According to passages in the New Testament of the Holy Bible, such as Matthew 17:1-13, Mk 9:2 and Lk 9:28, Peter, James and John (the disciple) assist to Jesus transfiguration on “the mountain”. In the Christian tradition, that mountain is represented by Tabor, which is also referred to as “the mountain” in other Biblical texts. [...]
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Mount Tabor
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Christian Pilgrimage
The Latin work for pilgrim, “peregrinus”, had the current meaning of traveler to the holy lands, for devotional purposes. This has started from the Old and New Testament and especially from the Letter to Diognet (2nd century) according to which the Christian believer belongs to his celestial homeland. As far as practicing pilgrimage before the [...]
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How Many Books are in the New Testament
The New Testament is derived from the Latin word Novum Testamentum which was first coined by Tertullian, a prolific evangelist between 160-220 AD. The New Testament is a part of the Sacred Scriptures and deals with the rise of Christianity and how it spread across the world. It is the second part of the Christian [...]
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