LukeBrimming with photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you verse by verse through all the books of the New Testament. Its like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first century reader! Discoveries await you that will snap the world of the New Testament into gripping immediacy. Things that seem mystifying, puzzling, or obscure will take on tremendous meaning when you

Early readers

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"The Purpose Driven Church"

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And Rosa Parks's God-given sense of justice and unshakable dignity helped launch the twentieth century’s greatest social movement

Honor your wife and children

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”—Gilbert Bilezikian

Author Stan Guthrie’s answer: begin by zooming in on one key verse for each of the Bible’s sixty-six books