KJV Foundation Study Bible - Book of Matthew

SECOND PROOFS
THE
NEW TESTAMENT
The Words of Christ in Red
9780718034320_int_05_matt_acts_nkjv-foundations_SECOND PROOFS.indd 1051
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
MATTHEW
AUTHOR: The early church uniformly attributed this Gospel to Matthew, and no
tradition to the contrary ever emerged. This book was known early and accepted
quickly. Matthew occupied the unpopular post of tax collector in Capernaum for
the Roman government, and as a result he was no doubt disliked by his Jewish
countrymen. He was chosen as one of the twelve apostles, and the last appearance
of his name in the Bible is in Acts 1:13. Matthews life from that point on is veiled in
tradition.
TIME: c. 4 b.c.a.d. 33
KEY VERSES: Matt. 16:1619
THEME: Matthew is typically described as the story of Jesus written by a Jew for
Jewish people. In this context it contains the most references to Jewish culture and
the Old Testament of the Gospels. The authors main purpose seems to be proving
to his Jewish readers that Jesus is their Messiah. Matthew is also the fullest systematic account of Christs teachings. These five blocks of teaching are one of the key
differences with the other Gospels: Chapters 57, The Sermon on the Mount; chapter 10, The Mission Charge; chapter 13, The Parables of the Kingdom; chapter 18, The
Church; chapters 2325, Judgment and the End of the Age.
The Genealogy ofJesus Christ
The book of the a genealogy of Jesus

Christ, bthe Son of David, cthe Son of
Abraham:
2d Abraham begot Isaac, eIsaac begot
Jacob, and Jacob begot fJudah and his
brothers. 3gJudah begot Perez and Zerah
by Tamar, hPerez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram. 4Ram begot Amminadab,
Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon
begot Salmon. 5Salmon begot iBoaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot
Jesse, 6and jJesse begot David the king.
k David the king begot Solomon by her
who had been the wife* of Uriah. 7lSolomon begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot
m Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa.* 8 Asa
begot n Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot
Joram, and Joram begot oUzziah. 9Uzziah
begot Jotham, Jotham begot pAhaz, and
1:1 genealogy. Jesus genealogy is crucial to His
claim to be the Messiah, as it traces the lineage of
Joseph, His recognized father, back to Abraham
through David. It shows that from a legal standpoint,
Jesus is qualified to rule from the throne of David.
1:3 Tamar. The mention of women in a Jewish genealogy is unusual. But in addition to Mary, four women
are listed in this catalogue of names: Tamar , who was
involved in a scandal with Judah (Gen. 38); Rahab, the
Canaanite harlot of Jericho (Josh. 2:121); Ruth, who
was not an Israelite, but a Moabite (Ruth 1:4); and
Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, who committed adultery with David (2Sam. 11:15). At the beginning of
his Gospel, Matthew shows how Gods grace forgives
the darkest of sins and reaches beyond the nation of
Ahaz begot Hezekiah. 10qHezekiah begot

Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon,* and
Amon begot rJosiah. 11sJosiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they
were tcarried away to Babylon.
12 And after they were brought to Babylon, uJeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot vZerubbabel. 13Zerubbabel begot
Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim
begot Azor. 14 Azor begot Zadok, Zadok begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud. 15Eliud
begot Eleazar, Eleazar begot Matthan, and
Matthan begot Jacob. 16And Jacob begot
Joseph the husband of wMary, of whom
was born Jesus who is called Christ.
*1:6 Words in italic type have been added for
clarity. They are not found in the original Greek.
*1:7 NU-Text reads Asaph. *1:10 NU-Text reads
Amos.
Israel to the world. He also points out that God can lift
the lowest and place them in royal lineage.
1:16 the husband of Mary. Matthew was careful not
to identify Jesus as the physical son of Joseph. The
Greek pronoun translated of whom is feminine and
refers to Mary. called Christ. The words Messiah
1:1aLuke 3:23 bJohn 7:42 cGen. 12:3; 22:18 1:2dGen.
21:2, 12 eGen. 25:26; 28:14 fGen. 29:35 1:3gGen.
38:27; 49:10 hRuth 4:1822 1:5iRuth 2:1; 4:113
1:6j1Sam. 16:1 k2Sam. 7:12; 12:24 1:7l1Chr.
3:10 m2Chr. 11:20 1:8n1Chr. 3:10 o2Kin. 15:13
1:9p2Kin. 15:38 1:10q2Kin. 20:21 r1Kin. 13:2
1:11s1Chr. 3:15, 16 t2Kin. 24:1416 1:12u1Chr. 3:17
vEzra 3:2 1:16wMatt. 13:55
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1054 Matthew 1:17
17So all the generations from Abraham
to David are fourteen generations, from
David until the captivity in Babylon are
fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen
generations.
Christ Born ofMary
18 Now the xbirth of Jesus Christ was

as follows: After His mother Mary was
betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child yof the
Holy Spirit. 19T hen Joseph her husband,
being a just man, and not wanting zto make
her a public example, was minded to put
her away secretly. 20But while he thought
about these things, behold, an angel of the
Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to
take to you Mary your wife, afor that which
is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
21bAnd she will bring forth a Son, and you
shall call His name Jesus, cfor He will save
His people from their sins.
22 So all this was done that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord
through the prophet, saying: 23d Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and
bear a Son, and they shall call His name
Immanuel, * which is translated, God
with us.
24Then Joseph, being aroused from
sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife,
25and did not know her till she had brought
forth eher firstborn Son.* And he called His
name Jesus.
Wise Men fromtheEast
after Jesus was born in Bethle2king,Now

hem of Judea in the days of Herod the
behold, wise men from the East
a
came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, cWhere is He
(from the Hebrew) and Christ (from the Greek) both

mean Anointed One.
1:17 Abraham . . . until the Christ. The genealogy
is broken down into three groups of names with 14
generations in each list. A basic covenant is set forth
in each period: the Abrahamic covenant, the Davidic
covenant, and the new covenant.
1:18 betrothed. In Jewish culture, this covenant was
made about a year before the marriage. Engagement
was understood to be as binding as a marriage covenant, therefore a legal divorce was required to withdraw from the agreement.
1:23 Behold ... Immanuel. The angels message to
Joseph indicated that Mary would fulfill the prophecy
of Isaiah (Is. 7:14). Jesus, the Greek form of Joshua,
means salvation.
1:25 did not know her till. The clear implication is
that Mary was a virgin only until the birth of Jesus.
The brothers and sisters of Jesus (13:5556) were
probably younger siblings born to Joseph and Mary
after Jesus birth. Joseph could not have had children
by a previous marriage, as some suppose, for then
Jesus would not have been heir to the Davidic throne
as the oldest son of Joseph.
who has been born King of the Jews? For

we have seen dHis star in the East and have
come to worship Him.
3W hen Herod the king heard this, he
was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
4 And when he had gathered all ethe chief
priests and f scribes of the people together,
ghe inquired of them where the Christ was
to be born.
5 So they said to him, In Bethlehem of
Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet:
Buth you, Bethlehem, in the land of

Judah,
Are not the least among the rulers of
Judah;
For out of you shall come a Ruler
iW ho will shepherd My people Israel.*
7Then Herod, when he had secretly
called the wise men, determined from
them what time the jstar appeared. 8And
he sent them to Bethlehem and said, Go
and search carefully for the young Child,
and when you have found Him, bring back
word to me, that I may come and worship
Him also.
9W hen they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they
had seen in the East went before them, till
it came and stood over where the young
Child was. 10When they saw the star, they
rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. 11And
when they had come into the house, they
saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And
when they had opened their treasures,
kthey presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
6
*1:23 Isaiah 7:14. Words in oblique type in the

New Testament are quoted from the Old Testament. *1:25 NU-Text reads a Son. *2:6 Micah
5:2
2:1 wise men from the East. These wise men would
have been of the same class as the wise men of Babylon over whom Daniel was made ruler (Dan. 2:48). to
Jerusalem. Contrary to popular belief, the events of
chapter two probably took place some months after
Jesus birth. Herod murdered all the male children
age two and under, going by the time the wise men
said the star had appeared (and probably leaving a
significant margin for error). In addition, it would
have been strange for Mary and Joseph to offer the
sacrifice of the poor (see Lev. 12:8; Luke 2:24) if the
wise men had just given them rich gifts.
2:7 Then Herod. This is Herod the Great, who reigned
over Palestine for over thirty years. A crafty ruler and
lavish builder, Herod had a reign marked by cruelty
and bloodshed.
1:18xLuke 1:27 yLuke 1:35 1:19zDeut. 24:1
1:20aLuke 1:35 1:21bLuke 1:31; 2:21 cJohn 1:29
1:23dIs. 7:14 1:25eLuke 2:7, 21 2:1aMic. 5:2;
Luke 2:4 bGen. 25:6 2:2cLuke 2:11 d[Num. 24:17]
2:4e2Chr. 36:14 f2Chr. 34:13 gMal. 2:7 2:6hMic. 5:2
i[Rev. 2:27] 2:7jNum. 24:17 2:11kIs. 60:6
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 3:9 1055
12Then, being divinely warned l in a
dream that they should not return to
Herod, they departed for their own country another way.
The Flight intoEgypt
13Now when they had departed, behold,

an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph
in a dream, saying, Arise, take the young
Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and
stay there until I bring you word; for Herod
will seek the young Child to destroy Him.
14W hen he arose, he took the young
Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, 15and was there until the
death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the Lord through the
prophet, saying, mOut of Egypt I called My
Son. *
Massacre oftheInnocents
16T hen
Herod, when he saw that he was

deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly
angry; and he sent forth and put to death
all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years
old and under, according to the time which
he had determined from the wise men.
17T hen was fulfilled what was spoken by
Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
18
A nvoice was heard in Ramah,

Lamentation, weeping, and great
mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted,
Because they are no more. *
The Home inNazareth
19 Now when Herod was dead, behold,

an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream
to Joseph in Egypt, 20osaying, Arise, take
the young Child and His mother, and go to
2:15 might be fulfilled. The prophecy quoted here,

from Hosea 11:1, refers to the nation of Israel as Gods
son coming out of Egypt in the Exodus. Jesus is the
genuine Son of God, and, as Israels Messiah, is the
true Israel (John 15:1); therefore He gives fuller meaning to the prophecy of Hosea.
2:18 Rachel weeping for her children. This prophecy comes from Jeremiah 31:15, in which Rachel,
entombed near Bethlehem some 13 centuries before
the Babylonian captivity, is seen weeping for her children as they are led away in 586 b.c. In the slaughter
of the male infants at the time of Christs birth, Rachel
is again seen weeping for the violent loss of her sons.
2:23 Nazareth. Those who lived in Nazareth were
looked down upon (John 1:46). Perhaps God chose
this place for His Son to emphasize His humanness.
3:2 Repent. The Greek verb translated repent indicates a change of attitude. The basic idea is a recognition of sin and a reversal of thinking which changes
ones life.
3:3 Prepare the way of the Lord. As roads were
smoothed and straightened for the arrival of a king,
so John was preparing a spiritual path for the Messiah. The quotation is from Isaiah 40:3.
the land of Israel, for those who psought

the young Childs life are dead. 21Then he
arose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.
22But when he heard that Archelaus was
reigning over Judea instead of his father
Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by God in a qdream, he turned
aside rinto the region of Galilee. 23And he
came and dwelt in a city called sNazareth,
that it might be fulfilled twhich was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a
Nazarene.
John theBaptist Prepares theWay
In those days John the Baptist came

3andpreaching
in the wilderness of Judea,
saying, Repent, for the kingdom of
a
heaven is at hand! 3For this is he who was

spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
d The
voice of one crying in the

wilderness:
the way of the Lord;
Make His paths straight.*
4 Now fJohn himself was clothed in camels hair, with a leather belt around his
waist; and his food was glocusts and hwild
honey. 5iThen Jerusalem, all Judea, and all
the region around the Jordan went out to
him 6jand were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, k Brood of vipers!
Who warned you to flee from l the wrath to
come? 8Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, 9and do not think to say to yourselves, mWe have Abraham as our father.
For I say to you that God is able to raise
ePrepare
*2:15 Hosea 11:1 *2:18 Jeremiah 31:15

*3:3 Isaiah 40:3
3:7 Pharisees and Sadducees. The Pharisees and

Sadducees were two prominent groups in Judaism at
the time of Christ. The groups differed considerably
in their beliefs. The Pharisees based their beliefs not
only on the law of Moses, but also on a large body
of oral tradition. They were devout and zealous, concerned with outward righteousness. The Sadducees
were associated with a priestly caste, and in doctrine
they held primarily to the first five books of Moses.
They did not believe in the resurrection of the dead,
and did not adhere to all the detailed laws of the
Pharisees. Formerly enemies, the two groups seemed
to unite against a common enemy: the long awaited
Messiah.
2:12lMatt. 1:20 2:15mHos. 11:1 2:18nJer.

31:15 2:20oLuke 2:39 pMatt. 2:16 2:22qMatt.
2:12, 13, 19 rLuke 2:39 2:23sJohn 1:45, 46 tJudg.
13:5 3:1aMark 1:38 bJosh. 14:10 3:2cDan. 2:44
3:3dIs. 40:3 eLuke 1:76 3:4fMark 1:6 gLev. 11:22
h1Sam. 14:25, 26 3:5iMark 1:5 3:6jActs 19:4, 18
3:7kMatt. 12:34 l[1Thess. 1:10] 3:9mJohn 8:33
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1056 Matthew 3:10
up children to Abraham from these stones.
10And even now the ax is laid to the root
of the trees. nT herefore every tree which
does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire. 11oI indeed baptize you
with water unto repentance, but He who is
coming after me is mightier than I, whose
sandals I am not worthy to carry. pHe will
baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.*
12qHis winnowing fan is in His hand, and
He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the
barn; but He will rburn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire.
John Baptizes Jesus

13sT hen
Jesus came tfrom Galilee to

John at the Jordan to be baptized by him.
14 And John tried to prevent Him, saying,
I need to be baptized by You, and are You
coming to me?
15But Jesus answered and said to him,
Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting
for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he
allowed Him.
16uW hen He had been baptized, Jesus
came up immediately from the water; and
behold, the heavens were opened to Him,
and He* saw vthe Spirit of God descending
like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17wAnd
suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, xThis is My beloved Son, in whom I
am well pleased.
Satan Tempts Jesus
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit

4theinto
the wilderness to be tempted by
devil. And when He had fasted forty
a
days and forty nights, afterward He was
3:11 baptize. Sometimes fire has connotations of

judgment in Scripture, but here the fire of Gods Spirit
represents the transforming power of His grace and
love. The baptism of all Jesus disciples with water is
an outward sign of the inward work of the Holy Spirit.
It is the symbol of obedience to the command to
believe in Christs saving work of grace on the cross.
3:15 to fulfill all righteousness. This phrase does
not suggest that Jesus came for baptism because
He had sinned; the Lord Jesus was without sin (2Cor.
5:21; Heb. 4:15). His baptism probably served several
purposes. By being baptized, He confirmed the ministry of John and fulfilled the Fathers will.
3:17 God, the Father of ChristMost Christians
eventually wonder how God may be called the Father
of Christ, and Christ the Son of God. First, one must
recognize that God is spirit (John 4:24), and Christ was
the Son of God before He assumed a human body in
Bethlehem (John 3:16; Gal. 4:4). Passages which use
terms implying physical origin must be taken in a
figurative sense (Heb. 1:5). Second, the title expresses
a sonship relationship, unique from that of His disciples (John 20:17). He was begotten of God unlike
anyone else (John 1:14; 3:16). The Nicene council in
the fourth century used the phrase very God of very
God; begotten, not made, being of one substance
with the Father to describe this unique relationship.
Third, the title describes equality with God. When
hungry. 3Now when the tempter came to

Him, he said, If You are the Son of God,
command that these stones become bread.
4 But He answered and said, It is written, cMan shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds from the
mouth of God. *
5T hen the devil took Him up d into the
holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the
temple, 6 and said to Him, If You are the
Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is
written:
eHe
shall give His angels charge over

you,
and,
f In
their hands they shall bear you up,

Lest you dash your foot against a
stone.*
7Jesus said to him, It is written again,

gYou shall not tempt the Lord your God. *
8 Again, the devil took Him up on an
exceedingly high mountain, and hshowed
Him all the kingdoms of the world and

their glory. 9And he said to Him, All these
things I will give You if You will fall down
and worship me.
10T hen Jesus said to him, Away with
you,* Satan! For it is written, i You shall
worship the Lord your God, and Him only
you shall serve. *
11T hen the devil jleft Him, and behold,
kangels came and ministered to Him.
*3:11 M-Text omits and fire. *3:16 Or he
*4:4 Deuteronomy 8:3 *4:6 Psalm 91:11, 12
*4:7 Deuteronomy 6:16 *4:10 M-Text reads Get
behind Me.Deuteronomy 6:13
Jesus claimed to be one with the Father, He was

speaking of a unity of substance with the Father
and thus equality in all the attributes of deity (John
10:30). The Jews understood this claim, because they
took up stones to stone Him, protesting that You...
make Yourself God (John 10:33). Fourth, the title
emphasizes Christs role as the revealer of God. He
alone possesses the knowledge of the Father (John
14:69; 1John 1:2), and He is the sole mediator of that
knowledge (1Tim. 2:5). Therefore, no one can know
the Father except through the Son (John 14:6).
4:14 It is written. Satan did not lead Jesus into the
place of temptation, the Holy Spirit did. Perhaps part
of the reason for this was to show us how to deal with
temptation. Jesus quoted the Word of God, showing
the power of Scripture in battling with the evil one.
4:10 Satan. Satan is not dispatched easily by anyone
who merely says, Go. The only way we can be victorious in temptation is through the blood and authority of Jesus Christ.
3:10nMatt. 7:19 3:11oLuke 3:16 p[Acts 2:3, 4]
3:12qMal. 3:3 rMatt. 13:30 3:13sMark 1:911
tMatt. 2:22 3:16uMark 1:10 v[Is. 11:2]; John 1:32
3:17wJohn 12:28 xPs. 2:7 4:1aMark 1:12 bEzek. 3:14
4:4cDeut. 8:3 4:5dNeh. 11:1, 18 4:6ePs. 91:11
fPs. 91:12 4:7gDeut. 6:16 4:8h[1John 2:1517]
4:10iDeut. 6:13; 10:20 4:11j[James 4:7] k[Heb. 1:14]
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 5:14 1057
Jesus Begins His Galilean Ministry

12l Now
when Jesus heard that John had

been put in prison, He departed to Gali13
lee. And leaving Nazareth, He came and
dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in
the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14that
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
Isaiah the prophet, saying:
15 Them
land of Zebulun and the land of

Naphtali,
By the way of the sea, beyond the
Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles:
16 nThe people who sat in darkness have
seen a great light,
And upon those who sat in the region
and shadow of death
Light has dawned. *
17oFrom that time Jesus began to preach
and to say, pRepent, for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand.
Four Fishermen Called as Disciples
those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them.
25z Great multitudes followed Him
f rom
Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem,
Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
The Beatitudes
And seeing the multitudes, He went

5seated
up on a mountain, and when He was
His disciples came to Him. T hen
a
He opened His mouth and btaught them,

saying:
Blessedc are the poor in spirit,

For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 d Blessed are those who mourn,
For they shall be comforted.
5 eBlessed are the meek,
For f they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are those who ghunger and
thirst for righteousness,
h For they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful,
i For they shall obtain mercy.
8 jBlessed are the pure in heart,
For kthey shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they shall be called sons of God.
10 l Blessed are those who are persecuted
for righteousness sake,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
3
18qAnd Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon rcalled Peter,
and Andrew his brother, casting a net into
the sea; for they were fishermen. 19Then He
said to them, Follow Me, and sI will make
you fishers of men. 20tThey immediately
left their nets and followed Him.
21uGoing on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and
John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee
their father, mending their nets. He called
them, 22and immediately they left the boat
and their father, and followed Him.
11mBlessed are you when they revile and

persecute you, and say all kinds of nevil
against you falsely for My sake. 12oRejoice
and be exceedingly glad, for great is your
reward in heaven, for pso they persecuted
the prophets who were before you.
Jesus Heals a Great Multitude
Believers Are Salt and Light
Jesus went about all Galilee,

vteaching in their synagogues, preaching
wthe gospel of the kingdom, xand healing
all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease
among the people. 24Then His fame went
throughout all Syria; and they ybrought
to Him all sick people who were afflicted
with various diseases and torments, and
13 You are the salt of the earth; qbut if

the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to
be thrown out and trampled underfoot by
men.
14rYou are the light of the world. A city
4:1516 great light. The passage quoted here (Is.

9:12) foretells the reign of the Messiah in the coming kingdom.
4:1820 I will make you fishers of men. This allusion
to Jeremiah 16:16 was used to call Peter and Andrew
to a life of ministry.
4:23 teaching . . . preaching . . . healing. These
words summarize Jesus early ministry.
5:2 He... taught them. The Sermon on the Mount
wasnt given as the way of salvation for the lost, but
as the way of life for the children of the kingdom. It
was instruction for those who had responded to
Jesus invitation to repent.
5:312 The BeatitudesIn the Sermon on the
Mount, Christ succinctly describes the basic character traits of those who will inherit the kingdom. The
word kingdom usually implies someone who is on
top, who rules and has authority over others. They are
the privileged. In Gods kingdom the people are not
privileged because they are on top but because, by

being on the bottom, they are in a better position to
receive Gods grace and favor. These characteristics
are the reverse of what man generally values in the
world. Blessed can also be translated as Happy.
The signs of being blessed arent power or material
wealth. The sign of being blessed is receiving the
benefits of Gods grace.
23 And
*4:16 Isaiah 9:1, 2
4:12lJohn 4:43 4:15mIs. 9:1, 2 4:16nLuke 2:32

4:17oMark 1:14, 15 pMatt. 3:2; 10:7 4:18qMark
1:1620 rJohn 1:4042 4:19sLuke 5:10 4:20tMark
10:28 4:21uMark 1:19 4:23vMatt. 9:35 w[Matt.
24:14] xMark 1:34 4:24yLuke 4:40 4:25zMark
3:7, 8 5:1aMark 3:13 5:2b[Matt. 7:29] 5:3cLuke
6:2023 5:4dRev. 21:4 5:5ePs. 37:11 f[Rom. 4:13]
5:6gLuke 1:53 h[Is. 55:1; 65:13] 5:7iPs. 41:1 5:8jPs.
15:2; 24:4 k1Cor. 13:12 5:10l1Pet. 3:14 5:11mLuke
6:22 n1Pet. 4:14 5:12o1Pet. 4:13, 14 pActs 7:52
5:13qLuke 14:34 5:14r[John 8:12]
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1058 Matthew 5:15
that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Nor
do they slight a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light
to all who are in the house. 16Let your light
so shine before men, tthat they may see
your good works and uglorify your Father
in heaven.
Christ Fulfills theLaw
17vDo not think that I came to destroy

the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to
destroy but to fulfill. 18For assuredly, I say
to you, wtill heaven and earth pass away,
one jot or one tittle will by no means pass
from the law till all is fulfilled. 19xWhoever
therefore breaks one of the least of these
commandments, and teaches men so, shall
be called least in the kingdom of heaven;
but whoever does and teaches them, he
shall be called great in the kingdom of
heaven. 20For I say to you, that unless your
righteousness exceeds ythe righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no
means enter the kingdom of heaven.
Murder Begins intheHeart
21You have heard that it was said to

those of old, zYou shall not murder,* and
whoever murders will be in danger of the
judgment. 22But I say to you that awhoever is angry with his brother without a
cause* shall be in danger of the judgment.
And whoever says to his brother, b Raca! shall be in danger of the council. But
whoever says, You fool! shall be in danger of hell fire. 23T herefore cif you bring
your gift to the altar, and there remember
that your brother has something against
you, 24d leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled
to your brother, and then come and offer
your gift. 25e Agree with your adversary
quickly, f while you are on the way with
him, lest your adversary deliver you to
the judge, the judge hand you over to the
officer, and you be thrown into prison.
26 Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no
means get out of there till you have paid
the last penny.
5:16 Let your light so shine. The believer does not

have inherent light; rather, we have reflective light.
As Christ followers, we must make sure that we do not
allow anything to come between us and our Source
of light.
5:27 adultery. Control of the heart and body begins
with control of the eyes. Deeds of shame result from
fantasies of shame. Jesus gives the sobering advice if
your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast
it from you (v. 29). It should be clear here that Jesus is
not advocating mutilating our bodies, but He is using
a strong figure of speech to emphasize removing any
temptation for evil, whatever the cost.
5:32 sexual immorality. This is a general term
that includes premarital sex, extramarital infidelity,
homosexuality, and bestiality.
5:38 An eye for an eye. This important Old Testament
Adultery intheHeart
27 You have heard that it was said to

those of old,* gYou shall not commit adultery. * 28But I say to you that whoever
h looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his
heart. 29iIf your right eye causes you to sin,
j pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is
more profitable for you that one of your
members perish, than for your whole body
to be cast into hell. 30And if your right hand
causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from
you; for it is more profitable for you that
one of your members perish, than for your
whole body to be cast into hell.
Marriage Is Sacred and Binding
31Furthermore it has been said, k Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a
certificate of divorce. 32But I say to you
that l whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality* causes her
to commit adultery; and whoever marries a
woman who is divorced commits adultery.
Jesus Forbids Oaths
33 Again you have heard that m it was

said to those of old, nYou shall not swear
falsely, but oshall perform your oaths to
the Lord. 34But I say to you, pdo not swear
at all: neither by heaven, for it is qGods
throne; 35nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of
rthe great King. 36 Nor shall you swear by
your head, because you cannot make one
hair white or black. 37sBut let your Yes be
Yes, and your No, No. For whatever is
more than these is from the evil one.
Go theSecond Mile
38 You have heard that it was said, tAn

eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. *
*5:21 Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17

