Exegesis is the process of examining and interpreting a particular text of the Bible in order to explain it. The Greek word is exago which literally means ‘to guide out’ or ‘to show the way’. The term gives priority to the text over any desire we might have to interpret according to our preconceptions. Those who seek to make a text conform to their own ideas, rather than letting it speak for itself, are guilty of ‘eisegesis’ (reading into the text).
