Chapter?8In this chapter we have an account of the persecutions of the Christians, and the propagating of Christianity thereby. It was strange, but ve...
Chapter?15It is generally agreed that Christ?s discourse in this and the next chapter was at the close of the last supper, the night in which he was b...
Chapter?2The scope of the first two chapters of this epistle may be gathered from ch.?3:9 , We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they ar...
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?3In this chapter we have, I. A promise of the coming of the Messiah, and of his forerunner; and the errand he comes upon is here particularly ...
Chapter?61In this chapter, I. We are sure to find the grace of Christ, published by himself to a lost world in the everlasting gospel, under the type ...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have Christ?s exposition of the moral law, which he came not to destroy, but to fulfil, and to fill up, by his gospel. I. ...
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?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?13In this chapter we have, I. Some further promises relating to gospel-times. Here is a promise of the remission of sins (v.?1), of the reform...
Chapter?37This psalm is a sermon, and an excellent useful sermon it is, calculated not (as most of the psalms) for our devotion, but for our conversat...
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?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...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
Chapter 18We left the prophet Elijah wrapt up in obscurity. It does not appear that either the increase of the provision or the raising of the child h...
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?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?13Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in th...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. The discontent that was among the disciples about the distribution of the public charity (v.?1). II. The election...
Chapter?14John the Baptist had said concerning Christ, He must increase, but I must decrease, Jn.?3:30 . The morning-star is here disappearing, and th...