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Navigating Tough Texts: A Guide to Problem Passages in the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

A guide for reading and understanding difficult New Testament verses. While the core message of the New Testament is clear, there are often puzzling, alarming, or confusing things we encounter when we get into the details of the text. Murray J. Harris, veteran scholar and translator, is an ideal guide through these complicated passages. In Navigating Tough Texts, he clearly and concisely...

Prophets, and John the Baptist, “the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it” (NIV), or “everyone tries to enter it by force” (NRSV). Here the “force” presumably refers to the determined, energetic, and enthusiastic action of all those seeking to enter the kingdom (“everyone is eager to get in,” NLT). Compare Luke 13:24, “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door.” But whereas this verb biazetai as an intransitive middle bears a positive
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