OUTLINE OF MATTHEW
A. Ralph Johnson
THEME: Jesus the Messiah (Jewish view)
By the apostle, Matthew, a tax-collector, a Levite from Capernaum
Written around 60 A.D., before the other Gospels and the destruction of Jerusalem (Mat 24:15-16).
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CHAPTERS & KEY WORDS |
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Matt |
Mark |
Luke |
John
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I. BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD (1:1—2:19) |
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1: Birth |
Genealogy. |
1-17 |
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3:23 |
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Angels announcement to Joseph |
18-23 |
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Virgin birth. |
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1:27 |
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2: Childhood |
Bethlehem--Wise men seek him |
1-2 |
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Herod’s scheme to kill Jesus |
3-8 |
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Wise men worship Jesus |
9-12 |
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Egypt flight |
13-15 |
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Herod kills the children |
16-18 |
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Nazareth childhood |
19 -23 |
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2:39 |
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II. BEGINNING MINISTRY (3:1—4:11) |
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3: Baptism |
Wilderness of Judea at Jordan |
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John the Baptist. |
1-12 |
1:1-8 |
3:2 |
1:19 |
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Jesus baptized. –Holy Spirit as dove |
13-17 |
1:9-11 |
3:21 |
1:29 |
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4: Temptation |
Devil's temptation in the wilderness. |
1-11 |
1:12-13 |
4:1 |
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III. FIRST GALILEAN MINISTRY (4:12—9:38) |
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Galilee: John the Baptist imprisoned |
1:14-15 |
4:19 |
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13-17 |
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4:31 |
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Call of Peter, Andrew, James & John |
18-22 |
1:16-20 |
5:1 |
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Preaching and healing throughout Galilee. |
23-25 |
1:39 |
4:44 |
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5: Sermon |
Sermon On Mount |
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6:17 |
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Beatitudes. |
2-12 |
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6:20 |
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Salt & light. |
13-16 |
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Fulfilling the Law |
17-20 |
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“Thou shalt not kill”. |
21-26 |
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“Thou shalt not commit adultery” |
27-32 |
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Oaths. |
33-37 |
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Vengeance. |
38-42 |
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6:27 |
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Enemies. |
43-48 |
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6:35 |
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6: Praise |
Righteousness not for praise of men |
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Alms |
2-4 |
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Prayer |
5-15 |
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Fasting |
16-18 |
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Earthly treasures |
19-21 |
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12:34 |
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Lamp of body is the eye |
22-24 |
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11:34 |
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Anxiety about food and clothing |
25-34 |
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12:22 |
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7: Judging |
Judging |
1-5 |
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6:37 |
7:24 |
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Give not holy things to dogs |
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Ask, Seek, Knock |
7-11 |
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11:9 |
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Golden rule. |
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Wide and narrow gates |
13 -14 |
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Beware of false prophets |
15-23 |
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Fruit test |
16-21 |
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6:43 |
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Wise or foolish builders—rock or sand |
24-29 |
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6:47 |
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8: Miracles |
Leper healed. |
1-4 |
1:40 |
5:12 |
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Centurion's servant. |
5-13 |
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7:1 |
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Peter's wife's mother |
14-17 |
1:29 |
4:38 |
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Discipleship challenge |
18-22 |
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9:57 |
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Sea calmed. |
23 -27 |
4:35 |
8:22 |
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Demons cast out into swine. |
28-34 |
5:1 |
8:26 |
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He entered a boat and came to his own city |
5:21 |
8:40 |
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9: Matthew |
Palsy healed, sins forgiven. |
2-8 |
2:1 |
5:17 |
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Matthew called |
2:13 |
5:27 |
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Eating with Publicans |
10-13 |
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John’s disciples answered on fasting. |
14-17 |
2:18 |
5:33 |
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Ruler's daughter & woman’s blood healed |
18-26 |
5:22 |
8:41 |
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Two blind men healed |
27-31 |
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Man who was mute healed |
32-34 |
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Multitudes healed, compassion on them |
35-38 |
6;5 |
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IV. SECOND GALILEAN MINISTRY |
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10: Twelve |
Twelve apostles commissioned. |
1-4 |
3:13 |
6:12 |
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Charge to the apostles |
5-15 |
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Warnings to be faithful in dangers |
