| Matthew 1:2-16 | “The importance of family”: see the four women in Jesus’ family tree |
| Matthew 1:5 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: included |
| Matthew 1:5 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: Jesus |
| Matthew 1:18-25 | “The child”: she gave birth to Jesus |
| Matthew 1:22-23 | “Fulfilled twice”: Mary’s son |
| Matthew 1:22-23 | “Part 1: The 70 Weeks”: Mary’s son |
| Matthew 2 | “A different Christmas story”: Matthew |
| Matthew 2 | “Finally, the story”: king Herod was about to kill him |
| Matthew 3:12 | “The two harvests”: burning the chaff |
| Matthew 4:1-11 | “Some basics”: Jesus fasted for 40 days in the desert, facing the same challenges |
| Matthew 4:1-11 | “Finally, the story”: devil tried to tempt him |
| Matthew 4:11 | “Assumptions”: the devil, for instance, is the one who leaves Jesus after the temptation |
| Matthew 5:3 | “The teachings of Jesus”: The poor in spirit will receive the kingdom |
| Matthew 5:4 | “The teachings of Jesus”: Those who mourn shall be comforted |
| Matthew 5:5 | “The teachings of Jesus”: The meek shall inherit the land |
| Matthew 5:8 | “The teachings of Jesus”: The pure in heart shall see God |
| Matthew 5:9 | “The teachings of Jesus”: Peacemakers are those who are called children of God |
| Matthew 6:24 | “Pax Romana and Christians”: you can only serve one master |
| Matthew 6:24 | “The Dilemma This Created for Christians”: No one can serve two masters |
| Matthew 6:24 | “The Core Teaching”: No one can serve two masters |
| Matthew 6:25-34 | “Pax Romana and Christians”: received their provision from Jesus |
| Matthew 6:25-34 | “The Dilemma This Created for Christians”: Matthew 6:25-34 |
| Matthew 6:25-34 | “The Core Teaching”: Matthew 6:25-34 |
| Matthew 8:5-13 | “The solution”: though even Jesus made exceptions along the way |
| Matthew 8:26 | “Ready for the second death”: who are ruled by fear |
| Matthew 9:30 | “The twofold attack”: Jesus acts often in the hidden |
| Matthew 10:8 | “Living water”: Matthew |
| Matthew 11:12 | “Missing key words”: snatch the kingdom of heaven |
| Matthew 11:13-14 | “The identity of the two witnesses”: who comes again as John |
| Matthew 11:20-24 | “Already but not yet”: no one could have stood |
| Matthew 11:20-24 | “The Core Teaching”: Matthew 11:20-24 |
| Matthew 12:6 | “The promise”: greater than the temple |
| Matthew 12:28 | “A new thinking”: Driving them out is a sign that the Day of the Lord has come |
| Matthew 12:29 | “Crux 2: what “bound” means”: binds the strong man |
| Matthew 12:29 | “Missing key words”: a thief snatches property |
| Matthew 13:13 | “We become what we worship”: Jesus also applied this to His ministry |
| Matthew 13:19 | “Missing key words”: Satan steals the seed sown in the heart |
| Matthew 13:24-30 | “The teachings of Jesus”: weeds in the field |
| Matthew 13:24-30 | “Crux 4: how much of the promise lands inside history?”: the wheat and the weeds |
| Matthew 13:30 | “There is more”: Wheat and weeds grow together until the harvest |
| Matthew 13:33 | “The teachings of Jesus”: yeast, which changes the whole dough |
| Matthew 13:33 | “Crux 4: how much of the promise lands inside history?”: until the whole was leavened |
| Matthew 13:36-42 | “Intro”: Jesus himself gives a different impression of |
| Matthew 13:38 | “Crux 4: how much of the promise lands inside history?”: the field is the world |
| Matthew 13:44-46 | “The teachings of Jesus”: the hidden treasure and the pearl |
| Matthew 13:47-50 | “The teachings of Jesus”: parable of the fish net |
| Matthew 14:13-21 | “The Core Teaching”: Matthew 14:13-21 |
| Matthew 15:23-24 | “The story of Jesus”: renews the covenant with the Jews |
| Matthew 15:24 | “The solution”: His calling was to restore Israel and call as many of them to himself as possible |
| Matthew 16:5-12 | “The Core Teaching”: Matthew 16:5-12 |
| Matthew 16:18 | “Defeat turned into victory”: Church would not be overcome |
| Matthew 18 | “Literally or symbolically”: forgive 7 times 70, that is 490 times |
| Matthew 18 | “Literally or symbolically”: pluck out our eyes if they cause us to sin |
| Matthew 20:20-28 | “The thousand year kingdom”: reigning |
| Matthew 20:25-28 | “There is more”: by serving, not by lording it over others |
| Matthew 20:25-28 | “So who reigns, over whom, and where?”: Jesus did not use his authority that way |
| Matthew 21:33-45 | “The teachings of Jesus”: reuses this parable with the judgment to completely destroy Israel if they reject him |
| Matthew 22:36-39 | “The dark side”: love is the greater good |
| Matthew 24 | “An apocalypse”: Matthew 24 |
| Matthew 24 | “The fig tree and 1948”: 24 |
| Matthew 24:3 | “Coming with the clouds”: Jesus speaks of the end times |
| Matthew 24:4-8 | “The mystery of the first horseman”: Matthew |
| Matthew 24:12-14 | “The problem”: Matthew 24:12 |
| Matthew 24:21 | “Futurist”: Jesus’s own warning |
| Matthew 24:21 | “The great tribulation”: Matthew |
| Matthew 24:29-31 | “Post-tribulational”: Jesus’ own end-time teaching |
| Matthew 24:30 | “Coming with the clouds”: Matthew |
| Matthew 24:32 | “The fig tree and 1948”: the parable of the fig tree |
| Matthew 24:36 | “The context”: as the verse just before this passage says |
| Matthew 24:37-42 | “The left behind”: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand-mill; one will be taken and the other left. ‘Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.” |
| Matthew 25 | “The fig tree and 1948”: 25 |
| Matthew 25:6 | “Missing key words”: at the arrival of the bridegroom |
| Matthew 27:51 | “In Revelation”: the curtain of the temple was torn in two |
| Matthew 27:66 | “But aren’t there also differences?”: Matthew |
| Matthew 28:18 | “There is more”: All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me |
| Matthew 28:18 | “The twofold attack”: God gives Jesus all authority in heaven and on earth |
| Matthew 28:18-20 | “Crux 4: how much of the promise lands inside history?”: Make disciples of all nations |