Bible index

Use this page to search for posts that deal at some length with particular Bible passages. New Testament books are listed first. Currently it’s not possible to exclude books from the list that have no references, so occasionally you may come up with nothing.
Matthew
10:5-15 Fishers of people, labourers for the harvest, and the mission of Jesus’ disciples
10:15 Why will Sodom and Gomorrah be present on the day of God’s judgment against Israel?
10:28 The destruction of body and soul in gehenna
10:34-37 Not peace but a sword
11:8 Does Jesus have anything to say about homosexuality? Simple answer, no.
11:12-14 The kingdom of heaven and the men of violence
11:20-24 Why will Sodom and Gomorrah be present on the day of God’s judgment against Israel?
11:20-24 What will happen to the lost sheep who take offence at being found?
12:15-21 The Holy Spirit 4: The Spirit given to the servant of YHWH
12:15-16 Did Jesus believe that Gentiles would be included in the renewed people of God?
12:21 What does the New Testament teach us about hope?
12:29 Who binds the strong man? And why? And when? And how?
12:43-45 Seven spirits worse than the first
13:14-15 Why didn’t Jesus just come out and say it: God is going to punish you with violent destruction?
13:31-32 Reading the parable of the mustard seed after Christendom
13:34-35 The parables: Jesus was just being obtuse
13:35 Why didn’t Jesus just come out and say it: God is going to punish you with violent destruction?
13:36-43 The parable of the weeds and the question of hell
13:41-42 Why traditional eschatology is a failure of nerve
13:43 When Jesus goes off message: the righteous will shine like the sun
13:47-50 Fishers of people, labourers for the harvest, and the mission of Jesus’ disciples
13:47-50 The historical meaning of Jesus’ parable of the dragnet
13:47-50 Fishers of people and the judgment of Gehenna
13:52 Blessed are the narrative-historical interpreters: preaching the Beatitudes
15:21-28 Why did Jesus instruct his disciples not to preach the kingdom of God to Gentiles and Samaritans?
15:21-28 Why was Jesus so polite to the centurion and so rude to the Canaanite woman?
16:13-16 Who do men say that the Son of man is?
16:17-18 The gates of Hades will not prevail against it
16:19 The keys to the kingdom of heaven
16:27-28 Some standing here will not taste death...