item: #1 of 22 id: 12821 author: Moore, George title: The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story date: None words: 173567 flesch: 74 summary: And on his arrival in Jerusalem Joseph stood for a moment before his camel thanking the beast for his great, rocking stride, which has given me, he said, respite from thinking for two whole days and part of two nights. Leave Jesus in peace to-night to pray, meditate, and rest, for he needs rest. keywords: answer; azariah; brethren; dan; day; days; dead; death; end; esora; essenes; eyes; face; father; flock; god; good; hand; having; hazael; hills; house; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; joseph; law; leave; left; life; lord jesus; love; man; master; mathias; men; mind; moment; night; paul; peter; pilate; return; saying; shepherd; son; speak; story; thee; things; thinking; thou; thought; thy; time; way; words; world; years cache: 12821.txt plain text: 12821.txt item: #2 of 22 id: 13433 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays, by the Author of "Supernatural religion" date: None words: 60267 flesch: 64 summary: [49:1] I regret very much that some ambiguity in my language (_S.R._ i. p. 483) should have misled, and given Dr. Lightfoot much trouble. [10:3] _S.R._ ii. keywords: antioch; argument; case; contemporary; date; diatessaron; divine; epistles; eusebius; evidence; fact; gospel; greek; i. p.; ibid; ignatian; ignatius; john; lightfoot; martyrdom; miracles; note; papias; passage; place; point; question; references; review; rome; second; statement; tatian; testimony; time; version; westcott; words; work; writers; | | cache: 13433.txt plain text: 13433.txt item: #3 of 22 id: 1582 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament date: None words: 220542 flesch: 91 summary: And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. And many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 8:12. keywords: behold; body; brethren; cast; chapter; children; church; city; come; day; days; dead; death; disciples; earth; evil; faith; father; flesh; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; great; hand; hath; hear; heaven; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jesus saith; jews; john; kingdom; know; law; life; like; lord; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; men; paul; people; peter; place; power; saying; sin; son; speak; spirit; temple; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; way; words; world cache: 1582.txt plain text: 1582.txt item: #4 of 22 id: 17163 author: Anonymous title: Mother Stories from the New Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the New Testament that Mothers can tell their Children date: None words: 14599 flesch: 85 summary: Of course, there were good men among them; St. Matthew was a tax-gatherer before Jesus called him to follow Him. The birth of Jesus Christ was announced by two remarkable events: the coming of wise men from the East, and the appearance of angels to some shepherds at Bethlehem. keywords: christ; day; disciples; god; good; illustration; jesus; lord; man; men; people; thou cache: 17163.txt plain text: 17163.txt item: #5 of 22 id: 2145 author: Wallace, Lew title: Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ date: None words: 201168 flesch: 82 summary: The scene Ben-Hur beheld is the same now, except as respects the city. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace to THE WIFE OF MY YOUTH who still abides with me BOOK FIRST CHAPTER I The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a likeness to a caterpillar crawling from the south to the north. keywords: amrah; answer; arrius; away; balthasar; ben; chapter; child; city; close; coming; day; dead; desert; door; earth; east; egyptian; end; esther; eyes; face; faith; father; find; friend; gate; god; gods; going; good; great; hand; head; heart; help; horses; house; hur; ilderim; israel; jerusalem; jew; judah; king; know; left; let; life; like; little; look; lord; lost; love; malluch; man; master; men; messala; mind; moment; mother; nazarene; night; people; place; rest; roman; rome; saw; saying; sea; servant; set; sheik; simonides; son; spirit; sun; tell; temple; thee; things; think; thou; thought; thy; time; tirzah; tribune; voice; waiting; water; way; white; words; world; years cache: 2145.txt plain text: 2145.txt item: #6 of 22 id: 22459 author: Pullan, Leighton title: The Books of the New Testament date: None words: 101049 flesch: 72 summary: Perhaps we may account for it by accepting Renan's suggestion that St. Peter, St. John, and St. Paul were in Rome together. v. 1 speaks of himself as a presbyter, as St. John does in 2 John 1 and 3 John 1 (compare also 1 Tim. iv. 14, where St. Paul reckons himself as a member of the presbytery). keywords: a.d; acts; apostle; author; book; century; christ; christians; church; date; death; doctrine; epistle; evidence; fact; find; god; gospel; greek; iii; james; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; law; letter; life; lord; luke; man; mark; matt; paul; peter; revelation; rome; second; sidenote; teaching; testament; time; words; work; writer cache: 22459.txt plain text: 22459.txt item: #7 of 22 id: 25901 author: None title: The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses. date: None words: 177512 flesch: 83 summary: [12:3]I assure