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Time after Pentecost · Proper 9 · Year B

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

The Thorn in the Flesh

July 4, 2027

Paradise, Giovanni di Paolo
Paradise, Giovanni di Paolo, 1445Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (CC0 Open Access)
A Sienese predella panel: saints and the blessed embracing in a flowered garden, painted with gold and extremely strange colour.I know a person in Christ who was caught up to the third heaven, and heard things that are not to be told.Giovanni di PaoloA Sienese painter who ignored the Florentine Renaissance entirely and kept gold grounds and strange colour into old age.Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (CC0 Open Access)The largest art museum in the Americas, founded in 1870 by a group of New Yorkers who wanted one and had no collection to start from.Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (CC0 Open Access)
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelMark 6:1-13Mk 6:1-13
Epistle2 Cor. 12:1-102 Cor 12:1-10
Old TestamentEzek. 2:1-5Ez 2:1-5
PsalterPs. 123Ps 123

Overview & Insights

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12:9)

Paul recounts being caught up to the third heaven yet boasts instead in his weaknesses and a thorn in the flesh, through which the power of Christ rests on him.

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Commentary

Enduring Word: 2 Corinthians 12Enduring Word: 2 Cor 12 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.

Precept Austin: 2 Corinthians 12 CommentaryPrecept Austin: 2 Cor 12 Commentary Precept Austin

Detailed study collecting many commentators on the thorn in the flesh.

BibleHub: Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 12:1BibleHub: Commentaries on 2 Cor 12:1 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the passage's opening verse.

CEP: 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 CommentaryCEP: 2 Cor 12:2-10 Commentary Center for Excellence in Preaching

Reformed preaching commentary on grace sufficient and power perfected in weakness.

StudyLight: 2 Corinthians 12 CommentariesStudyLight: 2 Cor 12 Commentaries StudyLight

Many complete commentaries on 2 Corinthians 12 gathered on one passage page.

Background & Word Study

BibleProject: 2 Corinthians OverviewBibleProject: 2 Cor Overview BibleProject

Animated overview of the argument and themes of 2 Corinthians.

BibleHub: 2 Corinthians 12 InterlinearBibleHub: 2 Cor 12 Interlinear BibleHub

Greek-English interlinear for word-level study of the chapter.

The Church Fathers

Catena: 2 Corinthians 12Catena: 2 Cor 12 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on 2 Corinthians 12.

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