Interpretive Study of Matthew's Gospel - Summary.

Gospel theme: Jesus Fulfilled God's Law and Proved that He was / is God's Christ.

God's Way to Study His Word:

In 2Timothy 2:15 we read: Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. The true definition of the word dividing is: 'a Mathematical function whereby we separate pre-defined units according to a precise procedure which produces a precise result'. However, while most people understand that 'there is one interpretation but many applications of the word of God', they fail to separate the procedures of each. And, as a result, they fail to separate the 'one interpretation of the word of God' from the 'many applications of the word of God'. This leads to many errors which people blame on the perfect word of God instead of their using the wrong procedure.

The result, of men using the wrong way, is that men claim that there are errors and conflicts in God's word. In Isaiah 28, God tells us how to understand His word. In addition, God preserved the message of His word; He preserves every word of His sentences; and God preserves every punctuation mark (jot and title) of His sentences. Therefore, God preserved what He wanted us to understand and God told us how to understand His word so that we have no errors and no conflicts. Unfortunately, for at least one hundred and fifty (150) yeare, men have been taught to use the wrong way to interpret God's word instead of using God's way.

In Isaiah 55:9 we are told For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Thus, God warns us that our ways are wrong and that using God's way produces better results, which have no errors and no conflicts.

In addition, 1Corinthians 2:14 tells us: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Therefore, we can not properly understand the spiritual word of God using man's way. We must use God's way to understand God's preserved word of God. And, the basics of God's way is to understand His preserved word of God using the sentence format and true Biblical definitions for Bible words.

This Study follows the Biblical Way to understand God's Word. It applies precepts ('truths that never change for any circumstance'). It then goes through the Gospel sentence-upon-sentence (line upon line [Isaiah 28 ]). This is different from the ways of men which use verse-upon-verse or some other method which generates errors. God's sentence-upon-sentence method also pays attention to what 'the word of God' tells us that God preserved, which are the true Biblical meanings of words and the Biblical usage of punctuation. (These two are the components of sentences and do not give us verses.) the 'the word of God' tells us that God preserved punctuation (one jot or one tittle) in Matthew 5:18 and Luke 16:17. And 'the word of God' tells us that God preserved every word when he wrote: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4).

The summary of the Gospel comes from the summary of each chapter and each chapter summary within that book. Every chapter summary comes from the summary of each sentence within that chapter. And, the sentence summaries come from analysis using the punctuation and true word definitions, as already explained. As a result, we have what God literally had written and see that there are no conflicts even when we consider the smallest part of a sentence compared to the entire Bible book. God is consistent from the start of a Bible book to the end and is consistent in His doctrines and word definitions across the entire Bible. What we have is an integrated whole (single) message, with no errors and no conflicts. This particular book Study is part of a detailed analysis of the entire New Testament which shows this truth.

Other than cults, all claims of errors and conflicts are based upon the New Testament. This Study is part of a series which interprets the preserved word of God using God's way and proving that there are no errors, nor any conflicts, if we obey God and use His way to interpret His word. And, this series concentrates on the New Testament, since that is the basis of these lies about the perfect word of God.

I have read, or at least skimmed, every book which has been written in the last hundred and fifty (150) years and which claims to teach people how to study and understand the word of God. In every case, they use a method which comes from man and do not use God's way (Isaiah 55:8) to study and understand the word of God. And, while there are variations from one man-written method to another man-written method, every one of them ends up with problems. The end result of those problems is that people blame God's perfect word for their own problems and either turn to a man-written 'bible' or skip verses. (By skipping the interpretation of certain verses, they can hide the conflict which their method has produced.)

Now, many people find that the Detail Studies to be overwhelming because they have everything required to prove that there are NO errors in the perfect word of God. This summary level is easier to understand for most people. At the same time, if someone has an argument with what is presented here, the matching Detail Study provides all of the proof required in order to show that what is here matches exactly what God wrote in His word. Again, this is not a matter of my opinion versus their opinion. I have over thirty (30) years’ experience as a professional Systems Analyst with an international reputation for accuracy in how to prove things. And, this series of books are the result of using recognized methods of analysis to prove what God actually wrote. This series does not present a religious opinion. Therefore, a religious opinion, which was arrived at from using wrong methods, is not superior to a true analysis of what God wrote.

People have looked for over twenty (20) years and failed to find any other work that covers everything this series cover. In addition, no one has found any other work which covers the level of detail found in the Detail Studies. Further, the Detail Studies literally have several million Bible references to support the interpretation provided and to show that the perfect word of God is consistent all across it for word definitions and doctrines. Again, no one has found any other work which has this quantity of Bible references supporting what is presented. I do not write this to brag but to inform the reader the depth of study which supports what is presented in this series.

Let any who disagree show their method and the results of their method and try to explain how their method, which produces errors, is greater that God's way which produces no errors and no conflicts.

Overview of Matthew's Gospel

Gospel theme: Jesus Jesus Fulfilled God's Law and Proved that He was / is God's Christ.

