THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS. A solemn statement: AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT THERE BE SOME OF THEM THAT STAND HERE WHICH SHALL NOT TASTE OF DEATH TILL THEY HAVE SEEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD COME WITH POWER. These words were probably addressed to His disciples only, or at least sp... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER SIX DAYS JESUS TAKETH WITH HIM PETER AND JAMES AND JOHN, AND LEADETH THEM UP INTO AN HIGH MOUNTAIN APART BY THEMSELVES; AND HE WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The miracle of the transfiguration:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HIS RAIMENT BECAME SHINING, EXCEEDING WHITE AS SNOW, SO AS NO FULLER ON EARTH CAN WHITE THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE APPEARED UNTO THEM ELIAS WITH MOSES; AND THEY WERE TALKING WITH JESUS. Six days, or after a six-day interval from the day when Jesus gave His disciples and the people the solemn lesson regarding true discipleship, He added another item of preparation for some of those in His immediate neig... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PETER ANSWERED AND SAID TO JESUS, MASTER, IT IS GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE; AND LET US MAKE THREE TABERNACLES: ONE FOR THEE AND ONE FOR MOSES AND ONE FOR ELIAS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The revelation of God:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE WIST NOT WHAT TO SAY; FOR THEY WERE SORE AFRAID.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WAS A CLOUD THAT OVERSHADOWED THEM; AND A VOICE CAME OUT OF THE CLOUD, SAYING, THIS IS MY BELOVED SON; HEAR HIM. The effect of this singular experience was such as to put the disciples into a state of ecstasy; they were almost intoxicated with the glory of the singular appearance. They wer... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SUDDENLY, WHEN THEY HAD LOOKED ROUND ABOUT, THEY SAW NO MAN ANY MORE, SAVE JESUS ONLY WITH THEMSELVES.... [ Continue Reading ]
The end of the transfiguration:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY CAME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN, HE CHARGED THEM THAT THEY SHOULD TELL NO MAN WHAT THINGS THEY HAD SEEN TILL THE SON OF MAN WERE RISEN FROM THE DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY KEPT THAT SAYING WITH THEMSELVES, QUESTIONING ONE WITH ANOTHER WHAT THE RISING FROM THE DEAD SHOULD MEAN. Just as quickly as the miraculous appearance had begun, it also ended. The disciples, still half dazed, felt that the pall was lifted, and, looking about them, saw no one but Jesus alon... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING, WHY SAY THE SCRIBES THAT ELIAS MUST FIRST COME?... [ Continue Reading ]
A question of the disciples:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ANSWERED AND TOLD THEM, ELIAS VERILY COMETH FIRST AND RESTORETH ALL THINGS; AND HOW IT IS WRITTEN OF THE SON OF MAN THAT HE MUST SUFFER MANY THINGS AND BE SET AT NAUGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him. Peter, James, and John were still busy straightening out matters in their own understanding. They had seen Elijah on the mountain, there was no doubt about that. But now the sc... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE CAME TO HIS DISCIPLES, HE SAW A GREAT MULTITUDE ABOUT THEM, AND THE SCRIBES QUESTIONING WITH THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
CASTING OUT A DEAF-AND-DUMB SPIRIT. The return to the plain:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND STRAIGHTWAY ALL THE PEOPLE, WHEN THEY BEHELD HIM, WERE GREATLY AMAZED, AND, RUNNING TO HIM, SALUTED HIM. Jesus had been gone over night, leaving His other disciples (except Peter, James, and John) in the plain. It is immaterial, once more, whether they were in Galilee or still in the neighborhoo... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ASKED THE SCRIBES, WHAT QUESTION YE WITH THEM?... [ Continue Reading ]
The boy with the dumb spirit:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE OF THE MULTITUDE ANSWERED AND SAID, MASTER, I HAVE BROUGHT UNTO THEE MY SON, WHICH HATH A DUMB SPIRIT;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHERESOEVER HE TAKETH HIM, HE TEARETH HIM; AND HE FOAMETH, AND GNASHETH WITH HIS TEETH, AND PINETH AWAY. AND I SPAKE TO THY DISCIPLES THAT THEY SHOULD CAST HIM OUT; AND THEY COULD NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE ANSWERETH HIM AND SAITH, O FAITHLESS GENERATION, HOW LONG SHALL I BE WITH YOU? HOW LONG SHALL I SUFFER YOU? BRING HIM UNTO ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BROUGHT HIM UNTO HIM; AND WHEN HE SAW HIM, STRAIGHTWAY THE SPIRIT TARE HIM; AND HE FELL ON THE GROUND, AND WALLOWED FOAMING. As soon as Jesus came within speaking distance, He inquired about the cause of the disturbance. He asked not only the scribes, but all of them, What is all this dispu... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ASKED HIS FATHER, HOW LONG IS IT AGO SINCE THIS CAME UNTO HIM? AND HE SAID, OF A CHILD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The healing:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OFT TIMES IT HATH CAST HIM INTO THE FIRE AND INTO THE WATERS TO DESTROY HIM. BUT IF THOU CANST DO ANYTHING, HAVE COMPASSION ON US AND HELP US.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, IF THOU CANST BELIEVE; ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM THAT BELIEVETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND STRAIGHTWAY THE FATHER OF THE CHILD CRIED OUT, AND SAID WITH TEARS, LORD, I BELIEVE; HELP THOU MINE UNBELIEF.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN JESUS SAW THAT THE PEOPLE CAME RUNNING TOGETHER, HE REBUKED THE FOUL SPIRIT, SAYING UNTO HIM, THOU DUMB AND DEAF SPIRIT, I CHARGE THEE, COME OUT OF HIM, AND ENTER NO MORE INTO HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SPIRIT CRIED, AND RENT HIM SORE, AND CAME OUT OF HIM. AND HE WAS AS ONE DEAD, INSOMUCH THAT MANY SAID, HE IS DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS TOOK HIM BY THE HAND, AND LIFTED HIM UP; AND HE AROSE. The evangelist purposely records the details of the healing, in order to bring out all the more strongly the healing power of the Lord in contrast with the destructive power of the devil. Jesus made careful inquiries regarding the leng... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO THE HOUSE, HIS DISCIPLES ASKED HIM PRIVATELY, WHY COULD NOT WE CAST HIM OUT?... [ Continue Reading ]
