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Taken all together, the resurrection passages in the Gospels are a dizzying and confusing array. The spotlighted role of Mary Magdalene in John is crucial, for Paul omits women altogether, and none of the Synoptics, (...)

Taken all together, the resurrection passages in the Gospels are a dizzying and confusing array. The spotlighted role of Mary Magdalene in John is crucial, for Paul omits women altogether, and none of the Synoptics, (...)

En su relato de la crucifixión y resurrección, el evangelio de Juan nos presenta una versión de un relato muy antiguo de los cristianismos originarios sobre la humillación y vindicación de Jesús.1 Ya desde el (...)

Nothing displayed Roman power like crucifixion, an act designed to publicly execute revolutionaries and slaves with utmost shame and disgrace as a means of punishment, cruel amusement, and deterrence for revolutionaries present and future. Josephus (...)

These verses, the institution of the Passover, are the appointed lectionary Old Testament text for Maundy Thursday each year. As such, they are likely seldom the object of focused preaching—getting lost in the other days (...)

Anyone who has experienced the fraught dynamics of a middle-school lunchroom can intuit the social, political, and even existential importance of these meals—perhaps the very mention of it stirs a bitter memory in your gut. (...)

The opening scene in John 12 boldly claims the enduring power of life and love in the face of death and hostility. The author is careful to name all three siblings at the heart of (...)

“God’s time [Emancipation] is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free.” —Harriet Tubman1 After his baptism, as John (...)

The text before us records an interlude within the larger story of the gospel coming to Samaria in Acts 8:4–13 and 8:18–25. In the larger frame, the crowds respond to Philip’s preaching of the gospel, (...)

There is no infancy narrative, no temptation in the wilderness, not even a baptism. Instead, the mystical poetry of John’s prologue opens with the story of creation and the Word in whom is life. In (...)