Matthew chapter 1 |
Mt 1:1-17. |
The genealogy of Christ from Abraham to Joseph. |
Mt 1:18. |
He is miraculously conceived of the Holy Ghost by the Virgin Mary, when she was espoused to Joseph. |
Mt 1:19-25. |
The angel satisfies the doubts of Joseph, and declares the names and office of Christ: Jesus is born. |
Matthew chapter 2 |
Mt 2:1-2. |
The wise men from the east inquire after Christ; |
Mt 2:3-8. |
at which Herod is alarmed. |
Mt 2:9-12. |
They are directed by a star to Bethlehem, worship him, and offer their presents. |
Mt 2:13-15. |
Joseph flees into Egypt with Jesus and his mother. |
Mt 2:16-19. |
Herod slays the children; |
Mt 2:20-22. |
himself dies. |
Mt 2:23. |
Christ is brought back again into Galilee to Nazareth. |
Matthew chapter 3 |
Mt 3:1-6. |
John preaches: his office, life, and baptism. |
Mt 3:7-12. |
He reprehends the Pharisees, |
Mt 3:13-17. |
and baptizes Christ in Jordan. |
Matthew chapter 4 |
Mt 4:1-11. |
Christ, fasting forty days, is tempted of the devil and ministered unto by angels. |
Mt 4:12-16. |
He dwells in Capernaum; |
Mt 4:17. |
begins to preach; |
Mt 4:18-20. |
calls Peter and Andrew, |
Mt 4:21-22. |
James and John; |
Mt 4:23-25. |
teaches and heals all the diseased. |
Matthew chapter 5 |
Mt 5:1-2. |
Christ's sermon on the mount. |
Mt 5:3-12. |
Who are blessed; |
Mt 5:13. |
the salt of the earth; |
Mt 5:14-16. |
the light of the world. |
Mt 5:17-20. |
He came to fulfil the law. |
Mt 5:21-26. |
What it is to kill; |
Mt 5:27-32. |
to commit adultery; |
Mt 5:33-37. |
to swear. |
Mt 5:38-42. |
He exhorts to suffer wrong, |
Mt 5:43-47. |
to love our enemies; |
Mt 5:48. |
and to labour after perfection. |
Matthew chapter 6 |
Mt 6:1-32. |
Christ continues his sermon on the mount, exhorting not to be careful for worldly things, |
Mt 6:33-34. |
but to seek God's kingdom. |
Matthew chapter 7 |
Mt 7:1-27. |
Christ, continuing his sermon on the mount, reproves rash judgment, etc. |
Mt 7:28-29. |
Christ ends his sermon, and the people are astonished. |
Matthew chapter 8 |
Mt 8:1-4. |
Christ cleanses the leper; |
Mt 8:5-13. |
heals the centurion's servant, |
Mt 8:14-15. |
Peter's mother in law, |
Mt 8:16-17. |
and many other diseased; |
Mt 8:18-22. |
shows how he is to be followed; |
Mt 8:23-27. |
stills the tempest on the sea; |
Mt 8:28-30. |
drives the devils out of two men possessed; |
Mt 8:31-34. |
and suffers them to go into the swine. |
Matthew chapter 9 |
Mt 9:1-8. |
Christ cures one sick of the palsy; |
Mt 9:9. |
calls Matthew from the receipt of custom; |
Mt 9:10-13. |
eats with publicans and sinners; |
Mt 9:14-19. |
defends his disciples for not fasting; |
Mt 9:20-22. |
cures the bloody issue; |
Mt 9:23-26. |
raises from death Jairus' daughter; |
Mt 9:27-31. |
gives sight to two blind men; |
Mt 9:32-35. |
heals a dumb man possessed of a devil; |
Mt 9:36-38. |
and has compassion on the multitude. |
Matthew chapter 10 |
Mt 10:1-4. |
Christ sends out his twelve apostles, enabling them with power to do miracles; |
Mt 10:5-15. |
giving them their charge, teaches them; |
Mt 10:16-39. |
comforts them against persecutions; |
Mt 10:40-42. |
and promises a blessing to those that receive them. |
Matthew chapter 11 |
Mt 11:1-6. |
John sends his disciples to Christ. |
Mt 11:7-15. |
Christ's testimony concerning John. |
Mt 11:16-19. |
The perverse judgment of the people. |
Mt 11:20-24. |
Christ upbraids Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum; |
Mt 11:25-27. |
and praising his Father's wisdom in revealing the Gospel to the simple, |
