:8 – Too bad she couldn't have her own birthday wish.
:10 – Seems like such a meaningless, trivial death.
:17 – Doesn't say where the food came from.
:19 – Why don't we look up when we pray?
:34 - Gennesaret
Matthew 15
:5 – Gift? Dishonor to parents?
:21-28 – Seems mean, but tests often do.
Matthew 16
:18-19 – And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
:17 – Bar-jona???
:23 – How awful to be an offense to God!
:28 – COMING.........................
Matthew 17
:23 – Did Jesus express any emotion when prophesying of his own death?
:26 – Children are free because politicians families didn't have to pay taxes? Only strangers had to?
Matthew 18
:7 – Offense is inevitable.
:15 – The order of resolving offense/sin.
Matthew 19
:1-12 – Concerning the church in a spiritual sense more than natural divorce
:20 – He had to press for the full answer.
:24 – Eye of the Needle – a gate into the city that camels had to bend down on their knees, after being unloaded of their saddlebags to enter....................
:30 – First/last...Last/first = Equality
Matthew 20
:1 – Householder............
:16 – So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. – conclusion of day labor passage
:21 – Go Mom! Ms./Sister Zebedee!!!
:23 – Distance/mystery between Father and Son.
:26-28 – But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Matthew 21
:9 – Hosanna
Fig tree, Jesus' Authority, Husbandmen, servants, son
:44 – Falling/broken vs. ground to powder...Is one worse than the other?
:46 – And yet “prophet” doesn't even begin to describe HIM!
Matthew 22
:2 – Arranged marriage or wedding?
:6-7 – Wow! They don't talk about this when telling this story!!
:11 – This has to be spiritual because no street person walks around dressed to attend a wedding! Unless maybe they were on their way to another one? Or if work clothes/church clothes also could pass for wedding garments? Anyway, I like to think that the Bible is a spiritual book, so naturally everything is more spiritual than it may seem.
:16 – Herodians (Herod's partisians) = Herod = "heroic"
1) the name of a royal family that flourished among the Jews in the times of Christ and the Apostles. Herod the Great was the son of Antipater of Idumaea. Appointed king of Judaea B.C. 40 by the Roman Senate at the suggestion of Antony and with the consent of Octavian, he at length overcame the great opposition which the country made to him and took possession of the kingdom B.C. 37; and after the battle of Actium, he was confirmed by Octavian, whose favour he ever enjoyed. He was brave and skilled in war, learned and sagacious; but also extremely suspicious and cruel. Hence he destroyed the entire royal family of Hasmonaeans, put to death many of the Jews that opposed his government, and proceeded to kill even his dearly beloved wife Mariamne of the Hasmonaean line and his two sons she had borne him. By these acts of bloodshed, and especially by his love and imitation of Roman customs and institutions and by the burdensome taxes imposed upon his subjects, he so alienated the Jews that he was unable to regain their favour by his splendid restoration of the temple and other acts of munificence. He died in the 70th year of his age, the 37th year of his reign, the 4th before the Dionysian era. In his closing years John the Baptist and Christ were born; Matthew narrates that he commanded all the male children under two years old in Bethlehem to be slain.