The perplexity of the disciples:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, THIS KIND CAN COME FORTH BY NOTHING BUT BY PRAYER AND FASTING. The failure of the disciples to effect a cure in this case, when there had been instances of success, chapter 6:13, perplexed them very much. They had also been deeply humiliated before the people by the sneering r... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY DEPARTED THENCE AND PASSED THROUGH GALILEE; AND HE WOULD NOT THAT ANY MAN SHOULD KNOW IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LAST DISCOURSES OF CHRIST IN GALILEE. A second announcement of His Passion:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES AND SAID UNTO THEM, THE SON OF MAN IS DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF MEN, AND THEY SHALL KILL HIM; AND AFTER THAT HE IS KILLED, HE SHALL RISE THE THIRD DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THAT SAYING, AND WERE AFRAID TO ASK HIM. "Thence," from the country or region where they had been for some time; this points to Gaulanitis. They now made a journey through Galilee, their last trip with the Lord through these familiar scenes. He did no public preaching at this... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CAME TO CAPERNAUM; AND BEING IN THE HOUSE HE ASKED THEM, WHAT WAS IT THAT YE DISPUTED AMONG YOURSELVES BY THE WAY?... [ Continue Reading ]
The dispute concerning greatness:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEY HELD THEIR PEACE; FOR BY THE WAY THEY HAD DISPUTED AMONG THEMSELVES WHO SHOULD BE THE GREATEST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAT DOWN, AND CALLED THE TWELVE, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, IF ANY MAN DESIRE TO BE FIRST, THE SAME SHALL BE LAST OF ALL, AND SERVANT OF ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TOOK A CHILD AND SET HIM IN THE MIDST OF THEM; AND WHEN HE HAD TAKEN HIM IN HIS ARMS, HE SAID UNTO THEM,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSOEVER SHALL RECEIVE ONE OF SUCH CHILDREN IN MY NAME RECEIVETH ME; AND WHOSOEVER SHALL RECEIVE ME RECEIVETH NOT ME, BUT HIM THAT SENT ME. After the hurried trip through Galilee, Jesus returned to Capernaum with His disciples for the last time. Their theological training, however, was by no means... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JOHN ANSWERED HIM, SAYING, MASTER, WE SAW ONE CASTING OUT DEVILS IN THY NAME, AND HE FOLLOWETH NOT US; AND WE FORBADE HIM BECAUSE HE FOLLOWETH NOT US.... [ Continue Reading ]
An interruption:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS SAID, FORBID HIM NOT; FOR THERE IS NO MAN WHICH SHALL DO A MIRACLE IN MY NAME THAT CAN LIGHTLY SPEAK EVIL OF ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE THAT IS NOT AGAINST US IS ON OUR PART. John, gentle John, whose mildness and uniform charitableness has justly become proverbial, at this time was still a true "son of thunder," as Jesus had called him. His zeal and impetuosity was in danger of doing much more harm than good. He is eager to m... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL GIVE A CUP OF WATER TO DRINK IN MY NAME BECAUSE YE BELONG TO CHRIST, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, HE SHALL NOT LOSE HIS REWARD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ continues His lesson:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHOSOEVER SHALL OFFEND ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES THAT BELIEVE IN ME, IT IS BETTER FOR HIM THAT A MILLSTONE WERE HANGED ABOUT HIS NECK, AND HE WERE CAST INTO THE SEA.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF THY HAND OFFEND THEE, CUT IT OFF; IT IS BETTER FOR THEE TO ENTER INTO LIFE MAIMED THAN, HAVING TWO HANDS, TO GO INTO HELL, INTO THE FIRE THAT NEVER SHALL BE QUENCHED;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHERE THEIR WORM DIETH NOT, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED. After the interruption, Christ resumes His discourse. It is not always the big and mighty works in the kingdom of Christ, the miracles, that count and are credited. A small, incidental service, a cup of water offered in His name, to show a se... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF THY FOOT OFFEND THEE, CUT IT OFF; IT IS BETTER FOR THEE TO ENTER HALT INTO LIFE, THAN HAVING TWO FEET TO BE CAST INTO HELL, INTO THE FIRE THAT NEVER SHALL BE QUENCHED,... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion of Christ's discourse:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHERE THEIR WORM DIETH NOT, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF THINE EYE OFFEND THEE, PLUCK IT OUT; IT IS BETTER FOR THEE TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH ONE EYE, THAN, HAVING TWO EYES, TO BE CAST INTO HELL-FIRE,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHERE THEIR WORM DIETH NOT, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR EVERYONE SHALL BE SALTED WITH FIRE, AND EVERY SACRIFICE SHALL BE SALTED WITH SALT.... [ Continue Reading ]
SALT IS GOOD; BUT IF THE SALT HAVE LOST HIS SALTNESS, WHEREWITH WILL YE SEASON IT? HAVE SALT IN YOURSELVES, AND HAVE PEACE ONE WITH ANOTHER. Christ here mentions some other members that are very apt to offend, to commit sin, to lead others into sin. The law of sin is always active in our members. He... [ Continue Reading ]