Character: Joab

Acts

John

Luke

Mark

Matthew

Isaiah 11:4/Revelation 2:16 – The Word as Sword

Daniel 7:9-14/Revelation 1:12-18 – Jesus is both Son of Man and Ancient of Days

John 13:1-38 – The Foot Washing

John 21:1-19 – The Fourth Resurrection Appearance

John 20:24-29 – Doubting Thomas

John 20:11-18 – The Resurrected Jesus Meets Mary Magdalene in the Garden

John 19:38-42 – Jesus’ Body is Prepared for Burial

John 18:15-18; 25-27 – Peter’s Denial

Matthew 21:23-27 – The Authority of Jesus

Luke 24:1-12 – A Group of Women Discover Jesus’ Tomb Empty

Luke 23:26-49 – The Crucifixion of Jesus

Luke 21:1-4 – Jesus Comments on a Widow’s Donation to the Temple Treasury

Luke 19:28-40 – Jesus Enters Jerusalem Hailed as a King

Luke 18:18-30 – A Rich Ruler Asks Jesus about Eternal Life

Luke 18:15-17 – Jesus Welcomes Children

Luke 15:1-10 – The Parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin

Luke 12:13-21 – The Parable of the Rich Fool

Revelation 19:15 – The Sword of Christ’s Mouth

Revelation 13:18 – 666: The Number of the Beast

Revelation 5:1-10 – The Lamb Who Is Worthy

Revelation 3:20 – Jesus Knocks at the Door

Revelation 1:8 – The Alpha and the Omega

Jude 1:4 – Watch for Intruders

2 John 1:4-6 – Walk in the Truth

1 John 4:13-21 – God Is Love

1 John 4:1-4 – Test the Spirits

2 Peter 1:16 – More Than Hearsay

1 Peter 1:3-9 – A Statement of the Gospel in All of Its Breadth and Depth

Hebrews 13:8 – The Faithfulness of Jesus Christ

Hebrews 12:22-24 – The Heavenly Jerusalem

Hebrews 12:1-2 – Running the Race with Perseverance

Hebrews 10:19-25 – A Call to Approach God in Confident Faith

Hebrews 10:11-18 – Jesus Christ Offers a Single Sacrifice

Hebrews 9:13-14 – The Blood of Christ Purifies the Conscience

Hebrews 7:1-3 – Melchizedek and Jesus

Hebrews 4:14-16 – Jesus Christ Is Our Great High Priest

Hebrews 1:1-4 – God Speaks by Means of the Son

2 Timothy 2:11-13 – A Christian Hymn

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 – Rebellion, Lawlessness, and Deception before the Return of Jesus Christ

1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11 – The Return of Jesus Christ

1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 – A Severe Accusation about “the Jews”

Colossians 2:20-3:17 – Living in the Identity of Christ’s Death and Resurrection

Colossians 2:10-15 – Buried with Christ in Baptism and Raised with Him in Faith

Colossians 1:15-20 – The Christ Hymn of Colossians

Philippians 2:25-30 – The Pattern of Christ and the Ministry of Epaphroditus

Philippians 2:6-11 – The Christ Hymn of Philippians

Ephesians 5:21-6:9 – Christian Husbands and Wives are Complementary and Mutual Servants

Ephesians 2:1-10 – Saved by Grace

Galatians 6:14-15 – New Creation in the Cross of Christ

Galatians 5:19-25 – Works of the Flesh, Fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:16-18 – Not Subject to the Law

Galatians 5:1-6 – For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free

Galatians 3:23-29 – Heirs according to Promise

Galatians 2:15-21 – Justified by Faith in Christ, Not by Works of the Law

2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2 – Now Is the Day of Salvation

2 Corinthians 4:7-12 – Treasure in Clay Jars

2 Corinthians 1:12-22 – God Is Faithful

2 Corinthians 1:3-7 – Affliction and Consolation Shared

1 Corinthians 15:1-58 – The Resurrection of the Body

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 – The Love Chapter

1 Corinthians 7:17-31 – Staying “As Is”

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 – Immorality as a Threat to the Body

