好撒马利亚人

In Luke 10, when a lawyer asks Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” in a discussion about the law to love your neighbor as yourself, Jesus tells him this story: A Jewish man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him half […]

神眼中的婚姻

Mark 10:6-9 – “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let […]

死里复活的拉撒路

Martha and Mary, two sisters who lived in Bethany and loved the Lord, had a brother named Lazarus. Lazarus was a disciple and close friend of Jesus. One day, when Lazarus became seriously ill, Martha and Mary sent a message to Jesus, who was at the time near the Jordan River. Bethany was at least […]

活祭

A living sacrifice is a fundamental principle of the Christian life. In the Old Testament, God’s people offered animals like bulls and sheep as sacrifices, and the priests would kill them on the altar. In the New Testament, through the redemptive death of the Lord Jesus Christ, believers are no longer required to kill sacrificial […]

腰弯背曲的妇人和患水臌的人

The Gospel of Luke contains several unique accounts of Jesus’ miracles. In chapter 13, for example, it is recorded that on the Sabbath, in a synagogue, Jesus healed a woman who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. This is the last time Luke records Jesus entering a synagogue. The story doesn’t say […]

美索不达米亚

Mesopotamia is the name given by the ancient Greeks to the land “between the rivers,” the Euphrates and the Tigris. These two rivers originate in the Anatolian mountains of modern-day Turkey, flow through the Mesopotamian plain, and eventually converge to form the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf. The plain between the rivers […]

抹大拉的马利亚

The name Magdalene means “tower.” The town of Magdala was located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, about 8 kilometers southwest of Capernaum and 4.4 kilometers north of modern-day Tiberias, near the current city of Migdal. The city was built on the lakeshore around the first century BC. It was a good […]

寡妇的奉献

Luke 21:1-4 – “As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. ‘Truly I tell you,’ he said, ‘this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out […]

马大与马利亚

Luke 10:38-42 – “As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary (“Mary” is the Greek form of the Hebrew “Miriam”), who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha […]

基督

Christ (from the Greek word Christos, a shortened form of Kiristos) means “the Anointed One.” In ancient Judaism, kings, priests, or prophets were appointed through a ceremony of anointing with oil on their heads. The Hebrew pronunciation is Messiah. “The Anointed One” and “Messiah” are different translations of the same Hebrew word, which refers to […]