the Gospels

Well, the gospels urge us to succour the poor.

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Walk by the Latter-day Saints church on the Upper East Side of New York, and you will see only images of Jesus and scenes from the Gospels, even if the Mormon Jesus looks more corn-fed and burly than the gaunt, ascetic one in the Protestant church around the corner.

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Virtually every visible interior surface of this stone temple, save the floor, is devoted to sculpted representations of deities and mythical beings drawn from the gospels of the Jain sects.

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The second is, of course, the Shroud referred to in the Gospels.

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The reading of the account of the Lord's Passion, from the gospels, echoed in Roman Catholic churches around the world on Friday.

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The list also includes medieval treasures stolen by occupying allied soldiers after the war, such as a priceless 9th century manuscript of the Gospels which was only recently returned to Germany.

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The gospels are replete with stories of Jesus healing the sick, raising the dead, making the lame walk, restoring sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf.

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The Lindisfarne Gospels contain the oldest surviving translation of the Gospels into the English language and are in almost perfect condition.

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The Gospels, created by monks on Northumberland's Holy Island in AD700, in honour of St Cuthbert, are currently in the British Library.

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The Gospels were carried for 200 years around the region together with the body of St Cuthbert before reaching Durham in AD995, where they remained until the Reformation.

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The Gospels were carried 1, 000 miles around the region from Holy Island, with the body of St Cuthbert, for 200 years before reaching Durham Cathedral in AD995, where they remained until the Reformation.

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The 176-page volume, which comprises a brief foreword, four chapters and an epilogue, traces Jesus' life up to the age of 12, when, according to the Gospels, he was presented by his parents in the Temple in Jerusalem, the Vatican said.

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The "Good News" refers to the Gospels.

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Speaking of Jesus, a great deal of the Gospels is spent in recounting stories about his dealings with unwelcome and unwanted immigrants of one sort or another.

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Of all the stories passed down through the gospels, this one in particular speaks to me during this season.

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Neither the gospels of Mark (circulating around 75 AD) nor John (100-120AD ) have birth stories.

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Monsignor FRANK MANISCALCO (Head of Communications, U.S. Conference of Bishops): We can see in The Da Vinci Code much that simply misinterprets the origins of Christianity and takes, say, for example, second and third century writings by people who are not really in synch with the Christianity, the New Testament, and puts them on the same level as the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

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Lichfield Cathedral's exhibition will centre on three of its contents: the Anglo-Saxon treasures, the St Chad Gospels and the Lichfield Angel.

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It will be the first time since the 16th century that the jewelled cross, travelling altar and sapphire ring found in St Cuthbert's coffin are shown alongside the Gospels.

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It will be the first time since the 16th Century that the jewelled cross, travelling altar and sapphire ring found in St Cuthbert's coffin will be shown alongside the Gospels.

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In the Gospels, Saint Joseph appears as a strong and courageous man, a working man, yet in his heart we see great tenderness, which is not the virtue of the weak but rather a sign of strength of spirit and a capacity for concern, for compassion, for genuine openness to others, for love.

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In recent decades, with the discovery of the Gnostic gospels, we have been told once again that the Church silenced competing voices covered up the fact that some early Christian communities may have had far more stringent requirements than Rome, that they deplored the world, that they routinely had visions.

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In 1997 Cantelon published The Words, a compilation of Jesus' words taken from the four Gospels of the New Testament.

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From small differences in the four Gospels, they drew big conclusions.

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But while the book points out that the Gospels do not support the presence of animals at Jesus' birth -- a detail apparently added in later centuries -- the pope does not suggest they should be thrown out of the Nativity scene, Speciale said.

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But Henry VIII's battles with the church ended this semi-autonomy, and in 1537, partly to show that his writ was now unchallenged throughout England, his henchmen smashed open St Cuthbert's tomb and carried off the Gospels to London.

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As dusk fell, the Pope returned to Jerusalem where he visited the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives, praying in a basilica built on the spot where the gospels recount Jesus' torment on the night before he was betrayed and arrested.

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As I've grown older, I appreciate more than ever before the strength of this figure, Jesus, who emerges in the four canonical Gospels, and the Gnostic gospels, as a witty, intelligent, complex, inspiring, and often contradictory person.

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Although he respects Jesus for promoting peace and love, he finds the character portrayed in the Gospels too glib and condescending to his disciples.

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Alessandro Speciale, Vatican correspondent for the Religion News Service, told CNN the pope was not so much aiming to debunk myths as trying to show that the Jesus depicted in the Gospels is a real historical figure, who walked on earth and talked to people like anyone else.

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