The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, New Revised Standard Version
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Joseph (bible - Husband Of Mary)
Joseph (Hebrew: יוסף, romanized: Yosef; Greek: Ἰωσήφ, romanized: Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.[2]LineageFurther inform...
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John The Baptist
John the Baptist (late 1st century BC – c. AD 30) was a Jewish itinerant preacher in the early 1st century AD. Other titles for John include John the Forerunner in Eastern Christianity, John the Immerser in some Baptist traditions, and the prophet John (Y...
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Isaac (bible)
According to the biblical Book of Genesis, Isaac was the son of Abraham and Sarah and father of Jacob; his name means "he will laugh", reflecting when Sarah laughed in disbelief when told that she would have a child. In the Bible, he is one of the three p...
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Jesus
Jesus[e] (c. 4 BC – c. AD 30 / 33) was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the central figure of Christianity. Jesus Christ is the designation of Jesus of Nazareth (d. c. 30 CE), who was an itinerant Jewish prophet from the Galilee...
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James (brother Of Jesus)
James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord (Iacobus; Iákōbos, Jacob), was a brother of Jesus, according to the New Testament. He was an early leader of the Jerusalem Church of the Apostolic Age. He died as a martyr in AD 62 or 69....
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Peter (apostle)
Saint Peter[note 1] (died between AD 64 and 68),[1] also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas (lit. rock),[6] was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Churc...
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Joseph (son Of Jacob)
Sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, Joseph son of Jacob rose to become vizier, the second most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh, where his presence and office caused Israel to leave Canaan and settle in Egypt....
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Solomon (king Of Israel)
Solomon (/ˈsɒləmən/),[a] also called Jedidiah,[b] was monarch of ancient Israel and the son and successor of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament.[4][5] He is described as having been the penultimate ruler of an amalgamated Isra...
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Jacob (bible - Son Of Isaac)
Jacob, Hebrew Yaʿaqov, Arabic Yaʿqūb, also called Israel, Hebrew Yisraʾel, Arabic Isrāʾīl, Hebrew patriarch who was the grandson of Abraham, the son of Isaac and Rebekah, and the traditional ancestor of the people of Israel. Stories about Jacob in the Bib...
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David (bible)
David (/ˈdeɪvɪd/; Biblical Hebrew: דָּוִד, romanized: Dāwīḏ, "beloved one")[a][4] was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel.[5][6] Historians of the Ancient Near East agree that David probably lived around 1000 BC...
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Abraham (bible)
Abraham[a] (originally Abram)[b] is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[5] In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is t...
