Who was Jesus of Nazareth? And who is Jesus Christ? The evangelist Mark was the first to answer these questions with a story of the ministry and death of Jesus. He collected individual stories, words and parables of Jesus and placed them in the context of Jesus' work in Galilee and his journey from there to Jerusalem up to his death on the cross and the empty tomb of Jesus. The commentary shows how Mark combines the individual stories and the whole of Jesus' path into an overall picture of God's action in Jesus that is of lasting importance. The following is decisive for the interpretation of...
Who was Jesus of Nazareth? And who is Jesus Christ? The evangelist Mark was the first to answer these questions with a story of the ministry and death...
Although it has the same scope as the letter to the Romans, theological first letter to the Corinthians is often overshadowed by the later letter of Paul. Much of what Paul writes here seems too situational to tell us anything today. The present commentary shows how Paul, in this letter, too, which deals with problems in the church in Corinth, the background of which we often only partially understand, formulates his answers from the center of the Gospel. By placing the plethora of challenges that arise in the young Corinthian church in the field of tension between the lasting meaning of the...
Although it has the same scope as the letter to the Romans, theological first letter to the Corinthians is often overshadowed by the later letter of P...