2) Herod surnamed "Antipas", was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace, a Samaritan woman. After the death of his father he was appointed by the Romans tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea. His first wife was the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia; but he subsequently repudiated her and took to himself Herodias, the wife of his brother Herod Philip; and in consequence Aretas, his father-in-law, made war against him and conquered him. He cast John the Baptist into prison because John had rebuked him for this unlawful connection; and afterwards, at the instigation of Herodias, he ordered him to be beheaded. Induced by her, too, he went to Rome to obtain from the emperor the title of king. But in consequence of the accusations brought against him by Herod Agrippa I, Caligula banished him (A.D. 39) to Lugdunum in Gaul, where he seems to have died. He was light minded, sensual and vicious.http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=G2264&t=KJV
3) Herod Agrippa I was the son of Aristobulus and Berenice, and grandson of Herod the Great. After various changes in fortune, he gained the favour of Caligula and Claudius to such a degree that he gradually obtained the government of all of Palestine, with the title of king. He died at Caesarea, A.D. 44, at the age of 54, in the seventh [or the 4th, reckoning from the extension of his dominions by Claudius] year of his reign, just after having ordered James the apostle, son of Zebedee, to be slain, and Peter to be cast into prison: Acts 12:21
4) (Herod) Agrippa II, son of Herod Agrippa I. When his father died he was a youth of seventeen. In A.D. 48 he received from Claudius Caesar the government of Chalcis, with the right of appointing the Jewish high priests, together with the care and oversight of the temple at Jerusalem. Four years later Claudius took from him Chalcis and gave him instead a larger domain, of Batanaea, Trachonitis, and Gaulanitis, with the title of king. To those reigns Nero, in A.D. 53, added Tiberias and Taricheae and Peraean Julias, with fourteen neighbouring villages. He is mentioned in Acts 25 and 26. In the Jewish war, although he strove in vain to restrain the fury of the seditious and bellicose populace, he did not desert to the Roman side. After the fall of Jerusalem, he was vested with praetorian rank and kept the kingdom entire until his death, which took place in the third year of the emperor Trajan, [the 73rd year of his life, and the 52nd of his reign] He was the last representative of the Herodian dynasty.
:23-33 – No marriage in heaven.
:35 – Leave it to the lawyer! And here is a different answer than when the rich young ruler asked. Looks as though Jesus tells them each to do something they won't or aren't going to do...or maybe just hard for them personally to follow through.
:41-46 – Maybe they didn't call their children Lord?
Matthew 23
:1 – Moses' seat?????
:5 – phylacteries = 1) a fortified place provided with a garrison, a station for a guard or garrison
2) a preservative or safeguard , an amulet. The Jews used this word to describe small strips of parchment on which were written the following passages of the law of Moses, Ex. 13:1-10, 11-16; Dt. 6:4-9, 11:13-21, and which, enclosed in small cases, they were accustomed when engaged in prayer to wear fastened by a leather strap to the forehead and to the left arm over against the heart, in order that they might thus be solemnly reminded of the duty of keeping the commands of God in the head and in the heart, according to the directions given in Ex. 13:16, Dt. 6:8, 11:18; These scrolls were thought to have the power, like amulets, to avert various evils and to drive away demons. The Pharisees were accustomed to widen, make broad, their phylacteries, that they might render them more conspicuous and show themselves to be more eager than the majority to be reminded of the law of God.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5440&t=KJV
:11 – Repeat repeat repeat...
:17 – Greater? Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
:33 – Jesus is not subtle!
Matthew 24
:2 – Not left one stone upon another...it is said that sacrifices ceased at the destruction of the temple.
:3 – People always have wondered about the end.
:13 – Not when the end is, but when it is not – and salvation comes at the indescript end.
:30 – The sign of the Son of Man = causes mourning?
:33 – Ok so these are signs that the end is near, but in God's terms or ours? (Rhetorical). A day with the Lord is as a thousand years!!!
:35 – Ever thought of heaven passing away?
Matthew 25
I ponder this “likened” passage often.
:45 – Converse of verse :40.
Matthew 26
:8 – Being mad at Jesus? Are you kidding me?
:13 – Co-story always told with Jesus'.
:29 – Promises not to drink until in His Father's kingdom.
:64 – Was he literally talking to that generation?
Matthew 27
:10 – Potter's field
:25 – Wrong thing to say!
:36 – Never remembered this!
:50- :53 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
~There are many witnesses, then. And why do we still not hear any preaching on this? Wow!
Matthew 28
EASTER!
:9 – Jesus' first word in his resurrection body
Greek 5463 = Chairo = to be cheerful, be well, be glad, Godspeed (it's a verb)
28 chapters, and less than 30 pages to describe such an incredibly powerful life...from birth to death and resurrection.
Mark 1
:6 – What a diet!
:9 – Nazareth of Galilee
There's no geneological listing or birth story of Jesus in Mark.
:15 – Jesus told them to believe the gospel before He even experienced his death and resurrection.
:20 – Jesus was very convincing and embracing.
:33 – All the city was gathered at the door! It seems like everything happened one right after the other.
:45 – Perhaps this is why Jesus kept telling the healed to be quiet about it.
