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Numeral adjective tessares (four) in the Gospels-Acts
(Translation from NRSV)
Matthew
| 24: 31 | And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four (tessares) winds, from one end of heaven to the other. |
Mark
| 2: 3 | Then some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four (tessares) of them. |
| 13: 27 | Then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four (tessares) winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. |
Luke
| 2: 37 | then as a widow to the age of eighty-four (tessares). She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day. |
John
| 11: 17 | When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four (tessares) days. |
| 19: 23 | When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four (tessares) parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. |
Acts
| 10: 11 | He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four (tessares) corners. |
| 11: 5 | "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. There was something like a large sheet coming down from heaven, being lowered by its four (tessares) corners; and it came close to me. |
| 12: 4 | When he had seized him, he put him in prison and handed him over to four (tessares) squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover. |
| 21: 9 | He had four (tessares) unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy. |
| 21: 23 | So do what we tell you. We have four (tessares) men who are under a vow. |
| 27: 29 | Fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four (tessares) anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come. |
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