Another interesting feature of John's gospel is that Jesus speaks in long ... John makes a deliberate pun on the Greek word "to be crucified", which also means "to be lifted up." ...

Sometimes the Greek word for Jew (Ioudaios ... Jesus and his earliest followers were Jews; yet, as shown above, by the time that the Gospel of John had reached its present form, the Johannine ...

Did the rediscovery of the ancient manuscripts Sinaiticus and Vaticanus really lead to massive changes in our Greek New Testaments? - Mark Ward ...

Pope Francis recently recognized a second miracle linked to Carlo Acutis, the Millennial teen known as "God's influencer," ...

A ladder serves as a tool for communication between heaven and earth, between humans and God. It’s also a symbol of ...

Photo provided by St. George Greek Orthodox Church, New Castle ... On the first Friday, the priest reads the Gospel of the day (John 15:1-7). On the fifth Friday of Great Lent the complete service is ...

Didymos is Greek for twin.... The implication here is that he is Jesus' twin. But this character, of course, also appears in the Gospel of John, he's one of the disciples, the twin. Here he ...

Scholars call this extra stuff “paratext.” For the most part, everyone ignores it unless some controversy sparks debate over ...

Photo of the Epitaphios and the Holy Gospel courtesy of Andrew Constantinou of St. Vasilios Greek Orthodox Church in Peabody, MA and used with permission. Photo of the Priest Processing with the ...

Scott Dermer, “Magna Gratiae Commendatio: Augustine’s Teaching on Grace in the Tractates on the Gospel of John” (Director ... seminar-style reading courses in Greek, Latin and Syriac. Students spend ...

As the US election campaign rages on, we are hearing a good deal about the family. Among Republicans, that tends to mean a ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...