GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

DAY 40-42
 DAY 31 (MATTHEW 13:44 53)
JESUS HEALS A DEMON-POSSESSED BOY
14 WHEN THEY CAME TO THE CROWD, A MAN APPROACHED JESUS
AND KNELT BEFORE HIM. 15 LORD, HAVE MERCY ON MY SON, HE
SAID. HE HAS SEIZURES AND IS SUFFERING GREATLY. HE OFTEN
FALLS INTO THE FIRE OR INTO THE WATER. 16 I BROUGHT HIM TO
YOUR DISCIPLES, BUT THEY COULD NOT HEAL HIM.
17 YOU UNBELIEVING AND PERVERSE GENERATION, JESUS
REPLIED, HOW LONG SHALL I STAY WITH YOU? HOW LONG SHALL
I PUT UP WITH YOU? BRING THE BOY HERE TO ME. 18 JESUS
REBUKED THE DEMON, AND IT CAME OUT OF THE BOY, AND HE
WAS HEALED AT THAT MOMENT.
 DAY 31 (MATTHEW 13:44 53)
JESUS HEALS A DEMON-POSSESSED BOY
19 THEN THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS IN PRIVATE AND
ASKED, WHY COULDNT WE DRIVE IT OUT?
20 HE REPLIED, BECAUSE YOU HAVE SO LITTLE FAITH. TRULY
I TELL YOU, IF YOU HAVE FAITH AS SMALL AS A MUSTARD
SEED, YOU CAN SAY TO THIS MOUNTAIN, MOVE FROM
HERE TO THERE, AND IT WILL MOVE. NOTHING WILL BE
IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU.
DAY 31 (MATTHEW 13:44 53)
SALIENT POINTS
REFLECT
 DAY 32: MATTHEW 13:54-14:12
A PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR
53 WHEN JESUS HAD FINISHED THESE PARABLES, HE MOVED
ON FROM THERE.54 COMING TO HIS HOMETOWN, HE
BEGAN TEACHING THE PEOPLE IN THEIR SYNAGOGUE,
AND THEY WERE AMAZED. WHERE DID THIS MAN GET
THIS WISDOM AND THESE MIRACULOUS POWERS? THEY
ASKED.
 DAY 32: MATTHEW 13:54-14:12
55 ISNT
THIS THE CARPENTERS SON? ISNT HIS MOTHERS NAME
MARY, AND ARENT HIS BROTHERS JAMES, JOSEPH, SIMON AND
JUDAS? 56 ARENT ALL HIS SISTERS WITH US? WHERE THEN DID
THIS MAN GET ALL THESE THINGS? 57 AND THEY TOOK
OFFENSE AT HIM.
BUT JESUS SAID TO THEM, A PROPHET IS NOT WITHOUT
HONOR EXCEPT IN HIS OWN TOWN AND IN HIS OWN HOME.
58 AND HE DID NOT DO MANY MIRACLES THERE BECAUSE OF
THEIR LACK OF FAITH.
 DAY 32: MATTHEW 13:54-14:12
JOHN THE BAPTIST BEHEADED
14 AT THAT TIME HEROD THE TETRARCH HEARD THE REPORTS ABOUT
JESUS,2 AND HE SAID TO HIS ATTENDANTS, THIS IS JOHN THE
BAPTIST; HE HAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD! THAT IS WHY MIRACULOUS
POWERS ARE AT WORK IN HIM.
3 NOW HEROD HAD ARRESTED JOHN AND BOUND HIM AND PUT HIM
IN PRISON BECAUSE OF HERODIAS, HIS BROTHER PHILIPS WIFE, 4 FOR
JOHN HAD BEEN SAYING TO HIM: IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO
HAVE HER. 5 HEROD WANTED TO KILL JOHN, BUT HE WAS AFRAID OF
THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE THEY CONSIDERED JOHN A PROPHET.
 DAY 32: MATTHEW 13:54-14:12
JOHN THE BAPTIST BEHEADED
6 ON HERODS BIRTHDAY THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS
DANCED FOR THE GUESTS AND PLEASED HEROD SO
MUCH 7 THAT HE PROMISED WITH AN OATH TO GIVE HER
WHATEVER SHE ASKED. 8 PROMPTED BY HER MOTHER, SHE
SAID, GIVE ME HERE ON A PLATTER THE HEAD OF JOHN THE
BAPTIST.
