... authority is given in 1 Peter 2:12-14: "Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority, or to governors, who are sent by him to punish ... to speak comes to another person present . So in this very same passage he is telling men as well as women to be silent in certain situations, so that order can be established "and he finishes the topic with a balanced phra...

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... disciples, as to who he really is and what his role as the Messiah is. Even after predicting his death and resurrection several times, the disciples never truly understand him; " he was teaching his disciples, and telling them, ˜The Son of Man is now to be handed over into the power of men, and they will kill him; and three days after being killed ... he will rise again.' But they did not understand what he said, and were afraid to ask " (Mark 9: 31-32). This is not the last time Jesus predicts His death, however ... : 39). The Gospel according to Matthew was the second gospel to be re...

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