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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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601. The Jews Continue in Their Disbelief

John 12:37-50

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... speak, just as the Father told me, thus I speak. 14:31 (lit.): And just as the Father commanded me, thus I do. In the same way that 14:31 looks forward to what Jesus will do in the Passion, so verse 50 looks forward to what he will say in a new set of discourses oriented toward the Passion. Both are grounded in the Father’s command (cf. 10:18) and in Jesus’ identity both as Son and Prophet, who the Lord had said would “tell them everything I command him” (Deut. 18:18). Additional Notes 12:43 Praise ...

602. Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

John 13:1-17, John 13:18-30

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... of betrayal in the context of his disciples’ impending mission, Jesus is ready to address the specific betrayal (and betrayer) immediately at hand. Additional Notes 13:1 Just before (or simply before). The vague expression makes it impossible to extract an exact chronology of Passion week from John’s Gospel. All that is clear is that this is not the Passover meal (cf. 19:14). His own who were in the world: There are echoes here of the prologue: “He was in the world … the world did not recognize ...

603. The Impending Departure II

John 16:5-16, John 16:17-33

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... in the sermons of Acts (where it is characteristically future, Acts 10:42; 17:31). Judgment is identified here, as elsewhere in this Gospel (5:29 being the only exception), with Jesus’ victory over Satan, especially in his Passion (12:31; cf. 14:30; in the Synoptics, cf. Mark 3:23–27). Because the Passion is almost upon him, Jesus can claim that the world’s evil ruler now stands judged (v. 11; cf., “now” in 12:31). What is this world that the Counselor and the disciples will confront? Is it the ...

604. The Arrest of Jesus

John 18:1-11, John 18:12-14

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... v. 11). The arrest proceeds to its inevitable conclusion: The soldiers and temple guards, regaining their composure, take Jesus into custody. He is brought first to Annas, the father-in-law of Caiaphas the high priest. Though Annas is mentioned in connection with Jesus’ passion only in this Gospel, he is not the center of interest. The narrator calls the readers’ attention instead to the high priest himself, with a reminder of his earlier advice to the Jews that it would be good if one man died for the ...

605. Driving Out the Nations

Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... and destroy all physical evidence of their religion. That skin is stretched over a structural “skeleton” of a nation that must be distinct and exclusive. Yet when we finally arrive at the “heart” of the chapter, we find it beating with the passionate love of God, expressed with poetic repetition and variety. Divine love and grace stand at the core of a chapter commanding total destruction! The moral issues raised by the conquest of Canaan are significant (and we shall take them up more fully ...

606. Worshipping Other Gods

Deuteronomy 13:1-18

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... as much as of secular society. C. S. Lewis once said that if we no longer feel comfortable with the cursing psalms, for example, it is not because of our greater, “Christian” sensitivity, but because of our appalling moral apathy. We no longer feel the passion of the psalmist that God should deal with evil and evildoers and vindicate God’s own moral order in the world. We respond to idolatrous, blasphemous evil not with a curse, but a shrug, and then have the gall to claim morally higher ground than ...

607. Personal Accountability

Ezekiel 18:1-32, Ezekiel 19:1-14

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... vision of the Glory in Ezekiel 8–11 indicate. God holds this generation collectively accountable for their corporate disaster. However, God also calls upon each individual in every generation to take responsibility for her or his present state, to respond with commitment and passion to God’s invitation, and to live. 19:1–9 This chapter contains two poems, the first in verses 1–9 and the second in verses 10–14. Verse 1 identifies the first as a lament and develops the image of the royal house ...

608. The Disciples’ Insufficient Faith to Heal as Jesus Heals

Matthew 17:14-23, Matthew 17:24-27

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Jeannine K. Brown

... context of Jewish pilgrimages to Jerusalem, in which whole groups of people would set out for an approaching festival in Jerusalem (e.g., Luke 2:44).2 The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. This is the second passion prediction that Jesus makes in 16:21–20:28. Unlike the first and the third (16:21; 20:17–19), this prediction provides a more general reference to those who bring about Jesus’ death. Jesus speaks of being delivered into “human hands” (cheiras anthropon). This ...

