Gospel

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Commentary on Matthew 21:23-32

Matthew 21 contains a unique parable that has no Synoptic [...]

photo of a fork in a mountain path
Commentary on Matthew 16:21-28

What a difference a week makes. It was exactly one [...]

photo of stacked limestone rocks
Commentary on Matthew 16:13-20

I am a movie buff, and our text today reminds [...]

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Commentary on Matthew 15:[10-20] 21-28

After disputing with Pharisees and scribes about ritual handwashing (Matthew [...]

photo of a lone person at sea
Commentary on Matthew 14:22-33

May I introduce you to an insistent, even bossy, Jesus? [...]

photo of hands breaking bread
Commentary on Matthew 14:13-21

Fortunately, the people who passed along their memories of Jesus [...]

photo of bread dough rising
Commentary on Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

When my grandson Devon was 13 years old, he wrote [...]

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Commentary on Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds (Matthew 13:24–30) [...]

photo of a hand scattering seeds
Commentary on Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

As with all Jesus’s parables, multiple layers of meaning can [...]

photo of children calling to one another
Commentary on Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

We might detect a note of frustration in Jesus’s voice [...]