Chapter?7In this chapter, I. Christ, the royal bridegroom, goes on to describe the beauties of his spouse, the church, in many instances, and to expre...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XXVI. The Preparation for the Lord's Death. SUMMARY.--The Declaration to the Disciples That the Time Was at Hand. The Wicked Co...
Chapter?5The last news we had of Haman left him in his cups, 3:15. Our last news of queen Esther left her in tears, fasting and praying. Now this chap...
Chapter?1The first part of Moses?s farewell sermon to Israel begins with this chapter, and is continued to the latter end of the fourth chapter. In th...
Chapter?53The two great things which the Spirit of Christ in the Old-Testament prophets testified beforehand were the sufferings of Christ and the glo...
The Gospel According to Peter 1 But of the Jews none washed his hands, neither Herod nor any one of his judges. And when they had refused to wash them...
JOHN. CHAPTER I. The Beginning of Christ's Ministry. SUMMARY.--The Word Made Flesh. The Witness of John. John's Disciples Pointed to Christ. The...
Chapter?3I. The apostle exhorts us to set our hearts upon heaven and take them off from this world (v.?1-4). II. He exhorts to the mortification of si...
Chapter?5In this chapter the apostle asserts, I. The dignity of believers (v.?1). II. Their obligation to love, and the trial of it (v.?1-3). III. The...
Chapter?7God having set up house (as it were) in the midst of the camp of Israel, the princes of Israel here come a visiting with their presents, as t...
Chapter?11Hitherto things had gone pretty well in Israel; little interruption had been given to the methods of God?s favour to them since the matter o...
Chapter?12In this chapter, we have, I. Christ?s clearing of the law of the fourth commandment concerning the sabbath-day, and vindicating it from some...
Chapter?49This psalm is a sermon, and so is the next. In most of the psalms we have the penman praying or praising; in these we have him preaching; an...
Chapter?91Some of the ancients were of opinion that Moses was the penman, not only of the foregoing psalm, which is expressly said to be his, but also...
Chapter?14The former chapter directed the priests how to convict a leper of ceremonial uncleanness. No prescriptions are given for his cure; but, when...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XXI. Christ Entering Jerusalem. SUMMARY.--The Lord Leaves Bethany to Enter Jerusalem. The Charge to the Two Disciples. The Fulf...
Chapter?6The closing words of the foregoing chapter gave us some hopes that God and his Israel, notwithstanding their sins and his wrath, might yet be...
Chapter?11In this chapter we have, I. Peter?s necessary vindication of what he did in receiving Cornelius and his friends into the church, from the ce...
Chapter?13In this chapter, we have, I. The favour which Christ did to his countrymen in preaching the kingdom of heaven to them (v.?1-2). He preached ...
Chapter?10This chapter is an ordination sermon, which our Lord Jesus preached, when he advanced his twelve disciples to the degree and dignity of apos...