks how a community lives near a holy God. Sacrifices, priesthood, purity, atonement, economic obligations, and neighbor-love belong to one account of worship and ordinary life. - Light expresses life with Christ
The Catechism names light among Scripture's images of heaven. These images express a mystery beyond a complete earthly description. Heavenly communion is God's gift, not an effect of choosing a color (CCC 1027–1028). - Light rises in Galilee
Matthew identifies Jesus' Galilean ministry with Isaiah's light for people in darkness. - Linus of Rome
Irenaeus names Linus as receiving the episcopate of the Roman church from the apostles. - Living Catholic Faith
Catholic formation continues through Sunday worship, Scripture, prayer, the sacraments, moral conversion, works of mercy, and belonging to a parish community. A sustainable pattern grows with a person's circumstances… - Looking upon the pierced one
John connects the pierced side of Jesus with Zechariah's mourning over the pierced one. - Lot
Abraham's nephew in the Sodom narratives. - Luke
Luke opens by explaining that earlier accounts and eyewitness traditions stand behind his orderly narrative. The Gospel attends to prayer, the Spirit, meals, wealth, mercy, and people at social margins. Its second… - Luke 20: God is God of the living
Jesus says all are alive to God. This bears on life after death, but does not say the departed hear requests or prescribe invocation. - Lutheran–Catholic declaration on justification
The Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church state a consensus on basic truths of justification while acknowledging remaining differences. The declaration concerns these signatories, not every Protestant church. - Lydia of Thyatira at Philippi
Lydia is a woman from Thyatira who sells purple goods and worships God. At the riverside place of prayer near Philippi, the Lord opens her heart to Paul's message. After the baptism of her household she urges the… - Lying to the Holy Spirit, lying to God
The parallel is explicit within two adjacent verses. Verse 9 also describes the couple as testing the Spirit of the Lord. - Maccabean revolt begins
Resistance to Seleucid policies and Temple profanation begins the revolt narrated in 1–2 Maccabees. - Macedonia: households, work, and a costly welcome
Acts moves from the Macedonian vision to women gathered for prayer, Lydia's opened heart and hospitality, the exploitation of an enslaved girl, the imprisonment of Paul and Silas, and the jailer's household.… - Major Muslim Responses to the Islamic Dilemma
The principal replies challenge different premises rather than offering one answer: Qur'an 3:7 qualifies a maximal clarity claim; the original Torah and Injil may be distinguished from later texts; tahrif may concern…