Chapter links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, God.

God teaches us using the sentence format and the first chapter, in particular, is easier to understand using the sentence format. First, we are told that it is The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. This is important because He inherited all of the unfulfilled promises that God made to each man. And, our second sentence tells us the lineage which shows that Jesus is the legal King of Israel. Our third sentence gives us the importance of the symbolic value of fourteen. Our fourth sentence tells us that Mary was a virgin and that the physical father of Jesus was The Holy Ghost. Our last four sentences tell us the reaction by Joseph and the response by God which settled Joseph.

Thus, our First Chapter establish the legal and physical and spiritual ancestry of Jesus. In addition, it established the character of Joseph, who fulfilled the role of a physical father. And, further chapters will tell us that Jesus had the faith of Abraham and the dedication to the service of God which king David had. Therefore, He proved that He was a true son of David (and) son of Abraham, as opposed to the religious Jews who claimed that they were the sons of David (and) sons of Abraham, because they were the physical descendants and made their claim in spite of not having the spiritual characteristics of either man. And, in the Gospel accounts, we read that God requires the character traits, and not the physical ancestry, to count someone as a true son.

In our Chapter, the first sentence starts with Abraham and king David to show us that God puts the top priority on our character. Then the second sentence gives us the physical legal genealogy from Abraham to Jesus through Joseph because that is what the Jewish culture considered to be legally important. On the other hand, Luke was a medical doctor and gave us the physical genealogy which goes through Mary. (Luke names her father and not her because of the way that the culture, at that time, recorded things.)

In our chapter, we see the name of JESUS done in all capital letters. That form of spelling means 'Saviour'. The form of just the first letter being capitalized (Jesus) is the name of a literal physical man and The word of God uses this name for three different men. We need to remember that we are part of a spiritual war with Satan deceiving men and some men deliberately becoming ministers of Satan and others becoming ministers of Satan, without realizing it, because they accept a lie without verifying it and then, in pride, claim top be some expert as they repeat the lie. in this case, the Greek Bible Dictionaries claim that very reference to Jesus means 'spiritual Saviour' and that claim is a lie. Hopefully, the reader verifies what they are told, and what they read, before passing it onto others.

In our Second Chapter we read about wise men coming to worship Jesus; about the local king trying to kill Him; about God warning Joseph and Joseph taking Mary and Jesus into Egypt; about their return; and that all of this was done to fulfill prophecy. Thus, we already see the fulfillment of prophecy which establishes Jesus as God's Christ and God's King. Since Jesus was still a young child, He could not cause the fulfillment of prophecy. Bible deniers claim that Jesus deliberately did things to fulfill prophecy. And, that is true some of the times but not all of the times as those liars claim. He certainly did not write the prophecies several hundred years earlier unless you court the spiritual influence upon the physical men who did the actual physical writing like a scribe does. In addition, as already written, He could not caused the fulfillment of prophecy when He was still a young child. Therefore, we see in this chapter is God providing the required spiritual proof to establish Jesus as God's Christ and God's King. And, between the two chapters, we see all of the proof which would be required by any court which exists. Anyone who denies this God given proof is only establishing themselves as a liar and minister of Satan.

Many people have been deceived into believing that there were only three men and that all of them were kings. We aren't told how many men there were. We are only told that there were three types of gifts and more than one man could have brought the same type of gift. In addition, kings do not travel alone. Further, we read that all Jerusalem was troubled and it is doubtful if three men traveling would have caused that result simply because of their number.

Next, we see lots of nativity scenes every Christmas where the wise men are arriving at the manger where Jesus was born even though our chapter tells us that they were in a house and that Jesus was a young child. In addition, go outside at night and try to figure out how a star can guide you to a single house in a town. I imagine that it would have to, somehow, highlight the house even though stars don't do that. And, the point is that there are miracles and the fulfillment of prophecy reported in this chapter. However, Satan has people distracted with this other stuff so that we miss the spiritual messages of the chapter. God protected Jesus no matter what men and devils tried to do. Likewise, God can protect us. We also see God guiding Joseph and God will guide His children who listen to Him and His messengers. Finally, God had a plan for the life of Jesus which we see written in prophecy. God also had a life plan for each of us and our greatest everlasting reward is received only by following God's plan for our life.

In our Third Chapter, Matthew tells us about John the Baptist and his ministry. Later on, Jesus tells us that he fulfilled the prophecy about the return of Elias because John the Baptist had the same spirit as Elias.

The job of John the Baptist was to be the herald who went before God's King and prepare the people to meet their King. Since He was a spiritual King, John the Baptist did this by telling the people to get spiritually clean by repenting. The common Jews (sinners and publicans) gladly accepted the message while the religious leaders rejected the message claiming that they were spiritually clean because of their birth and their religious acts. And, Jesus also started out preaching repent because only truly spiritually clean people will be allowed in His kingdom. Next, as most people know, the religious leaders eventually turned the people against Jesus and rejected Him as their God-given King. Therefore, God removed the offer of the kingdom. Unfortunately, there are religious people today who claim to be saved and claim that God will give them the kingdom even while they act worse than the religious Jews. God does not change and such a claim is a lie from the devil. Even today, we need to truly repent and get spiritually clean.

