During this time, several people became his ... the Son of the living God. Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, the week before Passover, riding on a donkey. Great numbers of people took palm branches ...

Have you had some things happen recently that did not go as planned? My wife and I had a visit-the-family trip planned in ...

The parents of Jesus went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. And when the feast was ended, as they were returning ...

“During Jesus’ time, getting past 15 was apparently ... Following his arrival in Jerusalem for Passover, Jesus is brought before the high priest Caiaphas and charged with blasphemy and threats ...

In Jerusalem this would have meant thousands of lambs being slaughtered all at one time ... John's gospel has Jesus hanging on the cross while the lambs are being slaughtered for passover.

In those days Hannah conceived, and at the end of her term bore a son whom she called Samuel, since she had asked the Lord for him. The next time her husband Elkanah was going up with the rest of his ...

The menorah has seven branches, symbolizing those used only in the Second Temple, a holy place for Jews in Jerusalem that the Romans had destroyed in A.D. 70. By the time this oil lamp was crafted ...

The Jewish festival of Hannukah, which this year runs from 25 December to 2 January, actually has a lot in common with the ...

The appointed reading for the 1st Sunday of Christmas in many Christian places of worship is about an event when Jesus is 12 years old and is lost.

Standing in front of a small stone ossuary bearing the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus," Oded Golan ...

Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Church who lives "as a pilgrim and guest" (1 Pt. 2:11; Heb. 11:13) in the Holy Land,may the ...

Across faiths and across the globe, prominent individuals whose legacies are likely to continue to shape their ministries and ...