After Christ's death on the cross, we enter the "proclaimed kingdom " where we are patiently waiting for His return. When Jesus went back to heaven, he commanded all Christians to spread the good news of God's salvation through Christ's death, and he explained that the delay in his return was to give everyone, Jews and Gentiles, a chance to hear his word and put their trust and faith in him. ... Christ often refers to the promises from the Old Testament and without knowing the Old Testament we only know half the story, and therefore cannot fully understand the Bible. Without u...

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The story of virginal pregnancy present in the Greek Bible is the story of Mary's conception of Jesus. ... In the Greek Bible's recasting of the well motif, the connection with the Hebrew Bible's motif is made explicit first through the fact that "Jacob's well was there" (John 4:6) and then through Jesus' request to the Samaritan woman that she "Give me [Jesus] a drink'" (John 4:7) which echoes Abraham's servant's request to Rebekah: "Please let me sip a little water from your jar'" (Genesis 24:17). ... However, it is at this point that the Greek Bi...

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