Vocabulary - Part 1
- a writer of any of the four Gospels
Who are evangelists?
- one of the first four New Testament books telling of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ
What are the Gospels?
- a specialist in the study of religious faith, practice, and experience
Who is a theologian?
- the four Gospels
What are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
- this is who appears to Zechariah
Who is Archangel Gabriel?
- logically ordered by having clarity
What is coherent?
- presenting the same view, often relating to the first three Gospels of the New Testament
What is Synoptic?
- a large or massive structure
What is edifice?
- this Gospel is strikingly different and contains a great deal of information found nowhere else
What is John?
- the name Elizabeth will give her son
What is John?
- deeply affecting, designed to make an impression
What is poignant?
- one that comes before, indicates the approach of another
What is forerunner?
- characterized by rudeness
What is impertinent?
- single coherent narratives of the whole story of Jesus
What are Harmonies?
- Archangel Gabriel renders this punishment on Zechariah
What is renders him mute?
- to bring about the beginning of
What is inaugurate?
- the act of being hidden from view
What is seclusion?
- to a high degree
What is eminently?
- had the notion that his harmonized version should be read in place of the Gospels
Who is Tatian?
- two places that were not considered significant to Jews at the time
What are Nazareth and Galilee?
- to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort
What is ingratiate?
- having or showing a tendency to make oneself modestly or shyly inconspicuous
What is self-effacing?
- practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline
What is ascetical?
- because of this, many important passages were left out of the book
What is "limitation of space?"
- name of the town near Jerusalem where Zechariah and Elizabeth lived
What is Ein Kerem?