Mt 11:28-30. |
he calls to him all such as feel the burden of their sins. |
Matthew chapter 12 |
Mt 12:1-2. |
Christ reproves the blindness of the Pharisees concerning the breach of the sabbath, |
Mt 12:3-8. |
by scripture, |
Mt 12:9-12. |
by reason, |
Mt 12:13-21. |
and by a miracle. |
Mt 12:22-23. |
He heals a man possessed that was blind and dumb; |
Mt 12:24-35. |
and confuting the absurd charge of casting out devils by Beelzebub, he shows that blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven. |
Mt 12:36-37. |
Account shall be made of idle words. |
Mt 12:38-45. |
He rebukes the unfaithful, who seek after a sign, |
Mt 12:46-50. |
and shows who is his brother, sister, and mother. |
Matthew chapter 13 |
Mt 13:1-17. |
The parable of the sower and the seed; |
Mt 13:18-23. |
the exposition of it. |
Mt 13:24-30. |
The parable of the tares; |
Mt 13:31-32. |
of the mustard seed; |
Mt 13:33-35. |
of the leaven; |
Mt 13:36-43. |
exposition of the parable of the tares. |
Mt 13:44. |
The parable of the hidden treasure; |
Mt 13:45-46. |
of the pearl; |
Mt 13:47-52. |
of the drag net cast into the sea. |
Mt 13:53-58. |
Christ is contemned of his own countrymen. |
Matthew chapter 14 |
Mt 14:1-2. |
Herod's opinion of Christ. |
Mt 14:3-12. |
Wherefore John Baptist was beheaded. |
Mt 14:13-14. |
Jesus departs into a desert place, |
Mt 14:15-21. |
where he feeds five thousand men with five loves and two fishes. |
Mt 14:22-33. |
He walks on the sea to his disciples; |
Mt 14:34-36. |
and landing at Gennesaret, heals the sick by the touch of the hem of his garment. |
Matthew chapter 15 |
Mt 15:1-9. |
Christ reproves the Scribes and Pharisees for transgressing God's commandments through their own traditions; |
Mt 15:10-20. |
teaches how that which goes into the mouth does not defile a man. |
Mt 15:21-28. |
He heals the daughter of the woman of Canaan, |
Mt 15:29-31. |
and other great multitudes; |
Mt 15:32-39. |
and with seven loaves and a few little fishes feeds four thousand men, beside women and children. |
Matthew chapter 16 |
Mt 16:1-4. |
The Pharisees require a sign. |
Mt 16:5-12. |
Jesus warns his disciples of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. |
Mt 16:13-15. |
The people's opinion of Christ, |
Mt 16:16-20. |
and Peter's confession of him. |
Mt 16:21-22. |
Jesus foretells his death; |
Mt 16:23. |
reproves Peter for dissuading him from it; |
Mt 16:24-28. |
and admonishes those that will follow him, to bear the cross. |
Matthew chapter 17 |
Mt 17:1-13. |
The transfiguration of Christ. |
Mt 17:14-21. |
He heals the lunatic, |
Mt 17:22-23. |
foretells his own passion, |
Mt 17:24-27. |
and pays tribute. |
Matthew chapter 18 |
Mt 18:1-6. |
Christ warns his disciples to be humble and harmless, |
Mt 18:7-9. |
to avoid offences, |
Mt 18:10-14. |
and not to despise the little ones; |
Mt 18:15-20. |
teaches how we are to deal with our brethren when they offend us, |
Mt 18:21-22. |
and how oft to forgive them; |
Mt 18:23-31. |
which he sets forth by a parable of the king that took account of his servants, |
Mt 18:32-35. |
and punished him who shewed no mercy to his fellow. |
Matthew chapter 19 |
Mt 19:1-2. |
Christ heals the sick; |
Mt 19:3-9. |
answers the Pharisees concerning divorcement; |
Mt 19:10-12. |
shows when marriage is necessary; |
Mt 19:13-15. |
receives little children; |
Mt 19:16-19. |
instructs the young man how to attain eternal life; |
Mt 19:20-22. |
and how to be perfect; |
Mt 19:23-26. |
tells his disciples how hard it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God; |
