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When the Bible is Complicated: Answers to Perplexing Questions is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible’s message is very clear: God sent his Son Jesus to sacrifice his life so that we might be saved from sin through a relationship with him. The unfolding of that story gets complicated, and the more we read, the more we have questions: Why does our Bible have the books it has? How do its lessons apply to my life? What’s the best way to study the Bible? Originally published in Bible Study...

Another phrase John uses in this passage might seem like a minor detail. Jesus acknowledges his mother by addressing her as “woman” when she tells him that the host has run out of wine (John 2:4). Jesus addresses Mary this way only one other time in John’s Gospel—in John 19:26, when he is dying on the cross and pouring out his blood, the wine of the new covenant (see Mark 14:23–24). By including Jesus’ address to Mary in both of these accounts, John invites us to anticipate the significance of the