Chapter?13Our Saviour having finished his public discourses, in which he endured the contradiction of sinners,?? now applies himself to a private conv...
Chapter?22This chapter is a continuation of Christ?s discourses in the temple, two or three days before he died. His discourses then are largely recor...
Chapter?4John Baptist said concerning Christ, He must increase, but I must decrease; and so it proved. For, after John had baptized Christ, and borne ...
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?8Most of this chapter is a repetition of divers passages of Christ?s preaching and miracles which we had before in Matthew and Mark; they are ...
Chapter?23The close of the foregoing chapter left Paul in the high priest?s court, into which the chief captain (whether to his advantage or no I know...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. The miracle of the loaves (v.?1-14). II. Christ?s walking upon the water (v.?15-21). III. The people?s flocking a...
Chapter?11In this chapter we have, I. The constant and unwearied diligence of our Lord Jesus in his great work of preaching the gospel (v.?1). II. His...
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?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 ...
IV. ST PAUL AND SENECA. HPHE earliest of the Latin fathers, Tertullian, writing about a Senecatra-*- century and a half after the death of Seneca, ...
Chapter?28In the foregoing chapters, we saw the Captain of our salvation engaged with the powers of darkness, attacked by them, and vigorously attacki...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. Christ confirming the doctrine he had preached in the former chapter, with two glorious miracles?the curing of on...
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?10It is a turn very new and remarkable which the story of this chapter gives to the Acts of the apostles; hitherto, both at Jerusalem and ever...
Chapter?10In this chapter we have, I. The ample commission which Christ gave to the seventy disciples to preach the gospel, and to confirm it by mirac...
Chapter?27It is a very affecting story which is recorded in this chapter concerning the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus. Considering the thing ...
Chapter?7When our Lord Jesus called his apostles out to be employed in services and sufferings for him, he told them that yet the last should be first...
Chapter?17This chapter is a prayer, it is the Lord?s prayer, the Lord Christ?s prayer. There was one Lord?s prayer which he taught us to pray, and did...
Chapter?22All the evangelists, whatever they omit, give us a particular account of the death and resurrection of Christ, because he died for our sins ...