Mark 3:2 “And they were watching Him to see if He would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.” Observation: Mark here related a time when Christ entered the synagogue and healed a man with a withered hand. To this, the leaders responded by leaving the...

Job 19:21–22 “Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me. Why do you persecute me as God does?” Observation: Job’s friends repeatedly sought to convince him that his painful circumstances were due to some failure or sin on Job’s part. Seeing...

Acts 27:13 “When a moderate south wind came up, supposing that they had attained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing.” Observation: Paul was prisoner on a ship sailing for Rome under difficult circumstances. Never one to ignore an audience, Paul,...

Acts 25:25–27 “‘I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death; and since he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him. Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before...

Acts 21:10–11 “A prophet named Agabus…took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands, and said, ‘This is what the Holy Spirit says: “In this way the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.”’...

Job 9:3, 16 “If one wished to dispute with Him, he could not answer Him once in a thousand times … If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.” Observation: I am astounded as I read these verses at how good a handle Job had...

Job 6:24 “Show me how I have erred.” Observation: Job had endured from his friend Eliphaz a discourse that fixed upon Job blame for his own suffering. He was saying, “Job, I’ve known you for years and I’ve seen the many good deeds you’ve done, but these calamities...

Acts 10:1, 2 “Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort, a devout man, and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.” Observation:...

Job 3:1 “Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.” Observation: Job had just experienced a series of catastrophes that could cause me to live as though in a darkened cave. His dearest family members, financial resources, even his own health,...

Job 1:8 “The Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.’” Observation: Job was blameless, not in the sense of sinlessness, for no one is;...