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17also, grasp the helmet of the salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is God’s Word spoken;ρημα (rather than λογος)—the implication appears to be that we must speak the Word. Well, how else can you use the ‘Sword’?

18praying at all times in the Spirit, using every prayer and petition, yes being watchful to this end with all perseverance and petition for all the saints

24The grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.Evidently "the grace" is not for everybody. Amen.

6He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He told you while still in Galilee,

39Look at my hands and feet; it is I myself! Feel me and see; a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."

53and they were continually in the temple,Jesus had declared that God had abandoned that temple, so why did they still go there? It was a logical place to evangelize Jews, if that was their object. It was also the largest meeting place in town, presumably. But subsequent events show clearly that they still regarded it as ‘God’s house’, a special place for worshiping. I would say that this became a snare to them. praising andA mere handful (0.4%) of the Greek manuscripts, of objectively inferior quality, omit "praising and" (as in NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc.). blessing God. Amen.Some 50% of the Greek manuscripts have a colophon that says, "published fifteen years after the ascension of Christ". For 50% of the MSS to have this information probably means that the tradition is ancient. If this information is correct, then Luke was ‘published’ in 45/46 AD. The same sources have Matthew published seven years earlier (38/39) and Mark five years earlier (40/41), while John was ‘published’ thirty-two years after the ascension, or 61/62 AD. Not only were the authors eyewitnesses of the events, but many others were still alive when the Gospels appeared. They could attest to the veracity of the accounts, but could also be the source of textual variants, adding tidbits here and there, or ‘correcting’ something that they remembered differently.

25Jesus said to her: "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live;

26and everyone who both lives and believes into me will never ever die.The verb ‘die’ in verse 25 refers to physical death, in verse 26 it refers to spiritual death, while the verb ‘live’ refers to spiritual life (although one might translate the Text as ‘will not die forever’, rather than "will never ever die", indicating that physical death is temporary). Note that ‘lives’ and ‘believes into’ are in the present tense, and then note the word ‘both’. Once you have life in Christ, you need to keep on believing. Do you believe this?"

39Jesus says, "Remove the stone!" Martha, the sister of the deceased, says to Him, "Lord, he already stinks; it’s been four days!"That is just what she said. Hey, at that moment Martha was not thinking about how it would read 2,000 years later! She reacted instinctively and blurted it out. Being a practical person she wanted to avoid further distress.

4saying, "I sinned, by betraying innocent blood." But they said: "What do we care? It’s your problem!"

11So Jesus stood before the governor. And the governor asked Him saying, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "As you say."

42"He saved others; himself he cannot save!" "If he is ‘King of Israel’ let him come down from the cross now and we will believe him!"This was a lie; they already knew that Jesus was the Messiah but had deliberately rejected Him. However, if Jesus had descended from the cross (as presumably He had the power to do) we would be without hope. The people were being satanically nasty, but Jesus was totally committed to the Father’s will and thus the redemptive program was not aborted.

2I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or outside of it, I do not know, God knows.

11I have been boasting foolishly, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, because in nothing have I been inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

19Do you still think that we are defending ourselves to you? It is before God we speak, in Christ; but all of it, dear ones, is with a view to your edification.

18No problem: in every way, be it in pretense or in truth,The Bible is clear to the effect that the means, not just the end, must be appropriate to God’s character, so this statement seems a bit strange. Within the community of faith deviations can be treated quite severely, but perhaps for what we might term ‘pre-evangelism’, getting people who have never heard of Him before to start thinking about Christ, there may be some leeway. Further, Matthew 20:1-16 makes clear that God is prepared to use a variety of types of worker. Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice—yes, and will rejoice.

20according to my earnest expectation and hope that I will not be put to shame in anything but be truly bold, so that now as always Christ will be glorified in my person, whether by life or by deathAlthough it appears that Paul actually hoped to be freed from prison, he is prepared to die. His main concern is not to do anything that will shame his Master.

