Do You Love Me?
In John 21:15-19, three times Jesus asked Peter, “Do you love Me?” An easy commentary is to state that Peter had denied Jesus three times, and now Jesus was mirroring that after the events of His death, but the question of “Do you love Me?” is one that Jesus, in a manner of speaking, still […]
Christ, a Stumbling Stone
In Romans 9 Paul wrote of Jews who stumbled at the stone of stumbling, a rock of offense, just as Isaiah had prophesied in Isaiah 28:16: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame” (Romans 9:33). They […]