*5:22 NU-Text omits without a cause. *5:27 NU-
Text and M-Text omit to those of old.Exodus
20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18 *5:32 Or fornication
*5:38 Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy
19:21
law (Ex. 21:2425; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21), known as

the lex talionis (law of retaliation), covered what type
of punishment should be meted out to transgressors.
It limited the retribution the offender would have to
bear, preventing the head for eye, jaw for tooth vengeance typical of humans.
5:15sLuke 8:16 5:16t1Pet. 2:12 u[John 15:8]
5:17vRom. 10:4 5:18wLuke 16:17 5:19x[James
2:10] 5:20y[Rom. 10:3] 5:21zEx. 20:13; Deut. 5:17
5:22a[1John 3:15] b[James 2:20; 3:6] 5:23cMatt.
8:4 5:24d[Job 42:8] 5:25eLuke 12:58, 59 f[Is.
55:6] 5:27gEx. 20:14; Deut. 5:18 5:28hProv.
6:25 5:29iMark 9:43 j[Col. 3:5] 5:31kDeut. 24:1
5:32l[Luke 16:18] 5:33mMatt. 23:16 nLev. 19:12
oDeut. 23:23 5:34pJames 5:12 qIs. 66:1 5:35rPs.
48:2 5:37s[Col. 4:6] 5:38tEx. 21:24; Lev. 24:20;
Deut. 19:21
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 6:18 1059
39u But I tell you not to resist an evil person. vBut whoever slaps you on your right
cheek, turn the other to him also. 40If any-
one wants to sue you and take away your

tunic, let him have your cloak also. 41And
whoever wcompels you to go one mile, go
with him two. 42Give to him who asks you,
and xfrom him who wants to borrow from
you do not turn away.
Love Your Enemies
43 You have heard that it was said, yYou

shall love your neighbor* zand hate your
enemy. 44But I say to you, alove your enemies, bless those who curse you, bdo good
to those who hate you, and pray cfor those
who spitefully use you and persecute you,*
45 that you may be sons of your Father in
heaven; for dHe makes His sun rise on the
evil and on the good, and sends rain on the
just and on the unjust. 46eFor if you love
those who love you, what reward have you?
Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47And if you greet your brethren* only,
what do you do more than others? Do not
even the tax collectors* do so? 48fTherefore
you shall be perfect, just gas your Father in
heaven is perfect.
Do Good toPlease God
heed that you do not do your

6by Take
charitable deeds before men, to be seen
them. Otherwise you have no reward
from your Father in heaven. 2T herefore,

awhen you do a charitable deed, do not
sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
streets, that they may have glory from
men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have
their reward. 3But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know
what your right hand is doing, 4that your
charitable deed may be in secret; and your
Father who sees in secret bwill Himself reward you openly.*
The Model Prayer
5And when you pray, you shall not be

like the hypocrites. For they love to pray
standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen
by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have
their reward. 6But you, when you pray, cgo
5:41 compels. The Roman government could press

anyone to carry a load as far as one mile.
5:45 sons of your Father. In other words, that you
be like your heavenly Father who displays His love
without discrimination.
5:48 be perfect. God does not lower the standard to
accommodate our sinfulness. He gives us the power
to keep this righteousness standard.
6:2 they have their reward. The only reward the
hypocrites will ever receive is to be honored by man.
6:9 In this manner. This does not mean to pray only
these words, but to pray in this way, remembering the general topics of worship, request for both
into your room, and when you have shut

your door, pray to your Father who is in the
secret place; and your Father who sees in
secret will reward you openly.* 7And when
you pray, ddo not use vain repetitions as the
heathen do. eFor they think that they will
be heard for their many words.
8 Therefore do not be like them. For your
Father fk nows the things you have need
of before you ask Him. 9In this gmanner,
therefore, pray:
hOur
Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your iname.
Your kingdom come.
jYour will be done
On earth kas it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our ldaily
bread.
12 And m forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
13 n And do not lead us into
temptation,
But odeliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the
power and the glory forever.
Amen.*
10
14pFor if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive
you. 15But qif you do not forgive men their
trespasses, neither will your Father forgive
your trespasses.
Fasting toBe Seen Only byGod
16 Moreover, rwhen you fast, do not be

like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that
they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17But you, when you fast, sanoint
your head and wash your face, 18 so that
you do not appear to men to be fasting, but
to your Father who is in the secret place;
and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.*
*5:43 Compare Leviticus 19:18 *5:44 NU-Text

omits three clauses from this verse, leaving,
But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for
those who persecute you. *5:47 M-Text reads
friends.NU-Text reads Gentiles. *6:4 NU-
Text omits openly. *6:6 NU-Text omits openly.
*6:13 NU-Text omits For Yours through Amen.
*6:18 NU-Text and M-Text omit openly.
physical and spiritual needs, confession, and repentance of sins.

5:39uLuke 6:29 vIs. 50:6 5:41wMatt. 27:32
5:42xLuke 6:3034 5:43yLev. 19:18 zDeut. 23:36
5:44aLuke 6:27 b[Rom. 12:20] cActs 7:60 5:45dJob
25:3 5:46eLuke 6:32 5:48f[Col. 1:28; 4:12] gEph.
5:1 6:2aRom. 12:8 6:4bLuke 14:1214 6:6c2Kin.
4:33 6:7dEccl. 5:2 e1Kin. 18:26 6:8f[Rom.
8:26, 27] 6:9gLuke 11:24 h[Matt. 5:9, 16] iMal.
1:11 6:10jMatt. 26:42 kPs. 103:20 6:11lProv. 30:8
6:12m[Matt. 18:21, 22] 6:13n[2Pet. 2:9] oJohn 17:15
6:14pMark 11:25 6:15qMatt. 18:35 6:16rIs. 58:37
6:17sRuth 3:3
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1060 Matthew 6:19
Lay Up Treasures inHeaven

19tDo
not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;
20ubut lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in
and steal. 21For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also.
The Lamp oftheBody

22vThe
lamp of the body is the eye. If

therefore your eye is good, your whole
body will be full of light. 23But if your eye
is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is
darkness, how great is that darkness!
You Cannot Serve God and Riches
24wNo one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other,
or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. xYou cannot serve God and
mammon.
Do Not Worry
25Therefore I say to you, ydo not worry

about your life, what you will eat or what
you will drink; nor about your body, what
you will put on. Is not life more than food
and the body more than clothing? 26zLook
at the birds of the air, for they neither sow
nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your
heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not
of more value than they? 27Which of you by
worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 So why do you worry about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29and yet I
say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30Now
if God so clothes the grass of the field,
which today is, and tomorrow is thrown
into the oven, will He not much more clothe
you, O you of little faith?
31 Therefore do not worry, saying,
What shall we eat? or What shall we
drink? or What shall we wear? 32For after
all these things the Gentiles seek. For your
heavenly Father knows that you need all
6:19 Do not lay up... on earth. In other words, dont

give priority to things that only last on earth, but
instead put priority and energy into serving God.
6:24 CovetousnessGod requires total allegiance
and continuous subjection of our wills to Him. He asks
for full commitment of our hearts and love for His service. We cannot serve God like that while under the
influence of the god of money, urging us to make
present, tangible, and worldly things the object of
our thoughts and affections.
6:27 add one cubit. Some translations say, add a single hour to his life. It seems that Jesus would bring
a smile here; the mental picture either of growing
taller, or of stretching time by worrying, helps us to
see the futility of it.
7:12 Judge not. The point of this verse is that a
these things. 33But aseek first the kingdom

of God and His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added to you. 34Therefore
do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Do Not Judge
not, that you be not judged.

7youJudge
For with what judgment you judge,
will be judged; and with the meaa
sure you use, it will be measured back to

you. 3cAnd why do you look at the speck
in your brothers eye, but do not consider
the plank in your own eye? 4Or how can
you say to your brother, Let me remove the
speck from your eye; and look, a plank is
in your own eye? 5Hypocrite! First remove
the plank from your own eye, and then you
will see clearly to remove the speck from
your brothers eye.
6d Do not give what is holy to the dogs;
nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they
trample them under their feet, and turn and
tear you in pieces.
Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking
7eAsk, and it will be given to you; seek,

and you will find; knock, and it will be
opened to you. 8For f everyone who asks
receives, and he who seeks finds, and to
him who knocks it will be opened. 9g Or
what man is there among you who, if his
son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him
a serpent? 11If you then, hbeing evil, know
how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father who is in
heaven give good things to those who ask
Him! 12Therefore, i whatever you want men
to do to you, do also to them, for j this is the
Law and the Prophets.
The Narrow Way
13k Enter by the narrow gate; for wide

is the gate and broad is the way that leads
to destruction, and there are many who go
in by it. 14Because* narrow is the gate and
*7:14 NU-Text and M-Text read How !
Christian must not judge or criticize in a way that

they themselves would not want to be judged or criticized. Every judgment that a person makes becomes
a basis for his or her own judgment (James 3:12).
7:6 dogs . . . swine. These insulting terms refer to
people who are enemies of the gospel, as opposed to
those who are merely unbelievers.
6:19tProv. 23:4 6:20uMatt. 19:21 6:22vLuke
11:34, 35 6:24wLuke 16:9, 11, 13 x[Gal. 1:10]
6:25yLuke 12:22 6:26zLuke 12:24 6:33a[1Tim.
4:8] 7:1aRom. 14:3 7:2bLuke 6:38 7:3cLuke 6:41
7:6dProv. 9:7, 8 7:7e[Mark 11:24] 7:8fProv. 8:17
7:9gLuke 11:11 7:11hGen. 6:5; 8:21 7:12iLuke 6:31
jGal. 5:14 7:13kLuke 13:24
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 8:15 1061
difficult is the way which leads to life, and
there are few who findit.
You Will Know Them byTheir Fruits
15l Beware of false prophets, mwho come

to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16nYou will
know them by their fruits. oDo men gather
grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17Even so, pevery good tree bears good
fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A
good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a
bad tree bear good fruit. 19qEvery tree that
does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire. 20Therefore by their
fruits you will know them.
I Never Knew You
21Not everyone who says to Me, rLord,

Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who sdoes the will of My Father in
heaven. 22Many will say to Me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we tnot prophesied in
Your name, cast out demons in Your name,
and done many wonders in Your name?
23And uthen I will declare to them, I never
knew you; vdepart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!
Build ontheRock
24Therefore wwhoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken
him to a wise man who built his house on
the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the
floods came, and the winds blew and beat
on that house; and it did not fall, for it was
founded on the rock.
26 But everyone who hears these sayings
of Mine, and does not do them, will be like
a foolish man who built his house on the
sand: 27and the rain descended, the floods
came, and the winds blew and beat on that
house; and it fell. And great was its fall.
28 And so it was, when Jesus had ended
these sayings, that xthe people were astonished at His teaching, 29yfor He taught
them as one having authority, and not as
the scribes.
Jesus Cleanses a Leper
He had come down from the

8 When
mountain, great multitudes followed
7:15 Beware of false prophets. Deuteronomy
13:111 and 18:2022 provide information on discerning and responding to false prophets. The way
to tell a false teacher from teachers of the truth is by
their fruits. Fruit does not only refer to deeds, but also
to doctrine (16:12; 1John 4:13).
8:4 show yourself to the priest. This was no small
undertaking. The sacrifice required was long and
involved (Lev. 14:432). In obeying the law of Moses,
the leper also would be a powerful testimony to the
religious authorities in Jerusalem that the Messiah
had arrived.
8:10 I have not found... not even in Israel. Jesus
makes it clear that just being a physical descendant of
Him. 2a And behold, a leper came and bworshiped Him, saying, Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.
3Then Jesus put out His hand and
touched him, saying, I am willing; be
cleansed. Immediately his leprosy cwas
cleansed.
4 And Jesus said to him, d See that you
tell no one; but go your way, show yourself
to the priest, and offer the gift that eMoses
f commanded, as a testimony to them.
Jesus Heals a Centurions Servant
5gNow when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a hcenturion came to Him, pleading
with Him, 6 saying, Lord, my servant is
lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.
7And Jesus said to him, I will come and
heal him.
8The centurion answered and said,
Lord, i I am not worthy that You should
come under my roof. But only jspeak a
word, and my servant will be healed. 9For
I also am a man under authority, having
soldiers under me. And I say to this one,
Go, and he goes; and to another, Come,
and he comes; and to my servant, Do this,
and he does it.
10W hen Jesus heard it, He marveled,
and said to those who followed, Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such
great faith, not even in Israel! 11And I say
to you that kmany will come from east and
west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12But
l the sons of the kingdom mw ill be cast out
into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 13T hen Jesus
said to the centurion, Go your way; and
as you have believed, so let it be done for
you. And his servant was healed that
same hour.
Peters Mother-in-Law Healed
14n Now when Jesus had come into Peters house, He saw ohis wifes mother lying
sick with a fever. 15So He touched her hand,
and the fever left her. And she arose and
served them.*
*8:15 NU-Text and M-Text read Him.
Abraham does not guarantee entrance into His kingdom. The true children of Abraham are those who
share his faith in God (Gal. 5:69).
7:15lJer. 23:16 mMic. 3:5 7:16nMatt. 7:20; 12:33
oLuke 6:43 7:17pMatt. 12:33 7:19q[John
15:2, 6] 7:21rLuke 6:46 sRom. 2:13 7:22tNum. 24:4
7:23u[2Tim. 2:19] vPs. 5:5; 6:8 7:24wLuke 6:4749
7:28xMatt. 13:54 7:29y[John 7:46] 8:2aMark
1:4045 bJohn 9:38 8:3cLuke 4:27 8:4dMark 5:43
eLuke 5:14 fDeut. 24:8 8:5gLuke 7:13 hMatt. 27:54
8:8iLuke 15:19, 21 jPs. 107:20 8:11kIs. 2:2, 3; Mal. 1:11
8:12l[Matt. 21:43] mLuke 13:28 8:14nMark 1:2931
o1Cor. 9:5
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1062 Matthew 8:16
Many Healed intheEvening

16p W hen
evening had come, they

brought to Him many who were demon-
possessed. And He cast out the spirits with
a word, and healed all who were sick, 17 that
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
Isaiah the prophet, saying:
qHe
Himself took our infirmities

And bore our sicknesses. *
The Cost ofDiscipleship
18 And when Jesus saw great multitudes

about Him, He gave a command to depart
to the other side. 19rThen a certain scribe
came and said to Him, Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.
20 And Jesus said to him, Foxes have
holes and birds of the air have nests, but
the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His
head.
21sT hen another of His disciples said to
Him, Lord, tlet me first go and bury my
father.
22But Jesus said to him, Follow Me, and
let the dead bury their own dead.
Wind and Wave Obey Jesus
23Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. 24u And suddenly a great
tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat
was covered with the waves. But He was
asleep. 25Then His disciples came to Him
and awoke Him, saying, Lord, save us! We
are perishing!
26 But He said to them, Why are you
fearful, O you of little faith? Then vHe
arose and rebuked the winds and the sea,
and there was a great calm. 27So the men
marveled, saying, Who can this be, that
even the winds and the sea obey Him?
Two Demon-Possessed Men

Healed
28wW hen
He had come to the other side,

to the country of the Gergesenes,* there
met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so
that no one could pass that way. 29And suddenly they cried out, saying, What have
we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God?
Have You come here to torment us before
the time?
30 Now a good way off from them there
8:17 took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.
This verse quotes Isaiah 53:4. Jesus healed because
He had compassion on the people.
8:2829 demon-possessed. We learn several things
about demons in this passage. They recognize the
deity of Christ, they are limited in their knowledge,
they know they will ultimately be judged by Christ
(25:41; James 2:19; 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6; Rev. 12:717),
and they cannot act without the permission of higher
authority.
9:2 their faith. This refers to the faith of the paralytic
as well as that of the men who were carrying him.
was a herd of many swine feeding. 31So the

demons begged Him, saying, If You cast
us out, permit us to go away* into the herd
of swine.
32 And He said to them, Go. So when
they had come out, they went into the herd
of swine. And suddenly the whole herd of
swine ran violently down the steep place
into the sea, and perished in the water.
33T hen those who kept them fled; and
they went away into the city and told everything, including what had happened to the
demon-possessed men. 34 And behold, the
whole city came out to meet Jesus. And
when they saw Him, xthey begged Him to
depart from their region.
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralytic
He got into a boat, crossed over, and

9theySocame
to His own city. T hen behold,
brought to Him a paralytic lying on a
a
2b
bed. cW hen Jesus saw their faith, He said

to the paralytic, Son, be of good cheer;
your sins are forgiven you.
3 And at once some of the scribes said
within themselves, This Man blasphemes!
4 But Jesus, d knowing their thoughts,
said, Why do you think evil in your
hearts? 5For which is easier, to say, Your
sins are forgiven you, or to say, Arise
and walk? 6But that you may know that
the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sinsthen He said to the paralytic,
Arise, take up your bed, and go to your
house. 7And he arose and departed to his
house.
8Now when the multitudes saw it, they
emarveled* and glorified God, who had given such power to men.
Matthew theTax Collector
9fAs Jesus passed on from there, He saw

a man named Matthew sitting at the tax
office. And He said to him, Follow Me. So
he arose and followed Him.
10gNow it happened, as Jesus sat at the
table in the house, that behold, many tax
collectors and sinners came and sat down
with Him and His disciples. 11And when
*8:17 Isaiah 53:4 *8:28 NU-Text reads

Gadarenes. *8:31 NU-Text reads send us.
*9:8 NU-Text reads were afraid.
9:10 tax collectors. Publicans or tax collectors were

often despised not only because they were seen as
traitors, working for the hated Roman government,
but also because they generally collected more than
necessary and pocketed the difference.
8:16pLuke 4:40, 41 8:17qIs. 53:4 8:19rLuke 9:57,
58 8:21sLuke 9:59, 60 t1Kin. 19:20 8:24uMark
4:37 8:26vPs. 65:7; 89:9; 107:29 8:28wMark 5:14
8:34xLuke 5:8; Acts 16:39 9:1aMatt. 4:13; 11:23
9:2bLuke 5:1826 cMatt. 8:10 9:4dMatt. 12:25
9:8eJohn 7:15 9:9fLuke 5:27 9:10gMark 2:15
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 9:38 1063
the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, Why does your Teacher eat with htax
collectors and isinners?
12W hen Jesus heard that, He said to
them, Those who are well have no need of
a physician, but those who are sick. 13But
go and learn what this means: j I desire
mercy and not sacrifice. * For I did not
come to call the righteous, kbut sinners, to
repentance.*
Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting
14T hen the disciples of John came to

Him, saying, l Why do we and the Pharisees fast often,* but Your disciples do not
fast?
15 And Jesus said to them, Can m the
friends of the bridegroom mourn as long
as the bridegroom is with them? But the
days will come when the bridegroom
will be taken away from them, and nthen
they will fast. 16No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the
patch pulls away from the garment, and
the tear is made worse. 17Nor do they put
new wine into old wineskins, or else the
wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and
the wineskins are ruined. But they put new
wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
A Girl Restored toLife and a

Woman Healed
18oW hile He spoke these things to

them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, My daughter has
just died, but come and lay Your hand on
her and she will live. 19 So Jesus arose
and followed him, and so did His pdisciples.
20qAnd suddenly, a woman who had a
flow of blood for twelve years came from
behind and rtouched the hem of His garment. 21For she said to herself, If only I
may touch His garment, I shall be made
well. 22But Jesus turned around, and when
He saw her He said, Be of good cheer,
daughter; syour faith has made you well.
And the woman was made well from that
hour.
23tW hen Jesus came into the rulers
house, and saw uthe flute players and the
noisy crowd wailing, 24 He said to them,
vMake room, for the girl is not dead, but
9:1213 Those who are well. Jesus refers ironically

to the Pharisees as the righteous. They were not
righteous; that was only how they perceived themselves because of their pious and scrupulous law
keeping (Phil. 3:6). But God is more interested in a
persons loyal love than the observance of external
rituals.
9:30 See that no one knows it. Jesus may have
wanted to discourage the masses from coming to
Him for physical healing alone, because His primary
purpose was spiritual healing.
9:37 harvest. The harvest will mark the beginning of
sleeping. And they ridiculed Him. 25But

when the crowd was put outside, He went
in and wtook her by the hand, and the girl
arose. 26And the xreport of this went out
into all that land.
Two Blind Men Healed

27When
yt wo blind
Jesus departed from there,

men followed Him, crying out
and saying, zSon of David, have mercy
on us!
28And when He had come into the house,
the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said
to them, Do you believe that I am able to
do this?
They said to Him, Yes, Lord.
29T hen He touched their eyes, saying,
According to your faith let it be to you.
30And their eyes were opened. And Jesus
sternly warned them, saying, aSee that
no one knows it. 31bBut when they had departed, they spread the news about Him in
all that country.
A Mute Man Speaks
32cAs they went out, behold, they brought

to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed.
33 And when the demon was cast out, the
mute spoke. And the multitudes marveled,
saying, It was never seen like this in Israel!
34 But the Pharisees said, d He casts out
demons by the ruler of the demons.
The CompassionofJesus
35Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, eteaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the
kingdom, and healing every sickness
and every disease among the people.*
36fBut when He saw the multitudes, He
was moved with compassion for them,
because they were weary* and scattered,
glike sheep having no shepherd. 37T hen
He said to His disciples, h The harvest
truly is plentiful, but the laborers are
few. 38iT herefore pray the Lord of the
harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
*9:13 Hosea 6:6 NU-Text omits to repentance. *9:14 NU-Text brackets often as disputed. *9:35 NU-Text omits among the people.
*9:36 NU-Text and M-Text read harassed.
the kingdom age. For the lost it will mean doom, but
for the saved it will mean blessing.
9:11hMatt. 11:19 i[Gal. 2:15] 9:13jHos. 6:6 k1Tim.
1:15 9:14lLuke 5:3335; 18:12 9:15mJohn 3:29
nActs 13:2, 3; 14:23 9:18oLuke 8:4156 9:19pMatt.
10:24 9:20qLuke 8:43 rMatt. 14:36; 23:5
9:22sLuke 7:50; 8:48; 17:19; 18:42 9:23tMark 5:38
u2Chr. 35:25 9:24vActs 20:10 9:25wMark 1:31
9:26xMatt. 4:24 9:27yMatt. 20:2934 zLuke 18:38, 39
9:30aMatt. 8:4 9:31bMark 7:36 9:32cMatt. 12:22,
24 9:34dLuke 11:15 9:35eMatt. 4:23 9:36fMark
6:34 gNum. 27:17 9:37hLuke 10:2 9:38i2Thess. 3:1
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1064 Matthew 10:1
The Twelve Apostles
10
And awhen He had called His twelve

disciples to Him, He gave them power
over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and
to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds
of disease. 2Now the names of the twelve
apostles are these: first, Simon, bwho
is called Peter, and Andrew his brother;
James the son of Zebedee, and John his
brother; 3Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James
the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose
surname was* Thaddaeus; 4c Simon the
Cananite,* and Judas d Iscariot, who also
betrayed Him.
Sending Out theTwelve
5T hese twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: eDo not go into the
way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city
of f the Samaritans. 6gBut go rather to the
h lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7i And as
you go, preach, saying, j The kingdom of
heaven is at hand. 8Heal the sick, cleanse
the lepers, raise the dead,* cast out demons. k Freely you have received, freely
give. 9l Provide neither gold nor silver nor
mcopper in your money belts, 10 nor bag for
your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals,
nor staffs; n for a worker is worthy of his
food.
11oNow whatever city or town you
enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and
stay there till you go out. 12 And when
you go into a household, greet it. 13pIf
the household is worthy, let your peace
come upon it. qBut if it is not worthy, let
your peace return to you. 14rAnd whoever will not receive you nor hear your
words, when you depart from that house
or city, sshake off the dust from your feet.
15Assuredly, I say to you, tit will be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for
that city!
Persecutions Are Coming
16uBehold, I send you out as sheep in

the midst of wolves. vT herefore be wise
as serpents and wharmless as doves. 17But
beware of men, for xthey will deliver you
10:2 the twelve. The twelve are called disciples

in verse 1; here they are called apostles. The word
apostle emphasizes delegated authority (1 Thess.
2:6).
10:15 more tolerable for the land of Sodom and
Gomorrah. This verse, together with 11:22
24,
implies that there will be different degrees of judgment and torment for those who reject Christ.
10:18 for My sake. God would use Jewish rejection
and persecution of the messengers to bring the gospel message to the Gentiles.
10:25 PersecutionBelievers must know that what
the world has called our Lord, it will call us. The world
has hated Jesus without cause, and they will hate
those who bear His name in the same way.
up to councils and yscourge you in their

synagogues. 18zYou will be brought before
governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. 19a But
when they deliver you up, do not worry
about how or what you should speak. For
bit will be given to you in that hour what
you should speak; 20cfor it is not you who
speak, but the Spirit of your Father who
speaks in you.
21d Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and
children will rise up against parents and
cause them to be put to death. 22 And eyou
will be hated by all for My names sake.
fBut he who endures to the end will be
saved. 23gW hen they persecute you in this
city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say
to you, you will not have h gone through
the cities of Israel ibefore the Son of Man
comes.
24j A disciple is not above his teacher, nor
a servant above his master. 25It is enough
for a disciple that he be like his teacher,
and a servant like his master. If kthey have
called the master of the house Beelzebub,*
how much more will they call those of his
household! 26Therefore do not fear them.
l For there is nothing covered that will not
be revealed, and hidden that will not be
known.
Jesus Teaches theFear ofGod
27 Whatever I tell you in the dark,

m speak in the light; and what you hear in
the ear, preach on the housetops. 28n And
do not fear those who kill the body but

cannot kill the soul. But rather ofear Him
who is able to destroy both soul and body
in hell. 29Are not two psparrows sold for
a copper coin? And not one of them falls
to the ground apart from your Fathers
will. 30qBut the very hairs of your head
are all numbered. 31Do not fear therefore;
you are of more value than many sparrows.
*10:3 NU-Text omits Lebbaeus, whose surname was. *10:4 NU-Text reads Cananaean.
*10:8 NU-Text reads raise the dead, cleanse the
lepers; M-Text omits raise the dead. *10:25 NU-
Text and M-Text read Beelzebul.
10:1aLuke 6:13 10:2bJohn 1:42 10:4cActs

