Jordan is planning a major development at the historic Baptism site of Al Maghtas, aiming to transform the area into a ...

The star-studded new kids’ movie “The King of Kings” cleverly tells the story of the gospels with a creative framing device.

Christ's Baptism 1223 All the Old Covenant prefigurations find their fulfillment in Christ Jesus. He begins his public life after having himself baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan.

Of the four gospels in the Biblical canon, the Gospel of Mark is the shortest by a significant margin. The writer of John had ...

Since the Bible isn’t written as a screenplay, the animated movie THE KING OF KINGS uses a device to make the story of Jesus ...

Palm Sunday is fast approaching. Between it and Easter, Jesus is asked several times if he was the Messiah? In Luke 7:18-23, two disciples of John the Baptist come to ...

John the Baptist, who looks all of 10 or 11 years old himself, carries a basin of water toward Jesus for washing the wound. The injury clearly foreshadows crucifixion, just as the water bowl ...

5). In short, spiritual rebirth comes through baptism. In Jesus’s own baptism by John, we see water, Spirit, and sonship joined together. We ourselves are baptized not only in obedience to Jesus ...

91 The descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism by John was the sign that this was he who was to come, the Messiah, the Son of God. 92 He was conceived of the Holy Spirit; his whole life ...

Jesus’s experience struggling in the wilderness after his baptism is at the root of ... Luke 3 indicates that Jesus listened to John the Baptist, who reminded Jesus of the prominence of Isaiah ...