Exploring the Scriptures Together
Matthew 21:12-17, Mark 11:12-19, and Luke 19:45-48 Yesterday’s pictorial image was well received, so here’s another – a close-up of the Temple. The Chronological Study Bible indicates that the full Temple was 500 yards long and 325 yards wide. Inside that larger Temple was another structure measuring 150 yards by 100 yards. To the lower …
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Luke 19:28-44 The Pharisees have long had problems with Jesus, but their complaint in verse 39 is too much: And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” The crowd is not in the Temple region or in a closed environment; they are gathered out in the open air, …
Matthew 21:1-11 and Mark 11:1-11 Did you ever finally come to a realization of something that was totally obvious? This whole Palm Sunday scenario… My Study Bible pointed out that with Jesus’ actions in both Matthew and Mark Jesus is being Messianic Himself. He knows that His time has come and He knows that His …
John 12:1-19 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and had been done to Him. (v. 16) During Jesus’ Last Supper discourse He tells His disciples about the Holy Spirit and that the Father will send the …
Luke 19:1-27 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.” (v. 8) I was thinking of Zacchaeus in contrast to the incident of Jesus and the earlier young man, the “rich, young ruler”. Zacchaeus …
Date Reading(s) Verses 01-May Luke 19:1-27 27 02-May John 12:1-19 19 03-May Matt. 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11 22 04-May Luke 19:28-44 17 05-May Matt. 21:12-17, Mark 11:12-19, Luke 19:45-48 18 06-May Matt. 21:18-32 15 07-May Mark 11:20-33, Luke 20:1-8 22 08-May Matt. 21:33-46 14 09-May Matt. 22:1-22 22 10-May Mark 12:1-17 17 11-May Luke 20:9-26 18 …
Matthew 20:29-34, Mark 10:46-52, and Luke 18:35-43 And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God. (Luke 18:43b) Two years ago we read these three passages on three consecutive days, and on the second day, Mark’s version, I commented on the crowd’s reaction to Bartimaeus begging Jesus to be healed. See the …
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Matthew 20:17-28, Mark 10:32-45, and Luke 18:31-34 We have some chronological problems with today’s setting. From yesterday’s reading, John 11:54 puts Jesus in a city called Ephraim; scholars put that city some 15 miles north or northwest from Jerusalem. So what is the mother of James and John doing this far south from Capernaum (some …
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John 11:38-57 Many of the Jews therefore … believed in Him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. (vv. 45a,46) In my posts two days ago my comments from 2019 had included a discussion of who “the Jews” were. All along I’ve suggested that when John refers …
John 11:17-37 So now I can’t see the name “Lazarus” without thinking about John S.’s argument that Lazarus may have written the Gospel of John. Further support for that argument has to do with the amount of time that John’s Gospel has Jesus in Judea and the fact that Lazarus was from Bethany, only two …