1:13 dJohn 13:2, 26 10:5eMatt. 4:15 fJohn 4:9
10:6gMatt. 15:24 hJer. 50:6 10:7iLuke 9:2 jMatt.
3:2 10:8k[Acts 8:18] 10:9l1Sam. 9:7 mMark 6:8
10:10n1Tim. 5:18 10:11oLuke 10:8 10:13pLuke
10:5 qPs. 35:13 10:14rMark 6:11 sActs 13:51
10:15tMatt. 11:22, 24 10:16uLuke 10:3 vEph. 5:15
w[Phil. 2:1416] 10:17xMark 13:9 yActs 5:40; 22:19;
26:11 10:18z2Tim. 4:16 10:19aLuke 12:11, 12;
21:14, 15 bEx. 4:12 10:20c2Sam. 23:2 10:21dMic.
7:6 10:22eLuke 21:17 fMark 13:13 10:23gActs
8:1 h[Mark 13:10] iMatt. 16:28 10:24jJohn 15:20
10:25kJohn 8:48, 52 10:26lMark 4:22 10:27mActs
5:20 10:28nLuke 12:4 oLuke 12:5 10:29pLuke
12:6, 7 10:30qLuke 21:18
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 11:19 1065
Confess Christ Before Men

32rTherefore
fore men, shim
whoever confesses Me beI will also confess before

My Father who is in heaven. 33tBut whoever
denies Me before men, him I will also deny
before My Father who is in heaven.
Christ Brings Division
34uDo not think that I came to bring

peace on earth. I did not come to bring
peace but a sword. 35For I have come to
vset a man against his father, a daughter
against her mother, and a daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law; 36and wa mans
enemies will be those of his own household. * 37xHe who loves father or mother
more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he
who loves son or daughter more than Me
is not worthy of Me. 38yAnd he who does
not take his cross and follow after Me is
not worthy of Me. 39zHe who finds his life
will lose it, and he who loses his life for My
sake will findit.
A Cup ofCold Water
40aHe who receives you receives Me,

and he who receives Me receives Him
who sent Me. 41bHe who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a
prophets reward. And he who receives a
righteous man in the name of a righteous
man shall receive a righteous mans reward. 42cAnd whoever gives one of these
little ones only a cup of cold water in the
name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you,
he shall by no means lose his reward.
John theBaptist Sends Messengers

toJesus
Now it came to pass, when Jesus fin11

ished commanding His twelve disciples, that He departed from there to teach
a
and to preach in their cities.

2bAnd when John had heard cin prison
about the works of Christ, he sent two of*
his disciples 3and said to Him, Are You d the
Coming One, or do we look for another?
4 Jesus answered and said to them, Go
and tell John the things which you hear
10:32 whoever confesses. Every act of our lives will
be evaluated at the judgment seat of Christ (2 Cor.
5:10). To refuse to speak up for Christ because of
intimidation or persecution will result in the believers loss of reward and consequent loss of glory in the
kingdom (Rom. 8:17; 2Tim. 2:12).
10:38 does not take his cross. Taking up a cross
stands for commitment to the extent of being willing
to die for something.
11:3 do we look. John probably expected the Messiah to immediately judge Israel and establish His
kingdom (3:212). Jesus failure to do what John
anticipated may have planted seeds of doubt in
Johns mind about whether Jesus was the Messiah.
But doubt that inquires and does not weaken faith is
not evil. John went to the right person for answers,
and see: 5eThe blind see and the lame walk;

the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear;
the dead are raised up and fthe poor have
the gospel preached to them. 6And blessed
is he who is not goffended because of Me.
7h As they departed, Jesus began to say
to the multitudes concerning John: What
did you go out into the wilderness to see?
i A reed shaken by the wind? 8But what did
you go out to see? A man clothed in soft
garments? Indeed, those who wear soft
clothing are in kings houses. 9But what
did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say
to you, jand more than a prophet. 10For this
is he of whom it is written:
k Behold, I send My messenger before
Your face,
Who will prepare Your way before
You. *
11Assuredly, I say to you, among those
born of women there has not risen one
greater than John the Baptist; but he who
is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater
than he. 12l And from the days of John the
Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven
suffers violence, and the violent take it by
force. 13m For all the prophets and the law
prophesied until John. 14 And if you are
willing to receive it, he is nElijah who is to
come. 15oHe who has ears to hear, let him
hear!
16pBut to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions,
17and saying:
We played the flute for you,
And you did not dance;
We mourned to you,
And you did not lament.
18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon. 19The
Son of Man came eating and drinking, and
they say, Look, a glutton and a winebibber,
qa friend of tax collectors and sinners! rBut
wisdom is justified by her children.*
*10:36 Micah 7:6 *11:2 NU-Text reads by for
two of. *11:10 Malachi 3:1 *11:19 NU-Text
reads works.
and Jesus reassured him by pointing out the fulfillment of prophecy.

11:12 violent take it by force. This probably means
that violent people forcibly oppose the kingdom with
their hostility (23:13).
10:32rLuke 12:8 s[Rev. 3:5] 10:33t2Tim. 2:12
10:34u[Luke 12:49] 10:35vMic. 7:6 10:36wJohn
13:18 10:37xLuke 14:26 10:38y[Mark 8:34]
10:39zJohn 12:25 10:40aLuke 9:48 10:41b1Kin.
17:10 10:42cMark 9:41 11:1aLuke 23:5
11:2bLuke 7:1835 cMatt. 4:12; 14:3 11:3dJohn 6:14
11:5eIs. 29:18; 35:46 fPs. 22:26; Is. 61:1 11:6g[Rom.
9:32] 11:7hLuke 7:24 i[Eph. 4:14] 11:9jLuke
1:76; 20:6 11:10kMal. 3:1 11:12lLuke 16:16
11:13mMal. 4:46 11:14nLuke 1:17 11:15oLuke 8:8
11:16pLuke 7:31 11:19qMatt. 9:10 rLuke 7:35
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1066 Matthew 11:20
Woe totheImpenitent Cities

20sThen
He began to rebuke the cities in

which most of His mighty works had been
done, because they did not repent: 21Woe
to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty works which were done in
you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they
would have repented long ago tin sackcloth
and ashes. 22But I say to you, uit will be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of
judgment than for you. 23And you, Capernaum, vwho are exalted to heaven, will be*
brought down to Hades; for if the mighty
works which were done in you had been
done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24But I say to you wthat it shall be
more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the
day of judgment than for you.
Jesus Gives True Rest
25x At that time Jesus answered and said,

I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, that yYou have hidden these things
from the wise and prudent zand have revealed them to babes. 26Even so, Father,
for so it seemed good in Your sight. 27a All
things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the
Father. bNor does anyone know the Father
except the Son, and the one to whom the
Son wills to reveal Him. 28Come to cMe, all
you who labor and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest. 29Take My yoke upon
you dand learn from Me, for I am gentle
and elowly in heart, fand you will find rest
for your souls. 30gFor My yoke is easy and
My burden is light.
Jesus Is Lord oftheSabbath
At that time Jesus went through the

12
grainfields on the Sabbath. And His
disciples were hungry, and began to pluck
a
heads of grain and to eat. 2And when the

Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, Look,
Your disciples are doing what is not lawful
to do on the Sabbath!
3But He said to them, Have you not read
cwhat David did when he was hungry, he
and those who were with him: 4 how he
entered the house of God and ate d the
11:21 Woe. Jesus pronounced a direct judgment on

Israel. They would be judged for seeing the Messiah
and then rejecting Him.
11:23 Capernaum. Capernaum, which is on the
north shore of the Sea of Galilee, was called His own
city (9:1).
12:2 is not lawful. To desecrate the Sabbath was
flagrant disobedience to the law of Moses (Num.
15:3036). The Pharisees were trying to make Jesus
into a lawbreaker and accuse Him of wrongdoing.
12:14 how they might destroy Him. Because of
Jesus view of the Sabbath, the Pharisees concluded
that He was trying to overthrow the entire Mosaic
system, and therefore had to be destroyed. Their
antagonism toward Jesus was growing.
12:1721 spoken by Isaiah the prophet. This
showbread which was not lawful for him to

eat, nor for those who were with him, ebut
only for the priests? 5Or have you not read
in the flaw that on the Sabbath the priests
in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are
blameless? 6Yet I say to you that in this
place there is gOne greater than the temple.
7But if you had known what this means, h I
desire mercy and not sacrifice, * you would
not have condemned the guiltless. 8For the
Son of Man is Lord even* of the Sabbath.
Healing ontheSabbath
9i Now when He had departed from there,

He went into their synagogue. 10And behold, there was a man who had a withered
hand. And they asked Him, saying, j Is it
lawful to heal on the Sabbath?that they
might accuse Him.
11T hen He said to them, What man is
there among you who has one sheep, and
if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not
lay hold of it and lift it out? 12Of how much
more value then is a man than a sheep?
Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. 13Then He said to the man, Stretch
out your hand. And he stretched it out,
and it was restored as whole as the other.
14T hen kthe Pharisees went out and plotted
against Him, how they might destroy Him.
Behold, My Servant
15But when Jesus knew it, l He withdrew

from there. m And great multitudes* followed Him, and He healed them all. 16Yet
He nwarned them not to make Him known,
17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:
18 Behold! oMy
Servant whom I have

chosen,
My Beloved pin whom My soul is well
pleased!
I will put My Spirit upon Him,
And He will declare justice to the
Gentiles.
*11:23 NU-Text reads will you be exalted

to heaven? No, you will be. *12:7 Hosea
6:6 *12:8 NU-Text and M-Text omit even.
*12:15 NU-Text brackets multitudes as disputed.
quotation of Isaiah 42:14 shows that the Messiahs

gentleness was just as had been prophesied, and also
that the Gentiles would be included in His blessing.
11:20sLuke 10:1315, 18 11:21tJon. 3:68
11:22uMatt. 10:15; 11:24 11:23vIs. 14:13
11:24wMatt. 10:15 11:25xLuke 10:21, 22 yPs. 8:2
zMatt. 16:17 11:27aMatt. 28:18 bJohn 1:18; 6:46;
10:15 11:28c[John 6:3537] 11:29d[Phil. 2:5]
eZech. 9:9 fJer. 6:16 11:30g[1John 5:3] 12:1aLuke
6:15 bDeut. 23:25 12:3c1Sam. 21:6 12:4dLev.
24:5 eEx. 29:32 12:5fNum. 28:9 12:6g[Is. 66:1, 2]
12:7h[Hos. 6:6] 12:9iMark 3:16 12:10jJohn
9:16 12:14kMark 3:6 12:15lMark 3:7 mMatt. 19:2
12:16nMatt. 8:4; 9:30; 17:9 12:18oIs. 42:14; 49:3
pMatt. 3:17; 17:5
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 12:44 1067
He will not quarrel nor cry out,
Nor will anyone hear His voice in the
streets.
20 A bruised reed He will not break,
And smoking flax He will not quench,
Till He sends forth justice to victory;
21 And in His name Gentiles will trust. *
19
A House Divided Cannot Stand
22qT hen one was brought to Him who

was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and
He healed him, so that the blind and* mute
man both spoke and saw. 23 And all the
multitudes were amazed and said, Could
this be the rSon of David?
24sNow when the Pharisees heard it they
said, This fellow does not cast out demons
except by Beelzebub,* the ruler of the demons.
25But Jesus tknew their thoughts, and
said to them: Every kingdom divided
against itself is brought to desolation, and
every city or house divided against itself
will not stand. 26If Satan casts out Satan,
he is divided against himself. How then
will his kingdom stand? 27And if I cast out
demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your
sons cast them out? Therefore they shall
be your judges. 28But if I cast out demons
by the Spirit of God, usurely the kingdom
of God has come upon you. 29vOr how can
one enter a strong mans house and plunder
his goods, unless he first binds the strong
man? And then he will plunder his house.
30He who is not with Me is against Me, and
he who does not gather with Me scatters
abroad.
The Unpardonable Sin
31Therefore I say to you, wevery sin and

blasphemy will be forgiven men, xbut the
blasphemy against the Spirit will not be
forgiven men. 32 Anyone who yspeaks a
word against the Son of Man, zit will be
forgiven him; but whoever speaks against
the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him,
either in this age or in the age to come.
12:3132 blasphemy. The sin that shall not be forgiven is the stubborn refusal to heed the Holy Spirits conviction and accept the salvation that Christ
offers. Particularly in reference to the leaders of Israel,
Jesus had offered them all the proof that could be
expected, such as the ministry of John, the testimony
of the Father, the prophecies of the Old Testament,
His own testimony, and the substantiation of the Holy
Spirit. Because the leaders rejected all proofs regarding Jesus as Messiah, nothing else would be given.
12:39 the sign of the prophet Jonah. The demand
for signs was evidence of unbelief. The sign of the
prophet Jonah is explained in verse 40 as the resurrection.
12:4142 The men of Nineveh... The queen of the
South. These terms represent Gentiles who come
to faith because of the words of Gods prophets and
kings, lesser messengers than Gods only Son.
12:43 an unclean spirit. This analogy seems to be
A Tree Known byIts Fruit
33 Either make the tree good and a its

fruit good, or else make the tree bad and
its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
34bBrood of vipers! How can you, being evil,
speak good things? cFor out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35A
good man out of the good treasure of his
heart* brings forth good things, and an evil
man out of the evil treasure brings forth
evil things. 36But I say to you that for every
idle word men may speak, they will give
account of it in the day of judgment. 37For
by your words you will be justified, and by
your words you will be condemned.
The Scribes and Pharisees Ask for

a Sign
38dT hen some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, Teacher, we want
to see a sign from You.
39But He answered and said to them, An
evil and eadulterous generation seeks after
a sign, and no sign will be given to it except
the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40fFor as Jonah was three days and three nights in the
belly of the great fish, so will the Son of
Man be three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth. 41gThe men of Nineveh
will rise up in the judgment with this generation and hcondemn it, ibecause they
repented at the preaching of Jonah; and
indeed a greater than Jonah is here. 42jThe
queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it,
for she came from the ends of the earth to
hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a
greater than Solomon is here.
An Unclean Spirit Returns
43k When an unclean spirit goes out of

a man, lhe goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44Then he says,
*12:21 Isaiah 42:14 *12:22 NU-Text omits blind

and. *12:24 NU-Text and M-Text read Beelzebul.
*12:35 NU-Text and M-Text omit of his heart.
describing the moral reformation that took place in

Israel as a result of the ministries of John the Baptist
and Jesus. The reformation, however, was not genuine, and therefore Israels unbelief and hardness of
heart was worse than before. In the same way, a person who decides to try religion without being born
again, and then decides its not for me, is worse off
than if they had never tried, because their hearts are
hardened to Gods voice.
12:22qLuke 11:14, 15 12:23rMatt. 9:27; 21:9
12:24sMatt. 9:34 12:25tMatt. 9:4 12:28u[Dan.
2:44; 7:14] 12:29vIs. 49:24 12:31wMark
3:2830 xActs 7:51 12:32yJohn 7:12, 52 z1Tim.
1:13 12:33aMatt. 7:1618 12:34bMatt. 3:7; 23:33
cLuke 6:45 12:38dMark 8:11 12:39eMatt. 16:4
12:40fJon. 1:17 12:41gLuke 11:32 hJer. 3:11 iJon.
3:5 12:42j1Kin. 10:113 12:43kLuke 11:2426
l[1Pet. 5:8]
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1068 Matthew 12:45
I will return to my house from which I
came. And when he comes, he finds it
empty, swept, and put in order. 45Then he
goes and takes with him seven other spirits
more wicked than himself, and they enter
and dwell there; mand the last state of that
man is worse than the first. So shall it also
be with this wicked generation.
Jesus Mother and Brothers Send

for Him
46W hile He was still talking to the multitudes, nbehold, His mother and obrothers
stood outside, seeking to speak with Him.
47Then one said to Him, Look, pYour
mother and Your brothers are standing
outside, seeking to speak with You.
48But He answered and said to the one
who told Him, Who is My mother and who
are My brothers? 49And He stretched out
His hand toward His disciples and said,
Here are My mother and My qbrothers!
50For rwhoever does the will of My Father
in heaven is My brother and sister and
mother.
The Parable oftheSower
On the same day Jesus went out of the

13
house and sat by the sea. And great
multitudes were gathered together to Him,
a
2b
so that cHe got into a boat and sat; and the

whole multitude stood on the shore.
3Then He spoke many things to them in
parables, saying: d Behold, a sower went
out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed
fell by the wayside; and the birds came and
devoured them. 5Some fell on stony places,
where they did not have much earth; and
they immediately sprang up because they
had no depth of earth. 6But when the sun
was up they were scorched, and because
they had no root they withered away. 7And
some fell among thorns, and the thorns
sprang up and choked them. 8But others fell
on good ground and yielded a crop: some ea
hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9fHe
who has ears to hear, let him hear!
The Purpose ofParables
10 And the disciples came and said to

Him, Why do You speak to them in parables?
13:11 it has been given to you. The purpose of this

parable was to both reveal and conceal the truth. This
hiding of the truth was a judgment for unbelief, as
happened during Isaiahs ministry (Is. 6:910).
13:1415 Spiritual DeathGenesis 3 teaches us
that, through sin, man died spiritually. Here, Christ
quotes from Isaiah 6 to detail the meaning of spiritual
death: Our ability to perceive spiritual reality is absent.
Key spiritual senses dont work as they were originally
designed to work. We cant see the implications of
spiritual events. We cant understand the meaning
of spiritual words. It is as if our senses are dead. In
order to have our spiritual senses restored, we need
11He answered and said to them, Because git has been given to you to know the
mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to
them it has not been given. 12h For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he
will have abundance; but whoever does not
have, even what he has will be taken away
from him. 13Therefore I speak to them in
parables, because seeing they do not see,
and hearing they do not hear, nor do they
understand. 14 And in them the prophecy of
Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
i Hearing
you will hear and shall not

understand,
And seeing you will see and not
j perceive;
15 For the hearts of this people have
grown dull.
Their ears kare hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have lclosed,
Lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their
hearts and turn,
So that I should * mheal them. *
16 But nblessed are your eyes for they see,
and your ears for they hear; 17for assuredly,
I say to you othat many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and
did not see it, and to hear what you hear,
and did not hearit.
The Parable oftheSower Explained
18pTherefore hear the parable of the

sower: 19When anyone hears the word qof
the kingdom, and does not understand it,
then the wicked one comes and snatches
away what was sown in his heart. This is
he who received seed by the wayside. 20But
he who received the seed on stony places,
this is he who hears the word and immediately rreceives it with joy; 21yet he has
no root in himself, but endures only for a
while. For when stribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately the stumbles. 22Now uhe who received
seed vamong the thorns is he who hears the
word, and the cares of this world and the
deceitfulness of riches choke the word,
*13:15 NU-Text and M-Text read would.Isaiah

6:9, 10
someone to heal us. Only Christ can provide the necessary healing to open our spiritual eyes and ears.
12:45m[2Pet. 2:2022] 12:46nLuke 8:1921 oJohn
2:12; 7:3, 5 12:47pMatt. 13:55, 56 12:49qJohn
20:17 12:50rJohn 15:14 13:1aMark 4:112
13:2bLuke 8:4 cLuke 5:3 13:3dLuke 8:5 13:8eGen.
26:12 13:9fMatt. 11:15 13:11gMark 4:10,
11 13:12hMatt. 25:29 13:14iIs. 6:9, 10; Ezek. 12:2
j[John 3:36] 13:15kHeb. 5:11 lLuke 19:42 mActs
28:26, 27 13:16nLuke 10:23, 24 13:17oHeb. 11:13
13:18pMark 4:1320 13:19qMatt. 4:23 13:20rIs.
58:2 13:21s[Acts 14:22] tMatt. 11:6 13:22u1Tim.
6:9 vJer. 4:3
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 13:44 1069
and he becomes unfruitful. 23But he who
received seed on the good ground is he who
hears the word and understands it, who
indeed bears wfruit and produces: some a
hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
The Parable oftheWheat and

theTares
24 Another
parable He put forth to them,

saying: The kingdom of heaven is like
a man who sowed good seed in his field;
25but while men slept, his enemy came and
sowed tares among the wheat and went his
way. 26But when the grain had sprouted
and produced a crop, then the tares also
appeared. 27So the servants of the owner
came and said to him, Sir, did you not sow
good seed in your field? How then does it
have tares? 28He said to them, An enemy
has done this. The servants said to him,
Do you want us then to go and gather them
up? 29But he said, No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat
with them. 30Let both grow together until
the harvest, and at the time of harvest I
will say to the reapers, First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles
to burn them, but xgather the wheat into
my barn.
The Parable oftheMustard Seed
31Another parable He put forth to them,

saying: yThe kingdom of heaven is like
a mustard seed, which a man took and
sowed in his field, 32which indeed is the
least of all the seeds; but when it is grown
it is greater than the herbs and becomes a
ztree, so that the birds of the air come and
nest in its branches.
The Parable oftheLeaven
33a Another parable He spoke to them:

