Commentary on John 6:35, 41-51
This is a pivotal part of the later section of [...]
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Commentary on John 6:24-35
This week, we come to the beginning of Jesus’ Bread of Life discourse. Building on [...]
Commentary on John 6:1-21
The opening of John 6 includes Jesus’ miraculous provision of food and his crossing the [...]
Commentary on Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
So much for subtlety and secrets. Jesus has a way [...]
Commentary on Mark 6:14-29
The story of John’s murder is dreadful throughout. The Bible includes a number of tales [...]
Commentary on Mark 6:1-13
One of the more unnerving aspects of Mark’s narrative is that people we might expect [...]
Commentary on Mark 5:21-43
Mark skimps on detail and storytelling flourishes—except when it doesn’t. This passage offers us one [...]
Commentary on Mark 4:35-41
Unlike Matthew (8:23–27) and Luke (8:22–25), Mark 4:35–41 clocks this episode at evening (verse 35), [...]
Commentary on Mark 4:26-34
Working Preacher published an essay of mine on humor in Mark’s parables, which I’m sure [...]
Commentary on Mark 3:20-35
Mark 3:19b–35 is among the evangelist’s subtlest intercalations: the insertion of one story inside another, [...]