you, therefore, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus an accursed thing, and no one can call Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. [16:7]And I heard the altar say, Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. keywords: account; behold; body; brothers; cast; chapter; chief; children; city; coming; day; days; dead; death; disciples; earth; evil; faith; father; flesh; glory; god; good; grace; great; hand; hear; heaven; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; kingdom; law; life; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; men; multitude; paul; people; peter; place; power; saying; seeing; servant; sin; son; speak; spirit; temple; things; time; truth; voice; woman; word; works cache: 25901.txt plain text: 25901.txt item: #8 of 22 id: 25904 author: Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) title: John the Baptist date: None words: 62381 flesch: 73 summary: He waits to empower us to witness for Jesus, to endure the persecution and trial which are inevitable to the exercise of a God-given ministry, and to bring other men to God. ISRAEL: A Prince with God. keywords: baptist; christ; day; days; dead; death; disciples; elijah; faith; father; fire; forth; glory; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; herod; holy; jesus; john; king; kingdom; life; light; lord; man; men; ministry; nature; people; power; prophet; repentance; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; voice; way; words; work; world; years cache: 25904.txt plain text: 25904.txt item: #9 of 22 id: 26361 author: None title: The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union. date: None words: 180150 flesch: 82 summary: (3)And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God the Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of the nations. (7)And I heard, out of the altar, one saying[16:7]: Even so, Lord God the Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. keywords: body; brethren; brother; cast; christ; city; coming; day; days; dead; death; disciples; earth; evil; faith; father; flesh; glory; god; good; hand; hear; heaven; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; kingdom; law; life; lord; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; men; multitude; paul; people; peter; power; saying; says; shall; son; speak; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; works; world cache: 26361.txt plain text: 26361.txt item: #10 of 22 id: 29566 author: Burrell, David James title: The Centurion's Story date: None words: 3297 flesch: 80 summary: In the faith of that promise I have seen men and women die with the light of heaven on their faces, heroic amid the flames, triumphant before the lion's eyes. I had been ordered to take charge of the execution of a malefactor who had just been sentenced to death. keywords: cross; day; death; god; man; son cache: 29566.txt plain text: 29566.txt item: #11 of 22 id: 31829 author: Haweis, Thomas title: A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek Humbly Attempted with a View to Assist the Unlearned with Clearer and More Explicit Views of the Mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures of Truth date: None words: 185613 flesch: 78 summary: (58)And Jesus Said to him, The foxes have holts, and the birds of the air, nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. (10)And as they looked up earnestly into the heaven, while he was passing, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; (11)who also said to them, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? keywords: believe; body; brethren; brother; cast; chap; children; city; coming; day; days; dead; death; disciples; earth; father; flesh; forth; glory; god; going; good; gospel; grace; hand; hast; hath; hear; heaven; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; kingdom; know; law; life; lord; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; men; multitude; pass; paul; people; person; peter; power; saith; saw; saying; sin; son; spake; speak; spirit; temple; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; world cache: 31829.txt plain text: 31829.txt item: #12 of 22 id: 37231 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 1 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 141147 flesch: 55 summary: If we proceed to examine Paley's simple case a little more closely, however, we find that not only is it utterly inadmissible as a hypothesis, but that as an illustration of the case of Gospel miracles it is completely devoid of relevancy and argumentative force. It is clear that, this large class of Gospel miracles being due to the superstition of an ignorant and credulous age, the insufficiency of the evidence for any of the other supposed miraculous occurrences narrated in the same documents becomes at once apparent. keywords: "(1; "(2; account; angels; apostles; argument; belief; canonical; case; character; christianity; church; course; critics; demons; divine; doubt; epistles; eusebius; evidence; existence; fact; form; god; gospel; gospel miracles; greek; hand; ignatius; instance; jesus; justin; knowledge; language; law; laws; life; lightfoot; lord; luke; man; mark; matthew; memoirs; miracles; miraculous; mozley; nature; order; papias; passage; peter; place; point; power; present; question; quotation; quotes; reality; reason; revelation; second; source; spirit; statement; states; testament; testimony; text; time; tradition; truth; version; words; work; writers