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Matthew 17:9-13 meaningMay 9, 2022
Jesus forbids Peter, James, and John to tell anyone about what they just saw until after the Son of Man has risen from the dead. The disciples seem to think that He meant to not tell anyone until Elijah returns, and so they ask Jesus to explain how Elijah was to come before the Messiah and yet is still to come even though Jesus has arrived and is the Messiah. Jesus explains this to them.
Matthew 17:1-8 meaningMay 9, 2022
Jesus fulfills the prophesy He told His disciples about a week earlier when He said that some of them would not see death until they saw the Son of Man coming in His kingdom. Jesus takes three of His disciples: Peter, James, and John up on a high mountain and is terrifyingly transfigured before them.
Matthew 15:32-39 meaningMay 3, 2022
Jesus miraculously feeds a multitude of 4,000 Gentile men plus women and children. He then leaves to return to home district across the Sea of Galilee.
Matthew 15:29-31 meaningMay 3, 2022
Jesus relocates from Tyre to the Decapolis. Crowds of Gentiles come to Him on a remote hillside, bringing this sick and lame to be healed. Jesus heals them and they glorify the God of Israel.
Matthew 15:21-28 meaningMay 3, 2022
Jesus travels to the Gentile province of Tyre. A Canaanite woman begs Him to heal her daughter. At first Jesus refuses, because He was sent to Israel. But as the woman persists in her great faith, Jesus grants her request.
Matthew 15:15-20 meaningMay 3, 2022
Peter asks Jesus to explain what He meant when He told the crowd "It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man." Apparently this thought challenged Peter's assumptions of wickedness and righteousness. Jesus corrects Peter's wrong assumption by explaining how wickedness is primarily an issue stemming from the heart.
Matthew 15:12-14 meaningMay 3, 2022
The disciples express a concern to Jesus that He is insulting the Pharisees. Beneath their concern is that these insults will alienate Jesus from the cultural powerbrokers and hinder His mission and/or the disciples’ future status. Jesus responds to their concern with two metaphors and a piece of advice.
Matthew 15:10-11 meaningMay 3, 2022
Jesus summons the crowd to Him and addresses the Pharisees’ charge against His disciples with a proverb. It teaches that it is the inner harmony from the heart that demonstrates a man’s holiness, rather than external rituals which are for show.
Matthew 15:1-9 meaningMay 3, 2022
The Pharisees return to attack Jesus with a loaded question. Jesus flips the question on its head and demonstrates through an example and a prophecy how the Pharisees think more of their traditions than they do the law of God or their parents.
Matthew 14:34-36 meaningApril 28, 2022
Jesus and disciples arrive ashore and the word quickly spreads of His arrival. The people bring many who are sick to be healed by Jesus.
Matthew 14:22-33 meaningApril 28, 2022
As night falls Jesus sends His disciples in a boat to the other side of the lake (Galilee) while He remains behind to pray. A fierce storm arises and strands the boat out on the sea for hours. As the disciples struggle to navigate their boat to shore Jesus appears walking on the water. The disciples are terrified, mistaking Him for a ghost until He identifies Himself. Peter then calls out to Jesus, and Jesus bids him to walk to Him on the water. Peter does until he doubts. Jesus saves Peter and calms the storm.
Matthew 14:15-21 meaningApril 28, 2022
Jesus multiplies the provisions of five loaves and two fish to feed over five thousand people. This miracle parallels the God’s provision of manna for the children of Israel in the wilderness during the time of Moses.
Matthew 14:13-14 meaningApril 28, 2022
Jesus is back in Galilee. Having learned of the murder of John the Baptist, He seeks a place of solitude. He gets in a boat to find a secluded place, but the crowds see and follow Him on foot. When Jesus gets to shore He has compassion for them and heals their sick.
Matthew 14:3-12 meaningApril 28, 2022
Matthew narrates the fate of John the Baptist. He tells why he was imprisoned and how he came to be gruesomely executed by Herod.
Matthew 14:1-2 meaningApril 28, 2022
Herod hears about the miracles of Jesus and incorrectly presumes that Jesus is John the Baptist returned to life.
Matthew 13:53-58 meaningApril 27, 2022
Jesus returns to His hometown of Nazareth and begins to preach and perform miracles. But His hometown refuses to believe that this man who grew up among them is the Messiah. Consequently Jesus does only a few miracles among them.
Matthew 13:51-52 meaningApril 27, 2022
Matthew concludes Jesus’s teachings on parables with a question from Jesus to His disciples and an exciting riddle about what understanding the scriptures and seeking the kingdom is like.
Matthew 13:47-50 meaningApril 27, 2022
Jesus tells another short parable about the kingdom of heaven. It is about a fishing net that catches all manner of fish. The good fish are kept. The bad fish are thrown away.
Matthew 13:44-46 meaningApril 27, 2022
Jesus tells two short parables about the kingdom of heaven. In each He shows the immeasurable value and worth of finding the kingdom.
Matthew 13:36-43 meaningApril 27, 2022
Jesus explains the meaning of the parable of the wheat and the tares. It is parable about what happens to the faithful sons of the kingdom and the unfaithful sons of the evil one at their respective judgments.
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