Season 11: New Life in the Spirit
Meet the Biblical Cast of Season 11 (12)
Jesus Christ
The eternal Son of God and promised Messiah — who calmed the Galilean storm, washed His disciples' feet, bore our judgment on the cross, rose as Firstfruits, and returns on a white horse as King of Kings.
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The Pharisees
The rigid religious traditionalists in Luke 5 who grumbled outside Levi's banquet demanding why Jesus' disciples feasted instead of fasting — pictured by Christ as sun-hardened old wineskins that burst under the pressure of new wine.
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Matthew (Levi)
The despised Capernaum tax collector who left everything at Jesus' two-word call ('Follow me') and threw a great feast in his house where forgiven outcasts tasted the new wine of the Kingdom.
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The Wine Steward (Vintner)
The Galilean winemaker in Jesus' parable of Luke 5:37–38 who pours fermenting new wine into fresh, oil-conditioned goatskins so both the wine and the vessel are preserved.
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Lazarus of Bethany
Brother of Martha and Mary in Bethany who lay dead four days in a cave — and who stepped out alive at Jesus' shout, still bound hand and foot in linen grave strips until Jesus commanded the community, 'Unbind him, and let him go.'
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Martha of Bethany
Older sister of Lazarus and Mary in Bethany who confessed Jesus as 'the Christ, the Son of God,' warned of the four-day stench at the tomb, and helped unbind her resurrected brother.
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Mary of Bethany
Devoted sister of Martha and Lazarus who sat at Jesus' feet, wept before the Bethany tomb where Jesus Himself wept, and anointed the Lord's feet with costly nard, wiping them with her hair.
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Joshua, Son of Nun
Moses' faithful successor who commanded the priests to step into the flood-stage Jordan with the Ark, celebrated the Passover at Gilgal when the forty-year manna ceased, and led Israel's conquest of Canaan.
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The People of Israel
The covenant nation delivered from Egypt — who drank from the smitten Rock at Rephidim, trembled before the fire of Sinai, reaped Canaan's first grain at Gilgal, and fell on their faces on Mount Carmel crying, 'The LORD, He is God!'
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David
The shepherd boy who felled Goliath with a sling, hid with 400 outlaws in the Cave of Adullam, and became Israel's anointed warrior-king — "a man after God's own heart" whose line leads to Jesus.
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King Saul
Israel's tall first monarch who cowered before Goliath in heavy bronze armor, hurled his spear at David and Jonathan in jealous rage, and broke Israel's oath with the Gibeonites.
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Goliath of Gath
The nine-foot-nine Philistine champion encased in 125 pounds of bronze scale armor who defied the armies of the living God morning and evening for forty days — and fell face down before a single smooth stone from David's sling.
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The Bursting Skins
Jesus warns that fermenting new wine will burst brittle old leather skins, calling us to become supple new vessels for the Spirit.
The Unbound Man
Lazarus steps out of the cave alive yet bound hand and foot in linen grave clothes until Jesus commands the community to unbind him.
The Ceasing Manna
Forty years of falling wilderness manna permanently cease the day Israel eats the roasted grain of Canaan, demanding spiritual maturity.
The Rejected Armor
David strips off King Saul's heavy bronze armor in the Valley of Elah and kneels at the brook for five smooth stones of the Spirit.