Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Verse Takeaways
1
Fix Your Eyes on Jesus
The verse commands us to look to Jesus as the ultimate example for our life of faith. Scholars explain the original Greek means to look away from all distractions and fix our gaze on Him. He is the 'author' or pioneer of faith, the one who blazed the trail perfectly. By focusing on His perfect race, we find the strength and direction to run our own.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Hebrews
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
Commentaries
14
Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 12:2
18th Century
Theologian
Looking unto Jesus. As a further inducement to do this, the apostle exhorts us to look to the Savior. We are to look to His holy life; to …
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto (αφορωντες εις). Present active participle of αφοραω, old verb to look away, "looking away to Jesus." In N.T. only he…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 12:2
19th Century
Bishop
Looking unto Jesus.—As in Hebrews 2:9, the description precedes the mention of the name, Looking unto the Author and Perfecter…
Go Ad-Free
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
Charles Spurgeon
On Hebrews 12:2
19th Century
Preacher
Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Hebrews 12:2
We are to run this race with no eyes for any one or anything except Jesus. He is the one toward whom we run with undivided attention. The “author a…
John Calvin
On Hebrews 12:2
16th Century
Theologian
Who for the joy that was set before him, etc. Though the expression in Latin is somewhat ambiguous, yet according to the words in…
John Gill
On Hebrews 12:2
17th Century
Pastor
Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith ,
&c.] Not with bodily eyes, for at present he is not to be…
Matthew Henry
On Hebrews 12:1–11
17th Century
Minister
The persevering obedience of faith in Christ was the race set before the Hebrews, in which they must either win the crown of glory, or have everlas…