Was the Transfiguration six or eight days after Jesus’ teaching on discipleship?
All three synoptic gospels record the Transfiguration. Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up the mountain to pray, is transformed before them with his face shining and his clothes becoming dazzling...
View ArticleWhich priest gave David the bread of the Presence to eat, Abiathar or Ahimelech?
Jesus was a controversial figure, often challenged by the religious leaders of his time. One dispute concerned his disciples’ failure to observe the sabbath by picking grain as they passed through a...
View ArticleTo how many disciples did the risen Jesus appear?
1 Corinthians 15 contains early testimony to Jesus’ resurrection appearances, with Paul listing the individuals and groups whom Jesus appeared. However, Paul makes a mistake concerning how many...
View ArticleDid the other disciples believe the two who saw the risen Jesus on the road...
Following his death, the resurrected Jesus appeared to two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus. The gospels contradict each other, however, concerning the what reaction they got when told the other...
View ArticleWere Jesus’ disciples allowed to carry staffs?
When Jesus sent out his twelve disciples to proclaim the gospel, he told them to travel light. They were not to take money, nor a bag, nor a second tunic; instead, they were to rely on those to whom...
View ArticleWhere did Andrew and Simon Peter come from?
Andrew was Jesus’ first disciple. His brother Simon (a.k.a. Peter) was arguably the most important, identified by Jesus as the rock on which his church would be built. But where did Andrew and Simon...
View ArticleDid the women who found Jesus’ tomb empty go and tell the disciples?
The synoptic gospels all have some of the women who followed Jesus visiting his tomb and finding it empty. But did these first witnesses to the resurrection take the news to the disciples or not? In...
View ArticleWhere did the risen Jesus meet the disciples?
When Jesus was crucified, his disciples were distraught. When Jesus rose from the dead, he appeared to his disciples, restoring their faith and demonstrating that he was the Messiah. But where did this...
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