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¹ but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

The Mount of Olives is a significant location in the Bible and holds historical and religious importance. It’s a mountain ridge located east of Jerusalem, separating the city from the Judean Desert.

In the Bible, the Mount of Olives is frequently mentioned in the New Testament. It is the site where Jesus often went to pray and where important events in His life took place, including the Ascension, where He is said to have ascended to heaven after His resurrection.

Additionally, the Mount of Olives has been a place of pilgrimage and worship for centuries, with many churches and religious sites dotting its landscape. It’s also mentioned in the Old Testament, such as in the prophecy of Zechariah, which speaks of the Lord standing on the Mount of Olives.

² At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. ³ The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group ⁴ and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. ⁵ In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” ⁶ They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

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Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles

7 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want^[a] to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. ² But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, ³ Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. ⁴ No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” ⁵ For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

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6 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), ² and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. ³ Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. ⁴ The Jewish Passover Festival was near.

⁵ When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” ⁶ He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

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Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— ² although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. ³ So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

⁴ Now he had to go through Samaria. ⁵ So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶ Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

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Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. ² He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

Nicodemus was a Pharisee in the Jewish ruling council, politically his job was to go against Jesus. Coming to Jesus to learn was dangerous for his job and his safety. So he had to sneak in at night.

³ Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.^[a]”

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Jesus Changes Water Into Wine

2 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, ² and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. ³ When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”

⁴ “Woman,^[a] why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

This term “woman” in Greek has no meaning of disrespect.

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

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Chào anh chị em,

Mình đã viết rẩt nhiều về Phật pháp trong các bài trà đàm, và sẽ tiếp tục như thế. Minh là luật sư tranh tụng, tập trung vào lý luận trước tòa để thắng, và Phật pháp có trình độ lý luận siêu việt, nên mình thích nói về Phật pháp.

Tuy nhiên mình cũng muốn công bình và phong phú cho các bạn, nên mình muốn viết và gửi đến các bạn một chút về Thánh kinh Kitô giáo (Công giáo, Chính thống giáo và các nhánh Tin lành) với Do thái giáo là gốc rễ đầu tiên. Do thái giáo là một nửa đầu của Thánh kinh Kitô giáo, gọi là Cựu Ước, lời hứa hẹn cũ của Chúa – Thượng đế, Yahweh, YHWH, Adonai, Elohim – với Abraham là sẽ đưa con cháu của Abraham về vùng Đất Hứa. Tân Ước là nửa sau của Thánh kinh Kitô giáo là lời hứa hẹn của Chúa Giêsu (Jesus) cứu rỗi loài người.