The Ceremony of Circumcion

Jewish boys were circumcised on the eighth day as a commanded sign of God’s covenant with Abraham, marking their entry into the covenant community through a sacred ceremony where the child was named and blessed.

People, Places, and Things

The Ceremony of Circumcion

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People, Places, and Things

Capernaum

Capernaum was a working-class Jewish village on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee that served as Jesus’ primary base for ministry, featuring a significant synagogue where He taught and performed miracles amid a community facing spiritual conflict and social challenges.

John the Baptist

John the Baptist, emerging from humble origins and the wilderness, ministers a call to repentance and baptism, preparing the way for Jesus and the coming kingdom of God.

Pharisees

The Pharisees in the first century were a respected Jewish religious group known for their strict adherence to the full Hebrew scriptures, oral traditions, belief in resurrection, and influence among the common people, yet they faced criticism from Jesus for elevating human traditions over God’s commandments.

Gabriel

Gabriel in Luke 1 is the angelic messenger who stands in God’s presence, sent by God to announce and fulfill the divine plan of salvation through the births of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.

Herod Philip

Herod Philip the Tetrarch (4 BC–AD 34), son of Herod the Great, ruled peacefully over Ituraea and Trachonitis, is mentioned in the Gospel of Luke for historical context, and must be distinguished from his half-brother Philip I, the first husband of Herodias and father of Salome.

Herodias

Herodias—granddaughter of Herod the Great, mother of Salome, and later wife of Herod Antipas—used dynastic marriage to pursue rank in the early 1st century AD, provoked John the Baptist’s condemnation and death, and ultimately followed Antipas into exile in AD 39.