• Part Third. The Ministry of Jesus in Peræa and Judæa. Matt. 19:1-28:20.

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MATTHEW

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PART THIRD.

THE MINISTRY OF JESUS IN PERÆA AND JUDÆA.

xix. 1-xxviii. 20.

§ I. CONVERSATIONS IN PERÆA.xix. 1-xx. 16.

1. Jesus Departs from Galilee. xix. 1, 2.

• Where was Peræa?
• Into what part of Peræa? 1.
• Was this his final departure from Galilee?

2. A Conversation about Divorce. 3-12.

• How, "tempting him"? 3.
• Meaning of, "every cause"? 3.
• How could the words quoted be those of God? 4-6, cf. Gen. ii. 24.
• Why should their hardness of heart modify the law? 8.
• Why the objection of the disciples? 10, cf. 8.
• Explain the reference to the eunuchs. 11, 12. [26]

3. About Little Children. 13-15.

• Why were they brought? 13.
• Why did the disciples object?
• How is the kingdom, "of such"? 14.

4. About How to Obtain Eternal Life. 16-22.

• What was the man's conception? 16.
• Why the question in the reply? 17.
• Why enjoin keeping the commandments as the way? 17, cf. 21.
• What kind of a man was he, and what did he lack? 20, cf. 22.
• Why go away sorrowful, and not angry? 22.

5. About the Danger of Riches. 23-26.

• Why so difficult? 23, 24.
• Can the rich be saved at all? 26.

6. About Those Who Forsake All for Christ. 27-30.

• What suggested Peter's question? 27, cf. 21, 22.
• What the regeneration and what the thrones? 28.
• How receive a hundredfold? 29.

7. Parable of Laborers in a Vineyard. xx. 1-16.

• What the subject illustrated? 16; xix. 30.
• In what respect were the last laborers first, and the first last? 13-16.
• How is it then in the kingdom?
• Can the eleventh hour laborers represent persons who intentionally postpone obedience? 6, 7.
• Do they represent men who obey late in life?

§ II. THE JOURNEY FROM PERÆA TO JERUSALEM. xx. 17-xxi. 11.

1. Third Prediction of His Death and Resurrection. xx. 17-19.

• Why take them apart? 17.
• What now indicated as to the time? 18. [27]

2. An Ambitious Request of James and John. 20-28.

• What meant by the request? 21.
• What meant by the cup? and why? 22.
• Meaning of, "minister" and "servant"? See margin.
• What the rule of Christian ambition? 27.
• What indicated here as to the design of the death of Jesus? 28.

3. Two Blind Men Healed at Jericho. 29-34.

• Why did the multitude rebuke them? 31.
• What did they believe concerning Jesus? and why? 30.
• Why follow him? 34.

4. The Public Entry into Jerusalem. xxi. 1-11.

• Where Bethphage and the mount of Olives?
• Why would the owner consent? 3.
• Why wish to ride? and why such an animal? 4, 5.
• Which did he ride? 7, cf. 5.
• Why spread the garments and branches? 8.
• Why all the city stirred? 10.

§ III. INCIDENT AND DISCUSSION IN JERUSALEM.
xxi. 12-xxii. 46.

1. Jesus Expels Traders from the Temple. xxi. 12-17.

• Why were these in the temple? 12.
• What was the wrong? 13.
• Why were the priests displeased? 15.
• How was praise perfected? 16, 17.
• Why to Bethany? 17.

2. A Barren Fig Tree is Withered. 18-22.

• What was his purpose? 18, 19.
• Why did the disciples wonder? 20.
• What mountain? 21.
• Was this promise for the twelve? or for all? [28]

3. His Authority is Demanded. 23-32.

• Who were the chief priests and elders? 23.
• Significance of their demand?
• What could the people see from their answer? 24-27.
• Explain the parable. 28-32.
• Meaning of, "repent yourselves"? 32.
• How would this lead to believing?

4. Parable of the Vine-dressers. 33-46.

• Why dig a winepress? 33.
• Why build a tower?
• Explain the parable.
• Explain the figure of the stone. 42.
• How was the kingdom taken from them? 43.
• Explain the other figure of the stone. 44.
• Who was it that gave the answer of 41? Cf. 45, 46.

5. Parable of the Royal Wedding. xxii. 1-14.

• Explain the parable.
• Trace the connection of thought in these five paragraphs.

