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.
When you send your Spirit, new life is born to replenish all the living of the earth.
The earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface.
We may be unfaithful, but he (Jesus) is always faithful, for he cannot disown his own self.
For our sake God made the sinless one with sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God.
God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding men's faults against them, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, a gentle Father and the God of all consolation, who comforts us in our sorrows, so that we can offer others, in their sorrows, the consolation that we have received.
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples “why does your master eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
As Jesus was walking on he saw a man named Matthew, sitting by the customs house, and he said to him, “follow me”.
- Romans - 4, 18
- Hosea - 6, 4
- Hosea - 6, 3
- 2 Paul to Timothy - 4
- 2 Paul to Timothy - 4
- Tobit - 12
- 2 Timothy - 3, 14
- Tobit - 11
- 2 Paul - Timothy 2
- 2 Paul - Timothy 1
- 2 Paul - Timothy 1
- Tobit - 3, 1
- Psalm 99
- 2 Peter - 3
- 2 Peter - 3
- 2 Peter - 1, 2
- 2 Peter - 1, 2
- Psalm - 111
- Psalm - 111
- Psalm - 111
- Acts - 2, 4
- 1 Corinthians - 13, 8
- John 2 - 1, 2
- Luke 23 - 33, 34
- John - 13, 34
- John - 13, 5
- Acts - 1, 11
- Romans - 7, 19
- 2 Chronicles - 36, 15
- Hebrew - 10, 36