Gospel

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 [...]

photo of plants
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 [...]

photo of someone pouring water into a mug
Commentary on Matthew 10:40-42

Jesus’s discourse on the disciples’ mission to the “lost sheep [...]

photo of sparrows
Commentary on Matthew 10:24-39

The Gospel reading for the fourth Sunday after Pentecost presents [...]

Domenico Ghirlandaio's
Commentary on Matthew 9:35—10:8 [9-23]

The Gospel reading for the third Sunday after Pentecost presents [...]

Detail from Caravaggio's
Commentary on Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26

The second Sunday after Pentecost brings us into the heart [...]