In addition to the message of repent, John the Baptist baptized people in the river Jordan who wanted to publically be identified with a changed life. When the religious leaders came to his baptism, John refused to baptize them and old them Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance. Many religious tday emphasize their ceremony and claim that the ceremony is what is important even while they claim that there is no need for a truly changed life and no need for fruits meet for repentance. That is another lie from the Devil. In addition, Jesus was baptized by John and many claim that the true religion is Baptist and that people need a Baptist baptism and a Baptist religion. While that is true, many churches claim to be Baptist even while rejecting true Baptist doctrines and rejecting the requirement for true repentance and rejecting the requirement to live a spiritually clean life. Such people are like the religious leaders of the days of John the Baptist and all such will be rejected by God and by Jesus just like they were rejected by John the Baptist. Thus we see that what truly matters is not our religious claims but the fruits of a truly spirit led life which is spiritually clean.

In Chapter Four, we read about 'The start of the ministry of Jesus'. And, it starts with the statement that Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Many people get upset with God when He puts them into circumstances which test their true Biblical faith. However, as we read here, we must pass the test before God gives us greater spiritual maturity, greater spiritual gifts and greater opportunities to minister for Him.

Our chapter gives us the details of His temptation and the Chapter Summary and Detailed Notes explain all of the related doctrines. However, the basics are that there are three things which fight against God in the lives of all people. They are: the lusts of the flesh, the doctrines of devils and the things of this world (money, fame, etc). And, Jesus was tempted in all three areas. And, after His temptation, angels ministered to His needs. Likewise, we can expect God the provide for us after we successfully pass His tests.

Chapter Four continues with reports of Jesus preaching repent, His calling the first of the disciples who would continue the work, and His doing miracles which proved that he was God's Christ and God's King. Thus, we see that we each need to start training our replacement soon after starting a ministry for God. We each will die some day and we need to have a trained replacement available to take over the ministry.

In Chapters Five through Seven, we have the message known as the 'Sermon of the Mount / Beatitudes'. In it, Jesus tells His listeners what are the rules for His kingdom and what are the rules for His Church. Matthew 11:12-13 and Luke 16:16 tell us: The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. Thus, we are told what the offer of the kingdom, to the Jews, was withdrawn and when the Church / New Testament was started. And, this message was for both.

In Chapters Five starts out listing nine character traits which God will bless and Jesus tells us the different blessings received for each character trait. Then we are told that it is our job to bring true spiritual understanding to this world. He gives several instructions on how we are to deal with our fellow man. There is much more in the Chapter Summary and from it the reader can access the Detailed notes which deal with the interpretation to the word and punctuation mark with full consideration of the context.

Chapter Six continues the 'Sermon of the Mount / Beatitudes'. Where Chapter Five dealt with our personal character and our dealing with our fellow man, Chapter Six deals with our religious works and our relationship with God. Jesus summarizes the chapter with: But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you and how we are to not worry about the future. God has complete control over what happens to His children who devote their life to His service. Therefore, we are to dedicate our life to the service of God and trust Him to take care of what happens in our future.

As with Chapter Five, there is much more in the Chapter Summary and from it the reader can access the Detailed notes which deal with the interpretation to the word and punctuation mark with full consideration of the context.

Chapter Seven finishes the 'Sermon of the Mount / Beatitudes'. Chapter 7 is giving us applications in specific physical terms. And, when viewed as a whole, we see the progression with each chapter building on the prior and each chapter becoming more specific in the application. And, Chapter Seven gives us several sections composed of a few sentences where each section is telling us how to apply these commandments to our lives in different circumstances. As with the prior two chapters, please see the Chapter Summary for a more detailed overview of this chapter. And, as written before, the reader can access the Detailed notes which deal with the interpretation to the word and punctuation mark with full consideration of the context.

In Chapter Eight, the theme is: 'Jesus acts like a King'. He had preached: Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand in Chapter Four. Then He had started offering the kingdom to the Jews, and old them the rules which would be enforced in His kingdom. That was Chapters Five, Six and Seven. So now, this chapter follows and He is now acting like God's King and showing the people the blessings which are available to those who actually accept Him as God's King. Unfortunately, the people, and especially the religious leaders, wanted all of the blessings without any of the responsibilities. And, that is what most so-called 'Christian Religions' claim that people can have today. And, just like Jesus rejected the demands of the Jews and removed the offer of God's kingdom, so also will He do to the people who believe the religious lies of today. God does not change.

In our Chapter, Jesus heals the sick, casts out devils which possessed people and commanded people to follow me. But, He also demanded that those people who followed Him had to give up the cares of this world. For example, He told one man The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Thus, we must be willing to give up all worldly comfort. In addition, He told another: Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. Therefore, we must give worldly responsibilities to others. Then, when He put the disciples through a storm, as a test of their faith, they were afraid and He responded with; Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?. Therefore, we must even give up self dependence and believe that God has the responsibility to provide all that we need in this world. Therefore, we are to devote our lives exclusively to His service and have true Biblical faith that He will provide for all of our needs as His responsibility in this relationship.