609. Failing the Test and Spiritual Failure—Hardness of Heart

Mark 6:45-56

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Grant R. Osborne

... and being powerless before a demon terrorizing a young child (9:14–29). There is a momentary high point at Peter’s confession (8:27–29), but the next moment Peter fails; in fact, after each passion prediction there is a failure (8:31–33; 9:30–37; 10:32–45). In the Passion Narrative in chapter 14 there are five failures: Judas (vv. 1–11), disciples (prophesied, vv. 18–21; fulfilled, vv. 27–31), Gethsemane (vv. 32–42), unnamed disciples (vv. 50–52), Peter (vv. 66–72). Finally, Mark ...

610. Realizing the True Nature of Jesus the Christ

Mark 8:27-30

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Grant R. Osborne

... take place at his second coming; his mission now was to be the Suffering Servant and to provide atonement for sin (“give his life as a ransom for many” [10:45]; “poured out for many” [14:24]). Jesus’s vicarious death for humankind is not explored in the passion predictions but does become central in 10:45; 14:24, as we will see. First, Jesus again calls himself “Son of Man” (see the sidebar “Son of Man” in the unit on 2:1–12) in the Danielic sense (Dan. 7:13–14), for the Messiah as Son ...

611. Prophetic Actions—The Temple Condemned and the Fig Tree Cursed

Mark 11:12-19

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Grant R. Osborne

... for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching. The plot to kill Jesus goes back to 3:6, where the leaders believed that he was bringing blasphemy into the land and so had to die. The passion predictions of 8:31; 10:33 show that Jesus was fully aware of this. The “chief priests” were the high priest, the “other priest” who could replace him if he was disqualified, the former high priests, then both the captain and the treasurer of the temple4(for ...

612. Jesus Interprets the Passover Seder of Himself

Mark 14:12-26

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Grant R. Osborne

... of Man will go just as it is written about him. This verse combines divine foreordination (first half) with human responsibility (second half). In the first part there is a general as well as a specific reference to scriptural fulfillment. Generally, it is connected with the passion predictions in 8:31; 9:12, 31; 10:33–34 (especially 9:12: “written that the Son of Man must suffer”). Jesus’s death as fulfilling Scripture is noted especially in Luke 24:26–27; 1 Corinthians 15:3–4, and we will see ...

613. The Roman Trial

Mark 15:16-20, Mark 15:1-15

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Grant R. Osborne

... criminals like Barabbas and the other two malefactors condemned with him. (4) In his death Jesus has conquered sin and death and made salvation possible for all humankind via his vicarious sacrifice. Teaching the Text 1. God is sovereign over evil. In all the scenes of passion week evil seems to be in charge: in the hatred of the leaders, the fickleness of the crowds, the uncaring might of Rome. Yet the reality is that God is in charge, and the evil intentions of those around Jesus work for God’s ends ...

614. The Resurrection of Jesus and the Promise of Victory

Mark 16:1-20

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Grant R. Osborne

... our failures only by joining the disciples and the women in encountering the risen Lord in our “Galilee.” Understanding the Text In God’s sovereign plan, suffering also leads to victory, and persecution to vindication. The resurrection of Jesus concludes not just the passion events but the whole Gospel of Mark, and it promises for God’s people that all of our failures will be overturned in Jesus. Structure Mark centers on the women and structures his narrative in a series of collages moving in three ...

615. The Gospel of God in Christ through Paul

Romans 1:1-17

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C. Marvin Pate

... the view of Christ by the people of the time. They considered it a joke that a crucified man would be made equal to the eternal creator God. A person like that could only be treated with disdain or contempt; he must be a lunatic. Quote: The Passion of the Christ. In this film (2004), a powerful and graphic portrayal of the suffering and death of Jesus, one of the criminals to be crucified with Jesus asks him, “Why do you embrace your cross, you fool?” Song: “Scandalon,” by Michael Card. This is a ...

616. God on His Throne as the Sovereign Creator

Revelation 4:1-11

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J. Scott Duvall

... it loses its power to transform. We do well when we follow the heavenly pattern of making our worship God-centered. 3. Worship changes us.8You can tell a lot about a congregation by how they sing—not merely how well they sing but how boldly and passionately they sing. But to sing with such abandon, people must sing in recognition and response to who God is and what he has done. Revelation 4–5 shows how worship centers and orders our lives around God, the ultimate reality. Worship also reminds us of God ...

