Lesson 8 | Explore the Context

Review

The importance of rightly discerning the context of a passage can hardly be overstated.
What’s at Stake
Gain: Seeing the Goodness of Every Detail
Loss: Getting the Bible Wrong
Study Skill
  1. Trace themes within a book
  2. Pay careful attention to the adjacent chapters
  3. Use the Topics lens as a guide
  4. Be alert to shared themes under different terms
Markup Lens
  1. Open a Bible panel next to the Markup module
  2. Turn on “Show Context Summaries”
  3. Add summaries of the adjacent chapters
  4. Highlight details related to surrounding context
  5. Add a succinct label for each color
  6. Use dot notes to record observations, questions, and other notes

Markup