This miracle, incomprehensible from the point of view of pure logic, has been exercising the minds of numerous theologians and commentators since the 19th century.
Malchus’ story is a small footnote in the Gospels, but it is rich with impact as it contains so much that is easily overlooked in the history changing narrative.
The dogs referred by Jesus in Matthew 7 were animals that belonged to no one, running wild and untamed, and consuming any waste that they could find, including corpses, which was why they were regarded as unclean.
It is on the cross that the character of Christ reaches its greatest splendour. During the hours of deepest darkness, his words shine like radiant gold.
My life is far too precious to me to settle for anything less than reliable truth.
Jesus demonstrates that doing good isn’t a six-day-a-week activity, it is something we should do whatever day it is.
Prepare and preach a sermon that has a fingerprint as unique as the passage it is based on.
What did the “Lordship” of Jesus mean for first century Christians?
The historian Mario Escobar describes historical aspects of the key week in the life of Jesus, whose historicity is sometimes questioned by sceptics.
It is on the cross that the character of Christ reaches its greatest splendour. During the hours of deepest darkness, his words shine like radiant gold.
Christians aged 30-39 write about Jesus in a book addressed to their own generation. The money raised will go to an anti-trafficking organisation.
Jesus is suggesting a deep and wide vision for how to change the world: individually and corporately, in the home and the workplace.
Dirk Jongkind, Research Fellow, Tyndale House, Cambridge, explains how the eyewitness accounts of the apostles and dicsciples shape the Gospels.
For years I sat and heard messages that seemed to be targeted at someone else (and often that someone else was not there). What a wasted opportunity.
Would it make any sense to live out a biblical faith today in 2015 knowing that Jesus did not really rise?
A small papyrus fragment containing words from the Book of Mark could end up being the earliest copy of a Christian gospel on record.
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