On our journey through the Old Covenant background to the New Covenant priesthood of Jesus Christ, we have discovered some important points. First, Adam was a priest-father of humanity.
Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...
Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at all. The Gospels’ different views might be hard to ...
the birth of John the Baptist to Zechariah's post-menopausal wife and the virginal conception of Jesus in the womb of Mary. Next the Lucan gospel traces Jesus' genealogy back to Adam in order to ...
For instance, both Matthew and Luke date Jesus’ birth toward the end of the reign of King Herod ... s magi may have been inspired by a historical memory. In 66 C.E., the new Armenian king came to ...