Matthew.

Matthew 1.

1.1. Introducing Jesus. Well, his gospels. Well, him too.

1.1-17. Jesus’s genealogy, in Matthew.

1.1-17. Jesus’s two genealogies.

1.18-25. How Joseph became Jesus’s father.

1.18-21. Joseph, father of Jesus, prophet.

1.22-23. Jesus, our Immanuel.

Matthew 2.

2.1-3. The magi show up.

2.1-2. The star coming out of Jacob.

2.3-6. Pinpointing Messiah’s birthplace.

2.4-9. Christ is born in Bethlehem.

2.16-18. Rachel weeping for her children.

2.19.23. How Jesus became “Jesus the Nazarene.”

2.23. Is there a prophecy of Jesus’s hometown?

Matthew 3.

3.1-6. John the baptist’s appearance in the other synoptics.

3.7-8. “You spawn of vipers!”

3.11-12. John the baptist’s message for everyone else.

3.13-15. The baptism of Jesus. And adoption. And anointing.

Matthew 4.

4.1-11. Jesus’s easy victory over the devil.

4.12-22. Preaching, relocating, gathering students.

4.23-25. Ready to take on the whole of the Galilee.

4.24 – 5.1. The crowds who came to see Jesus.

4.24 – 7.29. The text of the Sermon on the Mount.

Matthew 5.

5.3-12. Awesome and awful.

5.13. The earth’s salt.

5.14-16. The world’s light.

5.17-20. Jesus’s most misinterpreted teaching.

5.21-26. When our anger gets us into trouble.

5.27-32. Getting hold of our lusts… before we end up in the trash.

5.33-37. Multiple levels of truth.

5.38-42. Karma: How we imagine the universe seeks justice.

5.43-48. Perfect love—without conditions.

5.48. Christian perfectionism and “Be perfect.”

Matthew 6.

6.1-4. Charity for God, versus charity for public approval.

6.14-15. Prayer’s one prerequisite: Forgiveness.

Matthew 7.

7.24-27. The Sermon on the Mount.

Matthew 16.

16.21-23. That time Jesus called Simon Peter “Satan.”

Matthew 17.

17.10-13. John the baptist, the second coming of Elijah.

Matthew 18.

18.8-9. Getting hold of our lusts… before we end up in the trash.

18.21-35. Prayer’s one prerequisite: Forgiveness.

Matthew 23.

23.16-22. Multiple levels of truth.

Matthew 26.

26.36-46.

Jesus prays at Gethsemane, in Matthew.