Bible Commentaries

1 Kings 17:1-24 — By Chuck SmithLet's turn to the First Kings, chapter seventeen.The seventeenth chapter of First Kings introduces us now to a very interesting character, Elijah the Tishbite, whatever Tishbite means. Now Elijah came from the area of Gilead, which you'd

Psalms 45:1-17 — Psalms 45:1-17 The forty-fifth psalm is one of those beautiful psalms that refers to Christ, a Messianic psalm. The glorious king. But in this same psalm is seen the church, the bride of Jesus Christ. And so we have in Psalms 45:1-17 the beautiful

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 3:1-17 — Chapter Three In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea ( Matthew 3:1 ). Now we have the silent years of Christ. We are jumping now from the return to Nazareth to the beginning of His public ministry. There are some

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 12:1-50 — Chapter 12 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. They made him a supper; and Martha served [typical of Martha]: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table

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 17:1-26 — Chapter 17 These words spake Jesus, and he lifted up his eyes to heaven ( John 17:1 ), Now He is finished with His disciples and He turns now to the Father. He said, "I am not alone; the Father is with Me." And conscious of the Father, He now offers

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 3:1-36 — Have we got a message for you tonight from the Word of God! John chapter 3 and 4, oh my, how rich! How blessed! There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews ( John 3:1 ). We know a few things about him; we know that he must

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 6:1-71 — Now we have an indeterminate rate of time. Jesus was in Jerusalem when He was saying these things, they were as a result of this blind man...or the lame man, rather, who was healed there at the pool of Bethesda. And the controversy that was stirred

John 8:1-59 — Chapter 8 Now Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again to the temple ( John 8:1-2 ), Now the feast is over, but Jesus is returning to the temple on the next day. and all of the people came on to him; and he sat down,

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 John 2:1-11 — Chapter 2 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not ( 1 John 2:1 ). Now, he is talking about the purpose of writing is to bring you into fellowship with God, but the thing that breaks fellowship with God is sin. In Isaiah 59

1 John 3:1-24 — Chapter 3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God ( 1 John 3:1 ): I love that verse. Behold, what manner of love God has bestowed upon you, that you should be called the son of God. What glorious

3 John 1:1-14 — -3 JohnSo the third epistle of John is now again, John addresses himself as The elder [the presbyturos] unto the wellbeloved Gaius ( 3 John 1:1 ), Probably not the Gaius mentioned in Paul's epistle to the Corinthians where he was in Corinth, and it

Revelation 17:1-18 — In chapter seventeen, we now have the specific judgment of God upon the false religious system that has damned the souls of so many men through deception. Jesus warned us to "beware of false prophets who will come looking like sheep, but inwardly they