MATTHEW. CHAPTER XXVII. Jesus Crucified. SUMMARY.--Christ Delivered to Pilate. Judas Hangs Himself. Jesus Before Pilate. Barabbas and Christ. Pi...
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?5The apostle, having spoken in the end of the foregoing chapter concerning the resurrection, and the second coming of Christ, proceeds to spea...
Chapter?15In this chapter the apostle treats of that great article of Christianity?the resurrection of the dead. I. He establishes the certainty of ou...
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?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...
Chapter?18In the course of the foregoing chapter we left David in triumph; now in this chapter we have, I. The improvement of his triumphs; he soon be...
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?10This chapter is an ordination sermon, which our Lord Jesus preached, when he advanced his twelve disciples to the degree and dignity of apos...
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?3At the start of this chapter, concerning the baptism of John, begins the gospel (Mk.?1:1 ); what went before is but preface or introduction; ...
Chapter 5In this chapter the prophet, in God?s name, shows the people of God their transgressions, even the house of Jacob their sins, and the judgmen...
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?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?21David has now quite taken leave both of Saul?s court and of his camp, has bidden farewell to his alter idem?his other self, the beloved Jona...
ABSTINENCE abs'-ti-nens: Abstinence as a form of asceticism reaches back into remote antiquity, and is found among most ancient peoples. It may be d...
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?68This is a most excellent psalm, but in many places the genuine sense is not easy to come at; for in this, as in some other scriptures, there...
Chapter?3Wherein the apostle describes the duties of husbands and wives one to another, beginning with the duty of the wife (v.?1-7). He exhorts Chris...
Chapter?4We have here proper instructions given us (very proper to close the canon of the Old Testament with), I. Concerning the state of recompence a...