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Matthew 5:6 meaningMay 22, 2024
(D) is the first central theme of Jesus’s chiasm. It focuses on the path to gain and desire to possess social harmony and righteousness.
Matthew 5:5 meaningMay 22, 2024
The third statement (C) of Jesus’s chiasm focuses on humility and meekness.
Matthew 5:4 meaningMay 22, 2024
The second statement (B) of Jesus’s chiasm focuses on mourning as an expression of repentance.
Matthew 5:3 meaningMay 22, 2024
The first statement (A) of Jesus’s chiasm focuses on having a realistic opinion of one’s self.
Matthew 5:3-10 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus begins the "Sermon on the Mount" with a chiasm commonly known as the Beatitudes. To describe the citizens of His Kingdom, Jesus repeats the word "Blessed" (Makarios) - a total sense of fulfillment. The central characteristic of these citizens are righteousness (social harmony) and mercy (compassionate generosity).
Matthew 5:1-2 meaningMay 22, 2024
After observing the large crowds, Jesus withdraws to a mountainside and His disciples follow Him. Jesus then begins to teach His disciples. What follows in chapters 5-7 is traditionally called the “Sermon on the Mount.”
Matthew 4:23-25 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus’s ministry begins. He not only teaches the gospel in synagogues to Jewish audiences, but also heals disease and demon-possession from among Jews and Gentiles.
Matthew 4:18-22 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus begins to recruit His disciples. As Jesus walks along the shore of Galilee He sees two sets of brothers who are fishermen: Simon and Andrew, and James and John. Jesus calls each pair to leave their livelihood and follow him. They do so immediately.
Matthew 4:17 meaningMay 22, 2024
King Jesus begins His earthly ministry by announcing His Kingdom.
Matthew 4:12-16 meaningMay 22, 2024
To temporarily avoid trouble with the religious leaders of Jerusalem, Jesus moves to Capernaum north of Galilee to begin His ministry. Matthew notes this fulfills yet another prophecy from Isaiah.
Matthew 4:8-11 meaningMay 22, 2024
The devil tempts Jesus a third time by offering Him immediate power and glory in exchange for worshiping him. Jesus rebukes him to depart and quotes Deuteronomy a third time. The devil flees and Jesus is ministered to by angels.
Matthew 4:5-7 meaningMay 22, 2024
For the second temptation, the devil takes Jesus to the top of God’s Temple in Jerusalem and tells Him to jump. The devil argues that this will publicly proclaim Jesus’s identity as the Divine Messiah.
Matthew 4:2-4 meaningMay 22, 2024
The devil approaches Jesus with the first of three temptations. He asks Jesus to use His divine powers to turn stones to bread after Christ had fasted forty days and nights in the wilderness. Jesus uses scripture to refute the devil.
Matthew 4:1 meaningMay 22, 2024
Following His baptism by John, the Holy Spirit leads Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Matthew 3:7 meaningMay 22, 2024
Matthew introduces the main opponents of Jesus as Messiah: the Pharisees and the Sadducees. They have heard of John’s popularity and have come to be baptized by him. Instead of being warmly received by John, he gives them a startling rebuke.
Matthew 3:13-17 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus arrives from Galilee in order to be baptized by John. John recognizes Jesus as the Messiah and baptizes Him. As soon as Jesus comes up from the water, God’s Spirit descends as a dove and lands on Him. A voice from Heaven announces that Jesus is the Son of God.
Matthew 3:11-12 meaningMay 22, 2024
John confesses that he is not the Messiah. John is only a lowly forerunner of the Messiah. John shifts metaphors and warns that the Messiah is coming very soon to reap. He will gather the faithful unto Himself and He will incinerate everything that is unfit and everyone who is unworthy when He appears.
Matthew 3:8-10 meaningMay 22, 2024
John continues his rebuke of the Pharisees and Sadducees with a stern warning.
Matthew 3:4-6 meaningMay 22, 2024
Matthew describes John’s strange appearance and extreme diet. Many from Jerusalem and the surrounding areas were attracted to John and drawn by his warnings to repent. As they came to him they confessed their sins.
Matthew 3:3 meaningMay 22, 2024
Matthew points out that John the Baptizer is the fulfillment of the prophecy in Isaiah 40:3.
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