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The Hanged Man's House, Cézanne, 1873. The Parable of the strong man (also known as the parable of the burglar and the parable of the powerful man) is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matt 12:29, Mark 3:27, and Luke 11:21–22, and also in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas where it is known as logion 35 [ 1]
David's Mighty Warriors (also known as David's Mighty Men or the Gibborim; Hebrew: הַגִּבֹּרִ֛ים, romanized : hagGībōrīm, lit. 'the Mighty') are a group of 37 men in the Hebrew Bible who fought with King David and are identified in 2 Samuel 23:8–38, part of the "supplementary information" added to the Second Book of Samuel in ...
Samson. Samson ( / ˈsæmsən /; Hebrew: שִׁמְשׁוֹן Šīmšōn "man of the sun") [ 1][ a] was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last leaders who "judged" Israel before the institution of the monarchy. He is sometimes considered as an Israelite version of ...
James, son of Zebedee. John, son of Zebedee. Philip. Bartholomew also known as "Nathanael". Thomas also known as "Doubting Thomas". Matthew also known as "Levi". James, son of Alphaeus. Judas, son of James (a.k.a. Thaddeus or Lebbaeus) Simon the Zealot.
Goliath. David and Goliath, a color lithograph by Osmar Schindler (c. 1888) Goliath ( / ɡəˈlaɪəθ / gə-LY-əth) [ a] is a Philistine warrior in the Book of Samuel. Descriptions of Goliath's immense stature vary among biblical sources, with the Masoretic Text describing him as 9 feet 9 inches (2.97 m) tall. [ 1]
Gideon ( / ˈɡɪdiən /; Hebrew: גִּדְעוֹן, Modern: Gīdʿōn, Tiberian: Gīḏəʿōn) also named Jerubbaal[ a] and Jerubbesheth, [ b][ 1] was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites are recounted in Judges 6–8 of the Book of Judges in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible .
The weapons of the devil are fraud and deceit, through which he leads people to sin. Other weapons are wealth, honors, riches. His goods are the souls of sinners, and the bodies of the possessed; in addition to the souls of those detained in Limbo before Christ. All of these Christ took from the devil, and bound him in hell.
Jesus teaching in the Temple, illustration from Standard Bible Story Readers, 1928. Since 1980, scholars have debated the translation and modern relevance of New Testament texts on homosexuality. [ 1] Three distinct passages ( Romans 1:26–27, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (repeated in 1 Timothy 1:9–10) and Jude 1:7) have been taken to condemn same ...