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The New Testament for English Readers: A Critical and Explanatory Commentary, Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Henry Alford’s four-volume New Testament edition, complete with in-depth introductions to each book and an extensive verse-by-verse commentary, is a work of lasting appeal. Alford takes great pains to build a solid foundation for readers approaching the works of the Gospels and Epistles. Written in an effort to expose nineteenth-century English-language readers to critical thought and commentary...

Lamb of God (John 1:35–43). It was on this occasion that Jesus, looking on him and foreseeing his disposition and worth in the work of His Kingdom, gave him the name Cephas, in Greek Petros, a stone or Rock (John 1:43 &c. Mark 3:16). He does not however appear to have attached himself finally to our Lord till after two, or perhaps more, summons to do so (compare John, as before: Matt. 4:18, and parallel in Mark: Luke 5:1 ff. and notes), and to have carried on his fishing trade at intervals. 3. It
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