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The article presents the author's analysis of the conversations of Jesus and his mother Mary written in the Bible such as one that occurred in Jerusalem and one that occurred at the wedding feast in Cana of Galilee. The author suggests that Jesus and Mary has joined in a common faith throughout their shared lives and continued to mature spiritually. The author says that the stories shows the historical and concrete circumstances of an individual human life.

A little-known monk living in the Egyptian desert at the end of the fourth century provided one of the most durable interpretive keys in the history of Bible study. The monk, named Nesteros proposed that all of Holy Scripture is to be understood in four ways or senses. He explained this paradigm by examining the various meanings of "Jerusalem" in the Bible. According to Nesteros, Jerusalem is an image of the redeemed but struggling Christian soul. Nesteros's "four senses" became the foundation of all monastic reading of the Bible. Although it was the monks and other ascetics who left us the greatest body of literature on this subject, there is nothing intrinsically "monastic" about this approach to Scripture.

The article focuses on the vision of Israel's priests and the whole tribe of Levi which became during their exile in Babylon. It mentions the reformation of Hezekiah in the eighth century and of Josiah in the seventh, the ritual service of the priests; and also highlights the children of Israel returned to the Holy Land that concerns of the priesthood.