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- Elders appointed in local churches
Acts reports Paul and Barnabas appointing elders in churches, with prayer and fasting. The text establishes ordered local ministry without naming a one-bishop-per-city system at this point. - Elephantine's Jewish community petitions to rebuild its temple
An Aramaic petition asks the Persian governor in Judah to help authorize the rebuilding of a destroyed temple of Yahu at Elephantine. - Eleutherus of Rome
Eleutherus is the twelfth figure counted from the apostles in Irenaeus's Roman succession argument and the bishop of Rome in Irenaeus's own time. - Eli
Priest at Shiloh during Samuel's youth. - Elijah
Prophet who confronts Ahab and the worship of Baal. - Elijah confronts Baal worship
Elijah's ministry challenges royal idolatry and calls Israel back to covenant faithfulness. - Elijah's widow and the reach of God's mercy
Jesus cites Elijah's mission to the widow of Zarephath when confronting expectations about whom God's prophet will serve. - Elijah: the angel and the quiet voice
A messenger feeds the exhausted prophet before a divine encounter at Horeb. - Elisha
Elijah's successor in the northern kingdom narratives. - Elisha's prophetic ministry
Elisha continues prophetic witness through healing, judgment, and counsel in the northern kingdom. - Elisha: knowledge disclosed and withheld
The same Elisha appears in two contrasting narratives: in 2 Kings 6 the Aramean king’s private plans are disclosed; in 2 Kings 4 Elisha says the Lord had not made the woman’s anguish known to him. The comparison… - Elon
Judge from Zebulun. - Emmanuel: God with us
Matthew identifies Jesus' virginal conception with Isaiah's sign of Emmanuel. - Enoch
Ancestor remembered for walking with God. - Epaphras: teacher and intercessor for the Lycus communities
Colossians names Epaphras as the person from whom the recipients learned the gospel and as a faithful minister of Christ. It later describes his strenuous prayer for them and his concern for Laodicea and Hierapolis.… - Epaphroditus: Philippi's messenger and partner
Paul calls Epaphroditus his brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, and the Philippians' messenger and minister to his need. He became gravely ill and was distressed that the community had heard of his illness.… - Ephesians
Ephesians praises God's work in Christ, the joining of Jews and Gentiles, the church as one body, and a way of life shaped by that unity. Its formal style and broad audience make authorship and original circulation… - Ephesus II and the road to Chalcedon
A contentious assembly at Ephesus supports Eutyches and is later repudiated by the Council of Chalcedon. - Ephesus — Third Ecumenical Council
Ephesus defends the unity of Christ's person and the title Theotokos for Mary because the one born from her is the incarnate Word. - Ephrem the Syrian
Syriac deacon, poet, and theologian who used hymns rich in biblical imagery to teach about creation, Christ, Mary, the sacraments, and the life of faith. - Esau
Jacob's twin brother. - Esther
Esther narrates a threatened Jewish community's survival in the Persian court and the origins of Purim. Concealment, reversal, communal action, and the risks of court politics shape the Hebrew story; the Greek… - Esther
Jewish queen in the story behind Purim. - Esther and Jewish life under Persia
Esther narrates deliverance from a plot against the Jews and the origin of Purim. - Eucharist and the Lord's Supper
Catholic teaching describes the Eucharist as Christ's Body and Blood, a memorial of his death and resurrection, and the sacramental sacrifice of the Mass. It teaches transubstantiation to explain the change of bread… - Eucharist and the Lord's Supper
Catholics confess Christ truly present under the appearances of bread and wine. The Mass is the sacramental memorial of Christ's one sacrifice and the source and summit of Christian life. - Eunomianism
Catholic teaching receives the Son as eternally begotten, not made, and fully equal in divinity with the Father. - Eutychian confusion
Catholic teaching receives Chalcedon's four adverbs to protect both Christ's true divinity and his true humanity in one person. - Evangelii Nuntiandi connects evangelization and human life
Paul VI's exhortation examines how Christian proclamation relates to witness, culture, liberation, and the life of local churches. - Evangelist Luke
Luke is named in Paul's letters as a physician and coworker. The Church receives him as author of the two-volume work Luke-Acts. - Evangelist Mark (John Mark)
Acts and the Epistles name John Mark within the Jerusalem and missionary networks. The Church receives Mark as the Evangelist associated especially with Peter's apostolic preaching. - Evaristus of Rome
Irenaeus names Evaristus after Clement in the Roman succession. - Eve
The first woman and mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth. - Every knee, every tongue
Paul’s language of every knee and every tongue closely reuses Isaiah’s universal acknowledgment of the one God, now focused on Jesus. - Exile, return & later writings
Exile, Persian restoration, diaspora stories, wisdom, and Maccabean resistance lead into later Jewish history and writings. - Exile, return, and unfinished restoration
The fall of Jerusalem, deportations, and later return are presented through Kings, prophetic poetry, and Ezra-Nehemiah with different emphases. A royal permission to return did not instantly restore every institution… - Exodus
Exodus joins deliverance from slavery to covenant and divine dwelling. The movement from Pharaoh's building projects to the tabernacle connects freedom with worship, while the golden calf interrupts any simple story… - Exodus & covenant
Moses, Aaron, Miriam, and other leaders connect the Exodus, Sinai covenant, wilderness, tabernacle, and entry into the land. - Exodus, covenant, and liberation
Exodus moves from oppression and deliverance to covenant, law, and a portable sanctuary. The Passover account, sea crossing, and Sinai covenant have distinct narrative roles. New Testament writers later reread exodus… - Ezekiel
Ezekiel addresses catastrophe and restoration through visions, enacted signs, judgment speeches, and an extended temple vision. Divine glory departs and returns, while new heart, new spirit, and renewed communal life…