Category: Jesus’ Life
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Jesus:- “If Any Man would Come after Me”
Jesus’ Life: Chapter 9 – The Way To The Cross If you were told that a friend would suffer a torturous death, how would you react? After Jesus rebuked Simon Peter for suggesting that his passion and death must not be allowed to happen, He turned to his disciples and said, “If anyone wants to…
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Jesus Foretells His Passion
Jesus’ Life: Chapter 9 – The Way To The Cross When you love someone and have promised your life to them, parting is heartbreaking. Jesus told his disciples that he would suffer many things, be rejected by the Jewish leaders, killed but in three days rise again. Simon Peter, thinking as we might in friendship…
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Peter’s Confession to Jesus at Caesarea Philippi
Jesus’ Life: Chapter 9 – The Way To The Cross The disciples spent much of their time listening to Jesus teach and preach. They also watched him perform numerous miracles including, raising the dead back to life. When Jesus asked the disciples who the people said he was, their answers ranged from the Prophet Elijah…
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Many Disciples Take Offence At Jesus
Jesus’ Life: Chapter 9 – The Way To The Cross When Jesus first said, “I am the bread of life… I have come down from heaven…If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh…” many of his followers left…
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Jesus Heals A Blind Man At Bethsaida
Jesus’ Life: Chapter 8 – Jesus’ Ministry In Galilee (Part 3) When Jesus arrived at Bethsaida, people brought a blind man to Him. Jesus took the man and led him outside the village, probably to avoid a crowd or the attention of the Pharisees. He then performed a two-stage healing. Firstly, he rubbed spit on the…
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Jesus Warns Of The Yeast Of The Pharisees
Jesus’ Life: Chapter 8 – Jesus’ Ministry In Galilee (Part 3) Some Pharisees and Herod wanted to find fault with Jesus. Perhaps it was their own insecurity that drove them to do so! Jesus was aware of their thoughts and warned his disciples about their intentions saying, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and…
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Jesus Feeds Four Thousand
Jesus’ Life: Chapter 8 – Jesus’ Ministry In Galilee (Part 3) Once, a crowd of around four-thousand people, excluding women and children, stayed with Jesus for three days listening to him preach and teach. By then their food reserves were exhausted. Not wanting to send the people away hungry, Jesus “had compassion on them” and…
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Jesus Heals A Deaf Mute
Jesus’ Life: Chapter 8 – Jesus’ Ministry In Galilee (Part 3) Doing something good, gets noticed. But sometimes, not being noticed, is preferred! When Jesus was asked to help a deaf man with speech difficulties, he took him aside, so people might not notice. Then putting his fingers in the man’s ears and touching his…
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Jesus Shows Mercy To A Canaanite Woman
Jesus’ Life: Chapter 8 – Jesus’ Ministry In Galilee (Part 3) Have you ever been relentlessly followed by a persistent vendor, beggar or someone who simply wouldn’t take, “NO”, for an answer? Jesus was! But, it was begging of a different kind. It was a woman from Canaan who saw Jesus and begged Him to…
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Jesus Explains What Defiles A Person
Jesus’ Life: Chapter 8 – Jesus’ Ministry In Galilee (Part 3) What qualities would you like to see in your best friends? How about openness and honesty? Then they could tell you all your faults, in great detail. Would you like that? Hmm… perhaps not in every little detail, I hear you say; everyone still…