Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a Roman-era sarcophagus that depicts Dionysus beating Hercules in a drinking contest.

Jesus ascended back to heaven 40 days after his resurrection. We know this because Luke tells us ( Acts 1:3 ). It’s a very ...

It is a non-biblical holiday that replaced Yom Hakippurim, a day on which only the high priest acted, when his principal act was to bring a sacrifice ... a “day of atonement,” while Yom ...

In Holy Week, the somber remembrance of the events of the Christian savior’s last days, and on Easter Day ... atonement theory taught in his youth, but he balances it with thinking about how ...

[If he said,] ‘I will sin and the Day of Atonement will effect atonement ... belonged to the party of the Pharisees.” When the high priest Ananias commanded Paul to be struck during ...

Is his atonement permanent or conditional? On the contrary, Hebrews 6:13-10:22 teaches that Jesus is the great high priest who made one single, all-sufficient sacrifice that makes each believer holy ...

The Ark’s mercy seat was the place of atonement, where the high priest sprinkled the sacrificial blood once per year on the Day of Atonement ... High Priest who offers Himself as the perfect sacrifice ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) On Friday at sunset, the holiest day of the year in Judaism begins. It's called Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, and ...

The process of the Temple service of the High Priest, began a week before Yom Kippur. He was brought to the Temple, for a review of all of the details involved on the Day of Atonement. During the ...