Chapter?3In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s discourse with Nicodemus, a Pharisee, concerning the great mysteries of the gospel, in which he here pri...
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?18Hitherto this evangelist has recorded little of the history of Christ, only so far as was requisite to introduce his discourses; but now tha...
Chapter?66The scope of this chapter is much the same as that of the foregoing chapter and many expressions of it are the same; it therefore looks the ...
Chapter?10The dissolving of the peculiar church-state of the Jews, and the rejection of that polity by the repealing of their ceremonial law, the vaca...
Chapter?5We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts.?1:1 . These two are interwoven, because what ...
Chapter?19Though in the history hitherto this evangelist seems industriously to have declined the recording of such passages as had been related by th...
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?1Evidence given concerning Christ?s person and excellency (v.?1, v.?2). The knowledge thereof gives us communion with God and Christ (v.?3), a...
Chapter?13In the close of the foregoing chapter we left Jeroboam attending his altar at Beth-el, and there we find him in the beginning of this, when ...
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...
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?8The evangelist having, in the foregoing chapters, given us a specimen of our Lord?s preaching, proceeds now to give some instances of the mir...
Chapter?1In this chapter we may observe, I. The preface and introduction to the whole epistle, to v.?16. II. A description of the deplorable condition...
Chapter?31Job had often protested his integrity in general; here he does it in particular instances, not in a way of commendation (for he does not her...
Chapter?8The affections between Christ and his spouse are as strong and lively here, in this closing chapter of the song, as ever, and rather more so....
Chapter?2In this chapter we have three sermons preached by the prophet Haggai for the encouragement of those that are forward to build the temple. In ...
Chapter?5The apostle, having spoken in the end of the foregoing chapter concerning the resurrection, and the second coming of Christ, proceeds to spea...
Chapter?23In the foregoing chapter, we had our Saviour?s discourses with the scribes and Pharisees; here we have his discourse concerning them, or rat...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XIV. The Miracles Beyond and Upon the Sea of Galilee. SUMMARY.--Herod's Opinion of Christ. The Death of John the Baptist. Jesus C...