The kingdom of heaven is like leaven,
which a woman took and hid in three measures* of meal till bit was all leavened.
13:25 his enemy came and sowed tares. Tares are

weeds which closely resemble wheat, but which do
not produce good food. They are indistinguishable
from the real wheat until the fruit appears. Just like
the tares among the wheat, genuine believers and
counterfeits will be allowed to remain together.
13:31 like a mustard seed. The parable of the mustard seed shows that the number of people who will
inherit the kingdom will be very small at first, but it
will grow to be completely out of proportion to its
initial size.
13:33 like leaven. Although leaven is sometimes
used in Scripture to symbolize evil, here the kingdom
of heaven is being compared to the dynamic character of yeast. When yeast is mixed with the dough,
it expands from within, causing the dough to grow.
Rather than being powered by outward armies or
organizations, the kingdom of God will grow by the
internal power of the Holy Spirit.
13:42 HellThis verse describes the separation that
comes between the righteous and the wicked at the
Prophecy and theParables
34c All these things Jesus spoke to the

multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them, 35that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophet, saying:
d I
will open My mouth in

parables;
eI will utter things kept secret from the
foundation of the world. *
The Parable oftheTares Explained
36T hen Jesus sent the multitude away

and went into the house. And His disciples
came to Him, saying, Explain to us the
parable of the tares of the field.
37He answered and said to them: He
who sows the good seed is the Son of
Man. 38fT he field is the world, the good
seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but
the tares are gthe sons of the wicked one.
39T he enemy who sowed them is the devil,
hthe harvest is the end of the age, and the
reapers are the angels. 40Therefore as the
tares are gathered and burned in the fire,
so it will be at the end of this age. 41T he
Son of Man will send out His angels, iand
they will gather out of His kingdom all
things that offend, and those who practice
lawlessness, 42jand will cast them into the
furnace of fire. kThere will be wailing and
gnashing of teeth. 43lT hen the righteous
will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom
of their Father. mHe who has ears to hear,
let him hear!
The Parable oftheHidden Treasure
44Again, the kingdom of heaven is like

treasure hidden in a field, which a man
found and hid; and for joy over it he goes
and nsells all that he has and obuys that
field.
*13:33 Greek sata, approximately two pecks in all

*13:35 Psalm 78:2
end of the age. The place of their eternal dwelling is

described as a furnace of fire, perhaps because fire
is one of mans most vivid concepts of suffering. Some
think that there is no real, actual hell of fire, and that
instead the wicked simply cease to exist, but this is
difficult to support. The Scriptures consistently speak
of hell as a real place of torment and anguish for all
who do not receive the salvation that Jesus offers.
13:44 like treasure. The main point here is the
immense value of the kingdom, which far outweighs
any sacrifice or inconvenience one might encounter
on earth.
13:23wCol. 1:6 13:30xMatt. 3:12 13:31yLuke
13:18, 19 13:32zEzek. 17:2224; 31:39 13:33aLuke
13:20, 21 b[1Cor. 5:6] 13:34cPs. 78:2; Mark 4:33,
34 13:35dPs. 78:2 eEph. 3:9 13:38fRom. 10:18
gJohn 8:44 13:39hRev. 14:15 13:41iMatt. 18:7
13:42jRev. 19:20; 20:10 kMatt. 8:12; 13:50 13:43l[Dan.
12:3] mMatt. 13:9 13:44nPhil. 3:7, 8 o[Is. 55:1]
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1070 Matthew 13:45
The Parable ofthePearl ofGreat

Price
45Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a

merchant seeking beautiful pearls, 46who,
when he had found p one pearl of great
price, went and sold all that he had and
boughtit.
The Parable oftheDragnet
47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like

a dragnet that was cast into the sea and
qgathered some of every kind, 48 which,
when it was full, they drew to shore; and
they sat down and gathered the good into
vessels, but threw the bad away. 49 So it
will be at the end of the age. The angels
will come forth, rseparate the wicked from
among the just, 50 and cast them into the
furnace of fire. There will be wailing and
gnashing of teeth.
51Jesus said to them,* Have you understood all these things?
They said to Him, Yes, Lord.*
52Then He said to them, Therefore every
scribe instructed concerning* the kingdom
of heaven is like a householder who brings
out of his treasure sthings new and old.
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
53Now it came to pass, when Jesus had

finished these parables, that He departed
from there. 54tW hen He had come to His
own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and
said, Where did this Man get this wisdom
and these mighty works? 55uIs this not the
carpenters son? Is not His mother called
Mary? And vHis brothers wJames, Joses,*
Simon, and Judas? 56And His sisters, are
they not all with us? Where then did this
Man get all these things? 57So they xwere
offended at Him.
But Jesus said to them, yA prophet is not
without honor except in his own country
and in his own house. 58Now zHe did not
do many mighty works there because of
their unbelief.
John theBaptist Beheaded
At that time Herod the tetrarch

14
heard the report about Jesus and
said to his servants, This is John the Bapa
tist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.
3b For Herod had laid hold of John and
13:47 of every kind. The responsibility of the disciples would be to catch as many fish of every kind
as possible. The work of judging or sorting out the
false catch, however, is a job that disciples are neither
called nor equipped to do. That work is assigned to
angels at Christs return.
14:3 for the sake of Herodias. Herod had gone
to Rome, where he met Herodias, the wife of his
half brother Philip. After seducing Herodias, Herod
divorced his own wife and married his sister-in-law.
bound him, and put him in prison for the

sake of Herodias, his brother Philips wife.
4 Because John had said to him, cIt is not
lawful for you to have her. 5And although
he wanted to put him to death, he feared
the multitude, dbecause they counted him
as a prophet.
6 But when Herods birthday was celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced
before them and pleased Herod. 7Therefore
he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.
8 So she, having been prompted by her
mother, said, Give me John the Baptists
head here on a platter.
9And the king was sorry; nevertheless,
because of the oaths and because of those
who sat with him, he commanded it to be
given to her. 10 So he sent and had John
beheaded in prison. 11And his head was
brought on a platter and given to the girl,
and she brought it to her mother. 12T hen
his disciples came and took away the body
and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Feeding theFive Thousand
13eW hen Jesus heard it, He departed

from there by boat to a deserted place by
Himself. But when the multitudes heard
it, they followed Him on foot from the cities. 14 And when Jesus went out He saw a
great multitude; and He f was moved with
compassion for them, and healed their
sick. 15gWhen it was evening, His disciples
came to Him, saying, This is a deserted
place, and the hour is already late. Send the
multitudes away, that they may go into the
villages and buy themselves food.
16 But Jesus said to them, They do not
need to go away. You give them something
to eat.
17And they said to Him, We have here
only five loaves and two fish.
18 He said, Bring them here to Me.
19T hen He commanded the multitudes to
sit down on the grass. And He took the
five loaves and the two fish, and looking
up to heaven, h He blessed and broke and
gave the loaves to the disciples; and the
disciples gave to the multitudes. 20So they
all ate and were filled, and they took up
twelve baskets full of the fragments that
remained. 21Now those who had eaten were
*13:51 NU-Text omits Jesus said to them.NU-

Text omits Lord. *13:52 Or for *13:55 NU-Text
reads Joseph.
John had rebuked the king for his moral transgressions.

13:46pProv. 2:4; 3:14, 15; 8:10, 19 13:47qMatt. 22:9, 10
13:49rMatt. 25:32 13:52sSong 7:13 13:54tLuke
4:16 13:55uJohn 6:42 vMatt. 12:46 wMark 15:40
13:57xMatt. 11:6 yLuke 4:24 13:58zMark 6:5, 6
14:1aMark 6:1429 14:3bLuke 3:19, 20 14:4cLev.
18:16; 20:21 14:5dLuke 20:6 14:13eJohn 6:1, 2
14:14fMark 6:34 14:15gLuke 9:12 14:19hMatt.
15:36; 26:26
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 15:14 1071
about five thousand men, besides women
and children.
Jesus Walks ontheSea

22 Immediately
Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him
to the other side, while He sent the multitudes away. 23i And when He had sent
the multitudes away, He went up on the
mountain by Himself to pray. jNow when
evening came, He was alone there. 24 But
the boat was now in the middle of the sea,*
tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.
25Now in the fourth watch of the night
Jesus went to them, walking on the
sea. 26 And when the disciples saw Him
kwalking on the sea, they were troubled,
saying, It is a ghost! And they cried out
for fear.
27But immediately Jesus spoke to them,
saying, Be of good lcheer! It is I; do not
be afraid.
28 And Peter answered Him and said,
Lord, if it is You, command me to come to
You on the water.
29 So He said, Come. And when Peter
had come down out of the boat, he walked
on the water to go to Jesus. 30But when he
saw that the wind was boisterous,* he was
afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out,
saying, Lord, save me!
31 And immediately Jesus stretched out
His hand and caught him, and said to him,
O you of mlittle faith, why did you doubt?
32 And when they got into the boat, the wind
ceased.
33T hen those who were in the boat came
and* worshiped Him, saying, Truly nYou
are the Son of God.
Many Touch Him and Are Made

Well
34oW hen they had crossed over, they

came to the land of* Gennesaret. 35And
when the men of that place recognized
Him, they sent out into all that surrounding region, brought to Him all who were
sick, 36 and begged Him that they might
only ptouch the hem of His garment. And
qas many as touched it were made perfectly well.
14:25 the fourth watch. This would be between 3:00

and 6:00 a.m.
15:2 the tradition of the elders. This was not the law
of Moses, but oral tradition, based on interpretations
of the law.
15:3 tradition. The scribes and Pharisees were placing their own views above the revelation of God, and
yet claimed to be following Him.
15:7 Hypocrites. The Pharisees had laid down many
rigid and inflexible laws concerning diet, Sabbath
day activities, ceremonial washings, and many other
traditions. Not only did this reduce spiritual service
to a harsh system of dos and donts, it also caused
Defilement Comes fromWithin
Then the scribes and Pharisees who

15
were from Jerusalem came to Jesus,
saying, Why do Your disciples transa
2b
gress the tradition of the elders? For they

do not wash their hands when they eat
bread.
3He answered and said to them, Why
do you also transgress the commandment
of God because of your tradition? 4For God
commanded, saying, cHonor your father
and your mother;* and, d He who curses
father or mother, let him be put to death. *
5But you say, Whoever says to his father or
mother, eWhatever profit you might have
received from me is a gift to God6 then
he need not honor his father or mother.*
Thus you have made the commandment* of
God of no effect by your tradition. 7fHypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you,
saying:
Theseg people draw near to Me with

their mouth,
And* honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far fromMe.
9 And in vain they worship Me,
hTeaching as doctrines the
commandments of men. *
8
10iW hen He had called the multitude to

Himself, He said to them, Hear and understand: 11jNot what goes into the mouth
defiles a man; but what comes out of the
mouth, this defiles a man.
12T hen His disciples came and said to
Him, Do You know that the Pharisees
were offended when they heard this saying?
13 But He answered and said, k Every
plant which My heavenly Father has not
planted will be uprooted. 14Let them alone.
lT hey are blind leaders of the blind. And
if the blind leads the blind, both will fall
into a ditch.
*14:24 NU-Text reads many furlongs away

from the land. *14:30 NU-Text brackets that
and boisterous as disputed. *14:33 NU-Text
omits came and. *14:34 NU-Text reads came
to land at. *15:4 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy
5:16Exodus 21:17 *15:6 NU-Text omits or
mother.NU-Text reads word. *15:8 NU-Text
omits draw near to Me with their mouth, And.
*15:9 Isaiah 29:13
everyone, Pharisees included, to look for loopholes of

escape from the burden of so many laws and rules.
The ultimate outcome was religious hypocrisy. Christ
came both to fulfill the law (5:1718) and also to free
us from its penalty (Gal. 3:13).
14:23iMark 6:46 jJohn 6:16 14:26kJob 9:8
14:27lActs 23:11; 27:22, 25, 36 14:31mMatt. 6:30; 8:26
14:33nPs. 2:7 14:34oMark 6:53 14:36p[Mark
5:2434] q[Luke 6:19] 15:1aMark 7:1 15:2bMark
7:5 15:4c[Deut. 5:16] dEx. 21:17 15:5eMark 7:11, 12
15:7fMark 7:6 15:8gPs. 78:36; Is. 29:13 15:9h[Col.
2:1822] 15:10iMark 7:14 15:11j[Acts 10:15]
15:13k[John 15:2] 15:14lLuke 6:39
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1072 Matthew 15:15
15mT hen Peter answered and said to
Him, Explain this parable to us.
16 So Jesus said, nAre you also still
without understanding? 17Do you not
yet understand that owhatever enters
the mouth goes into the stomach and is
eliminated? 18 But pt hose things which
proceed out of the mouth come from
the heart, and they defile a man. 19qFor
out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false witness, blasphemies. 20T hese are
the things which defile a man, but to
eat with unwashed hands does not defile
a man.
they saw the mute speaking, the maimed

made whole, the lame walking, and the
blind seeing; and they aglorified the God
of Israel.
Feeding theFour Thousand
32b Now Jesus called His disciples to

Himself and said, I have compassion on
the multitude, because they have now
continued with Me three days and have
nothing to eat. And I do not want to send
them away hungry, lest they faint on the
way.
33cThen His disciples said to Him,
Where could we get enough bread in
the wilderness to fill such a great multitude?
A Gentile Shows Her Faith
34 Jesus said to them, How many loaves
21rT hen Jesus went out from there and
departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. do you have?
And they said, Seven, and a few little
22 And behold, a woman of Canaan came
fish.
from that region and cried out to Him,
35 So He commanded the multitude to
saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, sSon sit down on the ground. 36 And d He took
of David! My daughter is severely demon- the seven loaves and the fish and egave
possessed.
thanks, broke them and gave them to His
23But He answered her not a word.
disciples; and the disciples gave to the mulAnd His disciples came and urged Him, titude. 37So they all ate and were filled, and
saying, Send her away, for she cries out they took up seven large baskets full of the
after us.
fragments that were left. 38Now those who
24 But He answered and said, tI was not
ate were four thousand men, besides womsent except to the lost sheep of the house en and children. 39fAnd He sent away the
of Israel.
multitude, got into the boat, and came to
25T hen she came and worshiped Him,
the region of Magdala.*
saying, Lord, help me!
26 But He answered and said, It is not
The Pharisees and Sadducees Seek
good to take the childrens bread and throw a Sign
it to the little udogs.
Then the a Pharisees and Sadducees
27And she said, Yes, Lord, yet even the
came, and testing Him asked that
little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from
He would show them a sign from heaven.
their masters table.
2He answered and said to them, When it
28T hen Jesus answered and said to her,
is evening you say, It will be fair weather,
O woman, vgreat is your faith! Let it be to for the sky is red; 3and in the morning, It
you as you desire. And her daughter was will be foul weather today, for the sky is red
healed from that very hour.
and threatening. Hypocrites!* You know
how to discern the face of the sky, but you
Jesus Heals Great Multitudes
cannot discern the signs of the times. 4bA
29wJesus departed from there, x skirted
wicked and adulterous generation seeks
the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it
mountain and sat down there. 30yT hen except the sign of the prophet* Jonah. And
great multitudes came to Him, hav- He left them and departed.
ing with them the lame, blind, mute,
maimed, and many others; and they laid *15:39 NU-Text reads Magadan. *16:3 NU-Text
them down at Jesus zfeet, and He healed omits Hypocrites. *16:4 NU-Text omits the
them. 31So the multitude marveled when prophet.
16
15:18 come from the heart. As we think in our hearts,

or inner beings, so we are. The raw material of our
actions is what we take into our minds and allow to
settle in our hearts. David put it this way: Your word
I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against
You (Ps. 119:11). The other side is seen in Psalm 101:3
I will set nothing wicked before my eyes. Paul says
the believer must bring every thought into captivity
to the obedience of Christ (2Cor. 10:5).
15:22 Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David. The
woman was a Gentile who would have had no natural
claim on the Jewish Messiah.
15:31 glorified the God of Israel. The Gentiles

believed and glorified Israels God, while many in Israel remained blind to their Messiah.
15:15mMark 7:17 15:16nMatt. 16:9 15:17o[1Cor.
6:13] 15:18p[James 3:6] 15:19qProv. 6:14
15:21rMark 7:2430 15:22sMatt. 1:1; 22:41, 42
15:24tMatt. 10:5, 6 15:26uMatt. 7:6 15:28vLuke
7:9 15:29wMark 7:3137 xMatt. 4:18 15:30yIs.
35:5, 6 zLuke 7:38; 8:41; 10:39 15:31aLuke 5:25, 26;
19:37, 38 15:32bMark 8:110 15:33c2Kin. 4:43
15:36dMatt. 14:19; 26:27 eLuke 22:19 15:39fMark
8:10 16:1aMark 8:11 16:4bMatt. 12:39
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 16:28 1073
The Leaven ofthePharisees and

Sadducees
5Now cwhen His disciples had come to

the other side, they had forgotten to take
bread. 6T hen Jesus said to them, d Take
heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
7And they reasoned among themselves,
saying, It is because we have taken no
bread.
8 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to
them, O you of little faith, why do you
reason among yourselves because you
have brought no bread?* 9eDo you not yet
understand, or remember the five loaves
of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? 10fNor the seven loaves
of the four thousand and how many large
baskets you took up? 11How is it you do
not understand that I did not speak to you
concerning bread?but to beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
12T hen they understood that He did not
tell them to beware of the leaven of bread,
but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and
Sadducees.
Peter Confesses Jesus as theChrist
13W hen Jesus came into the region of

Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples,
saying, gWho do men say that I, the Son
of Man, am?
14So they said, h Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or
ione of the prophets.
15He said to them, But who do j you say
that I am?
16 Simon Peter answered and said, k You
are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17Jesus answered and said to him,
Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, l for
flesh and blood has not revealed this to
you, but m My Father who is in heaven.
18 And I also say to you that nyou are Peter,
and oon this rock I will build My church,
and pthe gates of Hades shall not prevail
16:1112 leaven. In Scripture, leaven is often used

as a symbol of evil. The doctrine of the Pharisees
and Sadducees was hypocrisy and legalism, political
opportunism, and spiritual hardness.
16:16 ChurchPeters confession You are the
Christ, the Son of the living God is the foundation on
which the church is built. Never mind how small the
apostolic band may be, the church is indestructible,
and with unsurpassed power overcomes Satan and
cannot be overcome. The power comes from God,
the Creator of the universe, Owner and Master of the
church. All the church has is derived from and dependent on the Almighty Son of God.
16:18 The Origin of the ChurchThe church was a
mystery (not clearly revealed) in the Old Testament.
Christ prophesied in these words spoken to Peter, on
this rock I will build My church. There is a play here
on the word rock, which also happens to be Peters
name. Jesus said, you are Peter (masculine, petros)
and on this rock (feminine, petra) I will build My
against it. 19qAnd I will give you the keys of

the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you
bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and
whatever you loose on earth will be loosed*
in heaven.
20rT hen He commanded His disciples
that they should tell no one that He was
Jesus the Christ.
Jesus Predicts His Death and

Resurrection
21From that time Jesus began sto show to

His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem,
and suffer many things from the elders and
chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and
be raised the third day.
22T hen Peter took Him aside and began
to rebuke Him, saying, Far be it from You,
Lord; this shall not happen to You!
23But He turned and said to Peter, Get
behind Me, tSatan! uYou are an offense to
Me, for you are not mindful of the things of
God, but the things of men.
Take Up theCross and Follow Him
24vT hen Jesus said to His disciples,

If anyone desires to come after Me, let
him deny himself, and take up his cross,
and wfollow Me. 25For xwhoever desires
to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find
it. 26 For what yprofit is it to a man if he
gains the whole world, and loses his own
soul? Or zwhat will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27For a the Son of
Man will come in the glory of His Father
bw ith His angels, c and then He will reward each according to his works. 28 Assuredly, I say to you, d there are some
standing here who shall not taste death
till they see the Son of Man coming in His
kingdom.
*16:8 NU-Text reads you have no bread.

*16:19 Or will have been bound will have been
loosed
church. The Holy Spirit came upon the church on the

Day of Pentecost in response to Peters sermon when
three thousand souls were added to them (Acts
2:41). This group, along with the original disciples,
became the church.
16:28 not taste death. In the transfiguration, Peter,
James, and John saw a preview of the kingdom. Jesus
was explaining that very soon those three disciples
would see Him glorified as He will be in the kingdom.
16:5cMark 8:14 16:6dLuke 12:1 16:9eMatt.
14:1521 16:10fMatt. 15:3238 16:13gLuke
9:18 16:14hMatt. 14:2 iMatt. 21:11 16:15jJohn 6:67
16:16kActs 8:37; 9:20 16:17l[Eph. 2:8] mGal. 1:16
16:18nJohn 1:42 o[Eph. 2:20] pIs. 38:10 16:19qMatt.
18:18 16:20rLuke 9:21 16:21sLuke 9:22; 18:31;
24:46 16:23tMatt. 4:10 u[Rom. 8:7] 16:24v[2Tim.
3:12] w[1Pet. 2:21] 16:25xJohn 12:25 16:26yLuke
12:20, 21 zPs. 49:7, 8 16:27aMark 8:38 b[Dan. 7:10]
cRom. 2:6 16:28dLuke 9:27
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1074 Matthew 17:1
Jesus Transfigured ontheMount
17
Now aafter six days Jesus took Peter,

James, and John his brother, led them
up on a high mountain by themselves; 2and
He was transfigured before them. His face
shone like the sun, and His clothes became
as white as the light. 3And behold, Moses
and Elijah appeared to them, talking with
Him. 4T hen Peter answered and said to
Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here; if
You wish, let us* make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one
for Elijah.
5bW hile he was still speaking, behold, a
bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, cThis is My beloved Son, d in whom
I am well pleased. eHear Him! 6fAnd
when the disciples heard it, they fell on
their faces and were greatly afraid. 7But
Jesus came and gtouched them and said,
Arise, and do not be afraid. 8W hen they
had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one
but Jesus only.
9 Now as they came down from the
mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, Tell the vision to no one until the Son
of Man is risen from the dead.
10And His disciples asked Him, saying,
h Why then do the scribes say that Elijah
must come first?
11Jesus answered and said to them,
Indeed, Elijah is coming first* and will
i restore all things. 12jBut I say to you that
Elijah has come already, and they kdid not
know him but did to him whatever they
wished. Likewise l the Son of Man is also
about to suffer at their hands. 13mThen the
disciples understood that He spoke to them
of John the Baptist.
A Boy Is Healed
14n And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down
to Him and saying, 15Lord, have mercy on
my son, for he is an epileptic* and suffers
severely; for he often falls into the fire and
often into the water. 16 So I brought him
to Your disciples, but they could not cure
him.
17T hen Jesus answered and said, O
faithless and operverse generation, how
17:3 Moses and Elijah. This amazing experience was

not only to show the disciples that Jesus was Gods
Son, but also to show them that He supersedes the
law and the prophets and that they were subordinate
to Him. It also explained that what Jesus was doing
was no mystery to the Old Testament. The Old Testament people had been long looking forward to the
Messiah and His kingdom.
17:1113 Elijah. Jesus indicates that the prophecies
concerning Elijah had their fulfillment in John the
Baptist, yet because the restoration is not complete,
many conclude that the role of Elijah will be taken up
by one of the two witnesses of Revelation 11:36.
17:24 temple tax. This was a tax given annually by
long shall I be with you? How long shall

I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.
18 And Jesus prebuked the demon, and it
came out of him; and the child was cured
from that very hour.
19T hen the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, Why could we not cast it
out?
20 So Jesus said to them, Because of
your unbelief;* for assuredly, I say to you,
qif you have faith as a mustard seed, you
will say to this mountain, Move from here
to there, and it will move; and nothing
will be impossible for you. 21However, this
kind does not go out except by prayer and
fasting.*
Jesus AgainPredicts His Death and

Resurrection
22rNow while they were staying* in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of Man
is about to be betrayed into the hands of
men, 23and they will kill Him, and the third
day He will be raised up. And they were
exceedingly ssorrowful.
Peter and His Master Pay Their Taxes
24tW hen they had come to Capernaum,*

those who received the temple tax came to
Peter and said, Does your Teacher not pay
the temple tax?
25He said, Yes.
And when he had come into the house,
Jesus anticipated him, saying, What do
you think, Simon? From whom do the
kings of the earth take customs or taxes,
from their sons or from ustrangers?
26Peter said to Him, From strangers.
Jesus said to him, Then the sons are
free. 27Nevertheless, lest we offend them,
go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the
fish that comes up first. And when you
have opened its mouth, you will find a
piece of money;* take that and give it to
them for Me and you.
*17:4 NU-Text reads I will. *17:11 NU-Text omits

first. *17:15 Literally moonstruck *17:20 NU-
Text reads little faith. *17:21 NU-Text omits this
verse. *17:22 NU-Text reads gathering together.
*17:24 NU-Text reads Capharnaum (here and elsewhere). *17:27 Greek stater, the exact amount to
pay the temple tax (didrachma) for two.
every adult Jewish male over 20 years of age for maintaining the temple. It was based on Exodus 30:13, and
amounted to two days wages for a common laborer.
17:25 strangers. Most likely this means the king taxed
the common people and not the imperial family.
17:1aMark 9:28 17:5b2Pet. 1:17 cMark 1:11
dMatt. 3:17; 12:18 e[Deut. 18:15, 19] 17:6f2Pet.
1:18 17:7gDan. 8:18 17:10hMal. 4:5 17:11i[Mal.
4:6] 17:12jMark 9:12, 13 kMatt. 14:3, 10 lMatt.
16:21 17:13mMatt. 11:14 17:14nMark 9:1428
17:17oPhil. 2:15 17:18pLuke 4:41 17:20qLuke
17:6 17:22rMark 8:31 17:23sJohn 16:6; 19:30
17:24tMark 9:33 17:25u[Is. 60:1017]
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 18:25 1075
Who Is theGreatest?
18
At athat time the disciples came to

