The context is illuminating When the Lord asked questions, it was not for the purpose of obtaining information for his own use, but to educate his audience in some aspect of truth not fully comprehended by them. An excellent example …
Jesus said, “Go ye into the highways and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled”. A casual reading of this verse may cause us to wonder why Jesus used the word “compel”, for we know it …
Sincerity is much admired and an altogether lovely virtue, the extent of which is more clearly appreciated by the meaning behind the word “eilikrineia’ and its adjective krines”. The derivation of these words in Greek is not certain but two …
At some time or another we have all experienced the deep sense of peace prevailing while contemplating something sublime. We have, perhaps, observed the the first flush of dawn steal over the slumbering hills, in the manner poetically expressed by …
Try to imagine the gospels minus the parables, and in so doing, fifty percent. of the weight of argument is lost. Consider Jesus using the parable in the offensive. He is surrounded by a group of followers, mostly the uneducated …
The New English Bible, like other modern translations, can be helpful if used with discretion. The translators have sought to express clearly in modern English the ideas that they think the original writers wished to express in Greek. In a …