Roman in the Bible

Meaning: strong; powerful

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Then He said to them, "Come, and you will see." So, they went and saw where He was staying and they stayed with Him that day. It was about ten o'clock in the morning. [Note: Hour designations in this book are being calculated by Roman time, but this would have been

Verse ConceptsHourAdventureCalling, Of IndividualsComing To ChristChrist With People On EarthStaying Temporarily

After these things happened Jesus went across to the east side of Lake Galilee, also called Lake Tiberias. [Note: This lake also bore a name honoring the Roman Emperor Tiberias].

Verse ConceptsSeaCrossing To The Other SideRelationships And Datinglakes

So Judas got together the Roman garrison and some attendants from the high priests and Pharisees, and went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

Verse ConceptsChief priestsSoldiersWeaponsSoldiers Treatment Of ChristThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

So, the detachment of [Roman] soldiers, their commanding officer and the Jewish [Temple] guards arrested Jesus and tied Him up.

Verse ConceptsArrestingRopesArresting ChristSoldiers Treatment Of ChristTying Up

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor's residence. (Now it was very early morning.) They did not go into the governor's residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambExclusivenessGovernorsHigh Priest, In NtPalacesReligionArmies, RomanRoyal Houses

[They said this] so that the words Jesus had spoken would be fulfilled, regarding the kind of death He would die. [Note: Jesus had predicted he would be "lifted up," indicating a Roman crucifixion. See 12:32-33].

Verse ConceptsForetelling Christ's DeathMan's Words Fulfilled

Now it was about six o'clock in the morning [Note: This was according to Roman time, but if Jewish time were meant, it would have been

Verse ConceptsPreparing Food

this title, therefore, read many of the Jews, because the place was nigh to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Roman.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesLiteracyAramaic LanguageReading Other Mattercrucifixion

So, when the [Roman] soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took His clothing and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took His seamless coat [i.e., which was left over], woven from top [to bottom] in one piece,

Verse ConceptsClothBody Of Christ, Physical DeathCrucifixion, Of ChristDressInner GarmentsDividing PlunderGarmentscrucifixion

Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.

Verse ConceptsDuring One NightWeights Of Other Thingsweight

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And Jesus stood before the leader: and the leader asked him, saying, Art thou King of the Jews? Jesus said to him, Thou sayest.

And having tarried with them more than ten days, having gone down to Cesarea, on the morrow, having sat upon the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought.


Now in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,


Then the Pharisees, having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in word. And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and care is to thee for none; for thou lookest not to the face of men. Therefore say to us, What seems to thee Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? read more.
But Jesus, having known their evil, said, Why tempt ye me, hypocrites? Show me the piece of money of tribute. And they brought him a drachma. And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription? They say to him, Caesar's. Then says he to them, Give back then to Caesar the things of Caesar; and the things of God to God. And having heard, they wondered, and having left him, they departed.

And they sent to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in the word. And they having come, say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and thou carest not for any one: for thou lookest not to the face of men, but in truth thou teachest the way of God: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or no? Should we give, or not give? And he knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a drachma that I might see it. read more.
And they brought. And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription? And they said to him, Caesar's. And Jesus having answered, said to them, Give back Caesar's things to Caesar, and the things of God to God. And they wondered at him.


After this Judas the Galilean arose in the days of enrolling, and misled enough people after him: and he perished; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered.

And certain were present in that time announcing to him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices.


And publicans came to be immersed, and said to him, Teacher, what shall we do?

And after these, he went out, and saw a publican, by name Levi, sitting by the custom-house; and he said to him, Follow me.


Show me the piece of money of tribute. And they brought him a drachma. And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription?


And all went to be enrolled, each in his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (for he was of the house and family of David :) To be enrolled with Mary his betrothed wife, being pregnant.


And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a King.


(This enrolling was first, Cyrenius being leader of Syria.)


And it was in those days an order came out from Caesar Angustus, for the whole habitable globe to be enrolled.