6. A Question about Tribute to Cæsar. 15-22.

• Why should there be such a question? 17, cf. Deut. xvii. 15.
• Show the points of ingenuity in the plot. 15-17.
• What is the meaning of his answer? 21.
• Why did they marvel? 22.

7. A Question about the Resurrection. 23-33.

• Purpose of the law cited? Deut. xxv. 5.
• Purpose of the question? 27, 28.
• Force of the remark about their ignorance? 29, 30.
• In what sense is God, "not the God of the dead"? 32.
• What the proof, then, of a resurrection? 31, 32. [29]

8. A Question as to the Great Commandment. 34-40.

• Where had the Pharisees been? 34, cf. 15, 22.
• In what sense, "tempting him"? 35.
• Why the answer?
• Where are these two precepts found? Lev. xix. 18; Deut. vi. 5.

9. A Question about the Christ. 41-46.

• Why were they not able to answer? 46.
• What did Jesus gain by the question?
• Why did they not dare to question him any more? 46.
• Did Jesus hold David to be inspired?

§ IV. THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES DENOUNCED. xxiii. 1-39.

1. For Their Ostentation. xxiii. 1-12.

• How, "on Moses' seat"? 2.
• What the burdens? 4.
• What the phylacteries? 5, cf. Ex. xiii. 9-16.
• What the, "borders of their garments"? 5, cf. Num. xv. 37-41.
• What rule as to dress to be inferred from this?
• What rule to be inferred as to titles? 8-11.
• The principle to govern all? 12.

2. For Their Partisan Zeal. 13-15.

• How did they, "shut the kingdom"? 13.
• What kind of proselytes? 15.
• Why the effect on these?
• What proselyting is now wrong?

3. For Encouraging Perjury. 16-22.

• What the design of these distinction?

4. For Neglecting Weighty Matters While Observing Small
Ones. 23, 24.

• What the articles tithed? 23.
• Explain the figure of the [30] gnat and the camel. 24.
• Does this excuse us for neglecting small matters? 24.

5. For Hypocrisy in Regard to Purification. 25-28.

• What cleansing referred to? Cf. xv. 1, 2.
• How would cleansing the inside make the outside clean? 26.

6. For Imitating Their Persecuting Fathers. 29-36.

• Meaning of, "fill ye up then the measure of your fathers"? 32, cf. 34.
• What Zachariah? 35, cf. Zechariah i. 1.
• It is true that he was thus killed?
• In what sense did all the blood come upon that generation?

7. A Lamentation over Jerusalem. 37-39.

• What does this show as to his real feelings?
• Had he been in Jerusalem before? 37.
• Meaning of, "your house is left unto you desolate"?
• What condition of the city indicated by 39?

§ V. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE PREDICTED.
xxiv. 1-28.

1. Occasion of the Prediction. xxiv. 1-3.

• Meaning of, "buildings of the temple"? 1.
• Why say, "of thy coming, and of the end of the world"? 3.

2. The Beginning of Sorrows. 4-8.

• Why these things mentioned?

3. Persecutions Predicted and General Spread of the
Gospel. 9-14.

• What effect on the church? 10, 12.
• What end meant [31] in 13? Cf. 6, 14.
• Was the gospel preached in all the world? 14, cf. Col. i. 23.

4. The Last Sign and an Order for Flight. 15-22.

• What, "the abomination of desolation"? and why so called? 15, cf. Luke xxi. 20; Daniel xii. 11.
• Whose words the parenthesis? and why inserted? 15.
• Why not in winter, or on the sabbath? 20.
• Meaning of shortened? and how was it for the elect's sake? 22.
• What does Josephus say of this tribulation? War, Preface, 1, 4.
• Did the disciples flee as directed? Josephus, War, B. II. C's. xix, xx; Eusebius, B. III. C. v.

5. False Christs and False Prophets in Those Days. 23-28.

• How could they show signs and wonders? 24, cf. Josephus, War, B. VI. C. v.
• What the carcase and the eagles? 28, cf. 24.

§ VI. THE SECOND COMING OF THE SON OF MAN.
xxiv. 29-xxv. 40.

1. The Coming Described. xxiv. 29-31.

• After what tribulation? 29.
• Was it to be, then, simultaneous with the fall of Jerusalem?
• In what sense "immediately" after. Cf. Second Peter iii. 3-9.
• Connection of time in the events of this paragraph?

