Bible Texts
To accompany the daily Bible texts which appear
in the EDP, our team of Christian writers is now offering commentaries.
We hope everyone will find this area helpful, as it develops over the
weeks into a focus for daily meditations.
For those already familiar with the Bible, we hope
it offers food for thought, and perhaps a new way of looking at the texts.
For those with less experience of reading the Bible, we hope our commentaries
will introduce the texts, and help to make their meaning clearer.
Bible commentaries for July are provided
by Biddy Collyer
The commentary panel is:
- Jean Larner,
a Methodist lay preacher.
- Canon David Sharp, formerly Vicar
of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, who is an Honorary Canon (emeritus)
of Norwich Cathedral, classical scholar and lecturer.
- Fr Dick Wilson, a retired
Roman Catholic priest living in Norwich.
- Biddy Collyer, a regular EDP
writer and a Christian who is passionate about the love of Jesus for
everyone being made real to people through the ministry of His church
in Norwich and Norfolk.
- Fr Antony Sutch, Catholic parish
priest at St Benet's, Beccles, and a regular contributor to BBC Radio
4's Thought for the Day.
- Roman Catholic author Anita Dowsing.
Think not that mortality bears sway on earth; no end nor term is fixed to a life well lived.
As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth… so the word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty, without carrying out my will and succeeding in what it was sent to do.
Can the Lord's favour be won by offering him sacrifice and victim instead of obeying his divine will? The Lord loves obedience rather than any sacrifice, the attentive ear rather than the fat of rams.
Learn to live and move in the Spirit; then there is no danger of your giving way to the impulses of a corrupt nature.
All you who have been baptized in Christ's name have put on the person of Christ; no more Jew or Gentile, no more slave and free man, no more male and female; you are all one person in Jesus Christ.
Very early in the morning, Jesus went off to a solitary place, where He prayed.
The old has gone, the new has come.
And what you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.
- Romans - 12, 10
- Ezekiel - 36, 35
- Jeremiah - 17, 7-8
- Hebrews - 4, 16
- 2 Samuel - 7, 18
- Psalm - 89, 15
- John - 15:5
- Jeremiah - 29:13
- Isaiah - 64:8
- Acts - 12:14
- Hebrews - 11:8
- Luke - 15:23
- Luke 8 - 11-12
- Ephesians - 2:8
- Matthew - 18, 21-22
- Philippians - 3, 13
- Ecclesiastes - 3, 1
- Mark - 4, 37
- Proverbs - 21, 23
- Micah - 7, 8
- Proverbs - 16, 9
- Galatians - 5, 16
- Galatians - 4, 6
- I Corinthians - 12, 27
- I Corinthians - 6, 19
- Acts 10, 15
- Acts - 7, 51
- Acts - 2, 4
- Matthew - 28, 19
- John - 14, 26