According to this Gnostic Gospel, it is Peter who asks Mary to “tell ... but by the third century she had become fully ...

Of the four gospels in the Biblical canon, the Gospel of Mark is the shortest by a significant margin. The writer of John had ...

On April 16 this year, the Orthodox Church marks Holy Wednesday, a day that recalls the betrayal of Jesus Christ by Judas ...

The Gospel accounts of the “two kingdoms” represented in Jesus and Caesar seem strikingly contemporary here and now.

Luke sets the scene of Jesus' birth in its political context by mentioning various rulers and places at the time (2:1-4). Luke's gospel begins with dramatic appearances of the angel Gabriel to ...

Like many of his contemporaries - including Jesus - the gospel author Luke was deeply familiar with narratives in the Hebrew ...

Jesus is the only religious leader who has risen from the dead. Each year we celebrate this truth on Resurrection Sunday ...

This Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Lent 5 in Year C takes a break from our reading of Luke's gospel to focus on the ...