Jesus, saying, Who then is greatest
in the kingdom of heaven?
2T hen Jesus called a little bchild to Him,
set him in the midst of them, 3 and said,
Assuredly, I say to you, cunless you are
converted and become as little children,
you will by no means enter the kingdom
of heaven. 4dT herefore whoever humbles
himself as this little child is the greatest
in the kingdom of heaven. 5eW hoever receives one little child like this in My name
receivesMe.
Jesus Warns ofOffenses
6f Whoever causes one of these little

ones who believe in Me to sin, it would
be better for him if a millstone were hung
around his neck, and he were drowned in
the depth of the sea. 7Woe to the world because of offenses! For goffenses must come,
but hwoe to that man by whom the offense
comes!
8i If your hand or foot causes you to sin,
cut it off and cast it from you. It is better
for you to enter into life lame or maimed,
rather than having two hands or two feet,
to be cast into the everlasting fire. 9And if
your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and
cast it from you. It is better for you to enter
into life with one eye, rather than having
two eyes, to be cast into hell fire.
The Parable oftheLost Sheep
10Take heed that you do not despise one

of these little ones, for I say to you that in
heaven j their angels always ksee the face
of My Father who is in heaven. 11l For the
Son of Man has come to save that which
was lost.*
12mWhat do you think? If a man has
a hundred sheep, and one of them goes
astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine
and go to the mountains to seek the one
that is straying? 13And if he should find
it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more
18:3 converted. To be converted means to turn

around, to take a different course (Luke 22:32).
18:10 their angels. This verse seems to imply that
angels watch over and serve His followers on earth
(Heb. 1:14).
18:16 two or three witnesses. The principle of witnesses is taken from Deuteronomy 19:15. Evidently,
in this case they are to witness that the offended
brother is acting in good faith and the right spirit
in attempting to work towards reconciliation. They
would also be witnesses to any agreement.
18:17 church. Unfortunately discipline has sometimes been reduced to a merely negative concept. To
be sure, discipline includes the notion of punishment
and correction, but church discipline in this context
clearly has the restoration of the offender in view.
Severe measures may sometimes need to be taken
with an erring brother or sister, but restoration and
reconciliation should always be the goal.
over that sheep than over the ninety-nine

that did not go astray. 14 Even so it is not
the nwill of your Father who is in heaven
that one of these little ones should perish.
Dealing witha Sinning Brother
15Moreover oif your brother sins against

you, go and tell him his fault between you
and him alone. If he hears you, pyou have
gained your brother. 16But if he will not
hear, take with you one or two more, that
qby the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established. * 17And
if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the
church. But if he refuses even to hear the
church, let him be to you like a rheathen
and a tax collector.
18 Assuredly, I say to you, swhatever you
bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and
whatever you loose on earth will be loosed
in heaven.
19tAgain I say* to you that if two of you
agree on earth concerning anything that
they ask, u it will be done for them by My
Father in heaven. 20For where two or three
are gathered vtogether in My name, I am
there in the midst of them.
The Parable oftheUnforgiving

Servant
21T hen Peter came to Him and said,

Lord, how often shall my brother sin
against me, and I forgive him? wUp to seven times?
22 Jesus said to him, I do not say to you,
xup to seven times, but up to seventy times
seven. 23Therefore the kingdom of heaven
is like a certain king who wanted to settle
accounts with his servants. 24 And when
he had begun to settle accounts, one was
brought to him who owed him ten thousand
talents. 25But as he was not able to pay, his
master commanded ythat he be sold, with
*18:11 NU-Text omits this verse. *18:16 Deuteronomy 19:15 *18:19 NU-Text and M-Text read
Again, assuredly, I say.
18:22 seventy times seven. Some translations say

seventy-seven times. Whichever number is used,
the point is the same: be ready to forgive over and
over again, past counting. This verse does not only
apply to forgiveness for seventy times seven different
sins. Sometimes, we may have to consciously decide
to forgive and let go of an old hurt again and again,
seventy times seven.
18:1aLuke 9:4648; 22:2427 18:2bMatt.
19:14 18:3cLuke 18:16 18:4d[Matt. 20:27; 23:11]
18:5e[Matt. 10:42] 18:6fMark 9:42 18:7g[1Cor.
11:19] hMatt. 26:24; 27:4, 5 18:8iMatt. 5:29,
30 18:10j[Heb. 1:14] kLuke 1:19 18:11lLuke
9:56 18:12mLuke 15:47 18:14n[1Tim. 2:4]
18:15oLev. 19:17 p[James 5:20] 18:16qDeut.
17:6; 19:15 18:17r[2Thess. 3:6, 14] 18:18s[John
20:22, 23] 18:19t[1Cor. 1:10] u[1John 3:22; 5:14]
18:20vActs 20:7 18:21wLuke 17:4 18:22xCol. 3:13
18:25y2Kin. 4:1
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1076 Matthew 18:26
his wife and children and all that he had,
and that payment be made. 26The servant
therefore fell down before him, saying,
Master, have patience with me, and I will
pay you all. 27Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released
him, and forgave him the debt.
28 But that servant went out and found
one of his fellow servants who owed him
a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on
him and took him by the throat, saying,
Pay me what you owe! 29So his fellow servant fell down at his feet* and begged him,
saying, Have patience with me, and I will
pay you all.* 30And he would not, but went
and threw him into prison till he should
pay the debt. 31So when his fellow servants
saw what had been done, they were very
grieved, and came and told their master
all that had been done. 32Then his master,
after he had called him, said to him, You
wicked servant! I forgave you zall that debt
because you begged me. 33Should you not
also have had compassion on your fellow
servant, just as I had pity on you? 34 And
his master was angry, and delivered him
to the torturers until he should pay all that
was due to him.
35aSo My heavenly Father also will do to
you if each of you, from his heart, does not
forgive his brother his trespasses.*
Marriage and Divorce
Now it came to pass, when Jesus had

19
finished these sayings, that He departed from Galilee and came to the region
a
of Judea beyond the Jordan. 2bAnd great

multitudes followed Him, and He healed
them there.
3T he Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, Is it lawful
for a man to divorce his wife for just any
reason?
4 And He answered and said to them,
Have you not read that He who made*
them at the beginning cmade them male
and female, * 5and said, d For this reason a
man shall leave his father and mother and
be joined to his wife, and ethe two shall become one flesh ?* 6So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God
has joined together, let not man separate.
18:35 forgive. This verse is a serious warning (1John
4:20).
19:9 divorces his wife. When the Pharisees asked
Jesus if divorce could ever be considered lawful, He
did not fall into their trap. He took them back to Genesis and Gods original intent in marriage, one man
and one woman for life (vv. 45; Gen. 1:27; 2:24). In
spite of the exception clause, one thing is surely
clear: God hates divorce (Mal. 2:1516). Marriage is a
divine arrangement that is intended to be permanent
and inviolable. Straying from Gods path always has
tragic consequences.
19:12 eunuchs. The term eunuch refers to a castrated man, whether by surgery, accident, or birth.
7T hey said to Him, f Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?
8He said to them, Moses, because of the
ghardness of your hearts, permitted you to
divorce your hwives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9i And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual
immorality,* and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her
who is divorced commits adultery.
10 His disciples said to Him, j If such is
the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.
Jesus Teaches onCelibacy
11But He said to them, k All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom
it has been given: 12For there are eunuchs
who were born thus from their mothers
womb, and l there are eunuchs who were
made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs
for the kingdom of heavens sake. He who
is able to accept it, let him accept it.
Jesus Blesses Little Children
13mT hen little children were brought to

Him that He might put His hands on them
and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.
14But Jesus said, Let the little children come
to Me, and do not forbid them; for nof such is
the kingdom of heaven. 15And He laid His
hands on them and departed from there.
Jesus Counsels theRich Young

Ruler
16oNow behold, one came and said to

Him, pGood* Teacher, what good thing
shall I do that I may have eternal life?
17So He said to him, Why do you call
Me good?* No one is qgood but One, that
is, God.* But if you want to enter into life,
rkeep the commandments.
18He said to Him, Which ones?
*18:29 NU-Text omits at his feet.NU-Text and

M-Text omit all. *18:35 NU-Text omits his trespasses. *19:4 NU-Text reads created.Genesis
1:27; 5:2 *19:5 Genesis 2:24 *19:9 Or fornication *19:16 NU-Text omits Good. *19:17 NU-
Text reads Why do you ask Me about what is
good?NU-Text reads There is One who is good.
In the ancient world, eunuchs were put in charge of

harems, because they had the physical strength and
endurance of a man, but would not be a sexual threat
to the women of the harem.
18:32zLuke 7:4143 18:35aJames 2:13 19:1aMark

10:112 19:2bMatt. 12:15 19:4cGen. 1:27;
5:2 19:5dGen. 2:24 e[1Cor. 6:16; 7:2] 19:7fDeut.
24:14 19:8gHeb. 3:15 hMal. 2:16 19:9i[Matt.
5:32] 19:10j[Prov. 21:19] 19:11k[1Cor. 7:2, 7,
9, 17] 19:12l[1Cor. 7:32] 19:13mLuke 18:15
19:14nMatt. 18:3, 4 19:16oMark 10:1730 pLuke
10:25 19:17qNah. 1:7 rLev. 18:5
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 20:16 1077
Jesus said, sYou shall not murder, You
shall not commit adultery, You shall not
steal, You shall not bear false witness,
19tHonor your father and your mother, *
and, uYou shall love your neighbor as
yourself. *
20T he young man said to Him, All these
things I have vkept from my youth.* What
do I still lack?
21Jesus said to him, If you want to be
perfect, wgo, sell what you have and give
to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven; and come, follow Me.
22 But when the young man heard that
saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had
great possessions.
With God All Things Are Possible
23T hen Jesus said to His disciples, Assuredly, I say to you that xit is hard for a
rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter the kingdom
of God.
25W hen His disciples heard it, they were
greatly astonished, saying, Who then can
be saved?
26 But Jesus looked at them and said to
them, With men this is impossible, but
ywith God all things are possible.
27T hen Peter answered and said to Him,
See, zwe have left all and followed You.
Therefore what shall we have?
28 So Jesus said to them, Assuredly I say
to you, that in the regeneration, when the
Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory,
ayou who have followed Me will also sit on
twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel. 29bAnd everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother
or wife* or children or lands, for My names
sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. 30cBut many who are first
will be last, and the last first.
the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 Now when he had agreed with
the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent
them into his vineyard. 3 And he went
out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
4 and said to them, You also go into the
vineyard, and whatever is right I will
give you. So they went. 5Again he went
out about the sixth and the ninth hour,
and did likewise. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others
standing idle,* and said to them, Why
have you been standing here idle all day?
7T hey said to him, Because no one hired
us. He said to them, You also go into the
vineyard, and whatever is right you will
receive.*
8 So when evening had come, the
owner of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the laborers and give them
their wages, beginning with the last to
the first. 9And when those came who
were hired about the eleventh hour,
they each received a denarius. 10 But
when the first came, they supposed that
they would receive more; and they likewise received each a denarius. 11 And
when they had received it, they complained against the landowner, 12 saying, These last men have worked only
one hour, and you made them equal to
us who have borne the burden and the
heat of the day. 13But he answered one
of them and said, Friend, I am doing you
no wrong. Did you not agree with me for
a denarius? 14Take what is yours and go
your way. I wish to give to this last man
the same as to you. 15a Is it not lawful for
me to do what I wish with my own things?
Or bis your eye evil because I am good?
16cSo the last will be first, and the first last.
d For many are called, but few chosen.*
The Parable oftheWorkers

intheVineyard

Leviticus 19:18 *19:20 NU-Text omits from
my youth. *19:29 NU-Text omits or wife.
*20:6 NU-Text omits idle. *20:7 NU-Text omits
the last clause of this verse. *20:16 NU-Text
omits the last sentence of this verse.
19:21 sell what you have. This verse does not teach
salvation by works (Rom. 3:23
24; Eph. 2:8
9).
Rather, Jesus was proving that the rich young man
could not have truly fulfilled all of the law of Moses. If
he really loved his neighbor as the law required (Lev.
19:18), he would not have had any difficulty in giving
away his wealth to the poor.
19:2324 it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom. The point of this seems to be that fear of losing
ones wealth can hold a person back to the extent
that they will never become saved at all. One of the
things that goes with being saved is saying, Gods
way, not my way.
20:3 third hour. This was about 9:00 a.m.
20:5 the sixth and the ninth hour. This was about
noon and about 3:00 p.m.
20:6 the eleventh hour. This was about 5:00 p.m.

There would be only an hour or so left in the working
day.
20:16 the last will be first. The workers who were
collected without an agreement represent the Gentiles who are made equal with the Jewish people
when salvation became available to all through Jesus
Christ (Rom. 11:15; Eph. 2:1315; 3:6).
the kingdom of heaven is like

20 For
a landowner who went out early in
19:18sEx. 20:1316 19:19tEx. 20:1216; Deut. 5:1620

uLev. 19:18 19:20v[Phil. 3:6, 7] 19:21wActs 2:45;
4:34, 35 19:23x[1Tim. 6:9] 19:26yJer. 32:17
19:27zDeut. 33:9 19:28aLuke 22:2830
19:29bMark 10:29, 30 19:30cLuke 13:30
20:15a[Rom. 9:20, 21] bDeut. 15:9 20:16cMatt. 19:30
dMatt. 22:14
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1078 Matthew 20:17
Jesus a Third Time Predicts His

Death and Resurrection
17eNow Jesus, going up to Jerusalem,

took the twelve disciples aside on the road
and said to them, 18f Behold, we are going
up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will
be betrayed to the chief priests and to the
scribes; and they will condemn Him to
death, 19gand deliver Him to the Gentiles to
h mock and to iscourge and to jcrucify. And
the third day He will krise again.
Greatness Is Serving
20lT hen the mother of m Zebedees sons

came to Him with her sons, kneeling down
and asking something from Him.
21 And He said to her, What do you
wish?
She said to Him, Grant that these two
sons of mine n may sit, one on Your right
hand and the other on the left, in Your
kingdom.
22 But Jesus answered and said, You
do not know what you ask. Are you able
to drink othe cup that I am about to drink,
and be baptized with pthe baptism that I
am baptized with?*
They said to Him, We are able.
23So He said to them, qYou will indeed
drink My cup, and be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with;* but to
sit on My right hand and on My left is not
Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it
is prepared by My Father.
24rAnd when the ten heard it, they were
greatly displeased with the two brothers.
25But Jesus called them to Himself and
said, You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are
great exercise authority over them. 26Yet
sit shall not be so among you; but twhoever
desires to become great among you, let him
be your servant. 27u And whoever desires to
be first among you, let him be your slave
28vjust as the wSon of Man did not come to
be served, xbut to serve, and yto give His
life a ransom zfor many.
Two Blind Men Receive Their Sight

29a Now
as they went out of Jericho, a

great multitude followed Him. 30And beb
hold, t wo blind men sitting by the road,
when they heard that Jesus was passing
20:2627 whosoever desires to become great. The
measure of greatness is not position, power, or prestige. It is service.
21:2 a donkey tied. This was prophesied in Zechariah
9:9.
21:9 Hosanna. Hosanna literally means save now.
The people were using it as an exclamation of joyous
praise, but also they expected the Messiah to save
them from the oppression of the Romans.
by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O

Lord, cSon of David!
31T hen the multitude d warned them that
they should be quiet; but they cried out all
the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O
Lord, Son of David!
32 So Jesus stood still and called them,
and said, What do you want Me to do for
you?
33T hey said to Him, Lord, that our eyes
may be opened. 34So Jesus had ecompassion and touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they
followed Him.
The Triumphal Entry
Now when they drew near Jerusa21

lem, and came to Bethphage,* at the
Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two discia
ples, 2 saying to them, Go into the village

opposite you, and immediately you will
find a donkey tied, and a colt with her.
Loose them and bring them to Me. 3And if
anyone says anything to you, you shall say,
The Lord has need of them, and immediately he will send them.
4 All* this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,
saying:
Tellc the daughter of Zion,

Behold, your King is coming to you,
Lowly, and sitting on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.*
6dSo the disciples went and did as Jesus
commanded them. 7They brought the
donkey and the colt, elaid their clothes on
them, and set Him* on them. 8And a very
great multitude spread their clothes on the
road; f others cut down branches from the
trees and spread them on the road. 9Then
the multitudes who went before and those
who followed cried out, saying:
Hosanna to the Son of David!
gBlessed is He who comes in the name
of the Lord! *
Hosanna in the highest!
5
*20:22 NU-Text omits and be baptized with the

baptism that I am baptized with. *20:23 NU-
Text omits and be baptized with the baptism that
I am baptized with. *21:1 M-Text reads Bethsphage. *21:4 NU-Text omits All. *21:5 Zechariah 9:9 *21:7 NU-Text reads and He sat.
*21:9 Psalm 118:26
20:17eMark 10:3234 20:18fMatt. 16:21; 26:4757

20:19gMatt. 27:2 hMatt. 26:67, 68; 27:29, 41 iMatt. 27:26
jActs 3:1315 kMatt. 28:5, 6 20:20lMark 10:3545
mMatt. 4:21; 10:2 20:21n[Matt. 19:28] 20:22oLuke
22:42 pLuke 12:50 20:23q[Acts 12:2] 20:24rMark
10:41 20:26s[1Pet. 5:3] tMatt. 23:11 20:27u[Matt.
18:4] 20:28vJohn 13:4 w[Phil. 2:6, 7] xLuke 22:27
y[Is. 53:10, 11] z[Rom. 5:15, 19] 20:29aMark 10:4652
20:30bMatt. 9:27 c[Ezek. 37:2125] 20:31dMatt.
19:13 20:34eMatt. 9:36; 14:14; 15:32; 18:27
21:1aLuke 19:2938 b[Zech. 14:4] 21:5cZech. 9:9
21:6dMark 11:4 21:7e2Kin. 9:13 21:8fLev. 23:40
21:9gPs. 118:26; Matt. 23:39
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 21:33 1079
10h And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who
is this?
11So the multitudes said, This is Jesus,
i the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.
Jesus Cleanses theTemple
12jT hen Jesus went into the temple of

God* and drove out all those who bought
and sold in the temple, and overturned
the tables of the kmoney changers and the
seats of those who sold doves. 13And He
said to them, It is written, l My house shall
be called a house of prayer, * but you have
made it a mden of thieves. *
14T hen the blind and the lame came to
Him in the temple, and He healed them.
15But when the chief priests and scribes
saw the wonderful things that He did, and
the children crying out in the temple and
saying, Hosanna to the nSon of David!
they were indignant 16and said to Him, Do
You hear what these are saying?
And Jesus said to them, Yes. Have you
never read,
oOut
of the mouth of babes and nursing

infants
You have perfected praise ?*
17T hen He left them and pwent out of the
city to Bethany, and He lodged there.
The Fig Tree Withered
18qNow in the morning, as He returned

to the city, He was hungry. 19rAnd seeing a
fig tree by the road, He came to it and found
nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, Let
no fruit grow on you ever again. Immediately the fig tree withered away.
The LessonoftheWithered
Fig Tree
20s And when the disciples saw it, they

marveled, saying, How did the fig tree
wither away so soon?
21So Jesus answered and said to them,
Assuredly, I say to you, tif you have faith
and udo not doubt, you will not only do
what was done to the fig tree, vbut also if
you say to this mountain, Be removed and
be cast into the sea, it will be done. 22And
wwhatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.
21:19 Immediately. This does not necessarily mean

instantly; it may have the idea of very soon as
in Luke 19:11. (The account of this miracle in Mark
11:1214,2021 indicates some time passing.)
21:21 faith. Few if any besides our Savior will reach
this kind of faith in its fullness. However, as each
believer approaches such faith in prayer, his effort
will be rewarded. Answers are always given, even to
the feeblest prayers of faith.
21:33 planted a vineyard. The owner of the vineyard
was God; the vinedressers were the people of Israel.
The servants represent Gods messengers, and the
son is Jesus the Messiah.
Jesus Authority Questioned
23x Now when He came into the temple,

the chief priests and the elders of the people confronted Him as He was teaching,
and ysaid, By what authority are You doing these things? And who gave You this
authority?
24 But Jesus answered and said to them,
I also will ask you one thing, which if you
tell Me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things: 25The zbaptism of
a Johnwhere was it from? From heaven or
from men?
And they reasoned among themselves,
saying, If we say, From heaven, He will
say to us, Why then did you not believe
him? 26 But if we say, From men, we
bfear the multitude, cfor all count John as
a prophet. 27So they answered Jesus and
said, We do not know.
And He said to them, Neither will I tell
you by what authority I do these things.
The Parable oftheTwo Sons
28 But what do you think? A man had

two sons, and he came to the first and said,
Son, go, work today in my d vineyard. 29He
answered and said, I will not, but afterward he regretted it and went. 30Then he
came to the second and said likewise. And
he answered and said, I go, sir, but he did
not go. 31W hich of the two did the will of
his father?
They said to Him, The first.
Jesus said to them, eAssuredly, I say to
you that tax collectors and harlots enter
the kingdom of God before you. 32For fJohn
came to you in the way of righteousness,
and you did not believe him; gbut tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when
you saw it, you did not afterward relent
and believe him.
The Parable oftheWicked

Vinedressers
33 Hear another parable: There was a

certain landowner hwho planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a
winepress in it and built a tower. And he
leased it to vinedressers and i went into
*21:12 NU-Text omits of God. *21:13 Isaiah

56:7Jeremiah 7:11 *21:16 Psalm 8:2
21:10hJohn 2:13, 15 21:11iJohn 6:14; 7:40;

9:17 21:12jMark 11:1518 kDeut. 14:25 21:13lIs.
56:7 mJer. 7:11 21:15nJohn 7:42 21:16oPs. 8:2
21:17pJohn 11:1, 18; 12:1 21:18qMark 11:1214, 2024
21:19rMark 11:13 21:20sMark 11:20 21:21tMatt.
17:20 uJames 1:6 v1Cor. 13:2 21:22wMatt. 7:711
21:23xLuke 20:18 yEx. 2:14 21:25z[John 1:2934]
aJohn 1:1528 21:26bMatt. 14:5; 21:46 cMark 6:20
21:28dMatt. 20:1; 21:33 21:31eLuke 7:29, 3750
21:32fLuke 3:112; 7:29 gLuke 3:12, 13 21:33hLuke
20:919 iMatt. 25:14
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1080 Matthew 21:34
a far country. 34 Now when vintage-time
drew near, he sent his servants to the
vinedressers, that they might receive its
fruit. 35jAnd the vinedressers took his
servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned
another. 36 Again he sent other servants,
more than the first, and they did likewise
to them. 37T hen last of all he sent his kson
to them, saying, They will respect my
son. 38But when the vinedressers saw the
son, they said among themselves, l This is
the heir. mCome, let us kill him and seize
his inheritance. 39nSo they took him and
cast him out of the vineyard and killed
him.
40 Therefore, when the owner of the
vineyard comes, what will he do to those
vinedressers?
41oT hey said to Him, pHe will destroy
those wicked men miserably, qand lease
his vineyard to other vinedressers who
will render to him the fruits in their seasons.
42 Jesus said to them, Have you never
read in the Scriptures:
rThe
stone which the builders rejected

Has become the chief cornerstone.
This was the Lords doing,
And it is marvelous in our eyes ?*
43 Therefore I say to you, sthe kingdom
of God will be taken from you and given
to a nation bearing the fruits of it. 44 And
twhoever falls on this stone will be broken;
but on whomever it falls, uit will grind him
to powder.
45Now when the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they perceived
that He was speaking of them. 46But when
they sought to lay hands on Him, they
vfeared the multitudes, because wthey took
Him for a prophet.
The Parable oftheWedding Feast
And Jesus answered and spoke to

