The events themselves: what happened, where the retelling has drifted from the text, and what the scene was really like.
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- Be It Unto Me — The Annunciation, Luke 1This page walks Gabriel's visit to Mary in six passes, pairing her question with Zechariah's from one chapter earlier, then tracing what Scripture leaves unsaid and how the rest of the New Testament reads the scene.
- Calming the Storm: Mark 4:35–41This page walks the storm on the Sea of Galilee verse by verse, then lines up three psalms that credit stilling the sea to the LORD alone against what happened in that fishing boat.
- Feeding the Five Thousand, John 6:1–15This page walks the only miracle all four Gospels record through the six-beat Iconic Story shape: the plain telling, a side-by-side ledger of all four accounts, the true context, what the text leaves unanswered, an Old Testament shadow, and the old commentators on the leftovers.
- Jesus at Twelve (Luke 2)This page works the six beats of an Iconic Story: the plain account of Luke 2:41-52, six places the popular retelling drifts from the text, the pilgrimage customs behind it, and what the eighteen silent years do and do not tell us.
- Jesus WeptScripture records Jesus weeping three times: at Lazarus's tomb, with the raising of Lazarus only verses away; over Jerusalem, a city that would not know its day; and in Gethsemane, with strong crying and tears before the cross.
- Mary and Martha: Luke 10:38–42The page walks the scene in six beats: what Luke's Greek actually says, the same two sisters across three scenes in two Gospels, the questions the text leaves unanswered, and what the moment shows about Jesus.
- Men Who Read the Sky — The Wise Men and the Star, Matthew 2Six places the carol drifts from what Matthew actually wrote are named one by one, then three readings of the star, natural event, supernatural light, angel, are laid out side by side with their holders, strengths, and difficulties, unresolved.
- Nicodemus at Night. John 3A ruling-council member comes to Jesus after dark with a compliment and is answered with a new birth, a bronze serpent, and John 3:16.
- Peter's Confession
- The Baptism of Jesus — Matthew 3This page walks Matthew 3:13-17 in six beats: the scene itself, five places the retelling drifts from the text, five readings of why He was baptised, four honest gaps the Gospels leave open, the Father's sentence stitching together Psalm 2 and Isaiah 42, and how the early church read the river.
- The Cleansing of the Temple — John 2 · Matthew 21This page walks John 2:13-22 and Matthew 21:12-17 in six beats: the scene itself, six places the common retelling drifts from the text, the true context of the temple courts, what the Gospels leave unanswered, what the scene reveals of Him, and how the early church read it.
- The Entry into Jerusalem
- The First People Told — The Shepherds of Bethlehem, Luke 2This page walks Luke 2:8-20 in six stages: the story plainly told, what the text says against popular retellings, the shepherds' true setting, what Scripture leaves silent, the titles the angel names, and what old commentators heard in it.
- The Flight to Egypt — Matthew 2This page follows Matthew's account of the flight into Egypt beat by beat: the story itself, where the popular retelling drifts from the text, the history behind it, and where the New Testament reads it as a new exodus.
- The Raising of Lazarus — John 11This page walks John 11 in six beats: the story, six details the retellings tend to skip, a to-scale timeline of the delay, what Scripture stays silent on, and what the sign reveals about Jesus.
- The Silent YearsBetween his return from Egypt as an infant and his baptism in the Jordan near age thirty, Scripture gives Jesus one narrated story: found in the temple at twelve.
- The Temptation in the Wilderness — Matthew 4This page walks Matthew 4 and Luke 4 through six beats: the story, what the text says against popular versions, the desert and temple setting, what the Gospels leave silent, the second Adam comparison, and old commentary on the scene.
- The Transfiguration — Matthew 17 · Mark 9 · Luke 9This page walks Matthew 17, Mark 9, and Luke 9 through six beats: the story, what the three accounts say against smoothed-over retellings, the unnamed mountain, what none of the Gospels tell, the Father's two declarations, and how the church has read it.
- The Woman at the Well — John 4A ten-turn thread lays out the whole conversation verse by verse, His lines and hers side by side, before six places the retellings drift from John's own words are named.
- Walking on Water — Matthew 14:22–33This page walks Matthew 14:22-33 and its Mark and John parallels in six passes: the story plainly told, where retellings drift from the text, the true distance and hours, what Scripture leaves unsaid, what the scene reveals of Christ, and the old readers on Peter.