Pridie Roxy

"Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.'"

8 months ago

Pulpit Commentary: "They had at first asked vaguely for mercy, now they prayed definitely for sight - an example to all to make their supplications for particular graces and mercies, and not to be ...

8 months ago

Pridie Roxy

highlighted Matthew 20:33 ESV

They said to him, "Lord, let our eyes be opened."

8 months ago

Pridie Roxy

wrote a note on Matthew 20:29 ESV

Pulpit Commentary "The Lord was on his way to Jerusalem to meet the death which he was willing to undergo, and to win the victory which he was by this path to accomplish. His route lay through Jeri...

8 months ago

Pridie Roxy

highlighted Matthew 20:29 ESV

And as they went out of Jericho, a great crowd followed him.

8 months ago

Pridie Roxy

wrote a note on Matthew 20:12 ESV

Pulpit Commentary:"They do not allow that they laboured - they "made" one hour nominally. Equal unto us. Bengel notes, "Envy does not demand more for itself, but wishes that others should have less...

8 months ago

Pridie Roxy

highlighted Matthew 20:9 ESV

And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.

8 months ago

Pridie Roxy

wrote a note on Matthew 20:9 ESV

Ellicott's commentary: "The standard of payment was qualitative, not quantitative. In the interpretation of the parable, the "penny," as before, represents the eternal life of the kingdom of heaven...

8 months ago

Pridie Roxy

finished reading Matthew 19, Mark 10 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan....

8 months ago

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highlighted Matthew 19:14 ESV

but Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."

8 months ago

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highlighted Matthew 19:18-19 ESV

He said to him, "Which ones?" And Jesus said, "You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

8 months ago

Pridie Roxy

wrote a note on Matthew 19:18 ESV

Pulpit Commentary: "It was round these last six commandments chiefly that rabbinical traditions and interpretations had gathered, so that their plain meaning was obscured or depraved. Whoever obser...

8 months ago

Pridie Roxy

wrote a note on Matthew 19:9 ESV

Pulpit Commentary: "solution offered for this difficulty is this - that Christ is contemplating merely what we call judicial separation; he considers that no trivial cause justifies this, in fact, ...

9 months ago

Pridie Roxy

wrote a note on Matthew 19:9 ESV

Pulpit Commentary: "The legislation which permits the complete divorce on other grounds, such as cruelty or desertion on either side, is justified, so far as it is justifiable at all, on the ground...

9 months ago

Pridie Roxy

finished reading Luke 17:11-37, Luke 18:1-14 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee....

9 months ago

Pridie Roxy

wrote a note on Luke 18:11 ESV

Ellicott's commentary:' So far as the phrase has any special point, it indicates that he was not praying to God at all; he was practically praying to himself, congratulating himself, half-conscious...

9 months ago

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wrote a note on Luke 18:10 ESV

Pulpit commenrary:' It tells men, in very simple language, how they are saved; not by works of righteousness which they have done, but of grace; in other words, by God's free mercy. Jewish religiou...

9 months ago

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wrote a note on Luke 18:3 ESV

Pulpit comm: 'The argument which lies on the surface of the parable, teaching is obvious: if such a judge will in the end listen to the prayer of a suppliant for whom he cares nothing, will not God...

9 months ago

Pridie Roxy

finished reading John 11 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha....

9 months ago

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finished reading Luke 16, Luke 17:1-10 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

He also said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions....

9 months ago

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