Gospel of Matthew

Learn how Matthew tells the story of Jesus as Messiah, Emmanuel, teacher, king, and the one who sends disciples to all nations.

A genealogy full of real history leads to Joseph's costly obedience and the promise of Emmanuel.

Foreign seekers worship Jesus while Herod answers the newborn king with fear and violence.

John calls Israel to repentance, and Jesus steps into the Jordan as the beloved Son anointed by the Spirit.

The beloved Son is tested in the wilderness, announces the kingdom, calls disciples, and brings healing through Galilee.

Jesus describes the blessed life of the kingdom and carries righteousness from outward compliance into the heart.

Jesus moves from visible religion to secret faithfulness, teaches his disciples to pray, and confronts the grip of money and anxiety.

Discern without hypocrisy, ask the Father with trust, and build a life that actually does what Jesus says.

Jesus touches the excluded, praises unexpected faith, calms chaos, and shows that discipleship has a cost.

Jesus forgives, shares tables, restores lives, and looks at harassed crowds with compassion rather than contempt.

Jesus sends the Twelve with authority, vulnerability, realism about opposition, and a call to fearless allegiance.

John asks an honest question from prison, Jesus names both judgment and grace, and weary people are invited to learn his gentle yoke.

Sabbath mercy, the servant of Isaiah, contested spiritual power, and the danger of calling God's good work evil.

Jesus teaches the kingdom through stories of soils, weeds, tiny beginnings, hidden treasure, and a final sorting.

Herod's banquet ends in death, Jesus' wilderness meal gives life, and frightened disciples learn who is with them on the water.

Jesus challenges purity that stops at the surface, listens to a persistent Canaanite mother, and feeds another hungry crowd.

Peter names Jesus as Messiah, receives a kingdom responsibility, and then discovers that Messiahship must be understood through the cross.

The transfiguration reveals Jesus' glory, a suffering child exposes the disciples' limits, and the Son freely provides the temple tax.

Jesus builds community around humility, protection of the vulnerable, restoration, and forgiveness that refuses to keep score.

Jesus speaks about marriage, divorce, singleness, children, wealth, and the costly freedom of following him.

Grace unsettles our sense of deserving, Jesus walks toward the cross, and greatness is redefined as service rather than control.

Jesus enters Jerusalem as a humble king, confronts the temple economy, and tells stories that expose rejected authority.

Jesus answers traps about allegiance, resurrection, and Torah, then places love of God and neighbor at the center.

Jesus delivers a fierce prophetic warning against leadership that loves status, burdens people, and neglects justice, mercy, and faithfulness.

Jesus prepares disciples for temple destruction, deception, suffering, and the unknown timing of his coming with a call to steady watchfulness.

Jesus describes readiness through waiting bridesmaids, entrusted resources, and a final judgment that takes concrete mercy seriously.

An unnamed woman prepares Jesus for burial, the covenant meal interprets his death, and Gethsemane reveals obedient love under crushing sorrow.

Jesus is condemned by intertwined religious and imperial powers, crucified as a mocked king, dies, and is buried while unexpected witnesses remain near.

Women become the first resurrection messengers, the risen Jesus meets imperfect disciples, and the Gospel ends with a mission sustained by his presence.