Sentence examples for appearance of jesus from inspiring English sources

The period preceding the appearance of Jesus was filled with uprisings in which new messianic personalities appeared and claimed for themselves and their struggles for liberation the miraculous powers of the Kingdom of God.

Christian eschatological expectations, for their part, were joined with the messianic promises, which underwent a decisive transformation and differentiation in late Judaism, especially in the two centuries just before the appearance of Jesus.

The New Testament gives no description of the physical appearance of Jesus before his death it is generally indifferent to racial appearances and does not refer to the features of the people it mentions.

The Acts of the Apostles describes several appearances of Jesus in visions after his Ascension.

Theirs was a resurrection faith that clearly had nothing to do with "bodily" appearances of Jesus at the tomb but like Paul's, a vision of the glorified Christ.

According to this tradition Peter and the rest of the disciples spent the Passover week, which lasted eight days, in Jerusalem with no appearances of Jesus and no resurrection faith.

And the finale is a religious appeal, culminating with the appearance of a Jesus character.

Its page depicting the appearance of Jesus Christ's name in Matthew 1 18 is called the "Chi-Rho page".

"The appearance of the name "Jesus" on the nameplate of a Broncos no. 15 jersey clearly continues -- escalates, really -- the ongoing deification of Tim Tebow," wrote Tom Krattenmaker, author of Onward Christian Athletes in an email to The Huffington Post.

With its social covenantism, the Peace of God was the first successful postmillennial movement, meaning that for the first time adherents believed that the dramatic improvement of the world could come about not only as a result of Jesus' appearance but through the work of good people.

Distinctive features include a Christology characterized by the belief that the Holy Spirit is Jesus' Divine Mother and a first resurrection appearance to James, the brother of Jesus, showing a high regard for James as the leader of the Jewish Christian church in Jerusalem.