There are two very important doctrinal issues in Chapter Eight which cause much controversy. In the start of the chapter, a Gentile centurion sent for Jesus to heal his servant. Jesus said that He would come and heal him and the centurion responded with: Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. Jesus responded to that by saying Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel and continued on with the variable rewards which will be given in The kingdom of heaven based upon the level of true Biblical faith a person demonstrated. That is not a problem. The problem is what Jesus said would happen to saved people who refuse to demonstrate a significant level of true Biblical faith. And, people claim that that result can not be given to people who are in the kingdom of heaven, in spite of the fact that Jesus literally said that His statements were about people who will be in the kingdom of heaven. And, people claim that such results will be only in Hell, and that the people following Jesus, that He said these things to, would go to Hell because they had 'no faith'. These claims were made about the disciples and the people who followed Jesus and supported His ministry with their own substances. We need to be very careful about perverting what The word of God literally says so that we can cling to prior accepted doctrinal errors.

The second issue is at the end of the chapter and most people don't even recognize it. But, when it is pointed out to them they deny that it is applicable to them personally. At the end of the chapter, Jesus went across the lake and was met by two men possessed by devils. When He cast out the devils, they asked to go into a heard of swine. The swine reacted by running into the sea and drowning. Then, when the owners of the heard arrived, they asked Jesus to leave their area. They were Jews and forbidden to eat swine, but they and others around them were, obviously, doing so. In addition, they had no care for the two men who were freed from control by devils. Their own sinful fleshly pleasure was more important to them than the spiritual salvation of others. They were supposed to be God's children, as Jews, and were given a special position with God so that they could take God's message to the world. However, instead of doing their job, they regarded themselves to be better than others and assured themselves that they were going to Heaven, in spite of a sinful lifestyle and refusal to do God's will. They were sure that all Gentiles were going to Hell and were prideful and judgmental and believed that others deserved to go to Hell. And, the spiritual lesson is, many religious people are the same today. They believe they will go to Heaven and get 'a mansion right next door to Peter', regardless of their sinful lifestyle. And, they have no care about others going to Hell because they believe that the others deserve that fate.

The theme of Chapter Nine is: 'The scribes and Pharisees start their doctrinal fight with Jesus'. If the reader looks at the themes of all chapters following this one, that should realize that almost all are dealing with this conflict. The conflict starts here but continues in our day and will continue until Lord Jesus Christ returns to rule and reign this world.

In the start of this chapter, Jesus returns homeans devils motivate the religious leaders to start doctrinal fights with Jesus. The first thing that they had a fit over was His saying: Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. As the religious leaders knew, Only God can forgive sins. However, they also knew that God's King would be The Son of God and, therefore, able to forgive sins. And, as part of this incident, Jesus told them, But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins. With this, Jesus was proving to the religious leaders that he was God's Christ and God's King. But, they rejected the evidence and, foolishly, believed that they could force God to give them the kingdom and let them rule while God's true King was only their puppet and there to take the blame for their errors.

Remember that Matthew is giving us his Gospel account from the perspective of God's law. And, all throughout this Gospel account, we see the religious leaders arguing about God's law and who truly has the power and authority to enforce it. This first incident is about forgiveness, which is a legal matter. And, when Jesus proved that He had power and authority to do miracles, He also proved that He had the power and authority to forgive sins because he was God's Christ and God's King. Obviously, that put Him above all of the religious leaders, which is why they denied all of the evidence provided.

After Jesus proved that He was, in fact, God's Christ and God's King, He then told the Jews that the religion of the New Testament would be different from the religion of the Old Testament. First, the Pharisees claimed to be the top experts on religion and Jesus told them that they had the wrong perspective. They were looking at doing physical religious acts while God judged attitudes of the heart. They thought that they did not need a Saviour and Jesus said that He came for those people who realized that they did need a Saviour. He also added the parables about 'New Cloth on an Old Garment' and 'New wine in Old Bothe's' to teach that the Spirit and religious requirements of the New Testament could not be put into the old religion of the Mosaic Law. (Note, only the religious part of the Mosaic Law was replaced by the New Testament.) Of course, the Pharisees and others still could not understand the lesson because they used the wrong perspective. In deed, many people today are still led into wrong interpretations of the parables (and we are talking about the parables of this chapter). {Please see the Table of Parables in the New Testament for links to where every parable is explained. Tothe best of my knowledge, this table is the only place where every New Testament parable is identified and this Web Site is the only place what every parable is explained.}

Moving on, after giving those parables, Jesus was asked to come and raise a dead girl, which he did. But, before He did, the religious people laughed him to scorn. This miracle is obviously a demonstration that Jesus is the Resurrection and religious people laugh to scorn the true requirements for receiving true resurrection. And, in case the reader has missed it, all throughout this chapter we read about religious people laughing to scorn true Biblical requirements for true salvation while those people who demonstrate true Biblical faith receive blessings which are denied to the religious unbelievers. And, we see this continuing through the end of the chapter with Jesus healing two blind men. This miracle, of course, is a physical example of Jesus healing the spiritual sight of people when he truly saves them. Then He cast a devil out of a man and the Pharisees claimed that Jesus did it with the power of Satan. However, since they could not cast out devils, they could not truly know how it was done. And, again, we see the religious claiming greater spiritual authority than Jesus had even though He repeatedly demonstrated power from God which they did not have.

