Here are links to additional content on Matthew 5:13-16 which begins with the "salt of the earth".

• Matthew 5:13-16 Animal crackers
• Matthew 5:13: Salt of the earth
• Matthew 5:14: Light of the world
• Matthew 5:15: This little light of mine
• Matthew 5:16 Let the light of Jesus shine



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• 2022-02-07: Tu quoque or you too fallacy (part of beams and motes)
• 2022-02-07: Search the scriptures (background for beams and motes)
• 2021-10-23: Matthew 7: Search the scriptures (case study from Acts 17:11)
• 2021-11-01: Matthew 7:1-2 Here comes the judge, but just barley (related to discerning judgment)
• 2022-02-07: Matthew 7:3-5 Beams and motes: the devil is in the details
• 2021-10-21: An actor as a hypocrite is not real
• 2021-08-30: Matthew 7:6-12 The hunt for holy hounds (related page)
• 2021-11-01: Matthew 7:13-14 Strait talk about narrow and wide gates (not ready)
• 2021-11-20: Matthew 7:16-20 Fruit trees programmed to produce fruit of their kind
• 2021-09-20:Matthew 7:3-23 A splitting feat of how the swine flew on pearls at a wide gait
• Matthew 7:21-23 Sermon on the Mount before the summary

The summary of the houses built on rock and sand follow.

Here are some links to a series of pages on the houses built on sand and on rock.

• Matthew 7:24-27 Building a house on sand
• Building a house on sand continued
• Building a house
• The flow of flooded rivers
• Tower of Babel: Two houses attempted using sand
• 2021-12-06: Matthew 7:24-27 Rain, rivers and wind: code word interpretation
• Canons, cannons and canyons (application example)
• Divide and conquer or be conquered (application example)

Here are some songs related to houses build on sand or rock.

• Song: The solid rock (sinking sand)
• Song: Rock of ages (cleft for me)

• Have you heard of the herd of swine? Did they sea it?

• Matthew 9 Overview and summary
• Matthew 9:1-7 Blasphemy of forgiving sins
• 2022-02-14: Matthew 9:8-13 The healthy make a strong case for evil sick time
• 2023-03-01: Matthew 9:14-17 Old and new garments and bottles
• Matthew 9:18-31 Healing
• Matthew 9:32-38 Casting out and harvest workers

• Matthew 10 Overview and summary
• Matthew 10:1-4 The twelve apostolic disciples
• Matthew 10:5-10 Possessing acquired purchases
• Matthew 10:8-10 The way out of the pit
• Matthew 10:11-15 Dusting off peaceful town salutes
• Matthew 10:16 An unworldly thorny issue that is for the pigeon birds
• Matthew 10:17-25 What to say about levels of persecution
• Matthew 10:26-27 The fear deception: focus on friends rather than Jesus
• Matthew 10: 28-31 Taking care of the sparrows
• Matthew 10:32-37 Confess the sword before men
• Matthew 10:38-42 Commanded to follow in the cross walk

The discourse and ideas in Matthew 10 presented by Jesus will continue into the start of the next chapter, Matthew 11.

The discourse and ideas presented by Jesus in Matthew 11 were started in the previous chapter, Matthew 10.

• 2023-05-01: Matthew 11:1-6: Trapped by an offensive misinterpretation of Jesus
• 2023-04-24: Matthew 11:6: Idiomatic misinterpretations that offend
• 2024-09-27: Matthew 11:7-9 Shaken in the wind
• 2024-09-27: Matthew 11:10 Prepare the way
• 2024-09-27: Matthew 11:11 Unborn of women
• 2023-06-12: Matthew 11:12-14 Exploring the Kingdom of Heaven
• 2023-06-26:Matthew 11:15-19 A pipe dream in the market place
• Matthew 11:20-24 Upbraiding cities
• Matthew 11:25-27 Revealed unto babes
• Matthew 11:28-30 Restful and useful yoke that is not easy

• 2022-03-28: Matthew 12:30-37 Pardon the idle word counting
• 2022-03-28: Something to say about words
• 2022-03-28: An opus on the workings of work
• 2022-03-28: Back to being idle at school
• 2022-03-28: Empty words
• 2022-03-28: Curious as to a workaround to work
• 2023-04-03: Matthew: Forgive the modern psychology bait and switch
• 2023-08-21: So far as the net gain of a gnat into a canopy

