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- 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. - 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.… - Magic, Perception, and the Protected-Revelation Boundary
Sahih al-Bukhari reports that magic affected Muhammad until he imagined doing things he had not done. The pressure point is epistemic: the defender must identify from the texts, rather than merely assert, why this… - 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… - Malachi
Malachi presents disputes over worship, fidelity, justice, and the apparent prosperity of wrongdoers. Its closing messenger and Elijah expectations become important in the Gospels' presentation of John the Baptist. - Malachi
Prophetic book confronting unfaithfulness in worship. - Malachi: covenant faithfulness
Malachi critiques deficient worship and injustice while anticipating the Lord's coming messenger. - Manasseh
King of Judah condemned for idolatry in Kings. - Manasseh and Judah's religious crisis
The biblical histories present Manasseh's reign as a decisive period of idolatry and later repentance in Chronicles. - Manna and the bread of life
Jesus recalls the wilderness manna and identifies himself as the Father's life-giving bread, surpassing the food that sustained Israel. - Manoah's family and the wonderful name
A visitor announces Samson's birth and ascends in the altar's flame. - Maria of Paris and wartime witness
Mother Maria's service to refugees and persecuted people stands as a twentieth-century Orthodox witness to love of neighbor. - Mark
Mark moves quickly from Jesus' public ministry toward Jerusalem, suffering, and the cross. The disciples' misunderstandings and repeated secrecy motifs make the question of Jesus' identity a narrative question, not… - Mark of Ephesus
Metropolitan of Ephesus remembered for refusing to sign the union decree at Florence and for arguing against Latin positions on the Filioque and purgatory. - Mark of Ephesus opposes Florence
Mark becomes a leading Orthodox voice against the Florentine union and an important figure in later Orthodox memory. - Marriage and Matrimony
The mystery of marriage joins the spouses in a blessed union within the Church's prayer and life; the crowning rite is prominent in Orthodox practice. - Marriage Privileges, Polygyny, Zaynab, and Adoption
Qur'an 4:3 permits Muslim men up to four wives under a justice condition, while Qur'an 33:50-51 grants Muhammad distinct marital permissions and control over turns among his wives. Qur'an 33:37 presents his marriage… - Martyrdom of Polycarp 17–18
Distinguishes Christ's worship from love for martyrs and describes keeping Polycarp's bones and annual remembrance. - Martyrdom of Polycarp of Smyrna
An early Christian narrative remembers the death of Smyrna's bishop and the community's care for the memory of its martyr. - Mary and Martha of Bethany
Luke presents Martha receiving Jesus and Mary listening at His feet. John identifies the sisters with Lazarus's household at Bethany and places them in the raising of Lazarus and the anointing before Passover. - Mary and the Saints
Catholics honor Mary as the mother of Jesus and a model of discipleship, and remember the saints as members of Christ's body. They distinguish adoration, which belongs to God alone, from veneration and requests for… - Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene accompanies and supports Jesus's ministry, witnesses the Passion and burial, and encounters the risen Christ. - Mary the Theotokos
Mary receives the annunciation, bears and raises Jesus, appears in His ministry and at the Cross, and prays with the apostles before Pentecost. - Mattathias
Priest whose resistance begins the Maccabean revolt. - Matthew
Matthew presents Jesus as Israel's Messiah and teacher. Its genealogy, extended teaching blocks, passion narrative, and final commission frame a story of fulfillment and discipleship. The Gospel's received title… - Matthew 27: Jesus addresses God; bystanders mishear
Jesus quotes Psalm 22 and addresses God. Bystanders mistake the cry for a call to Elijah, but the text does not narrate Elijah arriving. A mention of a prophet is not automatically a prayer addressed to that prophet. - Matthias and the vacant apostolic place
Acts narrates Matthias being chosen after Judas's death. Peter calls the vacancy an episkopē, an oversight or office, but the event concerns membership among the Twelve and does not by itself describe ordinary… - Maximus the Confessor
Monk and theologian who resisted the claim that Christ has only one natural will or operation, defending the full reality of His human willing and acting. - Maximus the Confessor and two wills
Maximus argues that Christ's full humanity includes a natural human will and operation united in the one divine person. - Maximus the Greek's final years and translation legacy
Maximus dies after a career translating Greek Christian writings into Slavonic and enduring imprisonment and restricted residence. - Melchizedek
King of Salem and priest who blesses Abram. - Melchizedek and Jesus' enduring priesthood
Hebrews treats Melchizedek's brief appearance as a scriptural pattern for the Son's enduring priesthood. - Melchizedek and the eternal priest
A priestly king becomes a major biblical pattern for Christ's priesthood. - Melito investigates the books of the Old Testament
Eusebius preserves a letter in which Melito answers a request for the names and order of ancient biblical books. Melito connects his list with a journey east and with extracts prepared for his correspondent Onesimus. - Menahem
Northern king who pays tribute to Assyria. - Mercy rather than empty sacrifice
Jesus quotes Hosea's call for covenant mercy when defending his welcome of sinners and his disciples' conduct on the Sabbath.