Chapter Nine ends with Jesus saying to His disciples; The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. This is the condition that a land gets into when they follow lying religions instead of seeking a true personal relationship with God.

Chapter Ten follows up on the ending of Chapter Nine with Jesus sending His disciples out to do missionary work. God still saves people with the intention of teaching them to mature spiritually and then go to work in His field. And, as part of His instructions before sending them out, Jesus gives some prophecy about the future treatment of true missionaries and commands on how they are to react. Please see the Chapter Summary and the Detailed Notes for the interpretation and explanation of the prophecy and doctrine in this chapter.

Chapter Eleven tells us about John the Baptist being in prison for preaching the truth. And, he knew that he would, probably, soon die. Therefore, he sent to Jesus for some assurance of his belief. Instead of answering with words, Jesus demonstrated fulfilling the prophecies about Christ before sending John's disciples back to him. Then, Jesus told the people what God thought about John the Baptist and the correct way to evaluate a true messenger from God. After that, He criticized that generation of Jews and said Woe! to the main cities where He had done miracles. He said these things because John the Baptist was reassured from a report from his disciples while those Jews refused to believe in spite of all of the demonstrated power from God. Just before the end of the chapter, he said: I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Thus we see that God the Father acted the same way as Jesus did when He taught in parables. That is, God reveals things in a way which proves if someone is truly willing to receive The word of God by faith. And, for those people who are willing to do that, Jesus concludes the chapter with: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Formy yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

By the way. Forthose of you who may have missed it, Chapter Eleven told us about many tests from God which produced legal evidence which God will use when judging those people. God also gives us tests which will produce the evidence which will be used when we are judged by God. And, the tests which produce evidence is all part of the legal process which is the perspective which Matthew gives to us.

In Chapter Twelve, the theme is: 'Judgment according to religious rules versus judgment according to spiritual truth'. And all of the incidents reported in this chapter are also reported by Mark and Luke. That is because all of the reported incidents are very important. However, each Gospel author reports the incidents at different times and different sequences because none of the Gospel writers give us a time sequence. Each writer reports incidents in the order which supports the message from the perspective of their particular Gospel. Please see the Chapter Summary for the links where Mark and Luke report the same incidents. It increases learning to compare reports of the same incident, not to criticize, but to get different perspectives.

Our chapter starts with the Pharisees accusing the disciple-les of do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. They were basing their accusations on their additions to God's Law and not on the Law itself. However, rather than fighting them about their not having authority to add to God's Law, Jesus pointed out where the scripture reported that king David did something similar and was not judged by God. And, He also pointed out that the priests also violated their additions to God's Law. Thus, we have an example of how to deal with religious people who add to God's Law. Simply point out where scripture reports someone else doing likewise and not getting judged by God.

Jesus pointed out to them that God wanted a right heart attitude more than religious acts. After that, He went into their synagogue and they had brought in a man who needed healing and tried to claim that healing went against the Mosaic Law on doing physical work. However, healing required spiritual power, not physical. In addition, there was no restriction on spiritual activity on the sabbath. In fact, they were supposed to be spiritually worshipping in spirit and truth. But, again, Jesus refused to argue with them the way that they were prepared to argue. Instead, He pointed out what any Jew would do when their animal was in trouble. And, He asked them; How much then is a man better than a sheep?.

That was when The Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. But, as prophecy said, He did not act against them but went out and continued to minister to the people. And, when the people were amazed that he cast out a devil, the Pharisees said: this fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. That was when Jesus explained how foolish their claim was and gave a prophecy about their future judgment and about His future spoiling Satan's house. After that, he explained how to tell true children of God from hypocrites by saying: Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. After that, they made another demand of Jesus and He refused to fulfill their demand and, instead, told them of their future judgment by God for claiming that their religious traditions had greater authority than demonstrations of the power of God. And, our chapter ends with devils getting His physical mother and brethren trying to interfere with His ministering. Thus we see many different ways that devils got religious people to try and fight against the ministering of Jesus with lies, interruptions and false accusations.

