Exegesis includes but is not limited to parsing, word study, and syntax at various levels (clause, sentence, discourse, genre) while being sensitive to literary features and the running argument. The text means what the text’s author meant. Exegetes are concerned primarily with interpreting a text—that is, discovering what the author meant. And when the text is the Bible, we must never stop with exegesis; we must also do theology—biblical, historical, systematic, and practical theology. We must apply