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- The prophet like Moses
The crowd identifies Jesus with the expected prophet, and Peter applies Moses' promise of a prophet to the risen Jesus. - The psalm's gods and Jesus' scriptural defense
Jesus quotes the psalm's address to gods when answering a charge of blasphemy over his identity as the Son of God. - The radiant figure and the temple vision
A fiery and radiant likeness carries Ezekiel into a vision of Jerusalem's temple. - The rejected stone becomes the cornerstone
Jerusalem's welcome and Jesus' teaching reuse a thanksgiving psalm's welcome and rejected-stone image. - The renewed appearance at Bethel
God appears again, confirms Israel's name, and renews the covenant. - The resurrection hope
Christ's resurrection grounds the hope of transformed embodied life. Christian hope is not the abandonment of creation as intrinsically evil. - The Retreat opens in York
Quakers developed an approach to humane mental care. - The rock and Christ in the wilderness
Paul explicitly connects the wilderness's spiritual provision with Christ. - The royal psalm applied to the Son
Hebrews quotes a royal wedding psalm to describe the Son's righteous and enduring rule. - The royal son
The baptismal declaration echoes royal sonship, and apostolic writers explicitly apply the psalm to Jesus. - The sack of Rome prompts Augustine's City of God
Augustine answers charges that Christianity caused Rome's disaster. He begins by considering suffering, refuge in sacred places, and the different meanings people assign to calamity. - The Salvation Army
The Booths East London work developed from the Christian Mission. - The sanctuary pattern and Christ's heavenly ministry
Hebrews quotes the command to make the sanctuary according to its revealed pattern and relates the earthly sanctuary to Christ's heavenly ministry. - The servant bears sickness and pain
Matthew applies the servant's carrying of affliction to Jesus' healing work. - The servant heals and restores
Jesus heals the sick and frees the afflicted; Gospel writers connect this mercy with Isaiah's servant and restoration promises. - The servant who does not crush the weak
Matthew relates Jesus' quiet, restorative ministry to the Spirit-endowed servant. - The Seventy or Seventy-Two
Luke records Jesus appointing and sending a larger group of disciples in pairs ahead of Him. Ancient manuscripts differ between seventy and seventy-two. - The shepherd is struck; the flock scatters
Jesus quotes the struck-shepherd saying before the disciples' flight. - The Son and the Father's glory
The Son reveals God's glory and receives angelic worship. - The Son and Word of God
The Son is eternally begotten of the Father, shares the Father's one divine nature, and became human as Jesus Christ for our salvation. - The sufferer's lament and divided garments
The passion cites the sufferer's lament and divided garments; Hebrews also applies the psalm's later praise to Christ and his brothers and sisters. - The suffering servant: rejection, death, and vindication
John identifies unbelief with Isaiah's report, Jesus applies the servant's being counted with transgressors to his passion, and later writers explain his saving suffering. - The synod assumes direction of former mission work
Transfer of responsibility changed governance while overseas partnerships continued. - The Temple burns during the Roman assault
Roman troops reach the Temple precinct and the sanctuary burns. Josephus's extended account preserves the sequence of fighting while portraying Titus as trying to prevent the final destruction. - The temple cannot shelter wrongdoing
Jesus recalls Jeremiah's challenge to false confidence in the temple. - The threatened imperial statue in the Temple
Caligula orders his image installed in Jerusalem's Temple. Josephus describes petitions, Petronius's hesitation, and Agrippa's intervention; the installation is not completed. - The Thursday Document That Was Never Written
Bukhari 114 says Muhammad asked for writing material to leave a statement after which the community would not go astray. Umar replied that the Qur'an was sufficient; disagreement and noise followed; Ibn Abbas called… - The tree, the curse, and redemption
Paul applies the law concerning an exposed body on a tree to Christ's death and his redemption of others from the law's curse. - The Twelve Apostles
The Synoptic Gospels name twelve disciples whom Jesus appoints and sends. Acts names the remaining eleven and records Matthias being chosen to take Judas Iscariot's place. - The Twelve Rulers: Name Them
Muslim and Abu Dawud report that the religion or caliphate would remain strong through twelve Qurayshi rulers. Sunni commentators have proposed sharply different lists: selected righteous rulers, an Umayyad sequence,… - The victorious ascent and gifts for the Church
Ephesians applies the psalm's victorious ascent to Christ and connects it with gifts that build up his people. - The vineyard and the rejected beloved son
Jesus' vineyard parable reuses Isaiah's vineyard imagery to confront leaders who reject the owner's messengers and son. - The visitors at Mamre
Abraham receives three visitors; the LORD promises a son and hears an intercession. - The voice that stops the sacrifice
The angel of the LORD restrains Abraham and renews the covenant promise. - The Word became flesh
The Word truly becomes human; the risen Jesus offers his wounds to Thomas. - The Word truly became human
The saving subject is the incarnate Word. Miaphysite unity confesses complete divinity and humanity, including a rational soul. It is not Eutychian absorption. - Theodore Beza
Teacher and successor to Calvin in the Genevan Company of Pastors. - Theodore the Studite, Second and Third Refutations (excerpts)
Distinguishes a natural image from an artificial image and explains the latter's relation to its prototype. - Theological Declaration of Barmen
Six propositions rejected the church’s subordination to National Socialist ideology. - Theophilus answers questions about seeing and knowing God
Theophilus responds to a challenge to show his God by discussing perception, moral formation, and the limits of language. His work presents an early Christian explanation of why God is not simply another visible object.