22
them again by parables and said:
The kingdom of heaven is like a cera
tain king who arranged a marriage for

his son, 3 and sent out his servants to
call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
4 Again, he sent out other servants, saying,
Tell those who are invited, See, I have
21:42 cornerstone. The rejected stone was the Messiah, who became the head cornerstone, the one
holding the whole building together (Ps. 118:2223).
22:11 did not have on a wedding garment. Like the
others, this visitor had been invited to the wedding,
but he failed to prepare himself for it. In Revelation,
the garment of fine linen worn by the bride of the
Lamb is said to be the righteous deeds of the saints
(Rev. 19:8). In this parable the garment may refer to
the righteousness of Christ, graciously provided for
us through His death. To refuse to put it on would
mean a refusal of Christs sacrifice.
22:14 many are called, but few are chosen. All Israel
prepared my dinner; bmy oxen and fatted

cattle are killed, and all things are ready.
Come to the wedding. 5But they made
light of it and went their ways, one to his
own farm, another to his business. 6 And
the rest seized his servants, treated them
spitefully, and killed them. 7But when the
king heard about it, he was furious. And
he sent out chis armies, destroyed those
murderers, and burned up their city.
8T hen he said to his servants, The wedding is ready, but those who were invited
were not d worthy. 9T herefore go into the
highways, and as many as you find, invite
to the wedding. 10 So those servants went
out into the highways and egathered together all whom they found, both bad and
good. And the wedding hall was filled
with guests.
11But when the king came in to see the
guests, he saw a man there f who did not
have on a wedding garment. 12So he said
to him, Friend, how did you come in here
without a wedding garment? And he was
g speechless. 13T hen the king said to the
servants, Bind him hand and foot, take
him away, and* cast him hinto outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.
14i For many are called, but few are chosen.
The Pharisees: Is It Lawful toPay

Taxes toCaesar?
15jT hen the Pharisees went and plotted

how they might entangle Him in His talk.
16 And they sent to Him their disciples with
the kHerodians, saying, Teacher, we know
that You are true, and teach the way of God
in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for
You do not regard the person of men. 17Tell
us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
18But Jesus perceived their wickedness,
and said, Why do you test Me, you hypocrites? 19Show Me the tax money.
So they brought Him a denarius.
20And He said to them, Whose image
and inscription is this?
*21:42 Psalm 118:22, 23 *22:13 NU-Text omits

take him away, and.
has been invited, but only a few will accept and follow Jesus. Not all those invited will be among the
chosen of God, for not all will believe.
21:35j[1Thess. 2:15] 21:37k[John 3:16]
21:38l[Heb. 1:2] mJohn 11:53 21:39n[Acts
2:23] 21:41oLuke 20:16 p[Luke 21:24] q[Acts
13:46] 21:42rPs. 118:22, 23 21:43s[Matt. 8:12]
21:44tIs. 8:14, 15 u[Dan. 2:44] 21:46vMatt. 21:26
wMatt. 21:11 22:1a[Rev. 19:79] 22:4bProv. 9:2
22:7c[Dan. 9:26] 22:8dMatt. 10:11 22:10eMatt.
13:38, 47, 48 22:11f[Col. 3:10, 12] 22:12g[Rom.
3:19] 22:13hMatt. 8:12; 25:30 22:14iMatt. 20:16
22:15jMark 12:1317 22:16kMark 3:6; 8:15; 12:13
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 23:8 1081
21T hey said to Him, Caesars.
And He said to them, l Render therefore
to Caesar the things that are mCaesars,
and to God the things that are nGods.
22W hen they had heard these words, they
marveled, and left Him and went their way.
The Sadducees: What About

theResurrection?
23oT he
same day the Sadducees, pwho

say there is no resurrection, came to Him
and asked Him, 24saying: Teacher, qMoses
said that if a man dies, having no children,
his brother shall marry his wife and raise
up offspring for his brother. 25Now there
were with us seven brothers. The first died
after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. 26Likewise the second also, and the third, even
to the seventh. 27Last of all the woman
died also. 28Therefore, in the resurrection,
whose wife of the seven will she be? For
they all had her.
29Jesus answered and said to them, You
are mistaken, rnot knowing the Scriptures
nor the power of God. 30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given
in marriage, but sare like angels of God*
in heaven. 31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what
was spoken to you by God, saying, 32tI am
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob ?* God is not the God of
the dead, but of the living. 33And when
the multitudes heard this, uthey were astonished at His teaching.
The Scribes: Which Is theFirst

Commandment ofAll?
34vBut when the Pharisees heard that He

had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered
together. 35T hen one of them, wa lawyer,
asked Him a question, testing Him, and
saying, 36 Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?
37Jesus said to him, xYou shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, and with all your mind. * 38This
22:21 things that are Caesars. When one subjects

oneself to the state and accepts its protection and
benefits, one is obligated to support it and obey its
laws until it becomes sinful to do so (Rom. 13:17;
1 Pet. 2:1317). But giving back to God what is His
reaches far deeper than obedience to the state. Man
has a duty to give himself to God, with all he is and
all that he has.
22:4245 Christ... Whose Son is He? The Old Testament foretold that the Messiah would come from
Davids royal line (2Sam. 7:1216; Ps. 89:34,3436;
Is. 9:7; 16:5; 55:34).
22:44 The Lord said to my Lord. The Hebrew text
of Psalm 110:1 uses two different Hebrew words for
Lord. The first, translated Lord, is the name Yahweh, the proper name of Israels God. The second
Lord means master. David, the great king of Israel,
calls one of his offspring Lord or master. The implication is that Jesus, the Son of David, is divine.
is the first and great commandment. 39And

the second is like it: yYou shall love your
neighbor as yourself. * 40zOn these two
commandments hang all the Law and the
Prophets.
Jesus: How Can David Call His

Descendant Lord?
41aW hile the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 saying, What
do you think about the Christ? Whose Son
is He?
They said to Him, The bSon of David.
43He said to them, How then does David
in the Spirit call Him Lord, saying:
Thec Lord said to my Lord,

Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your
footstool ?*
45If David then calls Him Lord, how is He
his Son? 46d And no one was able to answer
Him a word, enor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.
44
Woe totheScribes and Pharisees
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes

and to His disciples, saying: The
23
scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses
2
seat. 3T herefore whatever they tell you

to observe,* that observe and do, but do
not do according to their works; for bthey
say, and do not do. 4cFor they bind heavy
burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on
mens shoulders; but they themselves will
not move them with one of their fingers.
5But all their works they do to dbe seen by
men. They make their phylacteries broad
and enlarge the borders of their garments.
6eT hey love the best places at feasts, the
best seats in the synagogues, 7greetings
in the marketplaces, and to be called by
men, Rabbi, Rabbi. 8fBut you, do not be
*22:30 NU-Text omits of God. *22:32 Exodus

3:6, 15 *22:37 Deuteronomy 6:5 *22:39 Leviticus 19:18 *22:44 Psalm 110:1 *23:3 NU-Text
omits to observe.
23:5 phylacteries. Phylacteries were small boxes

containing specific Scripture passages, in fulfillment
of Deuteronomy 6:8 (Ex. 13:9,16; Prov. 3:3; 6:21; 7:3).
They were worn on the forehead or arm. In order to
be seen as especially righteous, some Pharisees wore
conspicuously large phylacteries.
23:7 Rabbi. The title rabbi means teacher.
22:21lMatt. 17:25 m[Rom. 13:17] n[1Cor. 3:23;
6:19, 20; 12:27] 22:23oLuke 20:2740 pActs 23:8
22:24qDeut. 25:5 22:29rJohn 20:9 22:30s[1John
3:2] 22:32tEx. 3:6, 15 22:33uMatt. 7:28
22:34vMark 12:2831 22:35wLuke 7:30; 10:25; 11:45,
46, 52; 14:3 22:37xDeut. 6:5; 10:12; 30:6 22:39yLev.
19:18 22:40z[Matt. 7:12] 22:41aLuke 20:4144
22:42bMatt. 1:1; 21:9 22:44cPs. 110:1 22:46dLuke
14:6 eMark 12:34 23:2aNeh. 8:4, 8 23:3b[Rom.
2:19] 23:4cLuke 11:46 23:5d[Matt. 6:16, 1618]
23:6eLuke 11:43; 20:46 23:8f[James 3:1]
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1082 Matthew 23:9
called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher,
the Christ,* and you are all brethren. 9Do
not call anyone on earth your father; gfor
One is your Father, He who is in heaven.
10 And do not be called teachers; for One
is your Teacher, the Christ. 11But hhe who
is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12i And whoever exalts himself will
be humbled, and he who humbles himself
will be exalted.
13 But j woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither
go in yourselves, nor do you allow those
who are entering to go in. 14Woe to you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! kFor you
devour widows houses, and for a pretense
make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.*
15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to
win one proselyte, and when he is won, you
make him twice as much a son of hell as
yourselves.
16 Woe to you, lblind guides, who say,
mWhoever swears by the temple, it is
nothing; but whoever swears by the gold
of the temple, he is obliged to perform
it. 17Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold nor the temple that sanctifies*
the gold? 18And, Whoever swears by the
altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears
by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to
perform it. 19Fools and blind! For which
is greater, the gift oor the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20Therefore he who swears
by the altar, swears by it and by all things
on it. 21He who swears by the temple,
swears by it and by pHim who dwells* in
it. 22And he who swears by heaven, swears
by qthe throne of God and by Him who sits
onit.
hypocrites! rFor you pay tithe of mint and
anise and cummin, and shave neglected the
weightier matters of the law: justice and
mercy and faith. These you ought to have
done, without leaving the others undone.
24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and
swallow a camel!
hypocrites! tFor you cleanse the outside of
the cup and dish, but inside they are full
of extortion and self-indulgence.* 26Blind

Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup
and dish, that the outside of them may be
clean also.
hypocrites! u For you are like whitewashed
tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead mens
bones and all uncleanness. 28Even so you
also outwardly appear righteous to men,
but inside you are full of hypocrisy and
lawlessness.
29vWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of
the prophets and adorn the monuments
of the righteous, 30and say, If we had lived
in the days of our fathers, we would not
have been partakers with them in the blood
of the prophets.
31Therefore you are witnesses against
yourselves that wyou are sons of those who
murdered the prophets. 32xFill up, then, the
measure of your fathers guilt. 33Serpents,
ybrood of vipers! How can you escape
the condemnation of hell? 34zT herefore,
indeed, I send you prophets, wise men,
and scribes: a some of them you will kill
and crucify, and bsome of them you will
scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35cthat on you may
come all the righteous blood shed on the
earth, d from the blood of righteous Abel
to ethe blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the
temple and the altar. 36Assuredly, I say to
you, all these things will come upon this
generation.
23:10 do not be called teachers. This verse is a

warning against the human tendency to replace a
personal relationship with God with following an
earthly leader. No matter how dynamic or even how
godly such a leader is, as soon as people start looking
to that person rather than to God, they have created
an idol.
23:24 swallow a camel. The Pharisees would literally strain out a gnat in order not to violate Leviticus
11:4143, but they swallowed a camel by neglecting mercy, justice, and faith.
23:2526 but inside. The inside of the cup represents a persons character. Sometimes those who
most loudly protest the sins of others are secretly
guilty of those or worse sins themselves.
23:35 Abel . . . Zechariah. Abel was the first person

murdered in the Old Testament (Gen. 4:8); Zechariah
was the last. His death is recorded in 2 Chronicles
24:2022, the last book of the Hebrew canon.
Jesus Laments over Jerusalem
37f O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one

who kills the prophets gand stones those
who are sent to her! How often h I wanted
to gather your children together, as a hen
gathers her chicks i under her wings, but
you were not willing! 38 See! Your house
is left to you desolate; 39for I say to you,
you shall see Me no more till you say,
*23:8 NU-Text omits the Christ. *23:14 NU-

Text omits this verse. *23:17 NU-Text reads
sanctified. *23:21 M-Text reads dwelt.
*23:25 M-Text reads unrighteousness.
23:9g[Mal. 1:6] 23:11hMatt. 20:26, 27 23:12iLuke

14:11; 18:14 23:13jLuke 11:52 23:14kMark
12:40 23:16lMatt. 15:14; 23:24 m[Matt. 5:33, 34]
23:17nEx. 30:29 23:19oEx. 29:37 23:21p1Kin. 8:13
23:22qMatt. 5:34 23:23rLuke 11:42; 18:12 s[Hos. 6:6]
23:25tLuke 11:39 23:27uActs 23:3 23:29vLuke
11:47, 48 23:31w[Acts 7:51, 52] 23:32x[1Thess.
2:16] 23:33yMatt. 3:7; 12:34 23:34zLuke 11:49
aActs 7:5460; 22:19 b2Cor. 11:24, 25 23:35cRev.
18:24 dGen. 4:8 e2Chr. 24:20, 21 23:37fLuke 13:34, 35
g2Chr. 24:20, 21; 36:15, 16 hDeut. 32:11, 12 iPs. 17:8; 91:4
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 24:21 1083
j Blessed
is He who comes in the name of

the Lord! *
Jesus Predicts theDestructionof

theTemple
Then Jesus went out and departed

24
from the temple, and His disciples
came up to show Him the buildings of the
a
temple. 2And Jesus said to them, Do you

not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to
you, bnot one stone shall be left here upon
another, that shall not be thrown down.
The Signs oftheTimes and theEnd

oftheAge
3Now
as He sat on the Mount of Olives,

disciples came to Him privately, saying,
us, when will these things be?
And what will be the sign of Your coming,
and of the end of the age?
4 And Jesus answered and said to them:
eTake heed that no one deceives you. 5For
f many will come in My name, saying, I am
the Christ, gand will deceive many. 6And
you will hear of hwars and rumors of wars.
See that you are not troubled; for all* these
things must come to pass, but the end is
not yet. 7For i nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And
there will be j famines, pestilences,* and
earthquakes in various places. 8All these
are the beginning of sorrows.
9k Then they will deliver you up to
cthe
d Tell
24:1 temple. The first temple, built by Solomon, was

destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 b.c. The second
temple, built under the encouragement of Haggai
and Zechariah, and the leadership of Zerubbabel
and Joshua (Hag. 1:1), was completed after considerable delay in 516 b.c. This second temple was lavishly
restored by Herod the Great, but not completed until
a.d. 64. It stood completed for only six years before it
was reduced to rubble by the Romans. The devastation in a.d. 70 was so complete that the precise location is still unknown today.
24:4 Take heed that no one deceives you. Jesus
warning about being deceived was especially appropriate for the disciples. The destruction of Jerusalem
did not necessarily mean the nearness of the end of
the age. This principle was a point of confusion for
them (Luke 19:1127; Acts 1:67).
24:6 must come to pass. This indicates a divine or
logical necessity. Such things will happen because
of the peoples sin. False messiahs had existed before
(Acts 5:3638) and false preachers would come in the
future (Acts 20:29; 2 Cor. 11:1315). Verses 46 may
describe the first part of Daniels seventieth week
(Dan. 9:2527), but possibly they present a general
picture of the present age.
24:7 famines... and earthquakes. These disasters
are more fully described in Revelation 6:18; 8:523;
9:1321; 16:221.
24:10 ApostasySatan is a subtle adversary who
works as an angel of light through false religious
teachers (2 Cor. 11:1415), and many will be misled. Apostasy is also the result of persecution. Jesus
speaks of temporary faith, and says that a falling
tribulation and kill you, and you will be

hated by all nations for My names sake.
10 And then many will be offended, will
betray one another, and will hate one another. 11T hen l many false prophets will
rise up and mdeceive many. 12And because
lawlessness will abound, the love of many
will grow ncold. 13oBut he who endures to
the end shall be saved. 14 And this pgospel
of the kingdom qwill be preached in all the
world as a witness to all the nations, and
then the end will come.
The Great Tribulation
15rTherefore when you see the sabomination of desolation, * spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place
t (whoever reads, let him understand),
16 then let those who are in Judea flee to
the mountains. 17Let him who is on the
housetop not go down to take anything
out of his house. 18 And let him who is in
the field not go back to get his clothes.
19But uwoe to those who are pregnant and
to those who are nursing babies in those
days! 20 And pray that your flight may
not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21For
vthen there will be great tribulation, such
as has not been since the beginning of the
world until this time, no, nor ever shall
*23:39 Psalm 118:26 *24:6 NU-Text omits all.

*24:7 NU-Text omits pestilences. *24:15 Daniel
11:31; 12:11
away often occurs when tribulation or persecution

arises because of the word (13:21). Perseverance in
faith and in the accompanying results of faith are
positive evidence of a genuine Christian profession.
24:15 abomination of desolation. The abomination
of desolation literally means the abomination that
makes desolate. This prophecy comes from Daniel,
specifically Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11. Many believe that
Daniel 11:31 refers to Antiochus IV, who desecrated
the temple by sacrificing a pig on its altar and setting
up an idol to Zeus in it. His actions were certainly a
prelude to what the ultimate man of sin will do.
In a.d. 70, Titus destroyed Jerusalem, burned the
temple, and set up an idol to mock the Jews. Significantly, Paul speaks of the Antichrist at the end times
also setting himself up as a god (2Thess. 2:34; Rev.
13:1415).
24:16 flee. At the time of the war ending in the
destruction of the temple in a.d. 70, many of the
Christians did flee, hiding in the clefts of Petra. Some
believe that the final fulfillment of this prophecy will
occur in the future desecration of the temple (Dan.
9:27) and the subsequent setting up of an image of
the man of sin in the Most Holy Place.
23:39jPs. 118:26 24:1aMark 13:1 24:2bLuke
19:44 24:3cMark 13:3 d[1Thess. 5:13] 24:4e[Col.
2:8, 18] 24:5fJohn 5:43 gMatt. 24:11 24:6h[Rev.
6:24] 24:7iHag. 2:22 jRev. 6:5, 6 24:9kMatt.
10:17 24:11l2Pet. 2:1 m[1Tim. 4:1] 24:12n[2Thess.
2:3] 24:13oMatt. 10:22 24:14pMatt. 4:23 qRom.
10:18 24:15rMark 13:14 sDan. 9:27; 11:31; 12:11 tDan.
9:23 24:19uLuke 23:29 24:21vDan. 9:26
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1084 Matthew 24:22
be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; wbut for
the elects sake those days will be shortened.
23xThen if anyone says to you, Look,
here is the Christ! or There! do not
believe it. 24 For yfalse christs and false
prophets will rise and show great signs
and wonders to deceive, zif possible, even
the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand.
26 Therefore if they say to you, Look, He
is in the desert! do not go out; or Look,
He is in the inner rooms! do not believe
it. 27a For as the lightning comes from the
east and flashes to the west, so also will the
coming of the Son of Man be. 28bFor wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be
gathered together.
The Coming oftheSonofMan
29cImmediately after the tribulation

of those days d the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light; the
stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30eT hen
the sign of the Son of Man will appear
in heaven, f and then all the tribes of the
earth will mourn, and they will see the
Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31gAnd He
will send His angels with a great sound of
a trumpet, and they will gather together
His elect from the four winds, from one
end of heaven to the other.
No One Knows theDay or Hour
36l But of that day and hour no one

knows, not even the angels of heaven,*
mbut My Father only. 37But as the days of
Noah were, so also will the coming of the
Son of Man be. 38nFor as in the days before
the flood, they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noah entered the ark, 39and
did not know until the flood came and took
them all away, so also will the coming of
the Son of Man be. 40oThen two men will be
in the field: one will be taken and the other
left. 41Two women will be grinding at the
mill: one will be taken and the other left.
42pWatch therefore, for you do not know
what hour* your Lord is coming. 43qBut
know this, that if the master of the house
had known what hour the thief would
come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44rTherefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is
coming at an hour you do not expect.
The Faithful Servant and theEvil

Servant
45sWho then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his
household, to give them food in due season? 46tBlessed is that servant whom his
master, when he comes, will find so doing.
47Assuredly, I say to you that u he will make
him ruler over all his goods. 48But if that
evil servant says in his heart, My master
vis delaying his coming,* 49 and begins to
beat his fellow servants, and to eat and
The Parable oftheFig Tree
drink with the drunkards, 50the master of
32 Now learn hthis parable from the fig
that servant will come on a day when he
tree: When its branch has already become is not looking for him and at an hour that
tender and puts forth leaves, you know that he is wnot aware of, 51and will cut him in
summer is near. 33So you also, when you two and appoint him his portion with the
see all these things, know i that it* is near hypocrites. xT here shall be weeping and
at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, j this gnashing of teeth.
generation will by no means pass away till
all these things take place. 35kHeaven and *24:33 Or He *24:36 NU-Text adds nor the Son.
earth will pass away, but My words will by *24:42 NU-Text reads day. *24:48 NU-Text
no means pass away.
omits his coming.
24:24 signs and wonders. Miracles by themselves

do not prove that something is of God (7:2123;
2 Thess. 2:9; Rev. 13:1315). The teaching of those
who perform signs and wonders must be tested
against correct doctrine (Deut. 13:15; 1John 4:13),
and by the witness of Gods Spirit (John 10:35,27).
24:29 Immediately after. This verse moves chronologically to the close of the tribulation, a period that
will be marked by monumental cosmic disturbances
(Is. 13:10; 34:4; Ezek. 32:78; Joel 2:3031; 3:15; Hag.
2:6; Zech. 14:6; Rev. 6:1214).
24:34 this generation. Generation may mean
race, indicating that Israel as a people will not cease
to exist before God fulfills His promises to them.
Another possibility is that the word describes a particular era in which people will see the end times.
That is, the events will occur so rapidly that all will
happen within one generation. Perhaps both interpretations are true.
24:36 that day and hour no one knows. Mark 13:32

indicates that even Jesus Himself did not know the
exact time of His return. When the Lord Jesus was on
earth, He voluntarily limited His use of His divine attributes (John 17:45; Phil. 2:58). Therefore He became
hungry, thirsty, and tired. In this instance, Jesus surrendered the use of His divine omniscience.
24:22wIs. 65:8, 9 24:23xLuke 17:23
24:24y[2Thess. 2:9] z[2Tim. 2:19] 24:27aLuke 17:24
24:28bLuke 17:37 24:29c[Dan. 7:11] dEzek. 32:7
24:30e[Dan. 7:13, 14] fZech. 12:12 24:31g[1Cor.
15:52] 24:32hLuke 21:29 24:33i[James 5:9]
24:34j[Matt. 10:23; 16:28; 23:36] 24:35kLuke
21:33 24:36lActs 1:7 mZech. 14:7 24:38n[Gen.
6:35] 24:40oLuke 17:34 24:42pMatt. 25:13
24:43qLuke 12:39 24:44r[1Thess. 5:6] 24:45sLuke
12:4246 24:46tRev. 16:15 24:47uMatt. 25:21,
23 24:48v[2Pet. 3:49] 24:50wMark 13:32
24:51xMatt. 8:12; 25:30
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 25:32 1085
The Parable oftheWise and Foolish

