A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible
- Naaman's song
- Name us a King
- Naming the animals
- Nativity, The
- Near Damascus
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Nebuchadnezzar's dream
- Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom-come
- Needle's Eye, The
- New heaven and earth
- New Magdalene, The
- New Sinai, The
- Night, The
- Noah and the waters
- Noah's raven
- O taste and see
- O thou of little faith
- Oh! weep for these
- On a feast
- On another's sorrow
- On Jordan's banks
- On Lazarus raised from death
- On St. John the Baptist
- On the morning of Christ's nativity
- On the two great floods
- On Zacchaeus
- One crucixion is recorded-only
- One flesh
- One Foot in Eden
- Outside Eden
- Oxen, The
- Paradise Lost
- Paradise Regained
- Patience, hard thing
- Patriarch, The
- Pearl, The
- Pearl, The
- Pearl, The
- Pentecost
- Pharaoh's daughter
- Pilate remembers
- Pilate's wife's dream
- Pilgrim's Progress
- Pillar of the cloud, The
- Power and the Glory, The
- Praise for the fountain opened
- Prisoner of grace
- Prodigal Son, The
- Prodigal, The
- Psalm 23
A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: On Jordan's banks
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Jordan was the site where John baptised Jesus and many others. Elsewhere, the Jordan is seen as a border to the Holy Land of IsraelThe river Jordan flows from above Lake Tiberius (the Sea of Galilee) down to the Dead Sea. John the Baptist baptised Jesus in the river Jordan.
One of the three closest disciples to Christ. Traditionally, John is thought to have written the Fourth Gospel, the three Epistles of John (1, 2, & 3 John) and the Book of Revelation.
The name given to the man believed by Christians to be the Son of God. Also given the title Christ, meaning 'anointed one' or Messiah. His life is recorded most fully in the Four Gospels.
Set apart, sacred.
The Old Testament frequently refers to Israel as the Promised Land allocated to God's children. Prophecies refer to it as his chosen nation and the one out of which the Messiah would come.
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