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5 days ago · The name "Jesus" derives from the Hebrew name "Yeshua" (ישוע), which is a contraction of "Yehoshua" (יהושע), meaning "Yahweh is salvation" or "Yahweh saves." In Christian theology, Jesus' name emphasizes his role as the savior, reflecting the belief that he was sent by God to save humanity from sin and death.
3 days ago · Nazareth was a very small town when Jesus was born. When my wife and I visited there in 2014, our tour guide told us that it was scarcely as large as the parking lot of the Church of the Annunciation there. But it’s been excavated to the time of Jesus. Skeptics have, for many years, asserted that Nazareth didn’t exist at all in his time.
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2 days ago · Many believe the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus, as it bears uncanny similarities to the wounds of Jesus described in scripture and historical records. “I think the deepest longing in the heart of man is to see the face of God,” shroud expert Father Andrew Dalton said in an interview with EWTN.
1 day ago · The crucifixion of Jesus was the execution by crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33. It is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, attested to by other ancient sources, and is broadly accepted as one of the events most likely to have occurred during his ...
May 17, 2024 · Jesus of Nazareth (c. 6–4 BCE—c. 30 CE) is often addressed as “rabbi” in the New Testament gospels. The term is a Greek transliteration of the Aramaic title for a teacher and is used of Jesus more so than any other designation (Mark 9:5; 10:51; 11:21; 14:45; Matt 26:25, 49; John 1:38, 49; 3:2; 4:31;….
1 day ago · St. Matthew the Apostle — He Left His Post to Follow Jesus. “As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post. He said to him, ‘Follow me.’. And he got up and followed him.” (Matthew 9:9) By Theresa Doyle-Nelson – National Catholic Register. Matthew (also known as Levi in the Gospels of Luke and ...
May 3, 2024 · Gethsemane, garden across the Kidron Valley on the Mount of Olives, a ridge paralleling the eastern part of Jerusalem, where Jesus is said to have prayed on the night of his arrest before the Crucifixion. The name suggests that the garden was a grove of olive trees in which was located an oil press.