Virgins
Then the kingdom of heaven shall

25
be likened to ten virgins who took
their lamps and went out to meet the bridea
groom. 2bNow five of them were wise, and

five were foolish. 3Those who were foolish
took their lamps and took no oil with them,
4but the wise took oil in their vessels with
their lamps. 5But while the bridegroom
was delayed, cthey all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight d a cry was heard:
Behold, the bridegroom is coming;* go
out to meet him! 7T hen all those virgins
arose and etrimmed their lamps. 8And the
foolish said to the wise, Give us some of
your oil, for our lamps are going out. 9But
the wise answered, saying, No, lest there
should not be enough for us and you; but
go rather to those who sell, and buy for
yourselves. 10And while they went to buy,
the bridegroom came, and those who were
ready went in with him to the wedding; and
f the door was shut.
11Afterward the other virgins came
also, saying, gLord, Lord, open to us! 12But
he answered and said, Assuredly, I say to
you, hI do not know you.
13i Watch therefore, for you jknow neither the day nor the hour* in which the Son
of Man is coming.
The Parable oftheTalents
14k For the kingdom of heaven is l like a

man traveling to a far country, who called
his own servants and delivered his goods
to them. 15And to one he gave five talents,
to another two, and to another one, mto
each according to his own ability; and
immediately he went on a journey. 16Then
he who had received the five talents went
and traded with them, and made another
five talents. 17And likewise he who had received two gained two more also. 18But he
who had received one went and dug in the
ground, and hid his lords money. 19After a
long time the lord of those servants came
and settled accounts with them.
20 So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents,
25:10 the bridegroom came. Christs return is often

compared to a wedding (22:114; Rev. 19:78).
25:14 delivered his goods to them. The parable of
the talents illustrates the faith required of Gods servants.
25:15 talents. A talent was a large sum of money,
about six thousand denarii.
25:23 I will make you ruler over many things. The
first two servants received the same reward, based
on their faithfulness, not on the size of their responsibilities. The smallest task in Gods work may receive a
great reward if we are faithful in performing it (10:42).
25:3240 JudgmentThe Final Judgment will be
according to the evidence, not according to what
was professed but what was practiced. It will be
not according to what was said, but what was done.
saying, Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents
besides them. 21His lord said to him, Well
done, good and faithful servant; you were
nfaithful over a few things, oI will make you
ruler over many things. Enter into pthe joy
of your lord. 22He also who had received
two talents came and said, Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained
two more talents besides them. 23His lord
said to him, qWell done, good and faithful
servant; you have been faithful over a few
things, I will make you ruler over many
things. Enter into rthe joy of your lord.
24 Then he who had received the one
talent came and said, Lord, I knew you
to be a hard man, reaping where you have
not sown, and gathering where you have
not scattered seed. 25And I was afraid, and
went and hid your talent in the ground.
Look, there you have what is yours.
26 But his lord answered and said to
him, You swicked and lazy servant, you
knew that I reap where I have not sown,
and gather where I have not scattered seed.
27So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I
would have received back my own with
interest. 28So take the talent from him, and
give it to him who has ten talents.
29tFor to everyone who has, more will
be given, and he will have abundance; but
from him who does not have, even what he
has will be taken away. 30And cast the unprofitable servant uinto the outer darkness.
vT here will be weeping and wgnashing of
teeth.
The SonofMan Will Judge

theNations
31xWhen the Son of Man comes in His

glory, and all the holy* angels with Him,
then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32yAll the nations will be gathered before Him, and zHe will separate them one
from another, as a shepherd divides his
*25:6 NU-Text omits is coming. *25:13 NU-Text

omits the rest of this verse. *25:31 NU-Text
omits holy.
These works cannot earn salvation, but they are

works of love which reflect a life redeemed by the
saving work of Christ through the Holy Spirit (Gal.
5:6). Love for God is demonstrated by love for man
(1John 4:20).
25:1a[Eph. 5:29, 30] 25:2bMatt. 13:47; 22:10
25:5c1Thess. 5:6 25:6d[1Thess. 4:16] 25:7eLuke
12:35 25:10fLuke 13:25 25:11g[Matt. 7:2123]
25:12h[Hab. 1:13] 25:13iMark 13:35 jMatt. 24:36, 42
25:14kLuke 19:1227 lMatt. 21:33 25:15m[Rom. 12:6]
25:21n[1Cor. 4:2] o[Luke 12:44; 22:29, 30] p[Heb. 12:2]
25:23qMatt. 24:45, 47; 25:21 r[Ps. 16:11] 25:26sMatt.
18:32 25:29tMatt. 13:12 25:30uMatt. 8:12; 22:13
vMatt. 7:23; 8:12; 24:51 wPs. 112:10 25:31x[1Thess.
4:16] 25:32y[2Cor. 5:10] zEzek. 20:38
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1086 Matthew 25:33
sheep from the goats. 33And He will set the
a sheep on His right hand, but the goats on
the left. 34Then the King will say to those
on His right hand, Come, you blessed of
My Father, binherit the kingdom cprepared
for you from the foundation of the world:
35d for I was hungry and you gave Me food;
I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; eI
was a stranger and you took Me in; 36I was
f naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and
you visited Me; gI was in prison and you
came to Me.
37 Then the righteous will answer Him,
saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You
drink? 38W hen did we see You a stranger
and take You in, or naked and clothe You?
39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You? 40And the King will
answer and say to them, Assuredly, I say
to you, hinasmuch as you did it to one of the
least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.
41Then He will also say to those on the
left hand, i Depart from Me, you cursed,
j into the everlasting fire prepared for kthe
devil and his angels: 42for I was hungry
and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and
you gave Me no drink; 43I was a stranger
and you did not take Me in, naked and you
did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and
you did not visit Me.
44 Then they also will answer Him,*
saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick
or in prison, and did not minister to You?
45T hen He will answer them, saying, Assuredly, I say to you, linasmuch as you did
not do it to one of the least of these, you
did not do it to Me. 46And mthese will go
away into everlasting punishment, but the
righteous into eternal life.
The Plot toKill Jesus
Now it came to pass, when Jesus had

26
finished all these sayings, that He
said to His disciples, You know that af2a
ter two days is the Passover, and the Son of

Man will be delivered up to be crucified.
3bT hen the chief priests, the scribes,*
and the elders of the people assembled
at the palace of the high priest, who was
called Caiaphas, 4 and cplotted to take
Jesus by trickery and kill Him. 5But they
said, Not during the feast, lest there be an
uproar among the d people.
26:14 one of the twelve. The enormity of Judas sin
is seen in these words: Jesus was betrayed by one of
His own best friends.
26:15 thirty pieces of silver. Thirty pieces of silver
was the price of a slave (Ex. 21:32). Zechariah prophesied this sum (Zech. 11:1213).
26:21 one of you will betray Me. This statement
indicates the Lords omniscience. Repeatedly, Christ
unveiled evidence of His deity to His disciples.
The Anointing at Bethany
6 And when Jesus was in eBethany at the

house of Simon the leper, 7a woman came
to Him having an alabaster flask of very
costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His
head as He sat at the table. 8fBut when His
disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, Why this waste? 9For this fragrant oil
might have been sold for much and given
to the poor.
10 But when Jesus was aware of it, He
said to them, Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me.
11gFor you have the poor with you always,
but h Me you do not have always. 12For in
pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she
did it for My iburial. 13Assuredly, I say to
you, wherever this gospel is preached in
the whole world, what this woman has
done will also be told as a memorial to her.
Judas Agrees toBetray Jesus
14jT hen one of the twelve, called kJudas

Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and
said, l What are you willing to give me if I
deliver Him to you? And they counted out
to him thirty pieces of silver. 16So from that
time he sought opportunity to betray Him.
Jesus Celebrates Passover withHis

Disciples
17m Now on the first day of the Feast of

the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to
Jesus, saying to Him, Where do You want
us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?
18 And He said, Go into the city to a
certain man, and say to him, The Teacher says, nMy time is at hand; I will keep
the Passover at your house with My disciples.
19So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.
20oW hen evening had come, He sat down
with the twelve. 21Now as they were eating,
He said, Assuredly, I say to you, one of you
will pbetray Me.
22 And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and each of them began to say to Him,
Lord, is it I?
23 He answered and said, qHe who
dipped his hand with Me in the dish will
*25:44 NU-Text and M-Text omit Him.

*26:3 NU-Text omits the scribes.
25:33a[John 10:11, 27, 28] 25:34b[Rom. 8:17] cMark

10:40 25:35dIs. 58:7 e[Heb. 13:2] 25:36f[James
2:15, 16] g2Tim. 1:16 25:40hMark 9:41 25:41iMatt.
7:23 jMatt. 13:40, 42 k[2Pet. 2:4] 25:45lProv. 14:31
25:46m[Dan. 12:2] 26:2aLuke 22:1, 2 26:3bJohn
11:47 26:4cActs 4:2528 26:5dMatt. 21:26
26:6eMark 14:39 26:8fJohn 12:4 26:11g[Deut.
15:11] h[John 13:33; 14:19; 16:5, 28; 17:11] 26:12iJohn
19:3842 26:14jMark 14:10, 11; Luke 22:36
kMatt. 10:4 26:15lZech. 11:12 26:17mEx. 12:6,
1820 26:18nLuke 9:51 26:20oMark 14:1721
26:21pJohn 6:70, 71; 13:21 26:23qPs. 41:9
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 26:51 1087
betray Me. 24The Son of Man indeed goes
just ras it is written of Him, but swoe to that
man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!
tIt would have been good for that man if he
had not been born.
25T hen Judas, who was betraying Him,
answered and said, Rabbi, is it I?
He said to him, You have said it.
Jesus Institutes theLords Supper
26u And as they were eating, vJesus took

bread, blessed* and broke it, and gave it to
the disciples and said, Take, eat; wthis is
My body.
27Then He took the cup, and gave thanks,
and gave it to them, saying, xDrink from
it, all of you. 28For ythis is My blood zof the
new* covenant, which is shed afor many for
the remission of sins. 29But bI say to you, I
will not drink of this fruit of the vine from
now on cuntil that day when I drink it new
with you in My Fathers kingdom.
30d And when they had sung a hymn,
they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Jesus Predicts Peters Denial
31T hen Jesus said to them, eAll of you

will fbe made to stumble because of Me this
night, for it is written:
gI
will strike the Shepherd,

And the sheep of the flock will be
scattered. *
32But after I have been raised, h I will go before you to Galilee.
33Peter answered and said to Him, Even
if all are made to stumble because of You, I
will never be made to stumble.
34 Jesus said to him, i Assuredly, I say
to you that this night, before the rooster
crows, you will deny Me three times.
35Peter said to Him, Even if I have to die
with You, I will not deny You!
And so said all the disciples.
The Prayer intheGarden
36jT hen Jesus came with them to a place

called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, Sit here while I go and pray over
there. 37And He took with Him Peter and
26:2628 My body . . . My blood. The Lord Jesus,

at this last meal with His disciples before He went
to the cross, instituted this ordinance for His church
throughout this age. It is called the Lords Supper
(1 Cor. 11:20). Using common everyday items, the
bread and wine that could be found on any table,
no matter how poor, He gave us a remembrance so
that we would never forget that His broken body and
shed blood bought salvation for us.
26:28 My blood of the new covenant. This refers
to the new covenant promised in the Old Testament
(Jer. 31:3134; 32:3744; Ezek. 34:2531; 37:2628).
26:36 Gethsemane. The name Gethsemane means
oil press. This garden was east of Jerusalem on
the Mount of Olives. In the place where olives were
crushed and ground, the Anointed One was crushed.
kthe
two sons of Zebedee, and He began to

be sorrowful and deeply distressed. 38Then
He said to them, l My soul is exceedingly
sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and
watch with Me.
39He went a little farther and fell on His
face, and mprayed, saying, nO My Father,
if it is possible, olet this cup pass from Me;
nevertheless, pnot as I will, but as You will.
40T hen He came to the disciples and
found them sleeping, and said to Peter,
What! Could you not watch with Me one
hour? 41qWatch and pray, lest you enter into
temptation. rT he spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak.
42 Again, a second time, He went away
and prayed, saying, O My Father, if this
cup cannot pass away from Me unless* I
drink it, Your will be done. 43And He came
and found them asleep again, for their eyes
were heavy.
44 So He left them, went away again, and
prayed the third time, saying the same
words. 45T hen He came to His disciples
and said to them, Are you still sleeping
and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand,
and the Son of Man is being sbetrayed into
the hands of sinners. 46Rise, let us be going.
See, My betrayer is at hand.
Betrayal and Arrest inGethsemane
47And twhile He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, with a great
multitude with swords and clubs, came
from the chief priests and elders of the
people.
48 Now His betrayer had given them a
sign, saying, Whomever I kiss, He is the
One; seize Him. 49Immediately he went up
to Jesus and said, Greetings, Rabbi! uand
kissed Him.
50 But Jesus said to him, vFriend, why
have you come?
Then they came and laid hands on Jesus
and took Him. 51 And suddenly, wone of
those who were with Jesus stretched out
*26:26 M-Text reads gave thanks for.

*26:28 NU-Text omits new. *26:31 Zechariah
13:7 *26:42 NU-Text reads if this may not pass
away unless.
26:51 one of those. John 18:10 informs us that the

impetuous swordsman was Peter. This action was
performed with one of the two swords that the disciples had (Luke 22:38).
26:24r1Cor. 15:3 sLuke 17:1 tJohn 17:12 26:26uMark
14:2225 v1Cor. 11:2325 w[1Pet. 2:24] 26:27xMark
14:23 26:28y[Ex. 24:8] zJer. 31:31 aMatt. 20:28
26:29bMark 14:25 cActs 10:41 26:30dMark
14:2631 26:31eJohn 16:32 f[Matt. 11:6] gZech.
13:7 26:32hMatt. 28:7, 10, 16 26:34iJohn
13:38 26:36jMark 14:3235 26:37kMatt. 4:21;
17:1 26:38lJohn 12:27 26:39m[Heb. 5:79] nJohn
12:27 oMatt. 20:22 pJohn 5:30; 6:38 26:41qLuke
22:40, 46 r[Gal. 5:17] 26:45sMatt. 17:22, 23; 20:18, 19
26:47tActs 1:16 26:49u2Sam. 20:9 26:50vPs. 41:9;
55:13 26:51wJohn 18:10
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1088 Matthew 26:52
his hand and drew his sword, struck the
servant of the high priest, and cut off his
ear.
52But Jesus said to him, Put your sword
in its place, xfor all who take the sword will
perish* by the sword. 53Or do you think that
I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will
provide Me with ymore than twelve legions
of angels? 54How then could the Scriptures
be fulfilled, zthat it must happen thus?
55In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, Have you come out, as against a
robber, with swords and clubs to take Me?
I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple,
and you did not seize Me. 56But all this was
done that the aScriptures of the prophets
might be fulfilled.
Then ball the disciples forsook Him and
fled.
Jesus Faces theSanhedrin
57cAnd those who had laid hold of Jesus

led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest,
where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58But d Peter followed Him at a
distance to the high priests courtyard.
And he went in and sat with the servants
to see the end.
59Now the chief priests, the elders,* and
all the council sought efalse testimony
against Jesus to put Him to death, 60 but
found none. Even though f many false witnesses came forward, they found none.*
But at last gtwo false witnesses* came forward 61and said, This fellow said, h I am
able to destroy the temple of God and to
build it in three days.
62i And the high priest arose and said
to Him, Do You answer nothing? What
is it these men testify against You? 63But
jJesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, k I put You under
oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the
Christ, the Son of God!
64 Jesus said to him, It is as you said.
Nevertheless, I say to you, lhereafter you
26:53 twelve legions of angels. A legion in the

Roman army was about six thousand men. When one
considers the power of one angel (Ex. 32:23; 2Sam.
24:1517; 2Kin. 19:35) the power of more than 72,000
angels is beyond comprehension. Jesus had all of
heavens power at His disposal, yet He refused to use
it. His Fathers will was for Him to go to the cross.
26:62 Do You answer nothing? In maintaining His
silence, Jesus fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah 53:7.
26:64 Second Coming
Throughout His ministry, Jesus had applied to Himself the Old Testament
prophecies that were acknowledged as messianic by
the Jewish teachers. Here, Jesus answers Caiaphas
the high priest by combining two well-known messianic prophecies from Psalm 110:1 and Daniel 7:13.
The first describes His enthronement and the other
His second coming. The final word spoken by Christ to
the Jews was about the certainty of His future return.
About His first coming Jesus said, For God did not
send His Son into the world to condemn the world
(John 3:17). But the time will come when all the world
will see the Son of Man m sitting at the

right hand of the Power, and coming on
the clouds of heaven.
65nT hen the high priest tore his clothes,
saying, He has spoken blasphemy! What
further need do we have of witnesses?
Look, now you have heard His oblasphemy!
66W hat do you think?
They answered and said, pHe is deserving of death.
67qT hen they spat in His face and beat
Him; and r others struck Him with the
palms of their hands, 68 saying, sProphesy
to us, Christ! Who is the one who struck
You?
Peter Denies Jesus, and Weeps

Bitterly
69tNow Peter sat outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came to him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee.
70 But he denied it before them all, saying, I do not know what you are saying.
71And when he had gone out to the gateway, another girl saw him and said to those
who were there, This fellow also was with
Jesus of Nazareth.
72But again he denied with an oath, I do
not know the Man!
73 And a little later those who stood by
came up and said to Peter, Surely you also
are one of them, for your uspeech betrays
you.
74T hen vhe began to curse and swear,
saying, I do not know the Man!
Immediately a rooster crowed. 75And Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had
said to him, wBefore the rooster crows,
you will deny Me three times. So he went
out and wept bitterly.
*26:52 M-Text reads die. *26:59 NU-Text omits

the elders. *26:60 NU-Text puts a comma after
but found none, does not capitalize Even, and
omits they found none.NU-Text omits false
witnesses.
will see Him enthroned at the right hand of God and

given all power and majesty as the judge of the ages.
26:74 Immediately a rooster crowed. Some have
detected a contradiction between this passage and
the account in Mark 14:72. Others believe that seeing
a contradiction is a forced reading of the text. Matthew, Luke, and John make the simple statement
that a rooster would crow (Luke 22:61; John 18:27),
whereas Mark, which is believed to be based on
Peters memories, would include more exact details.
26:52xRev. 13:10 26:53yDan. 7:10 26:54zIs. 50:6;
53:211 26:56aLam. 4:20 bJohn 18:15 26:57cJohn
18:12, 1924 26:58dJohn 18:15, 16 26:59ePs.
35:11 26:60fMark 14:55 gDeut. 19:15 26:61hJohn
2:19 26:62iMark 14:60 26:63jIs. 53:7 kLev.
5:1 26:64lDan. 7:13 m[Acts 7:55] 26:65n2Kin.
18:37 oJohn 10:3036 26:66pLev. 24:16 26:67qIs.
50:6; 53:3 rLuke 22:6365 26:68sMark 14:65
26:69tJohn 18:1618, 2527 26:73uLuke 22:59
26:74vMark 14:71 26:75wMatt. 26:34
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 27:30 1089
Jesus Handed Over toPontius

Pilate
When morning came, all the chief

27
priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death. And
a
when they had bound Him, they led Him

away and bdelivered Him to Pontius* Pilate
the governor.
Judas Hangs Himself
3cT hen Judas, His betrayer, seeing that

He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty d pieces of
silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, I have sinned by betraying innocent
blood.
And they said, What is that to us? You
see to it!
5T hen he threw down the pieces of silver
in the temple and edeparted, and went and
hanged himself.
6 But the chief priests took the silver
pieces and said, It is not lawful to put
them into the treasury, because they are
the price of blood. 7And they consulted together and bought with them the potters
field, to bury strangers in. 8Therefore that
field has been called f the Field of Blood to
this day.
9T hen was fulfilled what was spoken by
Jeremiah the prophet, saying, gAnd they
took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who was priced, whom they of
the children of Israel priced, 10 and hgave
them for the potters field, as the Lord directed me. *
Jesus Faces Pilate
11Now Jesus stood before the governor.

i And the governor asked Him, saying, Are
You the King of the Jews?

Jesus said to him, j It is as you say.
12 And while He was being accused by the
chief priests and elders, k He answered
nothing.
13T hen Pilate said to Him, l Do You
not hear how many things they testify
against You? 14But He answered him not
one word, so that the governor marveled
greatly.
Taking thePlace ofBarabbas
at that time they had a notorious prisoner

called Barabbas.* 17Therefore, when they
had gathered together, Pilate said to them,
Whom do you want me to release to you?
Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?
18For he knew that they had handed Him
over because of nenvy.
19W hile he was sitting on the judgment
seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have
nothing to do with that just Man, for I have
suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.
20oBut the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask
for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. 21The governor answered and said to them, Which
of the two do you want me to release to
you?
They said, pBarabbas!
22Pilate said to them, What then shall I
do with Jesus who is called Christ?
They all said to him, Let Him be crucified!
23T hen the governor said, qWhy, what
evil has He done?
But they cried out all the more, saying,
Let Him be crucified!
24W hen Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he rtook water and washed his hands
before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just Person.* You
see to it.
25 And all the people answered and
said, sHis blood be on us and on our children.
26T hen he released Barabbas to them;
and when the had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified.
The Soldiers Mock Jesus
27uThen the soldiers of the governor

took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him.
28 And they v stripped Him and wput a
scarlet robe on Him. 29xW hen they had
twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on
His head, and a reed in His right hand.
And they bowed the knee before Him
and mocked Him, saying, Hail, King of
the Jews! 30Then ythey spat on Him, and
took the reed and struck Him on the head.
15m Now at the feast the governor was

accustomed to releasing to the multitude
one prisoner whom they wished. 16 And
*27:2 NU-Text omits Pontius. *27:10 Jeremiah

32:69 *27:16 NU-Text reads Jesus Barabbas.
*27:24 NU-Text omits just.
27:2 Pilate. Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,

Samaria, and Idumea from a.d. 26 to 36. Because the
Jews did not have authority to execute Jesus, they
brought Him to Pilate.
27:25 His blood be on us and on our children. The
sins of the fathers are visited on their children for
those who hate God. But if anyone turns to Jesus and
repents, He never fails to show His lovingkindness.
27:27 the Praetorium. This was the official residence
of the governor when he was in Jerusalem.
27:1aJohn 18:28 27:2bActs 3:13 27:3cMatt.

26:14 dMatt. 26:15 27:5eActs 1:18 27:8fActs 1:19
27:9gZech. 11:12 27:10hJer. 32:69; Zech. 11:12,
13 27:11iMark 15:25 jJohn 18:37 27:12kJohn
19:9 27:13lMatt. 26:62 27:15mLuke 23:1725
27:18nMatt. 21:38 27:20oActs 3:14 27:21pActs
3:14 27:23qActs 3:13 27:24rDeut. 21:68
27:25sJosh. 2:19 27:26t[Is. 50:6; 53:5] 27:27uMark
15:1620 27:28vJohn 19:2 wLuke 23:11 27:29xIs.
53:3 27:30yMatt. 26:67
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1090 Matthew 27:31
31 And when they had mocked Him, they
took the robe off Him, put His own clothes
on Him, zand led Him away to be crucified.
The King ona Cross
32a Now as they came out, bthey found a

man of Cyrene, Simon by name. Him they
compelled to bear His cross. 33cAnd when
they had come to a place called Golgotha,
that is to say, Place of a Skull, 34d they gave
Him sour* wine mingled with gall to drink.
But when He had tasted it, He would not
drink.
35eThen they crucified Him, and divided His garments, casting lots,* that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophet:
f They divided My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots. *
36gSitting down, they kept watch over Him

there. 37And they hput up over His head the
accusation written against Him:
THIS IS JESUS THE KING

OF THE JEWS.
38iT hen
two robbers were crucified with

Him, one on the right and another on the
left.
39And j those who passed by blasphemed
Him, wagging their heads 40 and saying,
k You who destroy the temple and build it
in three days, save Yourself! lIf You are the
Son of God, come down from the cross.
41Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders,* said, 42He
27:31 crucified. Crucifixion, a practice probably
adopted from Persia, was considered by the Romans
to be the cruelest form of execution. This punishment
was reserved for the worst criminals. The offender
usually died after two or three days of agonizing suffering, enduring not only incomprehensible pain, but
also hunger, thirst, and exposure. The offenders arms
were nailed to a beam that was hoisted up and fixed
to a post, to which his feet were nailed.
27:32 Simon by name. Simon probably was (or later
became) a follower of Christ; it is unlikely that he
would be referred to by name if he were a stranger to
the Christian community (Mark 15:21).
27:34 sour wine mingled with gall. It is believed
that this mixture was meant to dull the victims pain.
The prophetic words of Psalm 69:21 were fulfilled
here.
27:35 casting lots. The soldiers fulfilled the prophetic words of Psalm 22:18.
27:38 two robbers. This is the fulfillment of Isaiah
53:12, He was numbered with the transgressors.
Psalm 22:6 predicted the insults that would be
directed at the Messiah.
27:45 the sixth hour. This would have been noon.
The first hour began at sunrise (approximately 6:00
a.m.). darkness. The darkness could not have been
due to a natural cause, such as an eclipse of the sun,
since the Passover occurred during a full moon. This
was a supernatural occurrence.
27:4650 AtonementBecause God cannot tolerate sin, as Jesus took upon Himself the sin of the
m saved
others; Himself He cannot save. If

He is the King of Israel,* let Him now come
down from the cross, and we will believe
Him.* 43nHe trusted in God; let Him deliver
Him now if He will have Him; for He said,
I am the Son of God.
44o Even the robbers who were crucified with Him reviled Him with the same
thing.
Jesus Dies ontheCross
45pNow from the sixth hour until the

ninth hour there was darkness over all the
land. 46 And about the ninth hour qJesus
cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli,
lama sabachthani? that is, rMy God, My
God, why have You forsaken Me? *
47Some of those who stood there, when
they heard that, said, This Man is calling
for Elijah! 48Immediately one of them ran
and took a sponge, sfilled it with sour wine
and put it on a reed, and offered it to Him
to drink.
49T he rest said, Let Him alone; let us
see if Elijah will come to save Him.
50And Jesus tcried out again with a loud
voice, and uyielded up His spirit.
51T hen, behold, vthe veil of the temple
was torn in two from top to bottom; and
the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,
*27:34 NU-Text omits sour. *27:35 NU-Text and

