Commentary on John 6:56-69
Structurally, complaints or quarrels supply a punctuation mark between subsections of this text (for example, [...]
Gospel
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 [...]
Commentary on Mark 5:21-43
One of Mark’s favorite writing habits is to place two stories in a sandwiched relationship [...]
Commentary on Mark 4:35-41
Jesus stills a storm while on a boat at night with his disciples in Mark [...]