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PHall | May 27, 2015
Blindness is a familiar theme in the gospel accounts. The word tuphlos, which is found in 2 Peter 1:9, is found only four times outside of the gospels (Acts 13:11; Rom.2:19; 2 Pet.1:9; Rev.3:17), but 46 times in all the NT. That leaves 42 times the word is used either literally, prophetically, spiritually, ethically, or […]
PHall | May 6, 2015
Clothed yourself with humility (1 Peter 5:5). The specific word, egkomboomai (clothed) means to tie around oneself like an apron. It is only used once in the NT. That means it was never used by Jesus. And yet the idea of clothing ourselves with humility is an echo back to an event in which Peter […]
PHall | May 6, 2015
1 Peter and Jesus #7 One of Jesus’ favorite analogies for Himself is that He was a shepherd (poimēn). Each gospel, except Luke’s account, has at least two uses of that description of Jesus, with John having the most with six (10:2,11-16). Jesus even calls Himself the Good Shepherd using the well known “I am” […]