Found 62 Results for: Jewish traditions

  • that time in Babylonia when in the battle with the Galatians the Jewish combatants numbered only eight thousand, with four thousand Macedonians, yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand had destroyed a hundred and twenty thousand, thanks to the help they had received from Heaven, and had taken great booty as a result. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)

  • They also decreed by public edict, ratified by vote, that the whole Jewish nation should celebrate those same days every year. (2 Maccabees 10, 8)

  • Here is the text of the letter Lysias wrote to the Jews: 'Lysias to the Jewish people, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 16)

  • The king's letter to the Jewish nation was in these terms: 'King Antiochus to the Jewish Senate and the rest of the Jews, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 27)

  • The king, having had a taste of Jewish daring, now tried to capture their positions by trickery. (2 Maccabees 13, 18)

  • but Rhodocus, of the Jewish army, supplied the enemy with secret information; the man was identified, arrested, and dealt with. (2 Maccabees 13, 21)

  • What he had seen was this: Onias, the former high priest, that paragon of men, modest of bearing and gentle of manners, suitably eloquent and trained from boyhood in the practice of every virtue -- Onias was stretching out his hands and praying for the whole Jewish community. (2 Maccabees 15, 12)

  • You put aside the commandment of God to observe human traditions.' (Mark 7, 8)

  • Having heard about Jesus he sent some Jewish elders to him to ask him to come and heal his servant. (Luke 7, 3)

  • He had not consented to what the others had planned and carried out. He came from Arimathaea, a Jewish town, and he lived in the hope of seeing the kingdom of God. (Luke 23, 51)

  • When the time of the Jewish Passover was near Jesus went up to Jerusalem, (John 2, 13)

  • After this there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. (John 5, 1)


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