Without naming each other directly, Vice President JD Vance and Pope Francis took opposing sides in a debate about ...

This book opens with the lines, "These are the secret words which the living Jesus spoke, and the twin, Didymos Judas Thomas wrote them down." Then there follows a list of the sayings of Jesus.

When I taught Bible Classes at St. John Lutheran Church in Palmer, Alaska, I sometimes referenced two books. One of those ...

But, into this common narrative outline, Matthew and Luke each insert extra sayings and teachings of Jesus. And although Matthew and Luke do not put these sayings in the same order, nevertheless ...

Jesus may have been an excellent carpenter. Or maybe he wasn’t. It’s possible that he made perfectly level tables but wobbly chairs. Or, if he was a stone mason, which the Greek word translated as ...

Words matter, so determining where words come from seems to matter as well, at least according to Jesus. The Pharisees were more than uncomfortable with the words of Jesus; they had become hostile to ...

The Bible: Jesus Christ Written in Words is a profound and inspiring book that deepens our understanding of scripture. It presents the Bible not just as a collection of ancient writings ...

Sinai in the book of Exodus. Many scholars accept the Two-Source Theory, that Matthew and Luke used the gospel of Mark and a hypothetical collection of Jesus' sayings called Q as sources.

They spoke of the mysterious way to finding enlightenment through understanding the hidden meanings in Jesus’ words. One possible reason they were not included in the emerging New Testament is ...