1 Corinthians 14:34 – ‘Women should be silent in the churches’
1 Corinthians 14:33-35 - 'As in all the churches of the saints, 14:34 the women ...
1 Corinthians 15:44 – ‘Raised a spiritual body’?
1 Corinthians 15:42 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What ...
1 Corinthians 7:14 – Sanctified spouses, holy children
1 Cor 7:14 - 'The unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and ...
1 Kings 20:30 – ‘The wall collapsed on 27,000 of them’?
A hundred thousand casualties...the wall collapsed on twenty-seven thousand ...
1 Peter 3:18-20 – Christ and the spirits in prison
1 Peter 3:18-20 says, For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous ...
1 Thessalonians 2:14f – ‘The Jews, who killed Jesus’?
'...the Jews, 2:15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted ...
1 Timothy 2:15 – Saved through child-bearing?
1 Timothy 2:15 - But [the woman] will be delivered through childbearing.' This ...
1 Timothy 4:10 – the Saviour of all people?
1 Timothy 4:10 - '...the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially ...
2 Corinthians 5:21 – ‘God made Christ to be sin for us’
2 Corinthians 5:21 'God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, ...
2 Peter 3:9 – ‘The Lord wishes all to come to repentance’?
2 Peter 3:9 'The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, ...
2 Sam 24:1, 1 Chron 21:1 – Who incited David?
2 Sam 24:1 The LORD’s anger again raged against Israel, and he incited David ...
Colossians 1:19f – Universal reconciliation?
Colossians 1:19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son ...
Ephesians 1:10 – ‘The fullness of the times’
In the New International Version (1984 ed.) Eph 1:9f reads:- ‘[God] made ...
Ephesians 5:21 – ‘Submit to one another’
What does it mean to 'submit to one another'? 1. Some think that it means that ...
Ephesians 5:23- ‘The head of a wife is her husband’?
Ephesians 5:23 - 'The husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the ...
Exodus 12:37 – How many Israelites left Egypt?
According to Exodus 12:37 (NIV) the number of people leaving Egypt at the time ...
Galatians 3:17 – How much later?
Gal 3:17 - 'The law, introduced 430 years later...' In this passage, Paul seems ...
Galatians 6:16 – The Israel of God
6:16 'And all who will behave in accordance with this rule, peace and mercy ...
Galatians 6:2 – ‘The law of Christ’
6:2 'Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law ...
Genesis 1:26 – Why a plural name for God?
Gen 1:26 - 'Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our ...
Genesis 22 – “Abraham, kill your son”
The account (in Genesis 22) of how God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his only ...
Genesis 3 – traditional and revisionist readings
I must admit that I'm not sure about where to place Genesis 3 on a scale between ...
Genesis 6-8 – A worldwide flood?
This description of a worldwide flood, in which the highest of mountains was ...
Genesis 6:1f – Who were ‘the sons of God’?
Gen 6:1 .When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters ...
Hebrews 12:1 – Who are these witnesses?
12:1 'Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses...' ...
Hebrews 6:4-6 – Who are these people?
Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, ...
John 1:1 – ‘The Word was God’?
John 1:1 '...and the Word was God' (NIV) The New World Translation of the Jehovah's ...
John 14:12 – ‘Greater deeds’?
John 14:12 - "The person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds ...
John 2:12 – Did Mary bear other children?
Traditional Roman Catholic teaching denies that Mary had any children other ...
John 2:6 – symbol or history?
Given the extensive symbolism in John's Gospel, Barrett thinks that 'It is ...
John 20:21 – “Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”
John 20:21 - "Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.” In what sense ...
John 3:16f – What is meant by ‘the world’?
John 3:16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only ...
John 4:44 – ‘His own country’?
Jn 4:4 'Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own ...
Joshua 10 – the ‘long day’
Joshua 10:13 'The sun stood still and the moon stood motionless while the nation ...
Joshua 6 – the fall of Jericho
The biblical account of Jericho as a walled city in the time of Joshua is discussed ...
Jude 7 – ‘Unnatural desire’
Jude 7 - 'So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they ...
