Matt 1:1 – Genealogy of Jesus
Matt 1:18 – Conception and birth of Jesus
Matt 2:1 – Magi begin their journey
Matt 2:7 – Herod talks to the Magi, Magi visit Jesus
Matt 2:13 – Angel tells Joseph to take Jesus and family to Egypt and the does
Matt 2:16 – Herod kills all the babies under 2
Matt 2:19 – Herod dies, angel tells Joseph to take his family to Israel – to Galilee – to Nazareth
Matt 3:1 – John the Baptist begins preaching, warns Pharisees, tells of one who baptizes with the Spirit and with fire
Matt 3:13 – John baptizes Jesus, God is “well pleased”
Matt 4:1 – Jesus is lead out to the wilderness, fasts 40 days, is tempted by the devil
Matt 4:12 – John is taken into custody, Jesus begins his ministry by preaching repentance like John
Matt 4:18 – Jesus calls first disciples Peter and Andrew, then James and John
Matt 4:23 – Jesus preaches the gospel of the kingdom and begins healing
Matt 5:1 – Jesus’ sermon on the mount, the beatitudes, parable of salt and light, warns to be more righteous than Pharisees
Matt 5:21 – Still sermon on the mount, says that sin is a heart issue, talks about the seriousness of sin – if your eye causes you to sin pluck it out and cast it aside, turn the other cheek, love your enemy
Matt 6:1 – Sermon continued, do good in secret, disciple’s prayer, fasting, wealth/treasures in Heaven, purity of eyes, anxiety
Matt 7:1 – Sermon continued, judging others, the Father gives good gifts, enter through the narrow gate, bearing fruit – good trees bear good fruit, bad trees bear bad fruit, house built on sand vs rock
Matt 8:1 – The centurion’s faith amazes Christ, Christ heals a leper and the centurion’s servant, Peter’s mother-in-law is healed by Jesus
Matt 8:18 – Jesus tells a scribe to “allow the dead to bury the dead”, Jesus calms a storm when the disciples freak out
Matt 8:28 – Jesus cast’s demons out into a herd of swine
Matt 9:1 – Jesus heals a paralytic says “which is easier, to say your sins are forgiven or get up and walk”
Matt 9:9 – Matthew is called, Jesus tells the pharisees to figure out what “I desire compassion and not sacrifice” means
Matt 9:14 – John’s disciples ask Jesus about fasting – new wine in an old wineskin
Matt 9:18 – Jesus heals many, including a girl who had died/was sleeping, ends with “the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few”
Matt 10:1 – Jesus gives the disciples ability to heal and cast out demons, instructions, etc – sheep among wolves, meaning of discipleship, rewards
Matt 11:1 – John asks if he is the Christ, Jesus responds and tells him he’ll die in prison
Matt 11:7 – Jesus speaks about John as being the forerunner and Elijah
Matt 11:20 – Jesus “woe to you (unrepentant cities)”
Matt 11:25 – Jesus says “my yoke is easy and my burden is light”, come to me
Matt 12:1 – Disciples pick grain on the sabbath, Jesus defends them, then goes to the synagogue and preaches on the sabbath
Matt 12:22 – Pharisees say Jesus works on behalf of satan, Jesus responds
Matt 12:30 – Jesus warns against blasphemy, the unpardonable sin
Matt 12:33 – Jesus says words reveal character, warns against a desire for signs, clears his human relationships in favor of a Heavenly perspective
Matt 13:1 – The parable of the sower, explanation of why he teaches in parables, the sower explained, then a string of parables: tares among wheat, the mustard seed, leaven, tares explained, hidden treasure in a field, a pearl, a dragnet
Matt 13:53 – Jesus returns to Nazareth to no honor
Matt 14:1 – John the Baptist beheaded
Matt 14:13 – Jesus feeds 5,000, walks on water
Matt 15:1 – Jesus rebukes the pharisees for being hypocrites saying “it’s not what enters a man that defiles him, but what proceeds from his mouth”
Matt 15:21 – Jesus heals the woman’s daughter (dogs feed on crumbs from the masters table), afterward heals crowds
Matt 15:32 – Jesus feeds 4,000
Matt 16:1 – Pharisees ask for a sign from Heaven, disciples think he rebukes them for not bringing along any bread (but is really warning against the leaven of the pharisees)
Matt 16:13 – Peter confesses Christ is Christ, but then is rebuked “get behind me satan”, talks of the cost of discipleship
Matt 17:1 – The transfiguration, demon cast out of the boy (only comes out with prayer and fasting), two-drachma tax
Matt 18:1 – Who will be the greatest in Heaven, if your foot causes you to stumble cut it off, Jesus has come to save the lost, 99/1 sheep
Matt 18:15 – Church discipline, the power in praying in twos and threes, forgiveness (70 x 7 and the wicked slave who owed a billion)
Matt 19:1 – Jesus teaches on divorce & singleness, blesses the children
Matt 19:16 – The rich young ruler, the disciples’ reward
Matt 20:1 – Laborers and the vineyard, death and resurrection foretold, Zebedee’s mom asks her sons get pref. treatment in Heaven, Jesus heals blind men
Matt 21:1 – Jesus rides in on a donkey, tosses the tables in the temple, curses the fig tree, authority is challenged (Jesus doesn’t answer them)
Matt 21:28 – Jesus tells the parable of the 2 sons, parable of the landowner (looking for the fruits of his land), the rejected stone becomes the cornerstone
Matt 22:1 – Parable of the marriage feast, tribute to caesar, sadducees ask about the woman married 7 times, what is the greatest commandment, “how is the Christ Lord and son?”
Matt 23:1 – Jesus harps on Pharisaism, warns them with “woe to you” eight times, laments over Jerusalem
Matt 24:1 – End times – signs of Christ’s return, be ready for his coming
Matt 25:1 – Parable of the ten virgins, parable of the talents (5 made to 10, 2 made to 4, and the 1 taken and given to the one who had made 10)
Matt 25:31 – The judgement, seperating the sheep from the goats, feeding the poor, ministering to the prisoners, etc
Matt 26:1 – Chief priests plot to kill Jesus, woman anoints Christ for burial, Judas’s bargaining
Matt 26:20 – Last passover, Lords supper
Matt 26:36 – Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus’ betrayal and arrest
Matt 26:57 – Jesus before Caiaphas, his beating, Peter’s denial
Matt 27:1 – Judas’s remorse and hanging, and the buying of the potter’s field
Matt 27:11 – Jesus before Pilate, Barabbas released, Jesus Mocked and beaten, carrying the cross
Matt 27:33 – The crucifixion of Christ
Matt 27:57 – Jesus is buried
Matt 28:1 – Angel comes, Jesus rises, Jesus meets the Mary(s), chief priests pay off the soldiers
Matt 28:16 – The great commission