2. When the Second Coming to be Looked For. 32-35.

• When ye see all what things? 33.
• All what things fulfilled? 34. [32]

3. Uncertainty of the Time. 36-42.

• Why did not the Son know? 36.
• How does this modify the two preceding paragraphs?
• Can we assign any other limit to his knowledge?
• What the point of comparison to the days of Noah? 37-39.

4. How to Be Prepared for It. 43-51.

• Show the points in the illustrations from the householders and the servants.
• What then is the way to be prepared?

5. Another Illustration: Parable of the Virgins. xxv. 1-13.

• What the folly of the one set and the wisdom of the other?
• Points of analogy in the parable?

6. Another Illustration: Parable of the Talents. 14-30.

• On what rule was the money distributed? 15.
• What wrong in the slothful servant's reasoning? 24-26.
• Why did he bury the money? 18.
• Why give to him who had ten? 28.
• What had the one-talent man? and what had he not? 29.
• What the points of analogy in the parable?
• Whence did the English word talent derive its meaning?

7. An Account of the Final Judgment. 31-46.

• Why say, "the throne of his glory"? 31.
• What shows the universality of this judgment? 31, 32.
• What the grounds of the two sentences?
• Why these grounds sufficient?
• What is seen here as to the purpose of a final judgment?
• Relative duration of life and punishment? 46.
• Give the plan of the speech which here closes. [33]

§ VII. PLOTS AND PREPARATIONS FOR THE DEATH OF
JESUS. xxvi. 1-19.

1. Fourth Prediction of His Death. xxvi. 1, 2.

• What day of the week was this? 2.
• On what day then was the preceding speech delivered? 1.

2. A Plot of the Priests and Elders. 3-5.

• What the immediate cause of this?
• On what day was it? 3, cf. 2.
• Why fear an uproar? 5.

3. Jesus Anointed for His Burial. 6-13.

• Why go into a leper's house?
• What is alabaster? 7.
• How was it a good work? 10.
• In what sense was it for his burial? 12.
• Why should it be so widely published? 13.

4. Judas Contracts to Betray Jesus. 14-16.

• What encouraged him to go to the priests? 14, cf. 3-5.
• Why pay in advance?
• What opportunity wanted? 16.

5. The Passover is Prepared. 17-19.

• Which was, "the first day of unleavened bread"? 17, cf. Ex. xii. 1-18.
• Why the place not previously selected?
• How did he know that the man would consent?
• What preparation had to be made? See Ex. xii. 8.

§ VIII. INCIDENTS AT THE PASCHAL SUPPER AND IN
GETHSEMANE. xxvi. 20-56.

1. The Betrayal Predicted. 20-25.

• What dipping of hand in the dish? 23.
• Why good if he had [34] not been born? 24.
• Purpose of this remark?
• Why did Judas ask, "Is it I, Rabbi?" 25.
• When did they expect this to be done?

2. The Lord's Supper Instituted. 26-29.

• In what sense was the loaf his body? 26.
• Meaning of, "blood of the covenant"? 28.
• What its connection with remission of sins?
• In what sense was he to, "drink it new" with them in the kingdom? 29.
• What is said as to the design of the supper?
• Why do we call it, "the Lord's supper"? See I. Cor. xi. 20.

3. A Hymn Sung and Desertion Predicted. 30-35.

• Had they been accustomed to singing?
• What hymn did they sing?
• Should we sing a hymn at the close of the supper?
• Where written, "I will smite the shepherd," etc.? 31; Zech. xiii. 7.
• Was this prediction uttered after they reached the mount of Olives? See Matt. xxvi. 30-36.

4. The Agony of Jesus in Gethsemane. 36-46.

• Where was this place? 36, cf. 30.
• Meaning of, "even unto death"? 38.
• Why say, "Watch with me"? 38.
• Why is it not possible? 39.
• Why at last say, "Sleep on"? 45.
• Why so soon after say, "arise, let us be going"? 46.

5. Jesus is Arrested. 47-56.

• Why so many? and with weapons? 47.
• Why need the sign? 48.
• How shall they who take the sword, perish by it? 52. [35] 
• Why his remark about the time and manner of the arrest? 55, 56.
• What scriptures fulfilled? 54, 56.

