| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Gentile | Anyone who is not Jewish. |
| Glory | The power and greatness of God. The Hebrew word means "weight." |
| Holy Spirit | God’s Spirit, whom Jesus sends to help people. The Holy Spirit is God in invisible form. |
| Israel | The Jewish people, or the land of the Jewish people. |
| Jewish | Anyone born to a Jewish mother, who is from the family line of Abraham, the first Jew, or one who is a devoted follower of the Jewish religion. |
| Joseph | A descendant of David, He was engaged to Mary at Jesus' conception and birth. An angel warned him of Herod's ploy to kill Jesus, so he took Mary and the baby to Egypt. He was a carpenter in the town of Nazareth. |
| Mary | The Mother of Jesus. While she was still a virgin, the angel Gabriel told her that she would give birth to a son. She and her betrothed, Joseph, traveled to Bethlehem for the census where she gave birth to Jesus. |
| Messiah | It means the same as Christ. That is, the one whom God chose as Israel's special king. |
| Nazareth | A town in lower Galilee that was the hometown of Mary and Joseph, the human parents of Jesus. Jesus grew up there. Passover Feast, Every year the Jewish people celebrate night when the angel of death went through Egypt and killed the firstborn sons. The meal and the ritual is commanded in the Old Testament. |
| priest | A special servant of God, who gave gifts to God for himself and other people, in the Temple. They were descendants of Aaron. |
| Prophetess | A woman who used a prophetic gift to receive and give God's message. |
| Salvation | To be rescued from evil. Simeon said he had seen this because the Messiah would rescue the world from evil. Jesus would bring it to everyone. |
| Scripture | Another word for the Holy Bible a group of sixty-six books written over a period of more than a thousand years by many different men who were inspired by God. They are also called the Holy Bible. |
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