Jeremiah 6:8 Explained
Jeremiah 6:8 is a warning. The LORD calls on Jerusalem to accept correction now, before its judgment becomes complete and the city is left empty.
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Hebrews 9:4 Explained
Hebrews 9:4 describes the furniture inside the inner room of the ancient tabernacle, the Most Holy Place, and names the sacred objects kept there: a...
Mark 4:28 Explained
Mark 4:28 teaches that growth in God's work happens in stages, the way a field produces grain: first a blade, then a stalk, then a full head of grain.
Luke 2:48 Explanation
Luke 2:48 records Mary's words when she finds her twelve-year-old son Jesus in the Jerusalem temple after three days of searching.
Hebrews 7:17 Context
Hebrews 7:17 says that Jesus is a priest who lasts forever, in the same kind of priesthood as Melchizedek, an ancient figure who appears briefly in...
Exodus 5:16 Meaning: Why the Burden Falls on the Oppressed
Exodus 5:16 is the complaint of Israel's foremen, who are being beaten for failing to meet brick quotas that Pharaoh's overseers have made impossible by...
Acts 4:16 Explained
Acts 4:16 records the Jewish council's private admission that the healing of a lame man by Peter and John was a real, public miracle that no one in...
Romans 4:12 Explanation
Romans 4:12 says that Abraham is the spiritual father of two groups: those who are circumcised and also walk in Abraham's faith, and by implication the...
Luke 2:21 Explanation
Luke 2:21 tells us that when the baby's eighth day arrived and he was circumcised, the family gave him the name Jesus, the name the angel had already...
Mark 3:14 Context
Mark 3:14 tells us that Jesus deliberately chose twelve followers with two purposes in mind: first, that they would be with him, and second, that he would...