At that time Jesus felt the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit and he said:

My Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, I AM grateful that you have hid all this from wise and educated people and showed it to ordinary people. Yes, that is what pleased you.

My Father has given me everything and He is the Only One who know the Son. The only one who really knows the Father is the Son. But the Son wants to tell others about the Father, so that others can know him also...

New Testament
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The Romans called their imperium Romannorum. This translates appoitely as the power of the Romans. From the latin word imperator, or commander-in-chied, comes oiur word emperor...

For contemporaries, there was no escaping the military fact of Roman Power. Certainly, subject people who incurred Rome's anger knew that the heavey weight of Rome's military machine could decend on them with exemplary force...

The Power of Rome
Roman Empire
Nigel Rodgers
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Ezekiel 9
1He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

2And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

3And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;

4And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

5And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

6Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

7And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

8And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

Old Testament
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