Famous quotes containing the words testament jesus, testament and/or jesus:
“Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Luke 11:52.
“But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians, 11:15.
“They circumcised women, little girls, in Jesus’s time. Did he know? Did the subject anger or embarrass him? Did the early church erase the record? Jesus himself was circumcised; perhaps he thought only the cutting done to him was done to women, and therefore, since he survived, it was all right.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)