We began our study of the Gospel according to Matthew on January 21, 2021, and formally concluded it on August 2, 2023. Over the course of those 917 days of Bible study, we immersed ourselves deeply into each of the…
As we began the final 10 verses of The Gospel According to Matthew, we first looked at The Great Deception. As the women were going to tell Jesus’ eleven disciples that He had risen from the dead, some of the…
After having studied Matthew’s narrative of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, we again returned to this same Resurrection passage to better understand the theological implications of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We noted that Matthew 1-27 describes the period of…
In Matthew 27:62, the chief priests and Pharisees made a petition to Pilate on the Sabbath asking him to authoritatively command the tomb in which Joseph of Arimathea buried Jesus to be made fully secure in order to prevent Jesus’…
Before resuming the text, we took additional time to take a deeper dive into the theological breadth and depth of all that Jesus accomplished at the cross. We first observed how Jesus was the means of propitiating the wrath of…
In Matthew 27:45, Matthew describes the entire region of Judea becoming supernaturally engulfed in debilitating darkness for 3 straight hours from 12pm to 3pm. In those hours of Jesus’ crucifixion, this darkness symbolized the blackness of the desolation of His…
As Jesus was led to the place of His crucifixion in Matthew 27:32, the Roman soldiers forcefully pressed a man named Simon of Cyrene into the service of carrying Jesus’ cross for Him. When the execution procession reached its destination…
When Jesus was brought before Governor Pilate beginning in Matthew 27:11, Pilate asked Jesus if He was the King of the Jews … to which Jesus gave a qualified affirmative response. The chief priests and elders raised several charges against…
In Matthew 26:46, Jesus had just informed His disciples that His betrayer was at hand. And so he was, for in the very next verse, His betrayer, Judas Iscariot, appeared with a large host of armed men to seize Jesus.…
In Matthew 26:31, Jesus somberly told the 11 disciples at the Mount of Olives that they would all desert Him that very night. He used the words of the prophet Zechariah to give the basis for this assertion: “Strike the…
In Matthew 26:26-30, Jesus transformed the Passover into a New Covenant commemorative meal as He instituted the Lord’s Supper. Because the Lord’s Supper and the New Covenant are so closely interrelated, it is imperative to understand the New Covenant: what…
In Matthew 26:17-19, Jesus sent His disciples to go into the city to a specific man’s house and to make preparations at the place that Jesus planned to celebrate the Passover with His disciples. When night came, Jesus ate the…