The theme of Chapter thirteen is: 'What the kingdom of heaven is like'. This chapter is almost all parables and many people believe the wrong interpretation of these parables. As explained in the Table of Parables in the New Testament, a parable is: 'An Earthly story with a Heavenly meaning which is designed to lead lost and carnal people into doctrinal error and only reveal the true spiritual meaning to save people who seek the meaning from God'. The thing to be aware of is that someone is teaching a wrong interpretation of pretty much all of this chapter. And, those wrong teachings ignore context, use wrong definitions for Bible words, have a doctrine which opposes the Biblical doctrine taught elsewhere and use other methods of corruption. The Chapter Summary and Detail Notes explain this chapter with more detailed analysis and Bible references than you are likely to find anywhere else.

Chapter Fourteen starts out with the beheading of John the Baptist. He was probably the closest human friend that Jesus had. And, When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. Jesus had tried to take His disciples to a private place where they could morn the murder of John the Baptist, and the people ignored their need for a little privacy. Instead of being upset, Jesus ministered to the people, fed them, sent them away and sent His disciples across the lake. This was when they had another storm as a test and Jesus came to them walking on the water. One of the lessons of this chapter is that we may never get a break from the needs of the ministry before we get to heaven.

In Chapter Fifteen, we read that the Pharisees are back, this time with the scribes joining them. They start another doctrinal fight and our chapter theme is: 'True believers versus religious people'. Jesus responded with: Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? then Jesus called the multitude and explained the difference between a heart relationship with God and a vain surface religion. And, our chapter ends with Jesus going across the lake to minister to other people. He returned, after the religious leaders left the area, and continued His ministry. Thus, we see that Jesus fought when He had to but avoided further fighting when He could and concentrated on ministering to people instead of fighting with self important officials.

In Chapter Sixteen, we see arguments over doctrine, which are, basically, arguments over authority. The religious leaders claim that they have the top authority because of religious traditions. Jesus claims that He has the top authority because He demonstrates approval from God with His miracles. In all related chapters, Jesus warns His disciples, and us, against The doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, which is religious hypocrisy. While the same lesson is taught in each of these Bible chapters, the lesson was taught at different times and in different circumstances. It should also be obvious that this lesson is a precept that never changes but has multiple applications. And, it should also be obvious that Jesus taught certain lessons more than once.

Chapter Sixteen starts with The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. Jesus, basically, told them that they could not understand spiritual truths and left them. It was obvious, By this time, that they had closed minds and Jesus had started refusing to answer their questions and challenges because, with closed minds, they refused to truly consider anything that disagreed with their prior wrong thoughts. And, after He left them, He warned His disciples against The doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. It was after that when Jesus asked them about their personal belief about Him and then started to prophecy His suffering, death and resurrection. He was trying to prepare them for what would happen and wanted them to concentrate on the promise of His resurrection. However, in spite of His prophesying this many times, they were not prepared because they refused to accept the prophecy of His death and they could not accept the prophecy of resurrection without first accepting the prophecy of death. Likewise, we often miss blessings from God because we refuse to accept else something which must happen first. For example, many people do not receive the blessings which God wants to give them because they refuse to spiritually mature first, as required by God.

This was also when Jesus said that He would build His church and that they would be His apostles in it, but they failed to understand His message. And, again, this was because they held onto wrong traditional doctrine.

The theme of Chapter Seventeen is: 'Lessons in Spiritual Maturity'. It start out telling us about the 'Mount of Transfiguration'. and then about how the disciples, who were not taken to the mount, could not cast out a devil. From these incidents we learn that there are variable levels of spiritual maturity and power and that greater reward is given to saved people who mature more spiritually. In addition, our own level of spiritual power is dependent upon our own level of true Biblical faith. And, part of having a strong faith is fasting. However, that fasting must be done in the Biblical manner. That is, not letting other people know that you are fasting and only doing it to draw closer to God, who is the source of all true spiritual power. Last, our chapter deals with a lesson on how to deal with government employees and others who exercise power in this physical world and abuse it. The government employees were abusing their position and power. Jesus told Peter to give them the money that they wanted and to not worry about it. Satan uses those types of things to distract people from doing the job they are supposed to do for God.

The theme of Chapter Eighteen is: 'Additional Lessons on Spiritual Maturity'. Our chapter starts with the disciples asking Jesus, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?. In response, Jesus gives several lessons on how to increase our everlasting position in Heaven. Many people ignore these lessons, and even den them, because they believe the doctrinal lie that we are going to a Communistic Heaven. That lie is: 'Everyone who says the magic prayer of salvation will live in eternal bliss in their own mansion right next door to Peter'. Some also believe the additional doctrinal lies that: 'We will all go to the marriage supper of the Lamb and all will return to rule this world with Jesus and that it does not matter if the supposedly saved person dedicates their life to the service of devils or the lusts of the flesh or to worldly goals'. Hopefully, the reader understands that each of the things mentioned are lies from devils and that this site deals with the evidence which proves that all of the prior claims are lies.

