The paradox of Jesus has puzzled many. He surely means that John is greater ( meizōn ) than all others in character, but that the least in the kingdom of heaven ...

How small are the remains of it, and how great the ruins of it! The Lord renew it upon our souls by his sanctifying grace! That man was made male and female, ...

One should not miss the dramatic contrast between the Beloved's eagerness to see her lover in 2:8-11 and her apathy about his approach on this evening in 5:2-8.

Wesley: Eze 1:11 - Divided So each face appeared distinct above the shoulders, and there the wings divided from each other were united to the body of the living ...

In the Hebrew it means by common Hebrew parallelism "upon an ass, even upon a colt."That is obviously the meaning here in Matthew. The use of hupozugiou (a ...

The Baptist saw the Spirit come on Jesus at his baptism and undoubtedly heard the Father' s voice hail him as "My Beloved Son"(Mar 1:11; Mat 3:17; Luk 3:22).

... Hebrew prophets. Consequently the Epistles, penned by men who had experienced a great redemption and the marvelous intellectual emancipation and quickening ...

God indeed promises that we shall be saved, but yet our adversaries prevail, and treat us with the utmost scorn and cruelty; where then is that salvation which ...

Symbol of the Jewish Church: not a stately cedar, but a lowly, though fragrant, myrtle. It was its depressed state that caused the Jews to despond; this vision ...

Wesley: Zec 12:11 - In that day When the Jews shall mourn for their sins, and for that great sin, crucifying the Lord of glory.