1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5 – Christ Crucified as the Wisdom and Power of God

1 Corinthians 1:10-17 – Divisions in Corinth

Romans 12:1-2 – Being Transformed

Romans 10:4 – Christ the End of the Law

Romans 8:31-39 – The Love of God in Christ

Romans 3:25 – Christ the Mercy Seat

Romans 1:16-17 – Not Ashamed of the Gospel

Acts 28:1-31 – Paul Arrives in Rome and Lives under House Arrest

Acts 21:17-36 – Paul Returns to Jerusalem

Acts 19:11-20 – Paul’s Extraordinary Deeds in Ephesus

Acts 16:1-5 – The Circumcision of Timothy

Acts 11:19-30 – Believers First Called “Christians” in Antioch

Acts 9:1-31 – The Call of Saul

Acts 8:26-39 – The Baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch

Acts 6:1-7:50 – Choosing of the Deacons and Stephen’s Death

Acts 3:1-4:31 – Healing the Lame Man

Acts 2:40-47 – The First Community of Believers

Acts 2:1-21 – Pentecost

Acts 1:12–26 – Replacing Judas

Acts 1:1-5 – The Preface to Acts

John 20:30-31 – The Purpose of the Gospel according to John

John 19:30 – Jesus Dies, Completing His Work

John 19:25-27 – Jesus Entrusts His Mother and Beloved Disciple to Each Other

John 18:1-12 – Jesus is Arrested

John 17:20-21 – Jesus Prays for His Followers

John 15:1-6 – Jesus Christ, the True Vine

John 14:26 – Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

John 14:6 – Jesus Christ, the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

John 13:34-35 – A New Commandment from Jesus

John 11:25-26 – Jesus Christ, the Resurrection and the Life

John 10:11-18 – Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd

John 10:7-10 – Jesus Christ, the Gate for the Sheep

John 9:1-12 – Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

John 8:12 – Jesus Christ, the Light of the World

John 7:53-8:11 – Jesus and the woman caught in adultery

John 6:35-51 – Jesus Christ, the Bread of Life

John 4:1-15 – Jesus Promises “Living Water”

John 3:16 – God So Loved the World

John 3:3 – A New Birth

John 2:1-11 – The Wedding at Cana

John 1:29 – Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God

John 1:14 – Jesus Christ, the Word of God in the Flesh

Luke 24:50-53 – The Ascension of Jesus

Luke 24:13-49 – Appearances of the Resurrected Jesus

Luke 22:66-23:25 – Jesus on Trial

Luke 22:35-38 – Preparing for Conflict

Luke 21:5-36 – Prophecies of Destruction and Hardship

Luke 20:9-19 – A Vineyard’s Murderous Tenants

Luke 19:11-27 – A Parable about Faithfulness and Opposition

Luke 19:1-10 – Jesus Seeks Zacchaeus

Luke 18:1-8 – A Widow and an Unjust Judge

Luke 16:19-31 – The Rich Man and Lazarus

Luke 16:1-13 – The Dishonest Manager

Luke 15:11-32 – The Prodigal Son and His Brother

Luke 13:31-35 – Jesus Laments about Jerusalem

Luke 13:10-17 – Freedom on the Sabbath

Luke 12:49-56 – Jesus Promises Judgment and Division

Luke 11:37-54 – “Woe” to Religious Leaders

Luke 10:38-42 – Jesus with Martha and Mary

Luke 10:25-37 – The Good Samaritan

Luke 9:28-36 – The Transfiguration

Luke 8:1-3 – Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna

Luke 7:36-50 – Jesus Pronounces a Woman’s Forgiveness

Luke 7:11-17 – A Widow’s Son Returned to Life

Luke 6:17-49 – The Sermon on the Plain

Luke 4:14-30 – Jesus’ Sermon at Nazareth

Luke 3:23-38 – Jesus’ Genealogy

Luke 2:39-52 – Jesus as a Young Child

Luke 2:25-38 – Simeon’s Prophecy (the Nunc dimittis) and Anna’s Prophecy

Luke 1:67-79 – Zechariah’s Prophecy (the Benedictus)

