The New Testament

Overview: Exodus 19-40 1. God becomes Israel’s; Israel becomes God’s (Exod. 19-24)The covenant God makes with Israel in Exodus 19-24 fulfills a promise made to Abraham to be the God of his offspring forever (Gen. 17:7). Through this covenant, God formally binds Himself to Israel. Israel becomes His, and He …

Bible: Jude (Overview) What’s the big idea? Jude’s purpose in his letter was twofold: he wanted to expose the false teachers that had infiltrated the Christian community, and he wanted to encourage Christians to stand firm in the faith and fight for the truth. Jude recognized that false teachers often …

Overview: John Ch. 1-12 (Bible) Chapter Summary To review methodologies and to illustrate that they can be used with any book, this chapter applies all four methods to the Gospel of John. The Gospel of John from the Perspective of Genre Criticism The Gospel of John, like the Synoptic Gospels, …

Overview: Matthew Ch. 14-28 14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: 15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have …

Matthew (Part 1) Chapter 1-13 Themes and Structure of the Book The first theme in Matthew shows Jesus as the promised Messiah from the line of King David. The second theme is that Jesus is the new, authoritative teacher of God’s people like Moses in the Old Testament (OT). It’s …

Luke–Acts is an attempt to answer a theological problem, namely how the Messiah of the Jews came to have an overwhelmingly non-Jewish church; the answer it provides, and its central theme, is that the message of Christ was sent to the Gentiles because the Jews rejected it.  Luke–Acts can be also …

Acts of the Apostles (Ancient Greek: Πράξεις τῶν Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis tôn Apostólōn; Latin: Actūs Apostolōrum), often referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire. Acts and the Gospel of Luke make up a two-part work, Luke–Acts, by the same …

Corinthians The book of 1st Corinthians is a Pauline Epistle (letter from Paul). The Apostle Paul wrote it about 56 A.D. The key personalities of this book are the Apostle Paul, Timothy and also Chloe’s household. Paul’s purpose in writing this letter to the church in Corinth was to address and …

Gospel of Luke Chapter 10-24 Parallel structure of Luke–Acts The structure of Acts parallels the structure of the gospel, demonstrating the universality of the divine plan and the shift of authority from Jerusalem to Rome: The gospel – the acts of Jesus: The presentation of the child Jesus at the …

Gospel of Luke Chapter 1-9 Luke–Acts: unity, authorship and date See also: Authorship of Luke–Acts The gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles make up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts.[12] Together they account for 27.5% of the New Testament, the largest contribution by a single author, …