Mark 7:31 Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of […]
MARK 9-16 WHY IS SO MUCH OF MARK’S GOSPEL, and all four gospels for that matter, taken up […]
MATTHEW 28 closes the Gospel the way it began, with evidence and assertions of Jesus’ kingly identity. The […]
Mark 3: 13 Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they […]
A key turning point of Matthew’s Gospel occurs in 20: 17-19, when Jesus turns his face and his […]
Mark 3: 20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples […]
Mark 2: 23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began […]
Matthew 10-18: In Chapter 10 we have the second of five Torah-like compendiums of Jesus’ teachings, this one […]
Mark 2: 13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and […]
With Matthew’s Gospel we cross from the Old Testament to the New. And yet the nature and purpose […]