 DAY 32: MATTHEW 13:54-14:12
JOHN THE BAPTIST BEHEADED
9 THEKING WAS DISTRESSED, BUT BECAUSE OF HIS OATHS
AND HIS DINNER GUESTS, HE ORDERED THAT HER REQUEST
BE GRANTED 10 AND HAD JOHN BEHEADED IN THE
PRISON. 11 HIS HEAD WAS BROUGHT IN ON A PLATTER AND
GIVEN TO THE GIRL, WHO CARRIED IT TO HER
MOTHER. 12 JOHNS DISCIPLES CAME AND TOOK HIS BODY
AND BURIED IT. THEN THEY WENT AND TOLD JESUS.
 SALIENT POINTS
18 ON MY ACCOUNT YOU WILL BE
BROUGHT BEFORE GOVERNORS AND
KINGS AS WITNESSES TO THEM AND TO
THE GENTILES. (MATT 10:18)
rejection persecution
21 BROTHER WILL BETRAY BROTHER TO
DEATH, AND A FATHER HIS CHILD;
CHILDREN WILL REBEL AGAINST THEIR
PARENTS AND HAVE THEM PUT TO DEATH.
(MATT 10:21)
 SALIENT POINTS
REMARKABLE THAT WHILE JESUS WAS BEING ACCLAIMED
EVERYWHERE ELSE, PEOPLE IN HIS HOMETOWN OF
NAZARETH WERE SO CYNICAL AND UNBELIEVING (VV.53-
58)
ONLY WHERE THERE IS FAITH, JESUS BRINGS THE
BLESSINGS OF SALVATION
JOHN HAD PUBLICLY CONDEMNED HEROD FOR HIS
INCESTUOUS MARRIAGE
 SALIENT POINTS
JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHED BOLDLY EVEN AT THE COST OF HIS
OWN LIFE, PREPARING US FOR THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE OF THE
ONE WHO IS GREATER THAN JOHN.
SINCE THE GOSPEL IS A CONFRONTING MESSAGE, THOSE WHO
PREACH THIS MESSAGE MAY FACE THE SAME ANGRY RESPONSE AS
JESUS AND JOHN.
ALL WHO FAITHFULLY PROCLAIM GODS WORD WILL MEET FAITH
AND REPENTANCE, BUT ALSO UNBELIEF, MISUNDERSTANDING AND
OPPOSITION. THIS IS JESUS CALL TO ALL WHO PROCLAIM HIM: A
GREAT COST BUT A GLORIOUS REWARD
 REFLECT
WHY ARE CLOSE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OFTEN DIFFICULT
TO REACH WITH THE GOSPEL? HOW CAN WE
APPROPRIATELY SHARE OUR GOSPEL WITH THEM?
HOW DOES THE MURDER OF JOHN THE BAPTIST PREPARE
US FOR WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JESUS?
 DAY 33: MATTHEW 14:13-36
JESUS FEEDS THE FIVE THOUSAND

13 WHEN JESUS HEARD WHAT HAD HAPPENED, HE WITHDREW BY

BOAT PRIVATELY TO A SOLITARY PLACE. HEARING OF THIS, THE
CROWDS FOLLOWED HIM ON FOOT FROM THE
TOWNS.14 WHEN JESUS LANDED AND SAW A LARGE CROWD,
HE HAD COMPASSION ON THEM AND HEALED THEIR SICK.
15 AS EVENING APPROACHED, THE DISCIPLES CAME TO HIM AND
SAID, THIS IS A REMOTE PLACE, AND ITS ALREADY GETTING
LATE. SEND THE CROWDS AWAY, SO THEY CAN GO TO THE
VILLAGES AND BUY THEMSELVES SOME FOOD.
 DAY 33: MATTHEW 14:13-36
JESUS FEEDS THE FIVE THOUSAND
16 JESUS
REPLIED, THEY DO NOT NEED TO GO AWAY. YOU GIVE THEM
SOMETHING TO EAT.
17 WE
HAVE HERE ONLY FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD AND TWO FISH, THEY
ANSWERED.
 DAY 33: MATTHEW 14:13-36
JESUS FEEDS THE FIVE THOUSAND
18 BRINGTHEM HERE TO ME, HE SAID. 19 AND HE DIRECTED
THE PEOPLE TO SIT DOWN ON THE GRASS. TAKING THE
FIVE LOAVES AND THE TWO FISH AND LOOKING UP TO
HEAVEN, HE GAVE THANKS AND BROKE THE LOAVES. THEN
HE GAVE THEM TO THE DISCIPLES, AND THE DISCIPLES
GAVE THEM TO THE PEOPLE.
