The Bible in Time...

Opening Sentence Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Isaiah 60:3 Hochzeit zu Kanaan Oggersheim By Immanuel Giel (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Read | Friday | 15 January 2016 | Ps. 16 17; Ps. 22; Gen. 6:1–8; Heb. 3:12–19; John 2:1–12 Reflection | Psalm 16  -  Literary type | Songs of Confidence  |  click here Protect me, Lord, for I take refuge in you; you give me good things; I will teach of your good ways; I rejoice; you show me the path of life. Genesis 6 - Strange verses about sons of God and daughters of humans; Humanity is mortal and live only 120 years; humanity became evil but Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord. Hebrews 3 - Shun evil for we are in Christ; do not enter into unbelief. John 2 - Party at Canaan, "Mom, it is not my time..." but being the good Jewish boy Jesus obeyed his mother; and the party had great wine. This was the first miracle. Today: How do w...

Read | Day 270 | Sunday | September 27 | Mark 1: 12-13 Matthew 4: 1-11 Luke 4: 1-15 John 1: 19-28, 29-34, 35-51 John 2: 1-12, 13-25 By COPTS (Own work)  [CC BY-SA 3.0  (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Background | John | The Center for Biblical Studies |  John’s Gospel is quite different from the synoptic Gospels, both in terms of content and style. In fact, most of what John reports is not found in the other three Gospels. Where there is some overlap (for example, especially in the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus) John’s scenes are still entirely his own. This raises the obvious question of how and why John is so unique. The three “synoptic Gospels” certainly have distinctive elements, but all three basically tell the same story of Jesus in its rough outline. John, however, reports Jesus going places, doing things, and saying things that are not found elsewhere in the New Testament. Scholars are in general agreeme...