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3 min readThe Last Supper: This Is My Body
Luke
The night before his arrest, Jesus ate the Passover meal with his twelve disciples and turned the ancient ritual into something new. Paul's account of that meal predates all four Gospels.
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Luke
The night before his arrest, Jesus ate the Passover meal with his twelve disciples and turned the ancient ritual into something new. Paul's account of that meal predates all four Gospels.
Luke
Gabriel came to a teenage girl in Nazareth with news that would change everything. Her answer — just six words in Greek — became the foundation of Christian theology of grace.
Matthew
A master gave three servants large sums of money and went away. Two invested and doubled the amount. One buried it. The third servant thought he was being safe.
John
She came to the tomb while it was still dark and found it empty. She stood weeping outside, and she did not recognize him until he said her name.
Revelation
A woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and twelve stars as her crown — in labor, pursued by a seven-headed dragon. This is the Book of Revelation's most contested vision.
Acts of the Apostles
The man who was supervising the execution of Christians was on his way to arrest more of them when he was thrown to the ground by a light brighter than the sun.
Acts of the Apostles
At the harvest festival fifty days after Passover, something happened in an upper room in Jerusalem that the early church understood as the reversal of Babel.
Luke
Two disciples walked seven miles to Emmaus with a stranger who explained all the scriptures to them. They only recognized him when he broke bread.
Mark
He was mocked, he was abandoned, he was crucified. At the moment of greatest darkness, he quoted a psalm that begins in desolation and ends in vindication.
John
When Jesus arrived, Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days. Martha said: Lord, by now there will be a stench.
Matthew
Jesus sat down on a hillside and began to describe a kingdom where everything the world values is reversed — and the people the world overlooks are the inheritors of everything.
Luke
The younger son wasted everything his father gave him, then came home rehearsing a speech. He never got to finish it.
Matthew
After his baptism, Jesus went into the wilderness for forty days without food. Then the tempter came with three very reasonable offers.
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