Mark 14:1-15:47 – Jesus Is the Temple and Is Crucified and Confessed as the Son of God

Mark 11:1-12:44 – Jesus Enters Jerusalem as the Son of David and Teaches in the Temple

Mark 10:46-52 – Blind Bartimaeus Is Given Sight

Mark 10:32-45 – Jesus Teaches on His Passion and Resurrection for the Third Time

Mark 9:30-10:31 – Jesus Teaches on His Passion and Resurrection for the Second Time

Mark 8:27-9:29 – Jesus Teaches about His Passion and Resurrection for the First Time

Mark 8:22-26 – The Blind Man of Bethsaida Is Given Sight

Mark 8:1-21 – Jesus Feeds Four Thousand, Pharisees Seek a Sign, and Jesus Teaches His Disciples

Mark 7:1-37 – Pharisees’ Tradition, Crumbs for the Gentiles, and Healing a Man Who Is Deaf and Mute

Mark 6:7-13 – Jesus Sends the Twelve

Mark 4:35-5:43 – Jesus Teaches in Miracles

Mark 3:20-4:34 – Jesus Teaches in Parables

Mark 3:13-19 – Jesus Appoints the Twelve

Mark 3:7-12 – Summary and Conclusion to the First Cycle of Stories

Mark 2:1-3:6 – Five Stories of Conflict with the Jewish Authorities

Mark 1:21-45 – Five Healing Stories Inaugurate Jesus’ Ministry

Mark 1:16-20 – Jesus Calls Four Disciples

Mark 1:2-15 – The Coming of John the Baptist and the Baptism of Jesus

Mark 1:1 – The Beginning of the Gospel

Matthew 28:16-20 – The Great Commission and Promise

Matthew 26:1-27:66 – The Passion and Death of Jesus the Messiah

Matthew 25:31-46 – The Parable of the Judgment

Matthew 25:14-30 – The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:1-46 – Three Parables of Waiting in the Meantime

Matthew 25:1-13 – The Parable of the Ten Maidens

Matthew 24:45-51 – The Faithful and the Unfaithful Servant

Matthew 24:36-44 – The Necessity of Watchfulness

Matthew 24:1-35 – The Signs of the End of the Age

Matthew 24:1-25:46 – Discourse on Waiting before the End of the Age

Matthew 23:1-39 – Jesus Denounces the Scribes and Pharisees

Matthew 22:1-14 – The Parable of the Wedding Banquet

Matthew 21:33-46 – The Parable of the Vineyard

Matthew 20:1-16 – The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard

Matthew 18:21-35 – The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

Matthew 18:15-20 – Exercising the Discipline of Forgiveness

Matthew 18:10-14 – The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Matthew 18:1-9 – Greatness in the Kingdom

Matthew 18:1-35 – Discourse on the Forgiving Community

Matthew 17:1-13 – The Transfiguration

Matthew 16:21-28 – Jesus Teaching on Discipleship

Matthew 16:13-20 – Peter Confesses Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of the Living God

Matthew 15:21-28 – The Canaanite Woman’s Faith

Matthew 14:22-33 – Jesus (and Peter) Walks on the Water

Matthew 14:13-21 – Feeding the Five Thousand

Matthew 13:54-58 – The Rejection of Jesus at Nazareth

Matthew 13:44-53 – Parables of the Treasure, the Pearls, and the Net—Treasures New and Old

Matthew 13:24-43 – The Parable of the Weeds among the Wheat and Its Interpretation; the Mustard Seed, the Yeast, and Jesus’ Teaching in Parables

