As Jesus healed people and delivered people from various illnesses, death and demons…what else was happening? Jesus gave hope and health, changing people’s lives for the better…greatly affecting their lives. Jesus fulfilled prophecy. Jesus answered the crucial question of John the Baptist with His actions of healing. Jesus gave encouragement to all who were […]

   Imprisoned John the Baptist had a question which only Jesus could answer.  So John sent some of his followers to Jesus with an important question: “Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?”   If Jesus had given them an answer He could have been lying or trying to deceive […]

   Imprisoned John the Baptist had a question which only Jesus could answer.  So John sent two of his disciples (followers) to Jesus. [Do you do that, asking Jesus for an answer to your question(s)? Then reading the Holy Bible and listening to Biblically-based teaching for the answer(s)?] (NASB) Luke 7:20 “When the men came […]

   John the Baptist was imprisoned for exposing King Herod’s taking the wife of his brother and marrying her and other wicked things the king had done.  John heard from his followers about Jesus and what He had been doing.  (Luke 7:18)   What had Jesus been doing?  Among many things Jesus had healed a […]

Ephesians 3:14-19 Paraphrased Because as a follower of Christ I have faith in Him and I am to bow my knees before God the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named: ‘I pray that You will grant me (according to the riches of Your glory) to be strengthened with power […]

   John was imprisoned!  For what reason was he in prison?  All because he had told the truth and had publicly reprimanded King Herod, the tetrarch of Israel.  King Herod had married his brother’s wife and had done other wicked things which John exposed; Herod locked up John the Baptist in prison — for telling […]

 Jesus met a widow’s need by raising her only son from the dead.   What was your need in the past?  Perhaps your need was to have Jesus as your Savior…to be forgiven of your sins and the guilt of your sins. How did Jesus meet your need?  How you came to have a saving […]

 Jesus raised a dead man (an only son) to life and gave him to his widowed mother. The twelve disciples of Jesus, along with a large crowd, were entering the gates to the city of Nain.  They met a sizeable funeral procession leaving the city.  With compassion Jesus approached the grieving mother and told her […]

 Many people do not know that they are dead, dead to God before they ask Jesus to be their Savior. Jesus speaks His words of life into individual hearts who respond to His voice of invitation.  Have you responded to Him? Jesus exhibited His power and His authority when He said to a dead man […]

   Why did Jesus tell a grief stricken mother “Do not weep”? Her son had died and this true circumstance of his funeral procession going out of the gate of the city is told.  Jesus is coming into the city with His twelve disciples and a large crowd was accompanying Him.  The two crowds meet, […]