LIFESTYLE Bible verse of the week: The message of Jesus on love is 'confrontational,' faith leader says Jesus' command in the Gospel of Luke should be embraced by all today, Texas pastor says ...

Verse 21 is commonly translated as saying Jesus' "friends" (presumably disciples) tried to seize him, thinking he was "beside himself." ...

Jesus, however, links these to friendship. A friend knows what his friend is about and gladly seeks to understand and support him. Scripture says, “Happy are we, O Israel, for what pleases God ...

Matthew 5:17, from the Gospel of Matthew, is the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, considered the central teaching of Jesus. A faith leader in Washington, D.C., shared perspective.

And according to verse 35, “Jesus wept.” “Jesus wept” is the shortest verse in the Bible and also “the most profound and powerful,” the artist Makoto Fujimura told me.