21—to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.How can death be a gain? Only if you live for Christ.

10Have you not even read this Scripture:‘The stone that the builders rejected,is the very one that became the cornerstone;

11this was the Lord's doing,and it is marvelous in our eyes’?"See Psalm 118:22-23.

29Jesus answered him:I take it that Jesus answered without hesitation—this one was easy. "The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord yourI follow the best line of transmission in reading ‘your’, albeit some 75% of the Greek manuscripts have ‘our’, as in all versions. (pl) God, the Lord is one;

3begging a favor from him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem—preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.Those guys were really good haters!

26But I have nothing certain to write to my lord concerning him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the examination I may have something to write.

21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its ‘wisdom’ did not get to know God, it pleased God to save the believing ones through the ‘foolishness’ of what was preached—

29so that no flesh should boast in God’s presence.This is the bottom line. Several times the Text declares that God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. "Flesh" here refers to human beings.

30It is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God—also righteousness and sanctification and redemptionWe receive Christ’s righteousness to get started; the sanctification is to keep us clean along the road; the redemption is the final victory. Now really, isn’t that a wonderful salvation? Thank you, Jesus!—

25So He said to them, "Where is your faith?"In other words, He is telling them that they could, and should, have done something about it themselves. Had we been there, would we have done any better? But being terrified they marveled, saying to each other: "Who can this be?This puzzles me; after all the miracles they had seen, they still wonder who Jesus is! Well, maybe controlling nature is in a ‘higher league’ than controlling sickness and demons. Still, what were the options: human, angel (good or bad), or God. Because He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!"

43And a woman—suffering with a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent her whole livelihood on physicians, but could not be healed by any—

48So He said: "Courage, daughter, your faith has healed you. Go into peace."Again, ‘into’ not ‘in’. Her life was now going to be different. Perhaps 1.5% of the Greek manuscripts, of objectively inferior quality, omit "courage" (as in NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc.).

7of which I became a servant according to the gift of God’s grace, the gift given to me according to the outworking of His power.

172) Christ to dwell in your hearts through the Faith, having been rooted and established in love

21to Him be the glory in the Church in Christ Jesus, to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.The glory that God gets from the Church will go on forever.

3Then Mary, bringing a pound of pure oil of nard, very costly, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped His feet with her hair!She has obviously forgiven Him for letting her brother die, and might even have been making amends for having doubted Him. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

13took branches from palm trees and went out to meet Him. And they started shouting:"Hosanna!""Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!"This is a quote from Psalm 118:26, where "the Lord" is Jehovah."King of Israel!"Comparing the parallel accounts, we get a better idea of the variety of expression: "Hosanna to the Son of David!" "Hosanna in the highest!" "Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that comes in the name of the Lord!" "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"

26If anyone would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, my servant will be too.If we want to be where Jesus is, we need to stick close to Him. (Well, you know, that’s really kind of obvious, but how many of us do it?) Further, if anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.Each underlined pronoun corresponds to an emphatic pronoun in the Original Text. What the Lord did here was quite unusual; in other places He emphasized one pronoun, but not five in a row, and especially with all five referring to Himself! So what was He trying to tell us? I take it that He is telling us to focus on HIM, his person and our relationship to Him. He needs to be number one, without competition. He is talking about total commitment, but not without recompense—"the Father will honor him."

37So Jesus said to him:Evidently Jesus answered without hesitation; this one was easy! " ‘You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.’See Deuteronomy 6:5, 10:12.

39And the second is like it, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’See Leviticus 19:18. Jesus gave him more than he asked for.

42saying, "What do you think about the Christ; whose Son is He?" They say to Him, "David’s."

4rather we commend ourselves as God’s servants in every way with great endurance—in afflictions, in hardships, in distress,

7by truthful speech, by God’s power, with the weapons of the righteousness in the right hand and in the left;Why right and left? A right-handed soldier would have a shield in his left hand, for defense, with a sword or spear in his right, for offense—our weapons are for both offense and defense.

