COMMENTARY:
: 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joss, and of Judah, and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at HIM. (4624 “offended” [skandalozo] means cause to sin, to be or become filled with disgust or revulsion for someone, cease … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with YOU, Jesus YOU son of the most high God? I adjure YOU by God, that YOU torment me not. (928 “torment” [basanizo] means to subject to unbearable pain, torture, vex, to be harassed, distressed, experience anguish, suffer, or testing.… Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 And HE taught them many things by parables and said to them in HIS doctrine. (1322 “doctrine” [didache] means teaching, instruction, content of what is taught, or precepts.)
DEVOTION: Doctrine seems to be a bad word today. The Greek word for doctrine is the same as our word for teach. Jesus … Read More
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: 5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he said unto the man, Stretch forth your hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. (4818 “grieved” [sullupeo] means feel sympathy, feel sorry for, be deeply … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 5 When Jesus saw their faith, HE said to the sick of the palsy, So your sins be forgiven you. (4102 “faith” [pistis] means strong confidence in, reliance on, what can be believed, trust, conviction, honesty, oath, assurance, fidelity.)
DEVOTION: In Jesus day it was thought that those who were sick or … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but HE shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. (907 “baptize” [baptize] means to cause to be engulfed or plunged into something (whether literal or figurative), cause religious experience, to wash, to ceremonially cleanse, to show purity and initiation into Christ through repentance, or involving special … Read More