Mat 11:25-27 For what does Jesus give praise (lit. confess openly and freely with thanksgiving) to God in Mat 11:25? What are “these things” to which He refers that God has hidden from the wise and intelligent but revealed to babes? See Mat 11:11-15 for the superlative nature of God’s heavenly kingdom and how one…
Mat 11:20-24 Why does Matthew say that Jesus reproached the cities where most of his miracles were done? See Mat 11:20. What does this teach us about the importance of repentance to the gospel message? Cf. Luk 13:1-9. Where were Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum? Locate them on a Bible map for where Jesus performed…
Mat 11:14-15 What was the expectation of Jews in the first century in regard to the prophet Elijah, and why? See Mat 11:14, 16:14, 27:46-49, Luk 9:7-8, Joh 1:21, Mal 3:1, 4:5-6. In what sense was John the Baptist the fulfillment of Malachi’s prophesy that Elijah would come, and what does this teach us about…
Mat 11:10-13 What is the difference between those who are in God’s kingdom and those who are not, including the likes of even John the Baptist who stood on the pinnacle of all the law and prophets? See Joh 3:3. What does Mat 11:11 teach us about the difference between those who walk uprightly and…
Mat 11:1 In light of the circumstances facing the Jewish believers at the time Matthew was writing, what is the significance that the word Jesus used in Mat 11:1 to instruct his disciples about the oppositions they would face means literally to arrange carefully or make precise arrangement, so that it came to be used…