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 19:28 In the regeneration
Matthew 21:1-9 Why I disagree with Tom Wright about the triumphal entry and divine kingship
Matthew 21:1-11 Did Jesus act as though he thought he were God?
Matthew 21:12-16 Did Jesus act as though he thought he were God?
Matthew 21:42-43 The stone rejected by the builders
Matthew 22:31-32 God not of the dead but of the living
Matthew 24:13-14 Will preaching the gospel to all the nations trigger the end?
Matthew 24:30-31 The symbolism of the Son of man coming on the clouds and the meaning of kingdom
Matthew 24:34-36 Concerning that day and hour no one knows
Matthew 25:1-13 The wise and foolish virgins
Matthew 25:31-46 The judgment of the sheep and the goats
Matthew 26:36-39 What did Jesus fear in Gethsemane?
Matthew 27:51-53 The resurrection of the sleeping saints from their tombs
Matthew 28:16-20 The not so Great Commission
Matthew 28:19 Trinitarian community
Mark 1:2-3 Jesus as Lord in Mark
Mark 1:10-11 The Holy Spirit 3: This is my beloved Son
Mark 1:17 Fishers of men
Mark 4:30-32 Reading the parable of the mustard seed after Christendom
Mark 4:30-32 The parable of the mustard seed
Mark 10:17 Eternal life and the story of Israel
Mark 11:15-17 Occupy London: what would Jesus have done?
Mark 11:23-24 Moving eschatological mountains?
Mark 13:24-27 Re-registering the coming of the Son of man
Mark 13:24-27 In those days, after that tribulation...
Mark 13:29 The coming of the Son of Man: theology or history?
Mark 13:29 He is near, at the doors
Mark 14:32-36 What did Jesus fear in Gethsemane?
Luke 1:13-17 The true meaning of Luke’s Christmas, part 1
Luke 1:30-35 The true meaning of Luke’s Christmas, part 2
Luke 1:35 The conception of Jesus, Trinity, and the search for an appropriate metaphysics: it’s nearly Christmas, after all
Luke 1:35 The Holy Spirit 1: Conceived by the Holy Spirit
Luke 1:46-55 The true meaning of Luke’s Christmas, part 3
Luke 1:67-79 The Benedictus of Zechariah
Luke 1:68-79 The true meaning of Luke’s Christmas, part 4
Luke 2:8-20 The true meaning of Luke’s Christmas, part 5
Luke 2:10-14 Good news for all the people
Luke 2:25-38 The true meaning of Luke’s Christmas, part 6
Luke 2:29-32 Simeon and the salvation of Israel before the eyes of the nations
Luke 2:29-32 A light for revelation to the Gentiles

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The coming of a ‘new world order’: why Jesus wasn’t wrong I had set out to respond rather briefly to some remarks made by paulf in a comment on my “The kingdom of God: not ‘now and not yet’” post, but in the excitement that response has swollen to the proportions of a whole new post. Paulf stated...
Douglas Campbell’s insufficiently apocalyptic reading of justification in Paul Having worked through the first part of Douglas Campbell’s The Deliverance of God I think at least one broad provisional judgment can be made with regard to his general approach. What Campbell has done so far is set out in a very thorough...
The history of biblical interpretation—a tale of two cities The history of biblical interpretation is a tale of two cities—not London and Paris (Dickens), or even Jerusalem and Athens (Tertullian), but Alexandria and Antioch. In the third and fourth centuries Alexandria stood for an allegorizing...