Resurrection
Acts 24:15
He wasn't all that bad
And I have hope toward God, which hope these men also look forward to, that there is going to be a resurrection+ of both the righteous and the unrighteous
Genesis
Moses
A long sheet of parchment or papyrus, with writing on one side, which was usually rolled around a stick.
Scroll
Conquered Babylon 539 B.C.E
Medo-Persia
Mary put this amount of costly perfumed oil on Jesus feet.
A Pound
John 11:25--
Jesus Is...
Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life.+ The one who exercises faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life;
Esther
Mordecai
A prominent religious sect of Judaism made up of wealthy aristocrats and priests who wielded great authority over the activities at the temple. They rejected the many oral traditions observed by the Pharisees as well as other Pharisaic beliefs. Once dead always dead.
Sadducees
Can't agree on anything!
Anglo-America
The basic Hebrew unit of weight and of monetary value. The weight equaled 11.4 g (0.403 oz; 0.367 oz t).
Shekel
John 5:28
Wow are you a magician!?
Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice+
Lamentations
Jeremiah
The Jewish high court in Jerusalem. In Jesus’ day, it was made up of 71 members, including the high priest and others who had held the office of high priest, members of the high priestly families, elders, tribal and family heads, and scribes
Sanhedrin
The Gold Head
Babylon
Luke 19:13 Calling ten of his slaves, he gave them ten miʹnas which amounts to this many drachmas
1,000 Drachmas
1 Corinthians 15:32
Carpe that diem!
If the dead are not to be raised up, “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.”+
2 Samuel
Gad, Nathan
The heading at the beginning of a psalm that identifies the writer, gives background information, provides musical instructions, or indicates the use or purpose of the psalm.
Superscription
Destroyer of Jerusalem
Rome
A linear measure approximately equal to the distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little finger when the hand is spread out.
Span
John 11:43
Can you hear me?
When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Lazʹa·rus, come out!”
Job
Moses
The earliest translations of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, produced for the benefit of Greek-speaking Jews. Translation was begun in Egypt in the third century B.C.E. and was completed in the following century.
Septuagint
Copper
Greece
A dry measure capacity and the container itself, used for measuring grains. It was equal to a liquid bath measure, so it amounted to 22 L (20 dry qt)
Ephah