“What did Jesus mean when He said it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven?”……Answer: There are several different schools of thought on what Jesus was referring to in saying it was easier for a camel to go through the […]

“What happened on the Mount of Olives?”……Jesus made two visits to the Mount of Olives that are recorded in the Bible, both in the last week of His life. The first visit was to deliver what has come to be known as the Olivet Discourse recorded in Matthew 24:1–25:46. Parallel passages are found in Mark […]

“What did Jesus mean when He said the first will be last and the last will be first?”……Jesus made the statement “many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first” in His response to the disciples’ asking what reward they would have for giving up everything to follow Him […]

In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, “The Father is greater than I.” What does he mean by that?   Sometimes when Jesus makes straightforward statements that appear to mean one thing on the surface, they require that we go a bit beneath the surface to resolve the apparent difficulty. In this case, that kind […]

“What did Jesus mean when He said the eye is the lamp of the body (Matthew 6:22)?”……Answer: Jesus said, “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light” (Matthew 6:22). Here our Lord describes the eye as a lamp which lights the entire […]

“What was Jesus writing in the dirt when the Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery?”……The story of the woman caught in adultery is found in John 8:1-11. Briefly, the story involves the scribes and Pharisees who, in their continuing efforts to trick Jesus into saying something they could hold against Him, brought […]

What did Jesus mean when he said, “Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass until all these things be done”? That’s one of the toughest statements of Jesus in all of the New Testament. Some seminary students may recall that the famous New Testament scholar, missionary, and musician Albert Schweitzer wrote his […]