J.C. Ryle

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41.) Expository Thoughts on Mark - Mark 4:35-41
      THESE verses describe a storm on the sea of Galilee, when our Lord and His disciples were crossing it, and a miracle performed by our Lord in calming the storm in moment. Few miracles recorded in the Gospel were so likely to strike the minds of the disciples as this. Four of them at least were fishermen. Peter, Andrew, James, and John, had probably ...read more

42.) Expository Thoughts on Mark - Mark 5:18-20
      The after-conduct of those whom our Lord Jesus Christ healed and cured when upon the earth, is a thing which is not often releated in the Gospels. The story often describes the miraculous cure, and then leaves the after history of the person cured in obscurity, and passes on to other things. But there are some deeply interesting cases, in which ...read more

43.) Expository Thoughts on Mark - Mark 7:24-30
      WE know nothing of the woman, who is here mentioned, beyond the facts that we here read. Her name, her former history, the way in which she was led to seek our Lord, though a Gentile, and dwelling in the borders of Tyre and Sidon,-all these things are hidden from us. But the few facts that are related about this woman are full of precious instructi ...read more

44.) Expository Thoughts on Mark - Preface
      THE volume now in the reader's hands, is a continuation of a work already commenced by "Expository Thoughts on St. Matthew". The nature of the work has been so fully explained in the preface to the volume on St. Matthew, that it seems unnecessary to say anything on the subject. It may be sufficient to repeat that the reader must not expect ...read more

45.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 5:1-12
      THE three chapters which begin with these verses deserve the special attention of all readers of the Bible. They contain what is commenly called the "Sermon on the Mount." Every word of the Lord Jesus ought to be most precious to professing Christians. It is the voice of the Chief Sheperd; it is the charge of the great Bishop and Head of the ...read more

46.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 5:13-20
      THESE verses teach us, in the first place, the character which true Christians must support and maintain in the world. The Lord Jesus tells us that true Christians are to be in the world like "salt." "Ye are the salt of the earth." Now salt has a peculiar taste of its own, utterly unlike anything else. When mingled with other substances it ...read more

47.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 5:21-37
      THESE verses deserve the closest attention of all readers of the Bible. A right understanding of the doctrines they contain lies at the very root of Christianity. The Lord Jesus here explains more fully the meaning of His words, "I came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill." He teaches us that His Gospel magnifies the Law, and exalts its author ...read more

48.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 5:38-48
      WE have here our Lord Jesus Christ's rules for our conduct towards on another. He that would know how he ought to feel and act towards his fellow-man, should often study these verses. They deserve to be written in letters of gold: they have extorted praise even from the enemies of Christianity. Let us mark well what they contain. The Lord Jesus ...read more

49.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 6:1-8
      IN this part of the Sermon on the Mount the Lord Jesus gives us instruction on two subjects: one is that of giving alms; the other is that of prayer. Both were subjects to which Jews attached great importance: both in themselves deserve the serious attention of all professing Christians. Let us observe that our Lord takes it for granted that all ...read more

50.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 6:16-24
      THERE are three subjects brought before us in this part of our Lord's Sermon on the Mount. These three are fasting, worldliness, and singleness of purpose in religion. Fasting, or occasional abstinence from food, in order to bring the body into subjection to the spirit, is a practice frequently mentioned in the Bible, and generally in connectio ...read more

51.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 6:25-34
      These verses are a striking example of the combined wisdom and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ's teaching. He knows the heart of a man: He knows that we are always ready to turn off warnings against worldliness, by the argument that we cannot help being anxious about the things of this life. "Have we not our families to provide for? Must not ...read more

52.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 6:9-15
      THESE verses are few in number, and soon read, but they are of immense importance. They contain that pattern of prayer with which the Lord Jesus has supplied His people, commonly called "The Lord's Prayer. Prehaps no part of Scripture is so well known as this: its words are familiar, wherever Christianity is found; thousands and tens of thousa ...read more

53.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 7:1-11
      The first portion of these verses is one of those passages of Scripture which we must be careful not to strain beyond its proper meaning. It is frequently abused and misapplied by the enemies of true religion. It is possible to press the words of the Bible so far that they yield not medicine, but poison. When our lord says, "Judge not," He doe ...read more

54.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 7:12-20
      In this part of the Sermon on the Mount our Lord begins to draw His discourse to a conclusion. The lessons He here enforces on our notice, are broad, general, and full of the deepest wisdom. He lays down a general principle for our guidance in all doubtful questions between man and man. We are "to do to others as we would have others do to us. ...read more

55.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Matthew 7:21-29
      The Lord Jesus Christ winds up the Sermon on the Mount by a passage of heart-piercing application. He turns from false prophets to false professors, from unsound teachers to unsound hearers. Here is a word for all. May we have grace to apply it to our own hearts! The first lesson here is the uselessness of a mere outward profession of Christiani ...read more

56.) Expository Thoughts On Matthew - Preface
      IN sending forth the first volume of a new Expository work upon the Gospels, I feel it necessary, in order to prevent misapprehension, to offer some explanation of the charactor and design of the work. The "EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS," which are now before the reader, are not a learned critical commentary. I do not profess to expound every verse of t ...read more

57.) Faith and Assurance
      If you are a thoughtless, careless man about your soul, you will take no interest in the subject of this tract. Faith and assurance are mere names and words to you: they are neither land, nor money, nor horses, nor dress, nor meat, nor drink: like Gallio, you care not for them. Alas, poor soul! I mourn over you. The day will come when you will thin ...read more

58.) Faith's Choice
      HEBREWS XI. 24-26. 'By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 'Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 'Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of ...read more

59.) Fire! Fire!
      When a house is on fire, what ought to be done first? We ought to give the alarm and wake the inhabitants. This is true love to our neighbor. this is true charity. Reader, I love your soul, and want it to be saved. I am therefore going to tell you something about hell. There is such a place as hell. Let no one deceive you with vain words. What men ...read more