Matthew

Here is content related to the book of Matthew.

2023-03-20: Matthew 4:1-11 Examining evil temptations

This is a series on the Beatitudes from Matthew 5 in the process of being created.

It was started in 2021 (February through May). It was updated in 2024 (January through March).

More: Sermon on the Mount: verse model

More: Sermon on the Mount connections

More: The Beatitudes

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

More: Matthew 5:13-16 Animal crackers

2024-03-11: Sermon on the Mount connections

2023-11-06: Matthew 6:6 A storehouse of secret chambers: praying in the closet
2022-05-02: Matthew 6:7-8 Vain repetitions of vain repetitions
2023-03-13: Matthew 6: 14-15: Forget about the debts, sins and trespasses
2021-11-16: Matthew 6:19-21: A treasury of treasures of which to treasure
2022-08-09: Matthew 6:24 A wealth of logical ideas on mammon
2022-07-18: Matthew 6: The missing part worked out for the birds
2022-08-02: Matthew 6: Seek to eat , drink and be married to Jesus
Matthew 6:7-15 Lord's Prayer in Matthew

2024-04-01: Matthew 16: 13-19 Prevailing gates

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

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?

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: A pointed discussion of thorny riches
2023-07-24: Matthew 13:3-23 First kingdom parable: sower
Matthew 13:24-30,36-43 Second kingdom parable: fault-tolerant approach to the toleration paradox
2023-08-07: Matthew 13:31-32 Third kingdom parable: mustard seeds and trees
2023-07-17: Matthew 13:33 Fourth kingdom parable: measures three
2023-08-28: Matthew 13:44 Fifth kingdom parable: treasure in a field
2023-08-14: Matthew 13:45-46 Sixth kingdom parable: pearl of great price
2024-10-14: Matthew 13 47-50: Seventh kingdom parable: harvest at the end of the age
2021-12-15: Matthew 13:51-53 Eighth kingdom parable: treasure 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
2021-08-16: Matthew 16: Calling a masterful gathering of outgoing church believers
Matthew 16: Basket cases
2023-11-13: Matthew 16:16-19 Binding and loosing on earth and in heaven

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")

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

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

Matthew 19:1-12 Joined together

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

More: Matthew 25:31-46 Parable of the sheep and goats

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".

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.

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

More: Matthew 25:31-46 Parable of the sheep and goats

2021-12-18: Accounting: pre-pay an expense with blood money