Matt. 26 Pt.11- Jesus On Trial Before The Jews (Pt.2)
The religious leaders realised that they couldn’t depend on the false and conflicting testimonies of those who claimed that Jesus said that He would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days. And besides,...
Matthew 26 Part 10 – Jesus On Trial Before The Jews (Pt.1)
Matthew has condensed his account of Jesus’ “Trial” before the Jewish leadership, leaving us the impression that all was carried out before Caiaphas, whereas in reality Jesus was first taken to Annas, the father-in-law of...
Matthew 26 Pt.9 The Arrest of Jesus!
Today was Mother’s Day, so we had one of our sisters in Christ share some words of encouragement to us concerning motherhood! This was followed by more of Matthew’s Gospel, as we looked at the...
Matthew 26 Pt..8 – Gethsemane!
What happened in the Garden of Gethsemane? We see the two natures of Jesus compared: His full humanity, and His full deity! On the one hand Jesus KNEW what would befall Him over the next...
Matthew 26 Pt.7 Falling Away and Denying Christ!
When Jesus and His disciples had finished their Passover Meal, in which Jesus gave new meaning to the bread and the wine, telling the disciples that what they were partaking in was The New Covenant, they then...
Matthew 26 Pt.6 The Institution of The New Covenant!
It was whilst going through The Passover meal on Thursday, the night before Jesus would be crucified, with His disciples, that Jesus stopped at certain intervals to make a comment. These stops seem to coincide...
Matthew 26 Pt.5 – “One of You!”
It would come as a big surprise to 11 of Jesus disciples, and one who would act shocked, to hear Jesus say that one of them at the Last Supper, would betray Jesus, the Son...
Matthew 26 Pt.4 – Prepared In Advance!
It might seem like a straightforward enough text, in which Jesus simply made arrangements for a last supper, in which He and they could share one more Passover Meal together, but in fact there are...
Out With The Old And In With The New!
On the 29th Dec, 2024, as we start to prepare to see the Old Year Out, and the New Year In, how about instead of turning over a New Leaf, turning your life over to...
Matthew 26 Pt.3 – A Traitor In The Midst!
Whilst Mary of Bethany was pouring out her love for Jesus, someone else in that same room saw it as a waste. He saw that as “money down the drain”, that would have been put...