Mt 19:27-30. |
and promises reward to those that forsake any thing to follow him. |
Matthew chapter 20 |
Mt 20:1-16. |
Christ, by the similitude of the labourers in the vineyard, shows that God is debtor unto no man; |
Mt 20:17-19. |
foretells his passion; |
Mt 20:20-28. |
by answering the mother of Zebedee's children, teaches his disciples to be lowly; |
Mt 20:29-34. |
and gives two blind men their sight. |
Matthew chapter 21 |
Mt 21:1-11. |
Christ rides into Jerusalem upon an ass; |
Mt 21:12-16. |
drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple; |
Mt 21:17-22. |
curses the fig-tree; |
Mt 21:23-27. |
puts to silence the priests and elders, |
Mt 21:28-32. |
and rebukes them by the similitude of the two sons, |
Mt 21:33-46. |
and the husbandmen who slew such as were sent to them. |
Matthew chapter 22 |
Mt 22:1-8. |
The parable of the marriage of the king's son. |
Mt 22:9-11. |
The vocation of the Gentiles. |
Mt 22:12-14. |
The punishment of him that wanted the wedding garment. |
Mt 22:15-22. |
Tribute ought to be paid to Caesar. |
Mt 22:23-33. |
Christ confutes the Sadducees for the resurrection; |
Mt 22:34-40. |
answers the lawyer, which is the first and great commandment; |
Mt 22:41-46. |
and puzzles the Pharisees by a question about the Messias. |
Matthew chapter 23 |
Mt 23:1-4. |
Christ admonishes the people to follow the good doctrine, not the evil examples, of the Scribes and Pharisees. |
Mt 23:5-12. |
His disciples must beware of their ambition. |
Mt 23:13-33. |
He denounces eight woes against their hypocrisy and blindness, |
Mt 23:34-39. |
and prophesies of the destruction of Jerusalem. |
Matthew chapter 24 |
Mt 24:1-2. |
Christ foretells the destruction of the temple; |
Mt 24:3-28. |
what and how great calamities shall be before it; |
Mt 24:29-35. |
the signs of his coming to judgment. |
Mt 24:36-41. |
And because that day and hour are unknown, |
Mt 24:42-51. |
we ought to watch like good servants, expecting every moment our Master's coming. |
Matthew chapter 25 |
Mt 25:1-13. |
The parable of the ten virgins, |
Mt 25:14-30. |
and of the talents. |
Mt 25:31-46. |
Also the description of the last judgment. |
Matthew chapter 26 |
Mt 26:1-2. |
Christ foretells his own death. |
Mt 26:3-5. |
The rulers conspire against him. |
Mt 26:6-13. |
The woman anoints his feet. |
Mt 26:14-16. |
Judas bargains to betray him. |
Mt 26:17-25. |
Christ eats the passover; |
Mt 26:26-29. |
institutes his holy supper; |
Mt 26:30-35. |
foretells the desertion of his disciples, and Peter's denial; |
Mt 26:36-46. |
prays in the garden; |
Mt 26:47-56. |
and being betrayed by a kiss, |
Mt 26:57-68. |
is carried to Caiaphas, |
Mt 26:69-75. |
and denied of Peter. |
Matthew chapter 27 |
Mt 27:1-2. |
Christ is delivered bound to Pilate. |
Mt 27:3-18. |
Judas hangs himself. |
Mt 27:19. |
Pilate, admonished of his wife, |
Mt 27:20-26. |
and being urged by the multitude, washes his hands, and looses Barabbas. |
Mt 27:27-32. |
Christ is mocked and crowned with thorns; |
Mt 27:33-38. |
crucified; |
Mt 27:39-49. |
reviled; |
Mt 27:50-61. |
dies, and is buried; |
Mt 27:62-66. |
his sepulchre is sealed and watched. |
Matthew chapter 28 |
Mt 28:1-8. |
Christ's resurrection is declared by an angel to the women. |
Mt 28:9-10. |
He himself appears unto them. |
Mt 28:11-15. |
The chief priests give the soldiers money to say that he was stolen out of his sepulchre. |
Mt 28:16-17. |
Christ appears to his disciples, |
Mt 28:18-20. |
and sends them to baptize and teach all nations. |