This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘Surely I am coming soon.’ The Bible’s penultimate verse, prophesying the return of Jesus Christ, has always ...

And especially once you come to Jerusalem, and we have Jesus confronting the priests of Jerusalem and the cleansing of the Temple scene, it's hard to figure out exactly what all of this means.

So, what does he do? ...In the third chapter of his gospel, he presents Jesus as coming to John the Baptist and then he says, "later John was put into prison." ... So, we get a notice that John ...

He and his three companions were called magi and one account notes that they “did not return by the route followed in coming.” Matthew may have reworked this incident in order to assert narratively ...

Mary ran off to tell all of Jesus's friends that he'd come back to life. For many days afterwards Jesus met with Mary and his friends, he talked with them and ate with them, and taught them lots ...