Rainbow flag in his hand. In the German Peasants' War of the 16th century, the rainbow flag together with the peasants' boot ("Bundschuh") was used as the sign of a new era, of hope and of social change. The choice of the rainbow in the form of a flag harkens back to the rainbow as a symbol of biblical promise. According to the Bible, God first created the rainbow as a sign to Noah that there would never again be a worldwide flood, also known as the Rainbow covenant. The South African flag is sometimes referred to as the "Rainbow flag". Rainbow
Death penalty in the Bible that crucifixion was an illegal form of Jewish punishment and that Jesus did not receive a Jewish trial before death. In Acts 5:1-11, Saint Peter spoke words of judgment upon Ananias and Sapphira for lying to God (Ananias) and testing the Spirit (Sapphira), after which each of them fell dead. Deuteronomy 6:16 forbids testing the Lord. John Chrysostom, in Homily 12 on Acts, says that no one was forced to give anything to the apostles, that Ananias and Sapphira had committed sacrilege by keeping the money they had promised to give, that Peter did not correct Ananias because he would