Posts Tagged: Hebrew Bible

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Be watchful to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Veer neither to the right or the left in order that you might succeed in every way you shall go. This book of the law of Moses shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night so that you might observe to do according… Read more »

Adam and the First Garden

Where in the Bible is Resurrection

Recalling Adam and the first garden, with its two trees of death and life in the midst (Gen 2:9), the evangelist poetically places Jesus’ cross in the midst (John 19:18) of his account of the Garden of Gethsemane (John 18:1) and the Garden Tomb (John 19:41). It is upon the cross, then, that John presents Jesus as the new Adam, whose own tree of cursing… Read more »

The Eschatological Third Day in Christ’s Gospel

Where in the Bible is Resurrection

The prominence of the “third day” in the Lord’s eschatological expectation is widely attested in the gospels. Jesus almost always associates his resurrection with the third day, and he begins by announcing the third day as the day of his triumph when he addresses the scribes and Pharisees about the prophetic significance of Jonah’s three days and nights in the belly of the great fish… Read more »