Matthew 13:1-58 – The Parables of the Kingdom and the Rejection at Nazareth

Matthew 13:1-23 – The Parable of the Sower and Its Interpretation and the Purpose of the Parables

Matthew 11:16-30 – Come to Me and I Will Give You Rest

Matthew 11:2-11 – The Question of John the Baptist

Matthew 10:1-42 – The Mission of the Twelve

Matthew 9:35-38 – The Harvest Is Great, the Laborers Few

Matthew 9:18-26 – A Woman with a Hemorrhage Healed; a Young Girl Raised from the Dead

Matthew 8:23-27 – Jesus Stills the Storm

Matthew 7:21-29 – On Being Hearers and Doers

Matthew 7:1-20 – Further Teaching on Righteousness

Matthew 6:19-24 – The Treasure of the Kingdom as Gift of God

Matthew 6:1-18 – True Fasting and Prayer

Matthew 5:21-48 – “I” Sayings of Jesus on Righteousness

Matthew 5:17-20 – Kingdom Righteousness

Matthew 5:1-7:29 – The Sermon on the Mount

Matthew 5:1-16 – The Beatitudes: You Are Salt and Light

Matthew 4:12-25 – The Beginning of Jesus’ Ministry in Galilee

Matthew 4:1-11 – Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness

Matthew 3:13-17 – The Baptism of Jesus

Matthew 3:1-12 – The Preaching of John the Baptist

Matthew 2:13-23 – Escape to Egypt and Return

Matthew 2:1-12 – The Visit of the Wise Men

Matthew 1:18-25 – The Birth of Jesus the Messiah

Malachi 4:5-6 – The Return of Elijah

Zechariah 12:10 – The Pierced One

Zechariah 11:4-17 – Thirty Pieces of Silver

Zechariah 9:9 – King on a Donkey

Micah 5:2-5a – A New Ruler Will Come from Bethlehem

Jonah 1:17 – The Great Fish

Luke 3:1-20 – The Teachings of John the Baptist

Isaiah 61:1-3 – Liberty to the Captives

Isaiah 60:1-7 – The Nations Come with Gold and Frankincense

Isaiah 55:1-5 – Without Money and Without Price

Isaiah 52:13-53:12 – Wounded for Our Transgressions

Isaiah 46:1-4 – I Will Carry and Will Save

Isaiah 42:1-4 – This Is My Servant

Isaiah 35:1-7 – Here Is Your God–Who Restores All Things

Isaiah 26:19 – Your Dead Shall Live

Isaiah 5:1-7 – The Song of the Vineyard

Psalm 69:19-21 – Vinegar for My Thirst

Psalm 31:5 – Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit

Psalm 22 – My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

2 Kings 6:1-7 – The Floating Ax Head

2 Kings 4:42-44 – The Feeding of the One Hundred

2 Kings 4:38-41 – Death in the Pot

2 Kings 4:8-37 – Elisha and the Shunammite Woman

1 Samuel 15:34-16:13 – Samuel Anoints David King

Joshua 2:1-24 – The Spies and Rahab

Deuteronomy 5:18 – Adultery

Numbers 11:16-30 – The Seventy Elders

Who Do You Trust?

When the Word Becomes Home

All Things in Heaven and on Earth

Recognition: Reading the Gospel of Luke Knowing How It Ends

The Political Life of Jesus

Everything I Knew about the Transfiguration Was Wrong

Messy Families: Jesus’ and Mine

The Feeding of the 5,000

Jesus Sees Our Unpaid Labor Too

When Hope and Fear Coexist

Kitchen Parables that Aren’t in the Bible

It Isn’t a Question of “Are You Mary or Martha?”

Where Hope is Found

Reading Scripture with a Disabilities Lens

Let Your Yes Be Yes and Your No Be No

God the Gardener

Jesus, Scripture, and Our Feelings

Be Where God Needs Me

Two Difficult Conversations in the Bible

Spiritual Practices for an Audience of One

Bible Study: Relating to God, as We Relate to Each Other

Diversity, Unity & Division: A Bible Study

Bible Study: Platforms for Ministry

Bible Study: Falling Out of Grace Yet Finding Home

Passages that Sing: Luke 1-2

You Have Turned My Mourning into Dancing: Psalm 30

The Best Way to Read the Bible

Why Do We Suffer?