§ IX. THE TRIAL AND CONDEMNATION OF JESUS.
xxvi. 57-xxvii. 26.

1. He is Condemned by the Sanhedrim. 57-68.

• Who constituted the Sanhedrim? 59, cf. 57.
• Why did Jesus not answer the witnesses? 63.
• Why not condemn him on the testimony of the witnesses? 61.
• On what did they condemn him? 63-66.
• Why say, "Prophesy unto us"? 68.

2. Peter's Denial. 69-75.

• Meaning of, "without in the court"? 69.
• What the porch? 71.
• How did his speech betray him? 73.
• What led to this denial?

3. Another Consultation of Priests and Elders. xxvii. 1, 2.

• Why this, after they had condemned him?
• What plan was agreed on?

4. The Remorse and Death of Judas. 3-10.

• Meaning of, "repented himself"? 3.
• Condemned of whom? 3, cf. 6.
• Force of his testimony for Jesus? 4.
• What of the scruples about the money? 6, 7, cf. xxiii. 24.
• Why the potter's field? and why to bury strangers? 7.
• Why the modern use of, "potter's field"?
• Whence the prediction? 9, 10, cf. Zech. xi. 12, 13.
• Why say Jeremiah? [36]

5. Pilate Persuaded to Crucify Jesus. 11-26.

• Why no answer to the charges? 12-14.
• Why did Pilate marvel?
• Why the custom of releasing a prisoner? 15.
• Why confine the choice to Barabbas and Jesus? 17, 18.
• What was his wife's opinion of Jesus? and when her dream? 19.
• How was the multitude persuaded? 20.
• Why did Pilate yield? 24.
• Why scourge Jesus? 26.

§ X. THE LAST SUFFERINGS AND THE BURIAL.
xxvii. 27-66.

1. Jesus is Mocked by the Soldiers. xxvii. 27-31.

• What was their motive?

2. He is Led to Golgotha and Crucified. 32-44.

• Why make Simon bear the cross? 32.
• Where is Golgotha? and why so called? 33, cf. Heb. xiii. 12; Jno. xix. 20. L. of B., 175.
• Why not drink the wine? 34.
• Why remove his garments? 35.
• Why the inscription? 37.
• Why robbers crucified with him? 38.
• What arguments implied in the taunts? 40-43.

3. The Darkness and the End. 45-56.

• Meaning of, "why hast thou forsaken me"? 46.
• Why were his words misunderstood by some? 47.
• Why give him vinegar? 48.
• Significance of rending the veil? 51, cf. Heb. ix. 7, 8.
• What became of the bodies of the saints? 52, 53.
• What convinced the centurion? 54.
• Why were the women there? 55, 56. [37]

4. The Burial. 57-61.

• What the motive of Joseph?
• Why the stone? and of what shape? 60. L. of B., 129.
• Why were the two women sitting there? 61.
• Describe a Jewish sepulchre. L. of B., 127-129.

5. The Sepulchre Put under Guard. 62-66.

• At what time on the morrow? 62.
• Why only "until the third day"? 64, cf. 63.
• Why seal the stone? and how? 66.
• Why would they do all this on the sabbath?
• Why would Pilate grant them a guard?

§ XI. THE RESURRECTION.xxviii. 1-20.

1. Visit of the Women to the Sepulchre. xxviii. 1-8.

• Meaning of, "late on the sabbath day, as it began to dawn"? 1.
• Who the other Mary? 1, cf. xxvii. 61, 56.
• Why did the angel sit down on the stone?
• Why say to the women, "Fear not ye"? 5.
• When had he risen? 6.
• Why did not the women see him rise?
• Why with both fear and joy? 8.

2. Jesus Appears to the Women. 9, 10.

• Could the women have been mistaken? 9.
• Why into Galilee, when he was to appear sooner? 10, cf. xxviii. 16.

3. Conduct of the Soldiers and the Priests. 11-15.

• Did they see Jesus rise? 11, 13.
• Why persuade Pilate? and how?
• Absurdity of the report?
• What do modern infidels say of this account? [38]

4. The Meeting in Galilee. 16-20.

• When was the place appointed?
• Why did some doubt? 17, 18.
• Baptizing whom? 19.
• Meaning of, "into the name"? 19.
• Difference between the work before baptism and that after it? 19, 20.
• Force of, "I am with you"? 20.
• How with them, "unto the end of the world"? 20.

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