Oh Mark, Mark, Mark. My go-to Gospel. The straight-to-the-point Gospel. The start-here-if-you-are-new or read-in-one-sitting-for-an-exhilerating-hour Gospel. Fastest, shortest, punchiest. Once described to me as the Indiana Jones Gospel. If you have a copy of Mark's Gospel ancient Greek and you know the word for 'and', you can read lots of words because Mark says 'and then [...]
Reading: Matthew 18.21-35 Well, another Sunday, another tricky Bible reading! Last week, we were thinking about how Jesus told his followers what to do about falling out with each other. He said, don't moan about it, don't hold a grudge, just go and have a quiet word with the person who has upset you. Tricky [...]
Welcome back to the Bible blog series. There were 300 years between Malachai and Matthew, so I've enjoyed a short break from posting. However, as I have finished Revelation (the last book of the Bible), I thought I'd better get cracking again! So welcome to Matthew, the first of the four books which write about [...]
Here we are at the last book of the Old Testament! Truth be told, I'm currently reading Romans, I'm just way behind on the blogging! Anyway, Malachi was around a bit later than Haggai and Zechariah, who were writing as the Israelites returned from their exile to Babylon. Haggai and Zechariah were encouraging the temple [...]
