This page provides access to posts that discuss Bible passages at some length. Very few are from the Old Testament.

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Matthew 1:20 The Holy Spirit 1: Conceived by the Holy Spirit
Matthew 1:20 More on the virgin conception
Matthew 1:20-21 He will save his people from their sins
Matthew 1:20-23 The birth announcement
Matthew 1:22-23 They will call his name Immanuel
Matthew 1:23 The conception of Jesus, Trinity, and the search for an appropriate metaphysics: it’s nearly Christmas, after all
Matthew 1:23 Are Immanuel and Wonderful-Counselor-Mighty-God-Everlasting-Father-Prince-of-Peace the same person?
Matthew 1:23 Some dull but seasonal reflections on the historical context for the fulfilment of the Immanuel prophecy
Matthew 2:15 The conception of Jesus, Trinity, and the search for an appropriate metaphysics: it’s nearly Christmas, after all
Matthew 2:15 Out of Egypt I called my son: the rabbit in the hat trick
Matthew 3:11-12 The Holy Spirit 2: He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire
Matthew 3:16-17 The Holy Spirit 3: This is my beloved Son
Matthew 5:1-12 The beatitudes
Matthew 5:3-11 The community of the Beatitudes and the restoration of creation
Matthew 5:13 The salt of the earth
Matthew 5:14-16 The light of the world
Matthew 5:17-18 I came not to invalidate the Law or the Prophets but to fulfil
Matthew 5:19 In what sense are we "bound to what the New Testament teaches"?
Matthew 5:43-48 Should we still love our enemies?
Matthew 6:9-13 The Lord’s prayer and its eschatological context
Matthew 7:13-14 The way of life and the way of death
Matthew 7:24-27 The parable of the two houses and the apocalyptic storm
Matthew 8:23-27 Did Jesus act as though he thought he were God?
Matthew 9:1-8 Jesus and the authority to forgive sins
Matthew 9:10-13 The sick need a physician
Matthew 10:28 The destruction of body and soul in gehenna
Matthew 10:34-37 Not peace but a sword
Matthew 11:12-14 The kingdom of heaven and the men of violence
Matthew 12:15-21 The Holy Spirit 4: The Spirit given to the servant of YHWH
Matthew 12:43-45 Seven spirits worse than the first
Matthew 13:31-32 Reading the parable of the mustard seed after Christendom
Matthew 13:36-43 The parable of the weeds and the question of hell
Matthew 16:13-16 Who do men say that the Son of man is?
Matthew 16:17-18 The gates of Hades will not prevail against it
Matthew 16:19 The keys to the kingdom of heaven
Matthew 18:8-9 Response to Ben Witherington on Gehenna
Matthew 18:18 What must I do to inherit eternal life?
Matthew 19:16 Eternal life and the story of Israel
Matthew 19:21 What it means to be perfect
Matthew 19:28 Judging the twelve tribes of Israel

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How the light of the modern gospel distorts scripture It is essential for the integrity, credibility and mission of the church that we read the Bible well. Modern evangelicalism has preserved a particular theological outcome, a thesis, from scripture—the argument that God became incarnate in...
The wise and foolish virgins What is the historical frame of reference of Jesus’ parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins? Tradition has taught us to read this as a story about a final consummation at the second coming of Jesus, at some uncertain point in our...
Re-registering the coming of the Son of man Gustavo Martin’s excellent (though rather technical) Biblica essay on ‘Procedural Register in the Olivet Discourse’ has prompted me to look again at the place of the ‘Son of man’ section in Jesus’ prediction of future events in Mark 13....