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

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Luke 2:29-32 Interpreters of the New Testament should show more respect for boundaries
Luke 3:16-17 The Holy Spirit 2: He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire
Luke 3:21-22 The Holy Spirit 3: This is my beloved Son
Luke 4:16-19 The Holy Spirit 4: The Spirit given to the servant of YHWH
Luke 4:16-21 The Holy Spirit 3: This is my beloved Son
Luke 12:4-5 Killed and thrown into Gehenna
Luke 12:49 I came to cast a fire on the earth
Luke 13:1-5 The killing of the Galileans and the collapse of the tower in Siloam
Luke 13:18-19 Reading the parable of the mustard seed after Christendom
Luke 13:22-24 Are those being saved few?
Luke 15:11-32 The lost and the unlost in the parable of the prodigal son
Luke 15:11-32 Kester Brewin on the failed “mutiny” of the prodigal son
Luke 15:11-32 Who is the father in the parable of the prodigal son?
Luke 16:16 The kingdom of heaven and the men of violence
Luke 16:19-31 The rich man and Lazarus, and what the story tells us about hell
Luke 16:19-31 More on the rich man and Lazarus and the question of “hell”
Luke 17:20-21 The kingdom of God is in the midst of you. Or is it?
Luke 18:1-8 The widow’s prayer
Luke 18:18 Eternal life and the story of Israel
Luke 19:1-10 Discipleship means giving up everything to follow Jesus. Or does it?
Luke 19:8-10 Who is the father in the parable of the prodigal son?
Luke 19:11-27 Misreading the parable of the minas from the post-Christendom margins
Luke 22:35-38 Numbered with the transgressors
Luke 22:41-44 What did Jesus fear in Gethsemane?
John 1:1-18 The Word became flesh: John and the historical Jesus
John 3:1-15 What does it mean to be “born again”?
John 8:6-8 Why did Jesus write on the ground?
John 10:35 In what sense are we "bound to what the New Testament teaches"?
John 11:47-53 The death of Jesus for the nation
John 12:23-26 The grain of wheat that falls and dies
John 14:6 I am the way and the truth and the life
John 19:28-30 It is finished
Acts 1:6-8 The restoration of the kingdom to Israel
Acts 1:9-11 The going and coming of Jesus with the clouds of heaven
Acts 2:1-41 The Holy Spirit 5: the eschatological significance of Pentecost
Acts 2:14-40 Joel and the day of Pentecost
Acts 4:12 No other name by which we should be saved
Acts 4:31 The Holy Spirit 6: The power to speak with boldness
Acts 10:1-48 The Holy Spirit 7: The Gentiles get in on the action
Acts 10:22 Righteous Gentiles and their justification by works

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