• 2021-10-18: Matthew 13:7,22 A pointed discussion of thorny riches
• 2023-07-24: Matthew 13:3-23 KP1 Parable of the sower
• Matthew 13:24-30,36-43 KP2 Parable of the wheat and tares
• 2023-08-07: Matthew 13:31-32 KP3 Parable of the mustard seed
• 2023-07-17: Matthew 13:33 KP4 Parable of the leaven
• 2023-08-28: Matthew 13:44 KP5 Parable of the treasure in a field
• 2023-08-14: Matthew 13:45-46 KP6 Parable of the pearl of great price
• 2024-10-14: Matthew 13:47-50: KP7 Parable of the harvest at the end of the age
• 2021-12-15: Matthew 13:51-53 KP8 Parable of new and old codes

• 2024-10-18: Matthew 15:1-21 Blind leading the blind

• 2023-07-31: Matthew 16:1-3 Red sky at night
• Matthew 16:5-8 Big ideas connected with a little faith
• Matthew 16: 13-19 Prevailing gates
• 2023-11-13: Matthew 16:16-19 Binding and loosing on earth and in heaven
• Matthew 16:17-20 Nonverbal communication
• 2021-08-16: Matthew 16:18 Calling a masterful gathering of outgoing church believers


• Matthew 16: Basket cases (related)

Matthew 17 sets up the idea of who is "greatest" that is the theme of Matthew 18.

• Matthew 17:1-8 Transfiguration on a mountain (includes end of Matthew 16)
• Matthew 17:9-13 Connecting Elijah and John the Baptist
• Matthew 17:14-21 Healing of the lunatic child and moving mountains
• Matthew 17:22-23 Son of man to be betrayed and rise again
• Matthew 17:24-27 Tacky attacks on a senseless tax(discourse starts)

Chapter break: (from the Middle Ages)

• Matthew 18:1 Greatest and least in the kingdom (discourse continues)

Discourse: (common theme is that of "greatest")

• Matthew 17:24-27 Tacky attacks on a senseless tax (start of discourse)
• Matthew 18:1 Greatest and least in the kingdom
• Matthew 18:2-11 Great children trapped in the middle
• Matthew 18:12-14 Sheep astray on a mountain of definitions
• Matthew 18:15-17 Conflicting and faulty resolutions

Again: (repeat ideas presented but not in the same exact way)

• Matthew 18:18-20 Middle agreement to have anything done
• Matthew 18:21-22 The forgiving tymes they are a changin
• Matthew 18:23-35 Parable of the unforgiving servant (discourse ends)

Bind and loose, glue and separate: (follows church conflict verses)

• Matthew 19:1-12 Joined together

• Matthew 19:1-12 Joined together
• Matthew 19:13-30 perfect end to complete perfection

• Matthew 20:1-19 Parable of the vineyard workers
• Matthew 20:20-34 Mother left the right idea

• Matthew 21:1-15 Triumphal entry
• Matthew 21:28-32 Will of the Father
• Matthew 21:33-41 Parable of the householder
• Matthew 21:41-45 Winnowing the wheat and chaff to stone-ground powder

• Matthew 22:1-14 Parable of the wedding feast
• Matthew 22:15-22 Tribute money
• Matthew 22:15-22 Show me the money

• Matthew 23:1-39 Taking it to the birds
• Matthew 23:1-4 Jesus fingers the talk about works
• Matthew 23:5 Broad prison boxes and head shackles
• Matthew 23:26 Cleaning the cup and bowl (updated)
• Matthew 23:33-39 Jerusalem and prophets

This is a series on the parable of the sheep and goats in the process of being created.

• Matthew 25:31-46 Parable of the sheep and goats
• Matthew 25:38 Hosting strange and hostile guests and ghosts
• Matthew 25:38 Taking someone into a synagogue
• Matthew 25:36 Weak and visited by a bishop
• Matthew 25:40,45 The least of these



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Matthew 24 is known as the Olivet Discourse where Jesus, at the request of the disciples, talks of the End Times or "All of it".

• Matthew 24:1-15 Wars and rumors of wars
• Matthew 24:4-5 False Christs and all of it
• Matthew 24:15-20 Delimiting the boundary of the region of a mountain
• Matthew 24:36-51 Day and hour and the evil servant
• Matthew 24:37-39 Days of Noah

The Olivet Discourse continues into chapter 25.

This chapter continues the Olivet Discourse on the End Times from the previous chapter. The parables in this chapter could be called the division parables because each deals with various forms of division into groups.

• Matthew 25:1-13 Parable of the ten virgins
• Matthew 25:14-30 Parable of the talents in Matthew
• Matthew 25:31-46 Parable of the sheep and goats

This is a series on the parable of the sheep and goats in the process of being created.

• Matthew 25:31-46 Parable of the sheep and goats
• Matthew 25:38 Hosting strange and hostile guests and ghosts
• Matthew 25:38 Taking someone into a synagogue
• Matthew 25:36 Weak and visited by a bishop
• Matthew 25:40,45 The least of these



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