The Birth-Mark

news for the Jews”. The book of Matthew was written to prove to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah. The first four gospels of the New Testament all tell the same story because each book was written for different groups; Matthew for Roman Empire, Mark for Romans, Luke for Greeks and John was written to all about the saving faith in Jesus. This gospel is about Jesus’ life and it is said to be written in the Holy Land, but some feel Matthew was written in early church period…

John (The Gospel): In this particular book which is one of the four Gospels and is called the called the Gospel of John is known to be that of a what is recognized as what we would call or know as a narrative literary genre (Smith, 2016). According to our text, “The Author of this book is John and he is known at the “the beloved disciple” and the people that were receiving this were the Greek-speaking Jews that were living outside of the city of Israel. The Gospel of John was recorded or told…

Matthew tells the story of the birth of Jesus. This is helpful to teach the beginning of Christianity and how the savior Jesus became. Matthew continues by explaining the story of how the Virgin Mary became with child. During this part of Matthews’s gospel, he really stresses the idea…

A tragic hero is a person of noble birth that goes through something catastrophic. Brutus is a great example of a tragic hero. Brutus was the most noble man in the play. He did all the right things for all the right reasons, but it was the people that did not do it for the right reason that crushed him. Marcus Brutus was never known as anything other than a noble man. Marcus Brutus was of noble birth because of Junius Brutus. Junius Brutus was well known and liked. He kicked all of the kings…

was too much for the people of the late 19th century. The truth of why the novel is solely based on the fact that the author, Mark Twain, candidly told the life of slaves. The truth needed to be heard by the masses in order to make a change. But, the truth is never what people desire to hear. The difficult truth of life was ever present all around Twain’s life. Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. His entire life was surrounded…

have his brother 's wife as his own. Moreover, Herodias, wanted to kill John the Baptist since she held a grudge against him. Despite this, Herod liked John and protected him since he knew he was a righteous and holy man according to the gospel of Mark. Different from what the gospel of Matthew says the reason Herod wanted to spare his life. In the gospel of Matthew, it says Herod wanted to kill John but did not because he was afraid of the people who considered him a prophet. Unfortunately, the…

The Gospel of John is one of the four Gospels written to tell the story of Jesus’ life. Just as Matthew, Mark, and Luke have given their accounts of Jesus’ miracles so has John. Though these accounts may have their own way of telling what is important to them, the main fact is that these Gospels were recorded so that we may learn more of the word of God. “In order to understand John’s approach to the story of Jesus, the reader must recognize the centrality of the incarnation of the Gospel”…

Ptolemy XIII died on the battlefield. Cleopatra then returned to Egypt and gets married to yet another younger brother Ptolemy XIV. At this time, Caesar returned to Rome and shortly after that Cleopatra gave birth to Caesars child, a son, and she named him Caesarion. Clearly this child didn’t mean much to Caesar, one would think if the child was important he would’ve stuck around. However, since Cleopatra wasn’t much to Caesar except a mistress and now an ally…

whisked off to a small town, where a woman in her early twenties is on a quest to find her biological mother. The viewer is shown the heartwarming story of how, through the power of Facebook, she has reconnected with her mother for the first time since birth. Not long after we are left with a rather positive view of the capabilities of…

They recruited Brutus, who took a leading role in the assassination, which was carried out successfully on March 15, 44 B.C. The Senate, at the request of the Consul Mark Antony, granted amnesty to the assassins. However, a populist uprising forced Brutus and his brother-in-law, fellow assassin Gaius Cassius Longinus, to leave the City of Rome. In 43 B.C., Caesar's grandnephew, Consul Octavian, by then also formally…