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He says that the relatives of Jesus were known as the desposynoi, a term which means ‘those who belong to the Master [or Sovereign: despotes]’. He explains how they were one of those Jewish families who had preserved their genealogy when Herod burned the public genealogical records.
- The Alpha and Omega
- Jesus’ Family
- Our Elder Brother
- Present Day Descendants?
- Conclusion
Jesus never had children. There is no historical or biblical evidence that He ever got married either. The fact is that “He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever” (Heb 7:3) and as Hebrews 7:6 states, “This man, however, did not trace hi...
Jesus’ mother was Mary but she and Joseph had other children but Jesus was the first born. Matthew 1:25 says that Joseph “knew [Mary] not until she had given birth to a son…called Jesus.” The word “until” essentially means that Mary and Joseph bore no children and had no sex until after Jesus was conceived and born and according to other scriptures...
If we are born again, we are already the children of God and Jesus says that our truest family is those in the Body of Christ and as Jesus said, “For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother” (Mark3:35). For Jesus “it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make ...
There is absolutely zero evidence in the Bible that Jesus ever married and that He also had children. Even extra-biblical evidence is missing. There is no reputable church or secular historian that believed or wrote about Jesus ever having been married and bearing children. Whoever you hear today that claims to be a descendant of Jesus Christ has n...
Even if there were still relatives of Jesus as by His brothers and sisters living today, wouldn’t they be just like us? Wouldn’t they fall just as short of the glory of God as we do (Rom 3:23) and do any one of us really seek after God on our own or is there even one of us that can say we are good (Rom 3:10-12)? No, we all deserve God’s wrath but J...
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- The Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus (A.D. 37-100) The first non-Christian author to mention Jesus is thought to be the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (born Yosef ben Matityahu), who wrote a history of Judaism in about the year 93, the famous Antiquities of the Jews.
- Tacitus (A.D. 56-120) Scholars point to the Roman historian Tacitus for confirmation that the crucifixion of Jesus actually took place. Writing in his Annals, he records the death of Jesus at the hands of Pontius Pilate
- Pliny the Younger (A.D. 62-11) The writings of a Roman governor in Asia Minor, Pliny the Younger, establish that early Christians worshiped Jesus as a god.
- Jewish Rabbinical literature. A number of works of classical Jewish rabbinic writing (the Babylonian Talmud in particular) contain references to Jesus.
Apr 2, 2021 · Each of these discoveries is related to Jesus in some way, either representing a place he visited or people he interacted with or an event central to his life. Together they indicate that the writers of the biblical gospels accurately recorded events in the life of Christ.
Philip of Spanheim (also: Philip of Sponheim; died 22 July 1279) was a 13th centurt bishop who was elected Archbishop of Salzburg (1247–1257) and Patriarch of Aquileia (1269–1271). He held the title of a Count of Lebenau (1254–1279) and was nominal Duke of Carinthia.
Once she arrived at the monastery, Hildegard was placed in the care of Jutta von Sponheim, a deeply religious woman and a family friend. Jutta was a well-regarded anchoress. Unlike a typical nun, an anchoress in medieval times went through a ritual of a mock burial, performed by a bishop, to mark her absolute “deadness” to the world.
Genealogy of Jesus. The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. [1] Matthew starts with Abraham and works forwards, while Luke works back in time from Jesus to Adam.
