Commentary on Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Today’s Gospel reading strikes many as an ironic choice for [...]
Gospel
Commentary on Matthew 4:1-11
It is no accident that Jesus winds up in the wilderness after his baptism.1 He [...]
Commentary on Matthew 4:1-11
At Jesus’ baptism, the heavenly voice announces, “This is my Son, the Beloved.” Immediately afterwards, [...]
Commentary on John 3:1-17
The backdrop against which the dialogue between Jesus and Nicodemus should be understood is John [...]
Commentary on John 3:1-17
If Nicodemus comes under cover of darkness, it is darkness disturbed by peculiar light. According [...]
Commentary on John 4:5-42
The lection assigned for the Third Sunday in Lent provides something of a study in [...]
Commentary on John 9:1-41
John 9 functions as a commentary on Jesus’s claim in 8:12 (“I am the light [...]
Commentary on John 9:1-41
This text offers at least three or four related trajectories of interpretation: the question of [...]
Commentary on John 11:1-45
In this chapter, which lies at the rhetorical and theological center of the gospel of [...]
Commentary on John 11:1-45
Stories of Jesus raising the dead appear in all the Gospels, but John alone includes [...]