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Chapter 36 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Jesus | A man that lived from about 6 B.C.E. to 27 C.E. and opon Whose life and teachings Christianity is based on. Christians refer to him as Jesus Christ. |
Gospels | An account of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. |
Crucify | The Romans way of executing people. |
Judea | Judea was the Birth place of Jesus Christ. |
Prefect | A high official in ancient Rome. |
New Testament | The four gospels make up the new testament. |
Blasphemy | the act or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things. |
Missionary | Someone who tries to persuade others to in his or her religious teachings. |
Messiah | Often the gospels relate events in Jesus life to prophecies about the Messiah. |
Resurrect | On Sunday, the Gospels say, Jesus rose from the dead. His followers call this event the Resurrection. |
Parable | a simple story that explains a moral or Religious lesson. |
Disciple | Early on, Jesus called a small number of people to be his followers or disciples. |
Constantine | Constantine was an emperor of Rome and the night before a battle Constantine had a dream about Jesus Christ. The next day he had a vision of a cross hanging in the sky in front of the sun. Around the cross were the words, In this sign you will conquer. |