Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on
Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation
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James Merritt
... to do. Any parent knows that the one thing you want from your children more than anything else and the one thing you cannot demand from them is their love. Envision a church where the number one thing it would be known for in the community is a burning, blazing, passionate love for God. Our church should teach just what it means to love God and how we intend to lead you and motivate you and equip you to love God the way He deserves to be loved. I’ll tell you just how important this is. There is not a ...
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James Merritt
... will never ever do anything greater for you, your children, or your grandchildren than to do everything we can to help you fall in love with Jesus Christ every single day. There is not a problem any church has that cannot be solved when that church has a burning, blazing, passionate love for God that is both shown and seen by others who come in contact with it. Whatever else our church becomes known for I can assure you I will be ecstatic and go to bed at night and sleep like a baby if I know that we are ...
Understanding Series
L. Ann Jervis
... own is not enough to suggest a Jewish provenance. Other ancients, apart from the Jews, recognized that human beings were caught in a struggle with what was commonly called their passions. Pagans turned to religion and philosophy in search of freedom from the passions. The challenge was to find a way to be freed from bondage to the passions and so to achieve god-like peace. Such a goal was understood as important for individuals and for society. Plutarch wrote: a city without holy places and gods, without ...
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King Duncan
... you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus . . .” Here is what we need to see: God has one passion and that is people . . . Every person on this earth. God loves you not because you are white, not because you are male or female, not because you are American, not because you are physically attractive, not because you come from the right socio-economic class ...
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... under arrest. In chapter 2, as he tells his mother, his time has not yet come (v. 4). Yet the early placement of the temple cleansing is deliberate, and its effect is twofold. First, it puts everything that follows under the shadow of Jesus’ impending Passion and gives his dialogues with the Jews the character of a trial. Second, it makes the story of the Cana wedding a kind of epitome or scale model of Jesus’ entire Galilean ministry, in which he turns the water of traditional ritual cleansing (v. 6 ...
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... J. R. Michaels, “The Temple Discourse in John,” New Dimensions in New Testament Study, ed. R. N. Longenecker and M. C. Tenney [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1974], pp. 200–213). If the public ministry in John’s Gospel is viewed as an anticipation of Jesus’ Passion (see Introduction) this discourse corresponds to the summary found in Luke 21:37–38: “Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives, and all the people ...
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... asking their help with this particular miracle as inviting them to confront with him the approaching reality of the cross. It is an extension of an earlier summons to share in his work (cf. 4:34–38), and a summons he will issue several times again before his Passion (cf. 11:7, 15; 12:26; 14:31). The miracle itself is told simply and briefly (vv. 6–7), setting the pattern for two even briefer repetitions of it by the blind man after his cure (vv. 11, 15). The account recalls the twin stories in Mark’s ...
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... him (13:30). If such an early stage of the tradition could be isolated with certainty, it would reveal a form of John’s Gospel much closer to the Synoptics than the present one in the ratio of narrative to discourse in the context of Jesus’ passion. But if this “primitive” Gospel of John once existed, it exists no more. Verses 31–35 were not allowed to stand without further development and explanation, and it is the two resulting collections of last words from Jesus to his disciples (13:36–14:31 ...
309. The Impending Departure I
John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14, John 14:15-31
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... troubled: The same verb was used of Jesus in 11:33; 12:27; and 13:21. Having quieted his own heart in preparation for the Passion, Jesus now begins to prepare his disciples for what lies ahead. Trust in God; trust also in me. The two verbs can be read either ... Before what happens? The only answer possible from the context is Jesus’ departure, i.e., all the events associated with his Passion. When did they believe? One possible answer is 20:28–29; another (assuming that the specific belief was that Jesus ...
310. The Glory Departs
Ezekiel 8:1-18, Ezekiel 9:1-11, Ezekiel 10:1-22, Ezekiel 11:1-15, Ezekiel 11:16-25
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... . The Heb. word translated “jealousy” here, qinʾah, is the same word translated “zeal” in Ezek. 5:13; it appears more often in Ezek. (10 times) than any other book. The term also appears seven times in Isa., where it consistently refers to God’s zeal and passion (see, e.g., Isa. 9:7). Yet, after Ezek., the word qinʾah appears most often in Num. 5:11–29 (9 times), in the description of an ordeal to test whether or not a woman is faithful to her husband. Odd as this juxtaposition seems, the ...
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Jeannine K. Brown
... In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands. Jesus compares John’s treatment (by Herod) with the way he himself will suffer at the hands of the authorities when he comes to Jerusalem. This verse functions as a brief passion prediction, corresponding to the three more-formulaic predictions at 16:21; 17:22–23; 20:17–19. 17:13  Then the disciples understood that he was talking . . . about John the Baptist. After Jesus refers to John’s death (“they did with him what they wished ...