16 -33 |
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Challenge of discipleship |
34-39 |
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Blessings on those who receive them |
40 -42 |
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11: Baptist |
John the Baptist’s question |
1-6 |
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7:18 |
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Jesus’ remarks concerning John |
7-19 |
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7:24 |
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20-24 |
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10:12 |
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Jesus’ prayer and appeal to for disciples |
25-30 |
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10:21 |
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12: Sabbath |
Dispute over plucking grain on Sabbath |
1-8 |
2:23 |
6:1 |
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Healing on the Sabbath |
9-14 |
3:1 |
6:6 |
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Jesus healing all. Do not make him known |
15-21 |
3:7 |
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Casting out demons blasphemy |
22-37 |
3:22 |
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Sign asked. Sign of Jonah cited. |
38-45 |
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Mother and brothers of Jesus |
46-50 |
3:31 |
8:19 |
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13: Parables |
KINGDOM PARABLES (“ears, let him hear”) |
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Sower |
1-9 |
4:3 |
8:5 |
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Why speak in parables? |
10-17 |
4:10 |
8:9 |
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Sower parable explained |
18-23 |
4:13 |
8:11 |
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Tares |
24-30 |
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Mustard seed |
31-32 |
4:30 |
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Leaven |
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Tares parable explained |
34-43 |
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Treasure hid in a field |
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Pearl of great price |
45-46 |
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Net gathering all kinds of fish |
47-54 |
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Householder treasure new and old |
51-52 |
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Jesus’ home people reject him as Prophet |
53-58 |
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14: Herod |
Herod beheads of John the Baptist |
1-12 |
6:14 |
9:7 |
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Jesus heals people and feeds 5000 |
13-21 |
6:30 |
9:10 |
6:5 |
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Walk on water and calms a storm |
22-33 |
6:45 |
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6:17 |
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Healing in Gennesaret |
34 -36 |
6:53 |
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15: Traditions |
Keeping traditions |
1-20 |
7:1 |
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7:24 |
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Canaanitish woman’s demoniac daughter |
21-28 |
7:24 |
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V. THIRD GALILEAN MINISTRY |
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Healings on mountain by Sea of Galilee |
29-31 |
7:31 |
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4000 fed |
32 -39 |
8:1 |
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Boat to Magadam |
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16: Rock |
Pharisees and Sadducees seek a sign. |
1-4 |
8:10 |
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Beware Pharisee & Sadducees leaven. |
5-12 |
8:15 |
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Caesarea Philippi |
8:27 |
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Who is Jesus? –Peter’s confession |
13-16 |
8:27 |
9:18 |
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Church founded upon Christ the rock. |
17-20 |
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Prediction. Jesus is to suffer and be raised. |
8:31 |
9:22 |
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Peter’s rebuke |
22-23 |
8:32 |
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Cost of discipleship—deny self—follow me |
24-26` |
8:34 |
9:23 |
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Coming with his angels |
8:38 |
9:26 |
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Coming in his kingdom before some die |
9:1 |
9:27 |
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17: Transfigured |
Mountain transfiguration |
1-8 |
9:2 |
9:28 |
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Coming of “Elijah” -- John the Baptist |
9-13 |
9:11 |
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Epileptic son healed of a demon |
14-18 |
9:17 |
9:37 |
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Disciples lack faith to move mountains |
19-21 |
9:28 |
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Galilee prediction of his death |
22-23 |
9:31 |
9:44 |
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Capernaum. Tax coin in fish's mouth. |
24-27 |
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18: Offenses |
Who is Greatest? Humility as little Child |
1-5 |
9:33 |
9:46 |
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Occasions of stumbling—Better to be blind |
6-9 |
9:42 |
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Ninety & nine—The lost sheep |
10-14 |
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Handling offenses in the church |
15-20 |
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Forgiveness—parable of unmerciful servant |
21-35 |
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19: Divorce |
From Galilee to Jordan
VI. PEREAN MINISTRY (map) |
1-2 |
10:1 |
9:51 |
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Divorce questions |
3-12 |
10:2 |
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Little children blessed |
13-15 |
10:13 |
18:15 |
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Rich young man—sell all |
16-22 |
10:17 |
18:18 |
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Apostles to be on 12 thrones |
27-30 |
10:28 |
18:28 |
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20: Greatness |
Vineyard laborers parable |
1-16 |
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Jesus coming death & resurrection |
17-19 |
10:32 |
18:31 |
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James & John’s mother: Left & right hand |
20 -28 |
10:35 |
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Two blind men healed near Jericho |
29-34 |
10:46 |
18:35 |
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VII. CLOSING MINISTRY |
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21: Triumphal Entry |
Triumphal entry into Jerusalem |
1-11 |
11:1 |
19:29 |