One example of what I just wrote is that Chapter Eighteen tells us that Peter asked Jesus Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?. Jesus answered with a parable about a servant being forgiven for a great debt, then losing his forgiveness and being literally tortured to death. And, 'good Godly fundamental KJV only Baptist preachers' use this parable to preach: 'We must forgive everyone everything if that ask for forgiveness and it does not matter if they repent or not. Also, forgiveness can never be lost. And, God takes away the free will of the saved and insists that they have no choice on forgiving. And that God's children can not demand that anyone repay a theft or deliberate damage done. And they use this to justify many other lies from devils'. The Detailed Notes, for this chapter, explain these errors. And, just so that the reader is aware, God had killed at least one preacher who refused correction to the doctrine that He preached on this parable (Romans 6:16).

The theme of Chapter Nineteen is: 'The Testimony of the Righteous versus the Religious'. The religious always want us to look at their religious activities and religious credentials given by man. The truly righteous understand that the true spiritual proof is how God works in and through their life.

Our chapter starts our with the Pharisees picking a doctrinal argument over marriage. And, every religious argument that I have heard on this matter goes against what the word of God literally says and that includes the 'Good, Godly, fundamental KJV only Baptists'. Basically, religious people seem to never understand the doctrinal difference between divorced and remarried. Preachers especially tend to either condone remarriage or they condemn all divorced as if they were remarried.

Another problem that many people seem to have trouble understanding is when Jesus said: For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. Many claim that everyone should get married even while they ignore that fact that Jesus was never married.

Next, our chapter has a lesson on the proper attitude about money. It seems as if most people never understand this lesson and that includes preachers. Please see the godly Financial Principals for Biblical lessons on money. In our chapter, the rich young ruler left still lost because he was not willing to give up temporal physical riches in order to gain everlasting spiritual riches. And, our chapter ends with Peter asking Jesus Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?. Jesus answered with the assurance that they would receive everlasting spiritual riches.

The theme of Chapter Twenty is: 'The Basis of Everlasting Rewards'. Our chapter starts with the parable of 'The Labourers in the Vineyard'. This teaches that God determines our everlasting spiritual rewards and that He rewards hope in His character more than working for specific promises. For example, in the Old Testament, the Jews were promised blessings in this physical world for serving God. In the New Testament toe promised rewards are usually spiritual in nature and tend to be vague and require the believer trusting that God will give them whatsoever is right.

After that parable, Jesus explains how to be great in His kingdom. That is, we need to keep serving with the right attitude and keep trusting the character of God. Our chapter ends with two blind men trusting His character and asking Him to heal them. Thus, we have a demonstration of true hope. And, we see that serving God in hope requires more spiritual maturity than serving God in faith.

The theme of Chapter Twenty One is: 'The Start of the Final Religious Conflict'. It starts with the account of Jesus fulfilling prophecy and entering Jerusalem meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. And, the people were praising God. Then, Matthew tells us that And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.. As a result, the religious leaders objected to all that was done. And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?. Then, in the morning, He cursed a fig tree which had leaves but no fruit. As written elsewhere, all miracles, which are reported in the Gospel accounts, are a physical example of the doctrine that is in context with the miracle. in this case, God was going the curse the Jewish nation for having the form of religion but no spiritual fruit. Unfortunately, God's people of today ignore or deny that lesson and believe the religious lies that God will reward them for having the form of religious activities which produce no spiritual fruit.

Of course, the religious leaders objected to all that Jesus was doing and the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things?. Then, And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. They refused to answer His question because any answer that they gave would show that their doctrine and religious activities were wrong. As a result, Jesus refused to answer their question and gave them a parable instead which showed the difference in the answer and activity of two sons. This, of course, showed them the difference between then and the public and and harlots. He followed the parable with Verily I say unto you, that the public and and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. Jesus then gave them another parable which told them the judgment that God would bring upon them. Our chapter ends with: And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

The theme of Chapter Twenty Two is: 'Continuation of the Final Religious Conflict'. Our chapter starts with Jesus giving a parable about the kingdom of heaven and the marriage supper of the lamb. Basically, He told the religious leaders that they would not receive the rewards in Heaven that they expected and, at best, they would receive weeping and gnashing of teeth. As a result, they took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. Following that, we have three groups of religious leaders challenge Jesus over religious doctrine. And, in each case, Jesus proved them to be fools who preached doctrinal error. Our chapter ends with Jesus asking them a question which they could not answer because of the doctrinal error which they believed and taught. After that, the chapter ends with: And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

The theme of Chapter Twenty three is: 'Wrong Religious Judgment Versus Righteous Judgment'. in this chapter, Jesus starts out by warning the Jews, who were listening to Him, against the scribes and the Pharisees. He says that they love all of the outward signs of being religious but have no evidence of a God-caused changed life. Their inward person does not match the outward show. That is why He says: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Next, Jesus tells them what attitudes to have and how to act in order to show their inward attitudes. From those instructions, Jesus returns to the Pharisees and says Woe! to them several times. And, each time He describes their wrong religious attitudes and actions which caused Him to say, as God's messenger, Woe!. He ends His sayings against them with: Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. After that, Jesus ends the chapter with a prophesy against Jerusalem. Thus, in this chapter, we read about Jesus pronouncing Woe! against the religious leaders and prophesying their destruction. And, we read why he gave that judgment so that we could know what not to do. Finally, we also read different attitudes and actions we are to have in order to prove that we truly serve God.