Judges 19:11-28 – The priest and the concubine
As evidence for the nastiness of the Old Testament and its God, Richard Dawkins (The ...
Luke 2:1f – Quirinius and ‘the first registration’
Luke 2:1 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register ...
Luke 2:7 – No room at the inn?
Luke 2:7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips ...
Luke 2:8 – Shepherds: a despised class?
It is sometimes thought (and said, by preachers) that shepherds were a despised ...
Luke 4:16-19 – An incomplete quotation?
Luke 4:16 Now Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went ...
Mark 2:25f – ‘When Abiathar was high priest’?
Mark 2:25f - “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and ...
Mark 4:31 – ‘The smallest of all the seeds’?
Some have been bothered about the accuracy of this statement (cf. also Mt 13:32). ...
Matthew 1:23 – “The virgin will conceive”?
Matthew 1:22 This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through ...
Matthew 10:23 – ‘Before the Son of Man comes’?
Matthew 10:23 - "I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through all ...
Matthew 11:12 – Forceful entry, or violent opposition, to the kingdom?
Matthew 11:12 "From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven ...
Matthew 12:40 – Three days and three nights?
12:40 "For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and ...
Matthew 16:18 – Peter the rock?
16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my ...
Matthew 18:10 – What about ‘guardian angels’?
John G. Paton, a missionary in the New Hebrides Islands, experienced the protective ...
Matthew 18:20 – ‘Where two or three are gathered…’
Matthew 18:20 "Where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among ...
Matthew 2:1 – ‘Magi from the east?’
Matthew 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King ...
Matthew 2:23 – ‘Jesus would be called a Nazarene’
'[Joseph] came to a town called Nazareth and lived there. Then what had been ...
Matthew 2:8f – Can God speak through astrology?
2:9 After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw ...
Matthew 21:7 – One animal or two?
Matthew 21:7 'They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks ...
Matthew 24:34 – This generation will not pass away?
Matthew 24:34 "I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until ...
Matthew 25:40 – Who are ‘these brothers of mine’?
Matthew 25:40 - "Just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers ...
Matthew 27:46/Mark 15:34 – Jesus’ cry of dereliction
At the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” ...
Matthew 27:52f – Many bodies raised?
27:52f And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died were ...
Matthew 5:21f – Did Jesus reject the Old Testament?
5:21 “You have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not murder,’ ...
Matthew 7:16,20 – ‘You will recognise them by their fruit’
Matthew 7:15 “Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s ...
Matthew 8:28 – Gadara or Gerasa?
A possible contradiction has been identified, in that in Mark Jesus exorcises ...
Matthew 8:5/Luke 7:3 – Who asked Jesus to help?
Matthew (Mt 8:5-12) and Luke (Lk 7:1-10) both have an account of a Roman centurion ...
Matthew 8:5/Luke 7:7 – son? servant? male lover?
Matthew 8:5 When [Jesus] entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him asking ...
Mt 1:1-17 and Lk 3:23-38 – the genealogies of Jesus
The genealogies of Matthew and Luke differ in a number of ways. As Peter ...
Psalm 105:15 – ‘Touch not my anointed’
Psalm 105:14-15 - 'He let no one oppress them; he disciplined kings for their ...
Psalm 137:8f – ‘Happy is he who dashes your infants against the rocks’
137:8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one ...
Rom 3:22; Gal 2:16 – faith in, or faithfulness of Christ?
The issue Scholars (e.g. Leon Morris, Dictionary of Paul and his Letters) tell ...
Rom 7:24 – Who is the ‘wretched man’?
Paul describes, in vv15-24, a high level of emotional turmoil. But who is ...
Romans 1:18 – Wrath: personal or impersonal?
C.H. Dodd contended that Paul speaks of ‘the wrath' ‘in a curiously impersonal ...
Romans 1:5 – ‘The obedience of faith’
Romans 1:5 'Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring ...
The Parable of the Sower – return from exile?
Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, Luke 8:4-15 For N.T. Wright (Jesus and the Victory ...
When did Jesus cleanse the Temple?
According to John 2:12-22, Jesus cleansed the Temple near the beginning of ...