 DAY 33: MATTHEW 14:13-36
JESUS FEEDS THE FIVE THOUSAND
20 THEYALL ATE AND WERE SATISFIED, AND THE DISCIPLES PICKED UP
TWELVE BASKETFULS OF BROKEN PIECES THAT WERE LEFT OVER. 21 THE
NUMBER OF THOSE WHO ATE WAS ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND MEN, BESIDES
WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
 DAY 33: MATTHEW 14:13-36
JESUS WALKS ON THE WATER
22 IMMEDIATELY JESUS MADE THE DISCIPLES GET INTO THE
BOAT AND GO ON AHEAD OF HIM TO THE OTHER SIDE,
WHILE HE DISMISSED THE CROWD. 23 AFTER HE HAD
DISMISSED THEM, HE WENT UP ON A MOUNTAINSIDE BY
HIMSELF TO PRAY. LATER THAT NIGHT, HE WAS THERE
ALONE, 24 AND THE BOAT WAS ALREADY A CONSIDERABLE
DISTANCE FROM LAND, BUFFETED BY THE WAVES BECAUSE
THE WIND WAS AGAINST IT.
 DAY 33: MATTHEW 14:13-36
JESUS WALKS ON THE WATER
25 SHORTLY BEFORE DAWN JESUS WENT OUT TO THEM,
WALKING ON THE LAKE. 26 WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW HIM
WALKING ON THE LAKE, THEY WERE TERRIFIED. ITS A
GHOST, THEY SAID, AND CRIED OUT IN FEAR.
 DAY 33: MATTHEW 14:13-36
JESUS WALKS ON THE WATER
27 BUT JESUS IMMEDIATELY SAID TO THEM: TAKE COURAGE! IT IS I.
DONT BE AFRAID.
 DAY 33: MATTHEW 14:13-36
JESUS WALKS ON THE WATER
28 LORD, IF ITS YOU, PETER REPLIED, TELL ME TO COME TO YOU
ON THE WATER.
29 COME, HE SAID.
THEN PETER GOT DOWN OUT OF THE BOAT, WALKED ON THE
WATER AND CAME TOWARD JESUS. 30 BUT WHEN HE SAW THE
WIND, HE WAS AFRAID AND, BEGINNING TO SINK, CRIED OUT,
LORD, SAVE ME!
 DAY 33: MATTHEW 14:13-36
JESUS WALKS ON THE WATER
31 IMMEDIATELY JESUS REACHED OUT HIS HAND AND CAUGHT HIM. YOU
OF LITTLE FAITH, HE SAID, WHY DID YOU DOUBT?
32 ANDWHEN THEY CLIMBED INTO THE BOAT, THE WIND DIED
DOWN. 33 THEN THOSE WHO WERE IN THE BOAT WORSHIPED HIM,
SAYING, TRULY YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD.
34 WHEN THEY HAD CROSSED OVER, THEY LANDED AT
GENNESARET. 35 AND WHEN THE MEN OF THAT PLACE RECOGNIZED
JESUS, THEY SENT WORD TO ALL THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY. PEOPLE
BROUGHT ALL THEIR SICK TO HIM 36 AND BEGGED HIM TO LET THE SICK
JUST TOUCH THE EDGE OF HIS CLOAK, AND ALL WHO TOUCHED IT
WERE HEALED.
 SALIENT POINTS
THE UNIQUENESS OF JESUS
UNRELENTING PRESSURE OF THE CROWDS UPON JESUS (VV.
13,35). 2 OCCASIONS WHEN HE AWAY BY HIMSELF TO PRAY
(VV.13, 23)
CONTRAST THE VAST AMOUNT OF CROWD VS. THE PALTRY
AMOUNT OF FOOD
HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND TO THIS JESUS? DOUBT? FAITH?
THIS JESUS IS UNIQUE. KEEP YOUR ON HIM.
 REFLECT
HOW DO WE SEE IN THIS PASSAGE, BOTH THE HUMANITY
AND DIVINITY OF JESUS?
WHY DOES PETERS FAITH IN JESUS BEGIN TO FALTER (VV.
28 30) ? WHY DOES JESUS REBUKE PETER FOR HIS LITTLE
FAITH? WHAT LESSONS DO YOU THINK MATTHEW WANTS
US TO DRAW FROM THIS REMARKABLE EPISODE?