Lectionary Greek

This is perhaps on the richest passages in all of Greek. I am not sure where to go with it. Rather than a line by line commentary, I would...

16.25 [Grammar note: the word for "the one who is able" is a substantive participle.] 16.26 This sentence is very complex gramm...

5:19 The word for quench is "sbennu-mi." This has a rather unclear English cognate: asbestos. (asbestos is something that is u...

3.9 Grammatically, the sentence could read "Lord of the promise is not slow." (technically, the word "promise" is in t...

This was my first look at this passage nearly a decade ago.  I took this and worked into a larger post, which you can find here:  http://lec...

1.3 Paul uses the word grace more often than any other author. Interestingly, Mark's entire Gospel never has this word (charis)...a rem...

25.31 The word glory (doxa) is used twice in this verse. 25.32 The word nation here is "ethneh," which in the plural (as it is h...