LUKE 20-24: The drama and sense of foreboding intensify with Jesus in Jerusalem, as the religious authorities spar […]
LUKE 11-19: The attentive reader begins in this section to feel the cold shadow of something ominous approaching, […]
LUKE 2-10: Luke’s Gospel strikes me as also the gospel of Mary, for we find in it stories […]
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 […]
A key turning point of Matthew’s Gospel occurs in 20: 17-19, when Jesus turns his face and his […]
Matthew 10-18: In Chapter 10 we have the second of five Torah-like compendiums of Jesus’ teachings, this one […]
With Matthew’s Gospel we cross from the Old Testament to the New. And yet the nature and purpose […]
In the previous week I suggested meditating upon the contrasts within the verses of the Proverbs in those […]