Matthew McConaughey

answer questions either asked by one of the disciples, scribes and Pharisees, and in come cases just a member of the crowd. Many of the parables overlap appear in the books of Matthew and Luke, however, many of those overlapping parables have different elements, specifically in the way they end. The parables in the book of Matthew have a more violent or even wrathful ending that those in Luke, a few parabolic…

This essay will look at the Didache, it will start by looking at what the Didache is. Then looking at each part separately and discussing the contents, it will summarise each section of the Didache before analysing the possible use. It will then discuss how and why this is important for contemporary church historians. The Didache is quite a short work which is written in a very straightforward, practical way. It was thought to be lost until it was rediscovered in 1873 by Archbishop Bryennios, in…

Point #2 – The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in A.D. 70 is a fulfilment of Christ’s prophecy of perilous times. In moving along, we turn our attention to verse 14 of the text. Verse 14 is a pivotal moment in Christ’s teaching to his disciples. In verses 4-13 Jesus has been telling his disciples to look for signs; however, those signs can be looked at as being vague and not specific. Furthermore, those signs would occur during a time period that would lead to the destruction. In verse…

The Gospel of Peter is obviously not found in the New Testament or in any other part of the Bible for that matter. This is for both obvious reasons and likely some reasons we do not know. When deciding what Gospels to include in the New Testament the religion leaders of the time chose not to include Peter’s Gospel. Scholars recently discovered this after finding Peter’s Gospel someplace in Egypt. Scholars found that Peter reserved a large portion of his story to describe story of Jesus’s death…

Modern scholarship, beginning with the Enlightenment, brought into question the long-held belief that the Gospels were based on eyewitness accounts of the life of Jesus. Such scholarship has developed a series of dates for the writing of the Gospels; the proposed dates raise several questions about the historical accuracy of the canonical accounts. This paper will first discuss the questions raised by the modern dating system. It will then discuss some of the responses that have been…

bit of yeast. She hid it in dough and made it into huge loaves of bread.” Question: A saying of Jesus similar to this one appears in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, but in two different narrative settings. Assuming that this saying originated in the life of Jesus, how might someone explain its journey from Jesus himself to the Gospels of Thomas, Matthew, and Luke, with reference to oral tradition, "Q," and the Two-Source Hypothesis? Sayings that may have occurred throughout Jesus’ life appear…

In the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, also known as the Gospels, we see four different accounts of the same story all written to different people groups. In Matthew, we see Jesus portrayed as the rightful heir to the Messianic throne. Matthew was a Jew, who wrote his account to other Jews. Matthew wrote his account to show that Jesus was the fulfilment of the Messianic prophecy. Matthew was written in A.D. 80-100. In Mark, Jesus is written about as a Servant of God. Mark wrote his…

Is the Bible trustworthy based on what we know from history? Sources outside the Bible all confirm what the Bible says. Josephus was a Jewish historian and mentions Jesus several times. He notes Jesus’ role as a religious teacher and his death by crucifixion. Tacitus was a Roman historian and says Jesus lived during the N.T. times and that he was referred to as the “Christ” by His followers. Modern historians accept these two as reliable reporters and historians and neither one were Christians…

is where Jesus was born. 2.) Event two is my family’s move to Toronto, Ontario in Dec 2004, when I was 3 years old. The parallel in Jesus’s life is when Joseph and Mary flee to Egypt with baby Jesus, due to King Herod trying to kill infant boys (Matthew 2: 13-15). The symbol I drew was a pyramid, which just represents Egypt. 3.) Event three is my Baptism, which was a little unusual because I was four at the time. The parallel to this is Jesus’s Baptism in the Jordan River by John the Baptist.…

1. I have read the Gospels many times. I went to Sacred Heart Catholic School before St. Marys, and one of our assignment in 7 grade was to read each Gospel and answer a packet of questions. Like if said I’ve read the Gospels a lot and about half of those times were for school assignments. When read the Gospel this time around I notice that my mind was filling in the blanks. I was putting parts from other Gospels into this Gospel in place were it wasn’t written. The most common Gospels…