Commentary on Mark 7:24-37
Mark has juxtaposed stories in 7:24-30 and 7:31-37 as mirror images of each other. Both [...]
Gospel
Commentary on Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
At least one part of this passage is straightforward, although [...]
Commentary on John 6:56-69
Structurally, complaints or quarrels supply a punctuation mark between subsections of this text (for example, [...]
Commentary on John 6:51-58
In this section of the Bread Discourse, the dispute “chews” on Jesus’ flesh. Was this [...]
Commentary on John 6:35, 41-51
The reading begins with one of the most well-known “I [...]
Commentary on John 6:24-35
Our narrator hints that even though the crowd “finds” Jesus, they don’t comprehend who he [...]
Commentary on John 6:1-21
Our narrator places the Bread Discourse in the middle of the Book of Signs (John [...]
Commentary on Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
The disciples return from the mission (Mark 6:30-31) Mark reported [...]
Commentary on Mark 6:14-29
The report of John’s death, Jesus’ mentor (see Mark 1:9), was the end of innocence [...]
Commentary on Mark 6:1-13
Before Mark reports John the Baptist’s death, the only story in which Jesus is not [...]