8through glory and dishonor, through defamation and good repute; as ‘deceivers’ and true,

17‘It will be in the last days, says God:I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh;your sons and your daughters will prophesy;your young men will see visions;your old men will dream a dream."Visions" is plural, but "dream" is singular, in the Text (albeit 15% of the Greek manuscripts do have ‘dreams’). When I was young I had all sorts of ‘visions’ of what I thought I was going to achieve in my lifetime. Now that I am old I am pretty well reduced to one ‘dream’. One’s focus must accompany his energy level. (My personal experience is probably not the intended meaning of the Text, but I am not sure what it might be—do all old men have the same dream?)

35until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’

47praising God and having favor with all the people. And day by day the Lord addedNotice who does the adding, and He cannot be deceived. to the ChurchThree percent of the Greek manuscripts, of inferior quality, omit "to the Church" (as in NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc.). those who were being saved.

19They kept hitting Him on the head with a rodThis drove the thorns into His scalp, and since they were probably poisonous, His face began to swell. and spitting on Him, and kneeling down they would ‘worship’ Him.

20When they had ridiculed Him, they took the purple off Him and put His own clothes on Him. Then they led Him out to crucify Him.

39Well when the centurion, who was standing opposite Him, saw that He breathed out His spirit after giving such a loud shout,A mere handful (0.4%) of the Greek manuscripts, of objectively inferior quality, omit ‘after giving a loud shout’, to be followed by NASB and LB. he said, "This man really was God’s Son!"Any centurion would be a hardened soldier, who had seen no end of crucifixions. He knew that a cross killed by asphyxiation. Hanging from the hands, with the arms stretched out, pushes the diaphragm against the lungs so you can’t breathe. Nailing the feet was a sadistic procedure to prolong the agony—even though painful, the victim would push up so he could get a breath, until finally too worn out to do so. Breaking the legs would put an end to that expedient, and the person died within a few minutes, asphyxiated. Someone who is dying asphyxiated does not shout. Since Jesus gave a loud shout, but then immediately died, the centurion knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that the cross had not killed Jesus (later, when Joseph asks for the body, Pilate is surprised that Jesus could already be dead). But who can just tell his spirit to leave? Putting two and two together, the centurion concluded that Jesus was a supernatural being. Just so!

21just wanting to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table—why even the dogs would come and lick his sores!In fact the dogs were doing him a favor, since canine saliva is good for sores.

28because I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’I find it interesting that he was concerned for his brothers; we can’t say, "Better late than never", since it made no difference.

29Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’

4But God—being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

5even when we were dead in our transgressions—made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)

10You see, we are His ‘poem’,The English word ‘poem’ comes from the Greek word here, ποιημα, and is one of its meanings. Just as each poem is an individual creation of the poet, so we are individual creations, not produced by a production line in a factory. created in Christ Jesus for good works,We are not saved by good works, but for good works. We do good works because we are saved, and if you don’t… which God prepared in advance in order that we should walk in them."Prepared in advance"—I imagine that this refers to God’s moral code, the rules of conduct that everyone should follow (if everyone did we would not need jails, rescue missions, etc.).

2For I determined to ‘know’ nothing while among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

5so that your faith not be in men’s wisdom, but in God’s power.How many missionaries and pastors today are following Paul’s example? How many of us know how to demonstrate God’s power? Faith is to be based on power, not human wisdom. If we don’t know how to use God’s power, we had better cry out to Him until we learn how. Certain theological systems virtually condemn their adherents to never use God’s power.

7but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hiddenIn the Bible a ‘mystery’ is something hidden, something yet to be revealed, not something ‘mysterious’. wisdom that God ordained before the ages for our glory,

10Jesus says to him: "One who is bathed has no need except to wash his feet, but is clean all over. And you (pl) are clean, but not all of you."

14So then, if I, Lord and Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

37Peter says to Him: "Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake!"