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15 Cards in this Set
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To go without food. Fasting is an ancient religious practice that denies the wants of the body in order to strengthen the spirit.
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Fast
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A cousin of Jesus, older by six months. His baptizing and preaching in the wilderness prepared the way for Jesus.
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John the Baptist
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A title given not only to the Passover sacrifice at the Exodus but also to Jesus Christ as the perfect sacrifice "who takes away the sins of the world."
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Lamb of God
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Someone who suffers from leprosy, a serious skin disease.
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Leper
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Businessmen who exchanged the ordinary Roman coins used in everydya business to the special Temple coinage used to pay the Temple tax. They notoriously took a certain percentage for themselves.
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Money-changers
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Someone who makes a journey for religius reasons. Jewish pilgrims from all over the world came to Jerusalem to worship at the Temple.
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Pilgrim
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To test, usually by offering something forbidden. The devil offered Jesus food, divine protection, and earthly glory at the price of worshipping Satan.
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Tempt
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The Twelve Aposteswhom Jesus chose to help him in his ministry. Twelve is also the number of tribes of Israel.
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Twelve, The
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Greek for the world of the dead. Similar to "Sheol" in Hebrew,
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Hades
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An influential Pharisee who came by night to hear Jesus' teachings. He defended Jesus when the other Pharisees attached him, and finally became an open disciple of Jesus after the Crucifixtion.
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Nicodemus
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The prayer Jesus taught is disciples; also called the Lord's Prayer.
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Our Father
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A story or example based on a familiar experience that illustrates a principle. It uses familar ideas to explain unfamiliar ideas.
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Parable
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An apparent contradiction that is really true. Jesus used paradoxes like "the first shall be the last" to show how different the Kingdom of Heaven would be from the state of things on earth.
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Paradox
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One of Jesus' disciples, who became the leader of the Twelve and of the Church. Named Simon, Jesus gave him the name Peter, which means "Rock."
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Peter
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Wasteful. In the story of the Prodigal Son, a young man wastes his entire inheritance and has to return to his father with nothing.
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Prodigal
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