cache: 37231.txt plain text: 37231.txt item: #13 of 22 id: 37232 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 2 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 117798 flesch: 59 summary: They assign to the Homilies an origin at different dates within a period commencing about the middle of the second century, and extending to a century later.2 In the Homilies there are very numerous quotations {6} of sayings of Jesus and of Gospel history, which are generally placed in the mouth of Peter, or introduced with such formulae as: The teacher said, Jesus said, He said, The prophet said, but in no case does the author name the source from which these sayings and quotations are derived. We need not do more than remark that there is not a single quotation in the fragment, and that there is not a single one of the references to Gospel history or to ecclesiastical dogmas which might not have been derived from the Epistles of Paul, from any of the forms of the Gospel according to the Hebrews, the Protevangelium of James, or from many another apocryphal Gospel, or the oral teaching of the Church. keywords: apocalypse; apostle; author; canon; canonical; case; century; character; christ; church; date; disciples; doctrine; epistle; evidence; fact; father; fourth; god; gospel; irenæus; jesus; john; justin; life; logos; lord; luke; man; marcion; passage; paul; peter; place; point; quotation; reason; reference; says; second; son; spirit; statement; synoptics; tatian; testament; testimony; text; things; time; tischendorf; use; valentinus; way; westcott; word; work; writer; writings cache: 37232.txt plain text: 37232.txt item: #14 of 22 id: 37233 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 147972 flesch: 59 summary: It is maintained that the desire to equalise the sufferings of the two Apostles in the cause of the Gospel, as he has equalised their miraculous displays, probably led the Author to omit all mention of those {72} perils and persecutions to which the Apostle Paul refers in support of his protest, that he had laboured and suffered more than all the rest.(1) If Paul was called by a vision to the ministry of the Gentiles,(2) The statements of the Apostle Paul leave no doubt that persecution against the Christians of Jerusalem must have broken out previous to his conversion, but no details are given, and it can scarcely be considered otherwise than extraordinary, that Paul should not in any of his own writings have referred to the proto-martyr of the Christian Church, if the account which is given of him be historical. keywords: account; acts; apostle paul; apostles; author; belief; case; character; christian; church; circumcision; course; critics; death; disciples; epistle; evidence; fact; form; gentiles; god; gospel; hand; holy; james; jerusalem; jesus; jews; law; lord; luke; man; miracles; miraculous; narrative; nature; passage; paul; peter; place; point; present; question; resurrection; second; speech; spirit; statement; time; tongues; unto; use; vision; visit; words; work; writer cache: 37233.txt plain text: 37233.txt item: #15 of 22 id: 38376 author: Reber, George title: The Christ of Paul; Or, The Enigmas of Christianity date: None words: 75507 flesch: 73 summary: It set forth some of the most astounding events in the history of the world, and which the world heard of for the _first time_. The church at Rome, founded by such great lights as Peter and Paul, Irenæus continues, should be regarded of the highest authority in the church, for, he says, it is a matter of necessity that every church should agree with _this_ church, on account of its pre-eminent authority, that is, the faithful everywhere, inasmuch as the apostolical tradition has been preserved continuously by those faithful men who exist everywhere. keywords: a.d; apostles; asia; bishop; book; century; chap; christ; christianity; christians; church; day; death; father; fourth; god; gospel; history; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; life; lord; man; mark; matthew; men; paul; people; peter; place; rome; second; son; spirit; subject; things; time; world; years cache: 38376.txt plain text: 38376.txt item: #16 of 22 id: 38557 author: Ross, Mary, Lady title: "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews. date: None words: 195852 flesch: 65 summary: And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, preaching the Gospel no doubt, though we hear nothing as to their success, they went to Thessalonica, an important city of Macedonia, and one in which many Jews resided; for there was a synagogue there. keywords: apostles; chief; children; christians; church; city; country; day; death; disciples; faith; god; good; gospel; great; having; herod; holy; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; king; law; life; lord; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; men; messiah; moses; paul; people; peter; place; power; religion; roman; rome; saying; sin; son; spake; spirit; temple; thee; things; thou; time; way; words; work; years cache: 38557.txt plain text: 38557.txt item: #17 of 22 id: 39288 author: Bacon, Benjamin Wisner title: The Making of the New Testament date: None words: 59436 flesch: 62 summary: He will see as the two great divisions of his subject, (1) the gospel _of_ Jesus, represented, as we are told, in the first beginnings of literary development by an Aramaic compilation of the Precepts of the Lord by the Apostle Matthew, circulating possibly even before the great Pauline Epistles among the Palestinian churches; (2) the gospel _about_ Jesus, interpreting the significance of His person and work as the culmination of redemption through the indwelling of God in men and among men belongs as much to the essence of Christianity as the gospel of love and faith proclaimed _by_ Jesus. keywords: 1st; 2nd; acts; apostle; apostolic; authority; christ; church; churches; doctrine; epistles; fact; faith; god; gospel; james; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; john; law; life; lord; luke; mark; matthew; new; paul; pauline; peter; resurrection; rome; second; son; spirit; story; time; tradition; work; world; writings cache: 39288.txt plain text: 39288.txt item: #18 of 22 id: 42984 author: Bentham, Jeremy title: Not Paul, But Jesus date: None words: 141752 flesch: 63 summary: _Partition Treaty_: _Paul_ for himself: _Peter_, _James_ and _John_ for the Apostles 228 1. _ For you yourselves, says he, know this perfectly; that is, in so far as they could know from _his telling_: this being, in this instance, the only source,--of that _delusion_, to which he gave the name of _knowledge_. keywords: account; acts; ananias; antioch; apostles; author; barnabas; brethren; case; chapter; character; christ; church; conversion; course; damascus; days; disciples; effect; elders; evidence; eyes; gentiles; god; gospel; hands; having; historian; history; information; james; jerusalem; jesus; jews; law; light; lord; man; matter; men; mention; miracle; nature; number; occasion; paul; person; peter; place; power; present; purpose; question; religion; section; sort; story; thee; things; thou; time; use; view; vision; visit; way; word; years cache: 42984.txt plain text: 42984.txt item: #19 of 22 id: 43685 author: Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham) title: The Literature and History of New Testament Times date: None words: 113068 flesch: 72 summary: Upon that marvelous act of God Paul bases the whole of his life work. About other things there was debate, but about the person of Christ Paul appears in harmony even with his opponents. keywords: acts; age; apostles; author; bible; book; christ; christian; christianity; church; cor; day; death; epistle; example; fact; faith; god; gospel; great; greek; history; holy; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; language; law; lesson; life; lord; luke; man; means; paul; peter; place; power; roman; second; spirit; teaching; testament; things; time; way; work; world cache: 43685.txt plain text: 43685.txt item: #20 of 22 id: 45540 author: Drews, Arthur title: The Christ Myth date: None words: 94596 flesch: 63 summary: Nevertheless Smith has succeeded in his book, The Pre-Christian Jesus, in showing clear evidences even in the New Testament of a cult of an old God Jesus. And now let us enter into the condition of the soul of such an unhappy one, who as God man suffers death upon the gibbet, and we understand the words of the 22nd Psalm: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? keywords: account; agni; birth; century; christ; christian; christianity; cit; conception; cross; day; death; des; die; divine; earth; existence; fact; faith; father; fire; form; god; god jesus; gods; gospels; heaven; history; human; idea; individual; jesus; jesus christ; jewish; jews; king; life; light; lord; man; man jesus; mark; men; messiah; myth; nature; new; paul; people; personality; place; point; present; redemption; religion; sacrifice; sense; son; spirit; sqq; story; sun; testament; theology; thought; time; view; way; words; work; world cache: 45540.txt plain text: 45540.txt item: #21 of 22 id: 8566 author: Kent, Charles Foster title: The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament date: None words: 50404 flesch: 60 summary: In the Hebrew text it still remains as the designation of the first group of Old Testament books which contain the bulk of Israel's laws. Now the events and characters of Old Testament history no longer stand alone in mysterious isolation, but we can study in detail their setting and real significance. keywords: authority; bible; books; church; day; divine; fact; form; god; great; hebrew; history; israel; jehovah; laws; life; literature; man; narratives; people; present; priestly; prophetic; prophets; proverbs; race; revelation; sidenote; study; teachings; testament; testament books; time; traditions; truth; work; writings cache: 8566.txt plain text: 8566.txt item: #22 of 22 id: 8827 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Preface and Introductions date: None words: 9766 flesch: 62 summary: The first was written by the Apostle Paul, probably in the early spring of 56 A.D., just before he left Ephesus for Troas in the course of his third missionary tour (Ac 19). The latest research tends to put 'Galatians' first, and 'Romans' last, in the period between 53 and 58 A. D. The date generally assigned to the Roman Letter is 58 A.D., but recently Harnack, McGiffert, Clemen and others have shown cause for putting it some four years earlier. keywords: a.d; apostle; book; church; date; english; gospel; greek; letter; new; paul; testament; translation cache: 8827.txt plain text: 8827.txt