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So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived" (Numbers 21:4-9).
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. The people are wounded; ...
At God’s command, Moses fashions a bronze serpent, raised on a pole, upon which those bitten could look to be cured. Gazing on that bronze serpent had the miraculous effect of drawing out the ...
Bronze Snake - “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up” (John 3:14). Nearly all of us know John 3:16. Let’s go back two verses and see what ...
Mt. Nebo has major biblical significance as it is said to be the place where Moses looked towards The Promised Land before he died upon the mountain top.
Some scholars believe there is a connection between Moses’ bronze serpent and the serpent-entwined staff of Asclepius, the symbol of physicians dating from ancient Greece.
Perhaps the first part of today’s Gospel, which refers to the bronze serpent, an event in the Book of Exodus in the Old Testament, may cause some confusion, especially among the fundamentalist ...