The theme of Chapter Twenty Four is: 'Prophecy of Future Events'. This chapter is all prophecy and some claim that it is all about the great tribulation and the 'Second Coming of Christ'. However, while what is prophesied in this chapter is for that event, part of what is prophesied here actually does not match what is found elsewhere in the word of God for that event. Part of our chapter actually matches what is said elsewhere for the judgment seat of Christ. However, people strongly disagree because they believe the doctrinal lies of 'no tears in Heaven' and 'God changes His character and refuses to punish disobedience'. The Bible truth is: 'no tears in the second Heaven' and 'God does not wipe away tears until after the great white throne judgment when there are only save in Heaven to have tears. Also, the word of God literally says that saved will receive bad and the terror of the Lord at the judgment seat of Christ'. The Chapter Summary and Detail Notes explain this chapter with more detailed analysis and Bible references than you are likely to find anywhere else.

The theme of Chapter Twenty Five is: 'Continued Prophecy of Future Events'. This chapter starts out with two parables which literally say that they are about the kingdom of heaven. Some preach that these parables must be about the judgment of Jews because they reject that there will be punishment given at the judgment seat of Christ. That is effectively calling Jesus a liar because He literally said that the parables were about the kingdom of heaven. In addition, after those parables, Jesus said: When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him (the 'Second Coming of Christ'). Thus, the parables happen before the 'Second Coming of Christ' when Jesus is in Heaven where these parables occur.

Next, we read about the Sheep and Goat Judgment' which will determine who goes to Hell and who will go into the 1,000 years reign of Christ in their current human bodies. in this judgment, Lord Jesus Christ first separates the people according to the judgment that will receive then tells each person their personal judgment. Notice that this last judgment happens on Earth and no one goes into Heaven, no one is given a crown and no one is made a ruler in the government of Jesus.

In that judgment, the people are separated first and people who get different ending destination are not judged together. In fact, the word of God has no judgment where some people being judged go to Heaven and some being judged, at the same time, go to Hell. Yet, that is what people claim about one of the earlier parables. At the judgment seat of Christ, everyone remains in Heaven. At the great white throne judgment, everyone is sent to the lake of fire. The judgment seat of Christ occurs in Heaven. If people could be sent to Hell from Heaven then we lose our assurance of salvation.

Please remember that the true definition of a parable is: An Earthly story with a Heavenly meaning which is designed to lead lost and carnal people into doctrinal error and only reveal the true spiritual meaning to save people who seek the meaning from God'. People teach doctrinal error about these parables because the truth proves a well-loved doctrinal lie to be false. Therefore, in order to hold unto their lie, they have to pervert these parables.

The theme of Chapter Twenty Six is: 'The Last Supper'. The Chapter Summary and Detail Notes have many Bible references showing where the events of this chapter are reported in all four Gospel accounts. In addition, the Gospel Time Sequences for the time sequences of incidents reported in this chapter. Many people follow a wrong procedure for analyzing these events, or they put the events in a wrong time sequence, and then blame the perfect word of God for their own errors.

Many of the incidents reported in this chapter fulfilled several prophecies and there are links to well over 600 prophecies which were fulfilled and most were fulfilled in the last chapters of the Gospel accounts. Please see the Prophecy Fulfilled Section of the Significant Gospel Events Study for those references.

The theme of Chapter Twenty Seven is: 'The Trial and Crucifixion'. Jesus was tried by the religious leaders, Pilate and Herod. Representatives of all groups of men were involved and no man can claim that it was some other group of men who did these things. And, again, devil motivated people and deceived people make many wrong claims about these events and what is reported in the Gospel accounts. Please see he Chapter Summary, the Detail Notes the Gospel Time Sequences and the other reference Studies provided for links to where these events were prophesied and where they are explained to show that there are no conflicts in the perfect word of God. All so-called conflicts and errors are due to someone using a wrong procedure to analyze these events. When properly analyzed, people will see that there are no errors and no conflicts.

The theme of Chapter Twenty Eight is: 'The Resurrection.'. Please see the Sections called Sequence of the Resurrection of Jesus, and Appearances of Jesus Christ After the Resurrection, in Doctrinal Study called Gospel Time Sequences about these events. There are also references to where other Gospel accounts report the same incidents. The main place that this Gospel reports this event is found in Matthew 28:1-10. Please also see the Prophecy Fulfilled Section of the Significant Gospel Events Study for Bible references to this chapter where prophecy was fulfilled. Please also see the note for John 20:2-LJC for Bible references and evidences which show us that the risen Jesus is Lord (God).

Devil motivated men try to deny the events of this chapter in order to steal all hope for our own resurrection. That, and pride, are also their motivation for using the wrong methods to interpret what is reported in this chapter and related chapters of the other Gospel accounts. The many Studies found at the Doctrines Index prove that there are no errors and no conflicts if events are properly analyzed.

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