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Temple cleansed |
12-16 |
11:15 |
19:45 |
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Fig tree cursed |
19-22 |
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Chief Priests and Elders |
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What authority? |
11:27 |
20:1 |
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John's baptism? |
24-27 |
11:29 |
20:3 |
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Parable of two sons. |
28-32 |
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Wicked husbandman. (parable) |
33-42 |
12:1 |
20:9 |
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The rejected stone. (parable) |
42-44 |
12:10 |
20:17 |
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They get the point |
45 -46 |
12:12 |
20:19 |
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22: Snares |
The ignored marriage. (parable) |
1-14 |
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Pharisees and Herodians |
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Tribute to Caesar? |
15-22 |
12:13 |
20:21 |
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Sadducees |
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Resurrection? |
23-33 |
12:18 |
20:27 |
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Pharisees –Lawyer |
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Great Commandment? |
34-40 |
12:28 |
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Whose son is Christ? |
41-46 |
12:35 |
20:41 |
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23: Woes |
Humility—no exalted titles |
1-12 |
12:38 |
20:45 |
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Woes against scribes and Pharisees |
13-36 |
12:39 |
20:47 |
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Lamentation over Jerusalem |
37-39 |
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24: Coming |
Leaving the temple |
1-2 |
13:1 |
21:5 |
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Mount of Olives discourse (chap. 24-25) |
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Questions—when and what sign? |
13:3 |
21:7 |
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Warning not to be deceived |
4-14 |
13:5 |
21:8 |
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Jerusalem's tribulation (cf. Dan. 9:26-27) |
15-28 |
13:14 |
21:20 |
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Coming of Christ |
29-31 |
13:24 |
21:27 |
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When shall these things be? |
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Lesson from fig tree |
32-35 |
13:28 |
21:29 |
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Day or hour of His coming? |
36-44 |
13:32 |
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Faithful and wise servant |
45-51 |
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25: Prepared |
Ten virgins—five wise and five foolish |
1-13 |
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Talents accounted for |
14-30 |
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19:12 |
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Coming judgment. |
31-46 |
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26: Last Supper |
Jesus foretells his crucifixion |
1-2 |
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Priests conspire. |
3-5 |
14:1 |
22:1 |
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Anointing in Bethany. |
6-13 |
14:3 |
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Judas conspires to deliver him |
14-16 |
14:10 |
22:3 |
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Passover supper |
17-30 |
14:12 |
22:7 |
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Flock to be scattered |
31-35 |
14:27 |
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Peter to deny Him |
33-35 |
14:29 |
22:31 |
13:38 |
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Garden of Gethsemane |
36 -56 |
14:26 |
22:39 |
18:1 |
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Jesus prays |
36-46 |
14:32 |
22:39 |
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Betrayal by Judas |
47-50 |
14:43 |
22:47 |
18:2 |
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Peter attempts to defend Jesus |
51-56 |
14:47 |
22:47 |
18:10 |
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VIII. TRIALS AND CRUCIFIXION (26:57—27:66) |
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Trial before Caiaphas the high priest |
57-68 |
14:53 |
22:54 |
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Peter’s denial |
69-75 |
14:66 |
22:57 |
18:25 |
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27: Crucifixion |
Jesus taken to Pilate |
1-2 |
15:1 |
22:66 |
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Judas hanged himself (cf. Ac. 1:16-18) |
3-10 |
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Jesus before Pilate |
11-26 |
15:2 |
23:1 |
18:28 |
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Mocked in Praetorium |
27-31 |
15:16 |
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19:1 |
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Simon of Cyrene carries the cross |
15:21 |
23:26 |
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Golgotha` crucifixion |
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Wine with vinegar |
33-34 |
15:23 |
23:36 |
19:29 |
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Casting lots for his garments |
15:24 |
23:34 |
19:23 |
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“They sat and watched him” |
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23:35 |
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“KING OF THE JEWS” |
15:26 |
23:38 |
19:19 |
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Two robbers crucified with him |
15:27 |
23:33 |
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Mocked |
39-44 |
15:29 |
23:39 |
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Death |
45-50 |
15:37 |
23:46 |
19:30 |
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Temple veil rent and earthquake |
15:38 |
23:45 |
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Tombs opened |
52-53 |
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Centurion’s response |
15:39 |
23:47 |
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Women watching |
55-56 |
15:40 |
23:49 |
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Buried by Joseph of Arimathea. |
57-61 |
15:42 |
23:50 |
19:38 |
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Guard set. |
62-66 |
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IX. RESURRECTION AND APPEARANCES |
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28: Resurrection |
Two Marys at the tomb |
1-7 |
16:1 |
24:10 |
20:1 |
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Angel appears to the women at the tomb |
8-10 |
16:5 |
24:4 |
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Conspiracy with the guards to lie |
11 -15 |
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Galilee appearance – Great Commission |
16 -20 |
16:15 |
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