Luke 2:41-52 “Notice what you notice.” So, a number of items today! The first jumped out at me in the first verse, an item we’ve read over many, many times: Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. “…every year…” Immediately I imagined Mary and Joseph on their trip …
Category Archives: RTB 2019 – Gospels – Notice What You Notice
January 14 / Matt. 2:22-23; Luke 2:39-40
Matthew 2:22-23 and Luke 2:39-40 “Notice what you notice.” Not much to say this morning, since nothing jumped out to me on my own, but there was an explanatory item in my Study Bible. In the NASB and NKVJ translations Matthew 2:23 has in quotation marks, “He shall be called a Nazarene.” The ESV has …
January 13 / Matt. 2:13-21
Matthew 2:13-21 “Notice what you notice.” Just two items… First, in Mt. 2:14, Joseph took Jesus and Mary “by night” and fled to Egypt. Clearly they were in danger and didn’t want anyone to know that they had left or where they were headed. Bethlehem was in the “hill country” of Judea, so it would …
January 12 / Matt. 2:1-12
Matthew 2:1-12 “Notice what you notice.” I think it’s what I had hoped for, that in reading only a few verses at each sitting we would see words and phrases and “concepts” that we had not noticed before – or had glossed over without really considering them further. Again today I report on three such …
January 11 / Luke 2:21-38
Luke 2:21-38 “Notice what you notice.” What’s blessing me today is how much our agreement to “deep think” these passages is linking them all together. Two items came up again that I had mentioned in earlier posts. The first was the work of the Holy Spirit. I had reflected on the work of the Holy …
January 10 / Luke 2:1-20
Luke 2:1-20 “Notice what you notice.” A couple of things today… First, my NKJV text had in verse 17 that the shepherds made it “widely known” what they had heard and seen. But that verse had a footnote that “widely” was omitted in (presumably) an earlier translation. To my mind the NKJV added “widely” because …
January 9 / Matt. 1:18-25
Matthew 1:18-25 “Notice what you notice.” Verse 25, “…until…”, as in “Joseph … kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a son.” I well remember from my Catholic childhood the phrase, “Blessed Mary ever virgin”. The obvious follow-up to that phrase is that Joseph never consummated his marriage to Mary, Jesus had no …
January 8 / Matt. 1:1-17
Matthew 1:1-17 “Notice what you notice.” Genealogies have always been a challenge to most Bible readers. That’s certainly the case for me, especially when I had prior knowledge that Matthew’s genealogy and Luke’s genealogy were quite different from each other. And after extolling Luke’s virtue a few days ago as a research historian, I found …
January 7 / Luke 1:67-80
Luke 1:67-80 “Notice what you notice.” I have probably noticed before, but never really took it to heart how much Zacharias’ prayer/prophecy is more about Jesus than John. Check it out – the only reference specifically to John is contained in one sentence in verses 76 and 77: “And you, child, will be called the …
January 6 / Luke 1:57-66
Luke 1:57-66 “Notice what you notice.” We’ve heard these birth narratives and read them so many times that they have become so very familiar to us. Sometimes it’s hard to find something new. But I am confident that in reading and re-reading these passages again and again that something will stand out for you. That …