Bible Commentaries

Genesis 15:1-21 — Now after these things ( Genesis 15:1 ) That is, after the battle against these kings, after the meeting of Melchizedek, after the refusal of taking the reward and so forth from the king of Sodom. the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying,

Exodus 24:1-18 — Chapter 24 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. And Moses alone shall come near to the Lord: but thou shalt not come near; neither shall the people

1 Chronicles 11:1-47 — Chapter 11David became the king, and so in chapter eleven, All of Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron ( 1 Chronicles 11:1 ), And it tells the numbers of people that gathered. Huge force of people from all of the tribes gathered to David. Hundreds

Psalms 1:1-6 — Shall we turn to the Psalms, beginning tonight with the first psalm. The Psalms are actually divided into five books. It was really the hymnbook for the nation of Israel. They were sung in their original forms. In the Psalms there is really much prophecy,

Isaiah 61:1-11 — Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah 61:1-11 . We are told in the New Testament that the Old Testament prophets many times wrote of things that they did not really understand. Earnestly desiring, really, to look into these things, but they wrote

Matthew 11:1-30 — Chapter 11 Now it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of these commandments, he departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities ( Matthew 11:1 ). So He sent them out in front of them, and then He departed and was following up now, and

Matthew 21:1-46 — Chapter 21 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, they were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, and then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately you're going to find an ass tied, and

Luke 3:1-38 — Shall we turn to Luke's gospel chapter 3.As Luke begins the third chapter, he is giving you the date of the beginning of the ministry of John the Baptist, and he uses no less than six historic references points to tell you when John began his ministry. It

Luke 7:1-50 — Let's turn now in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 7. At this point in Luke's gospel he is going to give us series of events, miracles that transpired in the life of Jesus. When he ended these sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into

John 13:1-38 — Let's turn to the thirteenth chapter of the gospel according to John. We have come into a new section of the gospel of John, which carries us through chapter 17. And chapters 13 through 17 cover a period of approximately thirty-six hours or so. Probably

John 18:1-40 — Shall we turn to John's gospel, chapter 18. Jesus has finished His prayer, which we mentioned last week should properly be entitled the Lord's Prayer. And now, from wherever this prayer was offered, maybe it was on the temple precincts itself, as the

John 19:1-42 — Chapter 19 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him ( John 19:1 ). The scourging was a whipping that was done to examine the prisoners. It was a third degree technique of the Roman Empire. They did not have amnesty in those days, or human

John 21:1-25 — Chapter 21 Now after these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and this is how it happened. There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus [the twin], and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons

John 4:1-54 — Chapter 4 Now when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself baptized none, but his disciples,) ( John 4:1 ) Now this can mean one of two things. Jesus baptized not, but His

John 9:1-41 — Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the gospel according to John, chapter 9.Jesus had been having a dispute with the Pharisees in the temple at the time of the Feast of the Tabernacles, six months or so before the Passover in which He was crucified.

1 Thessalonians 2:1-20 — Chapter 2 FOR yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain ( 1 Thessalonians 2:1 ): Now, Paul evidently had quite an entrance to the city of Thessalonica for he makes reference to it three times here in the first, in

1 Timothy 3:1-16 — Tonight we will be studying First Timothy three and four. It is interesting as Paul writes to Timothy on several occasions, he uses phrases that are interesting to me. He said, This is a faithful saying, it's worthy of all acceptation. Here he says,

2 Timothy 1:1-18 — Shall we turn now to second Timothy? This is the last epistle that Paul wrote. He is again in prison in Rome. It would seem that he was released from the first imprisonment and allowed a little more time of liberty to preach the Gospel. And putting

1 Peter 4:1-19 — Chapter 4 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us ( 1 Peter 4:1 ) That is, has gone to the cross. in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered ( 1 Peter 4:1 ) Or come to the cross as far as His flesh is concerned. hath

Revelation 4:1-11 — Revelation chapter four begins with the Greek word "meta autos". And the first verse begins and ends with the same Greek words. The words literally from the Greek are "after these things". So as we come to this phrase, "after these things," our minds