Firstborn

Christ Pantocrator Deesis mosaic Hagia Sophia

Psalm 89:27  Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

 

Colossians 1:15  Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

 

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Rebuked the Wind and the Sea

Hole calming a storm

Psalm 89:9 (KJV) Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

 

Matthew 8:26  And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

 

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Stood Afar Off

Brooklyn Museum - The Holy Women Watch from Afar (Les saintes femmes observent de loin) - James Tissot

Psalm 88:8 (KJV) Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

 

Luke 23:49  And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.

 

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