Understanding context crucial gaining the meaning of a verse…
Consider Jesus speaking in …Matthew 12:36….. “But I tell you that everyone will have to give an account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken”
What does this mean?
Do you take this… woodenly….for simply the words or do you search the context for meaning?
The tax collector said: “Lord Jesus, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Jesus said he went home “justified.”