312. Jesus Is God’s Faithful Son in Gethsemane and at His Arrest and Trial
Matthew 26:31-35, Matthew 26:36-46, Matthew 26:47-56, Matthew 26:57-68, Matthew 26:69-75
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Jeannine K. Brown
... his coming trial, crucifixion, and death, but as he prays, he puts his future in God’s hands. 26:45  the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. This prediction of what will happen at Jesus’ arrest echoes his earlier words about his coming passion at 17:22: “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.” 26:47  a large crowd . . . sent from the chief priests and the elders. As the arrest scene begins, Judas arrives in Gethsemane along with a large crowd sent by the ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... spend his time privately with his disciples. On the “road to Jerusalem” Jesus trains his followers and prepares them for both the terrible events to come and their ministries afterward. delivered into the hands of men.This is the shortest of the three passion predictions, with the primary addition “is going to be delivered,” both a futuristic present (emphasizing the certainty of it) and a divine passive. There might also be an echo of Daniel 7:25, which speaks of the delivery of “the holy people ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... and obduracy of the leaders are proven once more. Jesus is the final interpreter of Torah and the arbiter of all truth. Interpretive Insights 11:27  the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders came to him. This is Tuesday of passion week (see the sidebar “Passion Week” in the unit on 11:1–11), and as soon as they arrive, Jesus returns to the very court and its colonnades (the regular gathering place of teachers in the temple area) near the place where he had condemned the commerce the ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... agree that John 12:1–8 correctly places this incident before the triumphal entry. Mark (followed by Matthew) follows a thematic order, placing it here to contrast the woman’s action with Judas (for the issue of chronology, see the sidebar “Introduction to the Passion and Resurrection”). Bethany was two miles away on the eastern slopes of the Mount of Olives, and Jesus was staying there for Passover week (11:1, 11), probably in the home of his close friends and followers Mary (John 12:3 tells us she ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... several olive orchards on the slopes of the Mount of Olives, and “Gethsemane” means “oil press.” Jesus and his disciples had often come to the “garden” there (John 18:1–2), perhaps to be alone away from the crowds, and it may have been owned by a follower. During Passion week they had stayed there often (Luke 21:37). He asks eight of them (apart from the inner circle [see v. 33]) to stay at the entrance and pray as he goes to wrestle in prayer with his Father (as in 1:35; 6:46; cf. Gen. 22:5 ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... prediction (10:33) Jesus prophesied that he would be “condemned to death,” and that has now been fulfilled. 14:65  some began to spit. This echoes Isaiah 50:6, which has the Servant of Yahweh beaten, mocked, and spat upon, as well as Jesus’s passion prediction in 10:34 that they will “mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him.” Their contempt (it is the leaders in the first part, the temple guards in the second) is seen in their cruel game of “blind man’s bluff” as they blindfold ...
318. The Death of Jesus
Luke 23:44-49, Luke 23:26-43
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R.T. France
... scene in a sermon or lesson. Contrast, for example, Luke’s brief and restrained account of the actual suffering associated with crucifixion (he simply says, “they crucified him there”) with the lurid depiction by some preachers and in, for example, the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ. Neither Luke nor the other Gospels dwell on the gruesome and bloody details. What does this teach us about how we should respond to the story, and how it may best be presented to people today? It might be noted that ...
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C. Hassell Bullock
... forget what God has done, just as verse 13 affirms that this humiliation of Israel’s enemies will also be a witness “to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob.” That God’s people might forget what he has done is one of the passionate concerns of Deuteronomy (Deut. 8:8–11; see also Pss. 78; 106). The use of the expression “my people” here suggests that the king is speaking. 59:12  For the sins of their mouths . . . For the curses and lies.The “sins of their mouths,” “words of ...
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Ronald W. Pierce
... is concerned, rather than relieved, by this knowledge.11 His adoption of these habits of crisis and mourning sets the tone for his prayer in 9:4–19. 9:4 I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed. The reader is also surprised by Daniel’s passionate confession, begging the question of the nature of his remorse. Even though he is a “mere mortal” (8:17; NIV: “son of man”) with shortcomings like anyone else, none of these appear in his book. Lord . . . who keeps his covenant of love with those who ...
321. “On the Way” to Jerusalem
Mark 9:33-37, Mark 9:38-41
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... they were” (9:30). The anonymous journey may have been advised by the continued opposition of Antipas and the Jewish authorities, but above all because Jesus’s face was set toward Jerusalem. “On the way,” Jesus gives the second and shortest of three passion predictions (8:31; 9:31; 10:33–34). In the second prediction, Jesus does not attribute his death to the Jewish leaders, as in the first, but to all humanity. Moreover, the Greek word for “delivered” (9:31) is in the passive voice, which ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... exodos, from which the English word “exodus” is derived; see NIV note to 9:31) in Jerusalem. According to Jewish tradition Moses and Elijah were expected to return before the advent of the kingdom. The reference to Jesus’s “exodus” shows that his passion is primarily in view (cf. 9:22), although the resurrection may also be implied. The story also focuses on who Jesus is. Peter suggests building three booths for the great men who are present. But Peter misses the significance of the event. The ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... fire (charcoal, 18:18). When added to the harmony of this account with the Synoptics, these details lend significant credibility to John’s independent account (cf. the interrogation before Annas, 18:13–14, 19–24). The consistent sequence of events in the passion of Jesus both here and in the Synoptics shows how this story had an ancient, pre-Gospel history. It may have been the first narrative circulating among the early Christians who needed to answer the apologetic question, “If Jesus was the ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... in verses 7–11 what he means. When the fundamental self-centeredness of human beings encounters the law, which formulates God’s will and which demands unconditional love for God and neighbor, the sinful ego reacts and asserts itself; and thus sinful passions are stimulated and sinful actions ensue. The phrase “but now” marks the change of ownership that has taken place (7:6). Believers have died with Christ; they are thus freed from the condemning power of the law. They have been released from ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... make a difference in their lives, then we can share our love and concern, and in doing so, share Jesus. IV. If we’re going to pay attention to what Jesus said and fulfill our calling to be witnesses, we must have “a passion for souls” and a plan for our witnessing: a passion and a plan. Unless we care enough to be deliberate and intentional, we are not going to be effective and fruitful witnesses. Do you believe that Jesus has made a difference in your life? Do you believe He can make a difference in ...
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