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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Theology and the interpretation of Isaiah 53 I have, for some time, had a bee in my bonnet about the penal substitutionary atonement debate. There are those, on the one hand, who think it sits right at the indigestible core of a sound understanding of the atoning significance of...
Theology and history and Jesus as the culmination of Israel's story For reasons which I won’t disclose, I have been working through a doctrine course of a distinctly Reformed hue. If the church is convinced that it needs such a thing as a “doctrine course”, Reformed or otherwise, then this is by no means...
Numbered with the transgressors John Piper argues that the quotation of Isaiah 53:12 in Luke 22:37 is evidence that Jesus saw himself as the righteous servant who would ‘make many to be accounted righteous, and… bear their iniquities’ (Is. 53:11): ‘So in the Gospel of...