What Does the Bible Say about the Cross?

The Bible, Stewardship and Money

My Favorite Part of the Christmas Story

Would Jesus Shop on Black Friday?

Bible, God, and Natural Disasters

What’s with All the Begats?

What Happened at Pentecost?

Was Jesus a Threat to the Roman Empire?

Did God Forsake Jesus on the Cross?

Was Jesus Married?

Was Isaiah Thinking of Jesus?

What Was Jesus like as a Child?

Does Sabbath Still Matter?

Where is the Kingdom of God?

Who is the Holy Spirit?

What Really Happened at Easter?

Why Did Jesus Have to Die?

Which Gospel Is True?

Why isn’t the Gospel of Thomas in the Bible?

8.147: Does the Bible Say Anything About Life on Other Planets?

7.144: Did Jewish believers in Jesus have to stop being Jewish?

5.117: What Did Jesus Have to Say about Race/Ethnicity? (Part 2)

5.110: Who Are ‘the Jews’ in John’s Passion Narrative?

5.108: Where Do We Find Humor in the Bible?

5:106: Why Does God Only Heal Conditions that the Body Has the Capability to Heal Naturally?

4.98: Is Peter the Rock on which the Church Is Built?

4.95: Lightning Round 2 of 2

4.94: Lightning Round 1 of 2

4.88: Does Jesus Have Any of Mary’s DNA?

4.84: What Does “Eternal Life” Mean and When Does It Start?

3.83: Why Did Jesus Have to Die on the Cross?

3.82: What Does It Mean to Pray in the Holy Spirit?

3.81: What Does It Mean to Bless?

3.80: John 8: Woman Caught in Adultery – Where Was the Man?

3.78: What Does the Bible Say about Resurrection?

3.76: Can You Help Biblically Explain Why Nationalism Is Not a Christian Narrative?

3.72: Why Doesn’t Paul Mention the Holy Spirit?

3.70: Why Kin-dom instead of Kingdom?

3.69: Lightning Round Part Two

2.67: Is Jesus the Same as God?

2.64: What Does the Bible Say about the End Times?

1.48: My Favorite Bible Passage: The First Two Chapters of Luke

1.22: Was Jesus a Threat to the Roman Empire?

1.20: Was Jesus Married?

1.21: Did God Forsake Jesus on the Cross?

1.15: What Was Jesus Like as a Child?

1.10: What Really Happened at Easter?

Jesus

The Church Is Born

Jesus’ Life and Death

Death of Jesus: John

Beginning of John

A Different Way of Telling the Story: John

Faith and Healing: John

The ‘I Am’ Sayings in John

The Most Famous Passage in Leviticus

Money and Wealth in Luke

Salvation in Luke

The Structure of Luke’s Gospel

Who Wrote the Gospel of Luke?

The Beginning of Mark

Disciples in Mark

The Ending of Mark

Exorcisms in Mark

Faith and Fear in Mark

Messiahship in Mark

The Passion Narrative in Mark

God with Us: Matthew

Jesus the Teacher: Matthew

Jewish with Outsiders: Matthew

Righteousness in Matthew

Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5-7

Bethlehem: Micah

Imagery in Revelation

Parables

Luke 24: Resurrection Scenes

Whose Fault Is Jesus’ Death?

Luke 10: Who Is My Neighbor?

Luke 10: Samaritan Parable in Context

Righteousness of God

Who Was Mary?

Matthew 20: God’s Justice

Jesus, Widows and Wealth in the Gospel of Luke

John 10: The Good Shepherd

Mark: God on the Loose

Jesus and Banquets in Luke

Luke 24: Jesus’ Death

Luke 1: The Kingdom of God