617. Eliphaz

Job 4:1-5:27

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Daniel J. Estes

... his folly. Eliphaz also implies that Job envies others who do not have to experience pain as he does, and thus Job does not accept what God has brought into his life. Apparently, Eliphaz equates wisdom with a serene and stoic attitude, and Job’s passionate reaction in chapter 3 did not fit that profile. 5:4 His children are far from safety. Eliphaz desires a world with no moral complexity or ambiguity. His reference to the vulnerable children of the fool, if intentionally directed at Job, is a cruel jab ...

618. Eliphaz Turns Up His Criticism of Job

Job 15:1-35

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Daniel J. Estes

... hot east wind” that blows off the Arabian desert. In Hosea 12:1 the same image is used to speak of Israel’s deceit and lies. Apparently, Eliphaz thinks that genuine wisdom should be cool, analytical, and objective, in contrast to Job’s passionate intensity. 15:4 But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God. Concerned by the potential negative effect that Job’s words could have on others, Eliphaz accuses Job of contradicting the fundamental wisdom principle of the fear of the Lord (cf ...

619. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

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Daniel J. Estes

... who is an abolitionist comes to their rescue and puts forth a case in which he claims they are not slaves because they have been free citizens in another land. Finally, the Supreme Court is given the case, and John Quincy Adams pleads with powerful language and passion for their freedom. We can be confident that God is righteous, even in the midst of our suffering. Hymn: “Moment by Moment,” by Daniel W. Whittle. This old hymn (1893) expresses the core of the principle that one is kept by God’s love no ...

620. “Your Love Is Better Than Life”

Psalm 63:1-11

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C. Hassell Bullock

... 63:11) and the longing for the sanctuary (61:4; 63:2; see table 1). The longing for God’s presence, which began Book 2 (see “The Text in Context” in the unit on Psalms 42–43)—there a levitical longing—now is the king’s passion, matching up with David’s passion for God’s presence in Book 1 (see Pss. 16; 23; 26; 27). Outline/Structure The psalm moves along the lines of thirst for God, praise that arises from the vision of God in the sanctuary, and lament over enemies, which was evidently the ...

621. Jesus Again Predicts his Death

Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 20:20-28

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... (with cup language used in the Old Testament to signal God’s judgment; e.g., Jer. 25:15; 49:12). That they think they will be able to drink that cup, which refers to Jesus’s execution, indicates that they have not understood either Jesus’s passion predictions (16:21; 17:22–23; 20:17–19) or his expectations for their role in his mission, which is rooted in self-sacrifice for others (16:24–26; 18:1–35). When the other disciples are angered by James and John’s request, Jesus counters their ...

622. Jesus Anointed at Bethany

Mark 14:1-11

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... suffering”). Chapter 14, the longest in the Gospel, commences the chain of events in Jesus’s abandonment, first by Judas and the chief priests, then by the Sanhedrin and all his disciples, and finally by the crowds and even the Father (15:34). The passion commences with the betrayal of Jesus by Judas, into which Mark sandwiches a story of a woman who anoints Jesus with costly ointment. The key to Mark’s sandwich construction is found in the middle episode, which in this instance is a costly sacrifice ...

623. Teachings of Possessions

Luke 12:13-21, Luke 12:22-34

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... worrying. The root problem with worry is lack of faith (12:29). It is understandable that pagans are consumed with the desire for security, but believers need to remember that the Father knows what they need (12:30). If believers make the kingdom their consuming passion, then God will take care of other needs (12:31). Disciples, then, are not to fear but to trust God (12:32). They will not draw their security from possessions, and so they will be free to give their possessions to others. If their treasure ...

624. Jesus Again Predicts His Death

Luke 18:31-34

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

The third passion prediction (18:31–34) comes on the heels of the promise of rewards. There will be rewards, but the path to rewards is suffering. This passion prediction is distinctive because it stresses the fulfillment of Scripture, the role of the Gentiles, and the incomprehension of the disciples. We should not fail to see that the prediction of the resurrection is contained here as well.

625. The Validity of Jesus’ Testimony

John 8:12-30

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... I AM. Again the crowd misunderstands. “Who are you?” (8:25). “I am” (8:24) usually requires a predicate. Still they fail to see. Jesus bears the full authority of God! But here at last Jesus indicates when they will perceive: at the cross (8:28). This is the second passion prediction in John (elsewhere 3:14 and 12:32–34; cf. the same triple prediction in the Synoptics: Mark 8:31; 9:31; 10:33–34). The metaphoric language in all three ...

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