COMMENTARY:
: 15 And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. (2425 “content” [hikanos] means satisfy, act in a pleasing manner, befitting, or gratify.)
DEVOTION: People pleasers have been around for generations. Here we have a political leader who wants … Read More
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: 7 For you have the poor with you always, and when so ever you will you may do them good: but me you have not always. (4434 “poor” [ptochos] means beggar, asking alms, destitute of wealth, lowly, afflicted, needy, of little value, inferior, lacking in anything, or relatively worthless.)
DEVOTION: Jesus was … Read More
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: 11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. (3191 “premeditate” [meletao] means to care for, … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 11 This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes? (2298 “marvelous” [thaumastos] means wonderful, worthy of pious admiration, excellent, causing amazement joined with terror, surprising, extraordinary, or remarkable.)
DEVOTION: God can take something that no one wants and make it an important part of the building. The religious leaders … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna, Blessed is HE that comes in the name of the Lord. (5614 “Hosanna” [hosanna] means be propitious, “Save I pray”, ‘help, I pray”, Save us, please!, exclamation of praise, implying rulership, or an exclamation of adoration.)
DEVOTION: Remember Jesus … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. (4641 “hardness of heart” [sklerokardia] means stubbornness, coldness, completely unyielding, unwillingness to understand, obstinacy, or obduracy.)
DEVOTION: The children of Israel were stubborn. The children of Israel were cold in their relationship to each … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 And HE said to them, Verily I say to 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. (1089 “taste” [geuomai] means experience, partake of, make trail of, to come to an inward awareness of, … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, Why does this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation. (389 “sighed deeply” [anastenazo] means groan deeply, sigh intently, give a deep groan, or to groan aloud.)
DEVOTION: When you read … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. (3201 “fault” [memphomai] means to blame, to scold, to upbraid, censure, to impute as blameworthy, or chide.)
DEVOTION: Remember that the Pharisees added commandments to those the LORD gave … Read More
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