Verse 11 Essay

John 2:1-11 is the story of when Jesus performs one of his most famous miracles. During a wedding in Cana, Jesus turned water into wine. Jesus’s mother Mary was also in attendance to the wedding. The main story of this passage begins when Mary informs Jesus that they have run out of wine to serve. Jesus answers, “Women, what does you concern have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” However, a Jesus soon instructs some men to fill six water pots with water and serve the water to the guests. When the guests taste the water, they find that it has been turned into wine.

The word help appears 147 times in 140 verses in the New American Standard Bible (blueletterbible.org). In Hebrew, the word yĕshuw`ah, appears the most frequently in correspondence with verses about help. It used approximately 78 times in the Old

As the company of the LORD as shepherd is presented, it is then obvious that the followers of the LORD are His sheep. An exclusive attribute of sheep is that because of their structure it is almost impossible for them to be made to lie down unless the following necessities are satisfied: to be free of all types of fear, to be free of hostility with others, to be free from all nuisances, and to be free from hunger. As the end of verse one affirmed “I shall not want,” verse two shows that every obligation needed to be taken care of is met by the shepherd.

God created humans in his image, with his law embedded in our hearts. Therefore humans are the Image of God, and must live life according to his plans and purposes. His law was created for the wellbeing, peace and harmony of mankind. Living in his Image is very important; this would help each other to have a better life by not doing sinful acts like lying and stealing from each other. In the profession of Accounting living in an the Image of God allows me to provide an honest services, by providing financial reliable information for clients that then will make important decisions based on the information provided.

Hebrew poetry is used to express various things in the Bible. Hebrew poetry is used to “express emotion, facilitate worship, and to instruct in wisdom” (Hindson, 2012). God uses Hebrew poetry to teach us how we can better live our lives. Within Hebrews the terms laziness, diligence, folly and wisdom are utilized. God’s plan for us to apply some of these terms and to give terminology to the way we should be living against.

A passage/theme that interest me the idea of being alive in Christ. Ephesians 2:4-5 speak about this concept in great detail. I think that this idea of being made alive is very important because it helps to understand one’s identity in Christ. Ephesians speak of many things that relates to who we are in Christ and the spiritual benefits to being in Christ. It is important to me that we as Christians live out our lives as people who are alive in Christ and not like those who are spiritually dead, who live in disobedience to God and delight in the things of the world.

Even the armor without the pentangle had a religious importance in medieval literature because to be adorned in armor was to “be strengthened in the lord, in the might of his power … [and with] the armor of God that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil” (Green 126), which comes into play when Bertilak’s wife tries to seduce Gawain. In this instance Bertilak is representative of the devil and he is using his wife to test Gawain to see if he would commit sodomy and break his religious and knightly code. This scene is extremely important since he has been “divested of his armor, relived of his helmet, horse and his coat” (Ashton 60), basically everything physical that reminds him of his faith. However, even without his armor being a constant reminder of his faith and honor he proves he is truly faithful and chivalrous by turning down Bertilak’s wife.

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Adding to that idea in verse 12, it starts out with the phrase “in order that” that is a clear indicator of a purpose/result statement. If in verse 11, Paul has stated that Jews still belong, verse 12 tells us why. The pronoun “we” is used again in the first conditional clause of the sentence, is again referring to what Bruce states, “…we who first placed our hope in Christ” are Jewish believers, foundation members of the new community, the first fruits of the people of God in an age which Christ inaugurated by his death and resurrection” (264). If in verse 11 conveys that God’s chosen people are part of still part of His inheritance, then verse 12 is the assurance because they were the first to put their hope in Christ as part of that

Therefore, the imperative phrase “put off yourself” shows the concern of Paul for the spiritual life of the believer. Regarding to this phrase it has been debated the different insinuations that Paul could mean, this is why, Lincoln states that putting off and putting on can be understood as the clothing imagery, in fact, it has been asserted that this biblical idea originates from the practice of the removal of clothing before a person enters the water for baptism and the succeeding re-clothing in a new garment The writer gives a clear idea that this old man belongs to the old way of living a life that displease God for the lack of holiness. For all human beings, life involves a physical decline toward old age and death, but most important

When considering verse 6, the use of ἁρπαγμός is at the heart of the debate. ἁρπαγμός is the masculine, accusative, singular noun that can be translated as “robbery (KJV)” or “thing to be grasped (ESV)”. How it is translated is dependent largely upon two choices, active or passive voice and negative or positive connotation. When considering the active voice, one can look to the, nominative, masculine, singular relative pronoun ὃς which is linked to the present participle verb ὑπάρχων, which is also nominative, masculine and singular. Taken this way, the verb is active and the clause is casual, which means it can be translated as robbed or something to be grasped.

As a believer, apart from motivating and encouraging words from God, there is also warning which God has shown us in the obliviousness of equipping and perfecting ourselves toward totality in the armor of God. There is a prayer and lamenting of David teaching us the humanity of our side (some positive at time negative) which God come in flesh through Jesus Christ reaffirmed. God also set apart the testimony of good and bad, evil and wickedness practicality so we are able to understand the completeness of the old and new testament transitional order in forefathers' relevancy in daily life and encounter. In explanation, we learned to be strong in future through the experience of the past!

The parable in Matthew 22 is a profound teaching. It shows that the invitation to salvation is the same as receiving an invitation to the wedding of the Messiah. That is why the garment that the one man had on was such an irritation to the King. It was not so much what the man was wearing per se. It was a heart issue! The apostle John tells us the significance of wedding garments in Revelation 19. "And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings saying: Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. And to her it was granted to be

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet,

The empathy that Jesus held for mankind was never so well summarized in the bible as in John 11:35. Christ’s emotions were narrated very rarely in the Gospel. For the large part of his ministry Christ spent his time teaching instead of expressing his emotions. Christians have for years come to one of three conclusions about why Jesus wept. The first was that Christ (being human) was in fact emotionally disturbed by his friend’s death. Second that Christ mourned with his friends to comfort them. Or that Christ, was disturbed by his friends lack of faith in him. The first conclusion dethrones what philosophers (namely Augustine and Plato) for years have believed about death. The second conclusion portrays Christ as sympathetic, but