M-Text omit the rest of this verse. Psalm 22:18
*27:41 M-Text reads with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders. *27:42 NU-Text reads He is
the King of Israel! NU-Text and M-Text read we
will believe in Him. *27:46 Psalm 22:1
whole human race, God had to turn away. Jesus felt

this separation, and many believe it was as much for
the dread of this as for the physical pain that Jesus
wept in the garden. Jesus cry to God is a quote from
Psalm 22:1, a messianic verse that the Jews should
have understood.
27:50 cried out again with a loud voice. The cry
referred to here by Matthew was, It is finished (John
19:30). This was not a cry of exhaustion, but a cry of
victory. The purpose for which Jesus came into the
world had been accomplished. Redemption from sin
had been purchased for all mankind.
27:51 the veil of the temple was torn in two from
top to bottom. The temple had two veils or curtains,
one in front of the holy place and the other separating the holy place from the Most Holy Place. These
curtains were heavy and very strong and thick. It was
the second of these that was torn, demonstrating
that through the death of Jesus, there was now open
access to God. Jesus blood covered our sins from
Gods sight.
27:31zIs. 53:7 27:32aHeb. 13:12 bMark 15:21
27:33cJohn 19:17 27:34dPs. 69:21 27:35eLuke
23:34 fPs. 22:18 27:36gMatt. 27:54 27:37hJohn
19:19 27:38iIs. 53:9, 12 27:39jMark 15:29
27:40kJohn 2:19 lMatt. 26:63 27:42m[John 3:14, 15]
27:43nPs. 22:8 27:44oLuke 23:3943 27:45pMark
15:3341 27:46q[Heb. 5:7] rPs. 22:1 27:48sPs.
69:21 27:50tLuke 23:46 u[John 10:18] 27:51vEx.
26:31
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Matthew 28:17 1091
52 and
the graves were opened; and many

bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep
were raised; 53and coming out of the graves
after His resurrection, they went into the
holy city and appeared to many.
54wSo when the centurion and those with
him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the
earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, xTruly
this was the Son of God!
55 And many women ywho followed
Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him,
were there looking on from afar, 56zamong
whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the
mother of James and Joses,* and the mother of Zebedees sons.
Jesus Buried inJosephs Tomb
57Now awhen evening had come, there

came a rich man from Arimathea, named
Joseph, who himself had also become a
disciple of Jesus. 58T his man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then
Pilate commanded the body to be given to
him. 59W hen Joseph had taken the body,
he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60and
blaid it in his new tomb which he had hewn
out of the rock; and he rolled a large stone
against the door of the tomb, and departed.
61And Mary Magdalene was there, and the
other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
Pilate Sets a Guard
62 On the next day, which followed the

Day of Preparation, the chief priests and
Pharisees gathered together to Pilate,
63 saying, Sir, we remember, while He was
still alive, how that deceiver said, cAfter
three days I will rise. 64T herefore command that the tomb be made secure until
the third day, lest His disciples come by
night* and steal Him away, and say to the
people, He has risen from the dead. So the
last deception will be worse than the first.
65Pilate said to them, You have a guard;
go your way, make it as secure as you
know how. 66 So they went and made the
tomb secure, dsealing the stone and setting
the guard.
He Is Risen
Now after the Sabbath, as the first

28
day of the week began to dawn, Mary
Magdalene and the other Mary came to
a
see the tomb. 2 And behold, there was a
27:57 a rich man of Arimathea. Josephs actions fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, they made His grave with
the wickedbut with the rich at His death (Is. 53:9).
28:2 rolled back the stone. The tomb was not
opened to allow Christ to come out; it was opened to
allow others to go in and see for themselves that it
was empty.
28:6 He is risen, as He said. Jesus predicted His resurrection to His disciples, even though they did not
understand Him (12:40; 16:21; 17:9,23; 26:32).
28:7 go quickly and tell. This is always the divine
great earthquake; for can angel of the Lord

descended from heaven, and came and
rolled back the stone from the door,* and
sat on it. 3dHis countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.
4 And the guards shook for fear of him, and
became like edead men.
5But the angel answered and said to the
women, Do not be afraid, for I know that
you seek Jesus who was crucified. 6He is
not here; for He is risen, fas He said. Come,
see the place where the Lord lay. 7And go
quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead, and indeed gHe is going
before you into Galilee; there you will see
Him. Behold, I have told you.
8 So they went out quickly from the tomb
with fear and great joy, and ran to bring
His disciples word.
The Women Worship theRisen Lord
9And as they went to tell His disciples,*

behold, hJesus met them, saying, Rejoice!
So they came and held Him by the feet and
worshiped Him. 10Then Jesus said to them,
Do not be afraid. Go and tell iMy brethren
to go to Galilee, and there they will see Me.
The Soldiers Are Bribed
11Now while they were going, behold,

some of the guard came into the city and
reported to the chief priests all the things
that had happened. 12W hen they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to
the soldiers, 13saying, Tell them, His disciples came at night and stole Him away
while we slept. 14 And if this comes to the
governors ears, we will appease him and
make you secure. 15So they took the money and did as they were instructed; and
this saying is commonly reported among
the Jews until this day.
The Great Commission
16T hen the eleven disciples went away

into Galilee, to the mountain j which Jesus
had appointed for them. 17When they
saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some
kdoubted.
*27:56 NU-Text reads Joseph. *27:64 NU-Text

omits by night. *28:2 NU-Text omits from the
door. *28:9 NU-Text omits the first clause of
this verse.
order: to tell others the good news that Jesus is alive

(v. 19).
27:54wMark 15:39 xMatt. 14:33 27:55yLuke
8:2, 3 27:56zMark 15:40, 47; 16:9 27:57aJohn
19:3842 27:60bIs. 53:9 27:63cMark 8:31; 10:34
27:66dDan. 6:17 28:1aLuke 24:110 bMatt. 27:56, 61
28:2cMark 16:5 28:3dDan. 7:9; 10:6 28:4eRev. 1:17
28:6fMatt. 12:40; 16:21; 17:23; 20:19 28:7gMark 16:7
28:9hJohn 20:14 28:10iJohn 20:17 28:16jMatt.
26:32; 28:7, 10 28:17kJohn 20:2429
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1092 Matthew 28:18
18 And Jesus came and spoke to them,
saying, l All authority has been given to
Me in heaven and on earth. 19mGo therefore* and nmake disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20oteaching them to observe all things that
I have commanded you; and lo, I am pwith

you always, even to the end of the age.
Amen.*
28:19 Why Share Our FaithThere are at least six

compelling reasons for sharing our faith in Christ with
those who have not experienced new life in Christ:
1. Because God has commanded us to do so (Acts
1:8).
2. Because it demonstrates our love for God. If we
truly love Him we will keep His commandments
(John 14:15).
3. Because all are lost without Christ (Rom.
3:10,23).
4. Because this is Gods chosen method: He could
use angels, but He only uses redeemed sinners
to tell lost sinners about Christ (Rom. 10:1417;

1Tim. 1:15).
5. Because God desires to save all people (Acts
4:12; 1Tim. 2:4; 2Pet. 3:9).
6. Because faith grows best when each generation
conscientiously strives to pass it on to the next.
28:20 I am with you always. Jesus is the true Immanuel, God with us (1:23; Heb. 13:56; Rev. 21:3).
*28:19 M-Text omits therefore. *28:20 NU-Text

omits Amen.
28:18l[Dan. 7:13, 14] 28:19mMark 16:15 nLuke 24:47

28:20o[Acts 2:42] p[Acts 4:31; 18:10; 23:11]
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
MARK
AUTHOR: According to Acts 12:12, Marks mother Mary had a large house that was
used as a meeting place for believers in Jerusalem. Barnabas was Marks cousin (Col.
4:10), but Peter may have been the person that led him to Christ (Peter called him
Mark my son in 1 Pet. 5:13). It was this close association with Peter that lent apostolic authority to Marks Gospel, since Peter was evidently Marks primary source of
information. It has been suggested that Mark was referring to himself in his account
of a certain young man in Gethsemane (14:51). Since all the disciples had abandoned Jesus (14:50), this little incident may have been a firsthand account.
TIME: c. a.d. 2933
KEY VERSES: Mark 8:3437
THEME: Mark is the shortest and simplest of the Gospels. He doesnt seem to be
telling the story in a way that appeals to a particular audience the way Matthew
does. He also does not use the well-developed thematic structure that characterizes John. One of the most common terms in the book is one that is translated immediately or at once. He uses this frequently as he moves from one anecdote to
another. Marks quickly paced Gospel is often confrontational, as he tells the story of
the gospel as clearly as possible. He wants the reader to respond, and almost seems
to be saying, Here is the truth, believe it, and lets get on with following Jesus.
John theBaptist Prepares theWay
The abeginning of the gospel of Jesus

Christ, bthe Son of God. 2As it is written
in the Prophets:*
cBehold, I send My messenger before
Your face,
Who will prepare Your way before
You. *
3 Thed voice of one crying in the
wilderness:
Prepare the way of the
Lord;
Make His paths straight.*
4eJohn came baptizing in the wilderness
and preaching a baptism of repentance for
1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Writing three decades after the resurrection of Christ,
Mark starts his narrative with a simple declaration
of the good news about Gods Son, the Lord Jesus
Christ. The gospel refers to the basic story of the good
news to be found in Christs life, ministry, death, and
resurrection.
1:23 As it is written. Other than by quoting Jesus,
Mark makes only one reference to the Old Testament.
1:4 John came baptizing. The mention of John without any introduction presupposes some knowledge
of the Christian faith on the part of Marks readers.
the remission of sins. This phrase does not mean
that one is baptized in order to receive forgiveness of
sins. The Greek preposition translated of in English
probably means with a view to, signifying that baptism looks to the forgiveness that God gives through
the gift of repentance.
the remission of sins. 5fThen all the land of

Judea, and those from Jerusalem, went out
to him and were all baptized by him in the
Jordan River, confessing their sins.
6 Now John was g clothed with camels
hair and with a leather belt around his
waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
7And he preached, saying, h There comes
One after me who is mightier than I, whose
sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down
and loose. 8iI indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you j with the Holy
Spirit.
*1:2 NU-Text reads Isaiah the prophet.Malachi
3:1 *1:3 Isaiah 40:3
1:5 were all baptized by him. Johns baptizing was a

recurring popular event that attracted large crowds.
Mark vividly portrays the continuous stream of followers who flocked to John. As each person was
baptized by John, he or she would admit to his or her
individual sin and need for the Messiah.
1:7 And he preached, saying. The tense of these
verbs indicates continuous action in past time. Johns
characteristic message was to promote expectancy
and acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:8 I indeed baptized you with water. The water is a
physical representation of the future life in the Spirit
that people who followed the Messiah would have.
1:1aLuke 3:22 bMatt. 14:33 1:2cMal. 3:1 1:3dIs.
40:3 1:4eMatt. 3:1 1:5fMatt. 3:5 1:6gMatt. 3:4
1:7hJohn 1:27 1:8iActs 1:5; 11:16 jIs. 44:3
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1094 Mark 1:9
John Baptizes Jesus
came to pass in those days that

Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee,
and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
10l And immediately, coming up from* the
water, He saw the heavens parting and the
Spirit mdescending upon Him like a dove.
11T hen a voice came from heaven, nYou
are My beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased.
9k It
Satan Tempts Jesus
12oImmediately the Spirit drove Him into

the wilderness. 13And He was there in the
wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan,
and was with the wild beasts; pand the angels ministered to Him.
Jesus Begins His Galilean Ministry
14qNow after John was put in prison,

Jesus came to Galilee, rpreaching the gospel of the kingdom* of God, 15and saying,
sThe time is fulfilled, and tthe kingdom of
God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the
gospel.
Four Fishermen Called as Disciples
16u And as He walked by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea; for they were
fishermen. 17Then Jesus said to them, Follow Me, and I will make you become vfishers of men. 18wThey immediately left their
nets and followed Him.
19W hen He had gone a little farther from
there, He saw James the son of Zebedee,
and John his brother, who also were in
the boat mending their nets. 20And immediately He called them, and they left their
father Zebedee in the boat with the hired
servants, and went after Him.
1:9 Jesus... was baptized by John. Because He had

no sins to repent of, Jesus baptism was unique. It
showed His identity with Johns work and with the
sinner for whom He would die. It also foreshadowed
His own death, burial, and resurrection for sinners.
1:11 a voice came from heaven. Three times during
Christs earthly ministry a voice came from heaven.
Here it was the Fathers testimony to Christs unique
and divine Sonship. The other two confirming incidents were at the transfiguration (9:7) and on the day
of Christs triumphal entry into Jerusalem (John 12:28).
1:13 angels ministered to Him. Mark is the only Gospel that mentions these angels.
1:15 kingdom of God. The kingdom was the subject
of much Old Testament prophecy, and the theme
was familiar to Jesus listeners. Repent, and believe.
These are both acts of faith. When a person accepts
the only true and worthy object of faith, that person
readily turns from inferior substitutes.
1:19 James... John. The scenes of verses 1620 are
very colorful. Simon and Andrew are fishing when we
encounter them. James and John are mending their
nets. Such details indicate the testimony of an eyewitness, probably Peter.
1:21 Capernaum. This city is now in ruins, and sits
Jesus Casts Out an Unclean Spirit
21xT hen they went into Capernaum, and

immediately on the Sabbath He entered the
ysynagogue and taught. 22zAnd they were
astonished at His teaching, for He taught
them as one having authority, and not as
the scribes.
23Now there was a man in their synagogue with an aunclean spirit. And he cried
out, 24saying, Let us alone! bWhat have we
to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You
come to destroy us? I cknow who You are
the dHoly One of God!
25But Jesus erebuked him, saying, Be
quiet, and come out of him! 26And when
the unclean spirit fhad convulsed him and
cried out with a loud voice, he came out
of him. 27T hen they were all amazed, so
that they questioned among themselves,
saying, What is this? What new doctrine
is this? For with authority* He commands
even the unclean spirits, and they obey
Him. 28And immediately His gfame spread
throughout all the region around Galilee.
Peters Mother-in-Law Healed
29h Now as soon as they had come out of

the synagogue, they entered the house of
Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
30But Simons wifes mother lay sick with a
fever, and they told Him about her at once.
31So He came and took her by the hand and
lifted her up, and immediately the fever left
her. And she served them.
Many Healed After Sabbath Sunset
32i At evening, when the sun had set,

they brought to Him all who were sick and
*1:10 NU-Text reads out of. *1:14 NU-Text omits

of the kingdom. *1:27 NU-Text reads What is
this? A new doctrine with authority.
beside the northern edge of the Sea of Galilee. It is

mentioned 22 times in the Gospels. By contrast, only
one recorded event during Christs ministry occurred
at Nazareth (Luke 4:16).
1:22 they were astonished at His teaching. Christs
teaching differed from that of scribes and Pharisees
because He did not lean on the wisdom of other
teachers and rabbis. His authority came from Himself.
1:28 His fame spread throughout all the region
around Galilee. Mark notes the extent of recognition
this great miracle brought Jesus. He also creates suspense by contrasting the people who received Christ
with the Pharisees and rulers who worked to bring
about His death.
1:9kMatt. 3:1317 1:10lMatt. 3:16 mActs
10:38 1:11nMatt. 3:17; 12:18 1:12oMatt.
4:111 1:13pMatt. 4:10, 11 1:14qMatt. 4:12 rMatt.
4:23 1:15s[Gal. 4:4] tMatt. 3:2; 4:17 1:16uLuke
5:211 1:17vMatt. 13:47, 48 1:18w[Luke 14:26]
1:21xLuke 4:3137 yMatt. 4:23 1:22zMatt. 7:28,
29; 13:54 1:23a[Matt. 12:43] 1:24bMatt. 8:28, 29
cJames 2:19 dPs. 16:10 1:25e[Luke 4:39] 1:26fMark
9:20 1:28gMatt. 4:24; 9:31 1:29hLuke 4:38, 39
1:32iMatt. 8:16, 17
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 2:14 1095
those who were demon-possessed. 33And
the whole city was gathered together at
the door. 34Then He healed many who
were sick with various diseases, and jcast
out many demons; and He kdid not allow
the demons to speak, because they knew
Him.
Preaching inGalilee
35Now l in the morning, having risen a

long while before daylight, He went out
and departed to a solitary place; and there
He mprayed. 36And Simon and those who
were with Him searched for Him. 37When
they found Him, they said to Him, nEveryone ois looking for You.
38But He said to them, pLet us go into
the next towns, that I may preach there
also, because qfor this purpose I have come
forth.
39rAnd He was preaching in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and scasting out demons.
Jesus Cleanses a Leper
40tNow a leper came to Him, imploring

Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to
Him, If You are willing, You can make me
clean.
41Then Jesus, moved with u compassion, stretched out His hand and touched
him, and said to him, I am willing; be
cleansed. 42 As soon as He had spoken,
vimmediately the leprosy left him, and he
was cleansed. 43And He strictly warned
him and sent him away at once, 44and said
to him, See that you say nothing to anyone; but go your way, show yourself to the
priest, and offer for your cleansing those
things wwhich Moses commanded, as a
testimony to them.
45x However, he went out and began to
proclaim it freely, and to spread the matter, so that Jesus could no longer openly
enter the city, but was outside in deserted
places; yand they came to Him from every
direction.
1:35 there He prayed. The verb tense indicates Jesus

prayed continuously. Jesus prayer life was successful because it was planned, private, and prolonged.
He got up early enough, got far enough away, and
stayed at it long enough.
1:44 say nothing to anyone. Jesus demand has several plausible explanations: (1) The report of Jesus
healing the man may have prejudiced the priest who
needed to pronounce him clean; (2) Jesus did not
want to be known primarily as a miracle worker, so
He often commanded those who received His healing
to remain quiet; and (3) the mans testimony would
possibly have hastened the confrontation between
Jesus and the religious leaders.
2:5 saw their faith. Not only did the four men have
faith, but the paralytic himself had it too. When Jesus
announced to him, your sins are forgiven you, He
was implicitly acknowledging the paralytics trust
that He was the Messiah.
2:67 some of the scribes. Mark notes the opposition
Jesus Forgives and Heals a

Paralytic
And again He entered Capernaum

2He after
some days, and it was heard that
was in the house. Immediately* many
a
gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the
door. And He preached the word to them.
3T hen they came to Him, bringing a bparalytic who was carried by four men. 4 And
when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof
where He was. So when they had broken
through, they let down the bed on which
the paralytic was lying.
5W hen Jesus saw their faith, He said to
the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven
you.
6 And some of the scribes were sitting
there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 Why
does this Man speak blasphemies like this?
cW ho can forgive sins but God alone?
8But immediately, when Jesus perceived
in His spirit that they reasoned thus within
themselves, He said to them, Why do you
reason about these things in your hearts?
9dW hich is easier, to say to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven you, or to say,
Arise, take up your bed and walk? 10But
that you may know that the Son of Man has
power on earth to forgive sinsHe said to
the paralytic, 11I say to you, arise, take up
your bed, and go to your house. 12Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went
out in the presence of them all, so that all
were amazed and eglorified God, saying,
We never saw anything like this!
Matthew theTax Collector
13fT hen He went out again by the sea;

and all the multitude came to Him, and He
taught them. 14gAs He passed by, He saw
Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax
office. And He said to him, h Follow Me.
So he arose and ifollowed Him.
*2:2 NU-Text omits Immediately.
of the scribes, who under their breath accused Jesus

of blasphemy. In Christs day the scribes were commonly called lawyers.
2:11 arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.
By healing the paralytic, Jesus made His pronouncement of forgiveness far more credible.
2:13 He taught them. Jesus regularly taught the
multitudes in retreat settings. This is indicated by the
continuous tense of the verbs used here. They kept
on coming and Jesus kept on teaching.
1:34jLuke 13:32 kActs 16:17, 18 1:35lLuke 4:42,
43 mLuke 5:16; 6:12; 9:28, 29 1:37nJohn 3:26; 12:19
o[Heb. 11:6] 1:38pLuke 4:43 q[Is. 61:1, 2] 1:39rMatt.
4:23; 9:35 sMark 5:8, 13; 7:29, 30 1:40tLuke 5:1214
1:41uLuke 7:13 1:42vMatt. 15:28 1:44wLev. 14:132
1:45xLuke 5:15 yMark 2:2, 13; 3:7 2:1aMatt. 9:1
2:3bMatt. 4:24; 8:6 2:7cIs. 43:25 2:9dMatt. 9:5
2:12e[Phil. 2:11] 2:13fMatt. 9:9 2:14gLuke 5:2732
hJohn 1:43; 12:26; 21:22 iLuke 18:28
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1096 Mark 2:15
15jNow it happened, as He was dining
in Levis house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with
Jesus and His disciples; for there were
many, and they followed Him. 16And when
the scribes and* Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners,
they said to His disciples, How is it that
He eats and drinks with tax collectors and
sinners?
17W hen Jesus heard it, He said to them,
k Those who are well have no need of a
physician, but those who are sick. I did not
come to call the righteous, but sinners, to
repentance.*
Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting

18lThe
disciples of John and of the

Pharisees were fasting. Then they came
and said to Him, Why do the disciples of
John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your
disciples do not fast?
19 And Jesus said to them, Can the
friends of the bridegroom fast while the
bridegroom is with them? As long as they
have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come when
the bridegroom will be mtaken away from
them, and then they will fast in those
days. 21No one sews a piece of unshrunk
cloth on an old garment; or else the new
piece pulls away from the old, and the
tear is made worse. 22 And no one puts
new wine into old wineskins; or else the
new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine
is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined.
But new wine must be put into new wineskins.
Jesus Is Lord oftheSabbath
23n Now it happened that He went

through the grainfields on the Sabbath;
and as they went His disciples began oto
pluck the heads of grain. 24 And the Pharisees said to Him, Look, why do they do
what is pnot lawful on the Sabbath?
2:18 fast. Jesus was not against fasting, if properly

observed. He gave guidelines for fasting in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 6:1618). Here, the Pharisees fasting, perhaps twice each week (Luke 18:12),
is contrasted with Jesus feasting probably at Levis
house.
2:2122 No one sews... no one puts. Mark records
only four of Jesus parables
two of which he
includes here. The comparison implies that the newness of His message, and of the new covenant to follow, cannot fit into the old molds of Judaism. The Old
Testament was preparation for the New Testament
(Gal. 3:1925).
2:24 what is not lawful on the Sabbath. The point
to the Pharisees accusation against Jesus and His
disciples was that they had performed work on the
Sabbath, but their charge was dubious. The act of
plucking grain should not be confused with Sabbath
work condemned by the law (Ex. 31:15). This incident
is further proof of rising opposition to Jesus ministry.
3:5 when He had looked around at them with
25But He said to them, Have you never read qwhat David did when he was in
need and hungry, he and those with him:
26how he went into the house of God in the
days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate
the showbread, rwhich is not lawful to eat
except for the priests, and also gave some
to those who were with him?
27And He said to them, The Sabbath
was made for man, and not man for the
s Sabbath. 28T herefore tthe Son of Man is
also Lord of the Sabbath.
Healing ontheSabbath
He entered the synagogue again,

3eredAnd
and a man was there who had a withhand. So they watched Him closely,
a
whether He would cheal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. 3And
He said to the man who had the withered
hand, Step forward. 4T hen He said to
them, Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do
good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But
they kept silent. 5And when He had looked
around at them with anger, being grieved
by the d hardness of their hearts, He said
to the man, Stretch out your hand. And
he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.* 6eThen the
Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with f the Herodians against Him, how
they might destroy Him.
A Great Multitude Follows Jesus
7But Jesus withdrew with His disciples

to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, gand from Judea 8 and
Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the
Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon,
a great multitude, when they heard how
h many things He was doing, came to Him.
9 So He told His disciples that a small boat
*2:16 NU-Text reads of the. *2:17 NU-Text omits

to repentance. *3:5 NU-Text omits as whole as
the other.
anger. It is possible, as Paul exhorts, to be angry and

not sin (Eph. 4:26). Jesus demonstrated this righteous
anger. He was grieved with sin but did not sin Himself
by retaliating or losing control of His emotions.
3:6 Herodians. The Pharisees were religious experts
who should have led the people in righteousness.
Instead they plotted Jesus death with the Herodians,
their bitter enemies. They were willing to set aside
differences to destroy a common foe. The Herodians
were Jews who supported Rome and the Herods in
particular. Herod Antipas, a son of Herod the Great,
ruled Galilee during the same time that Pilate served
as Roman governor over Judea and Samaria.
2:15jMatt. 9:10 2:17kMatt. 9:12, 13; 18:11
2:18lLuke 5:3338 2:20mActs 1:9; 13:2, 3; 14:23
2:23nLuke 6:15 oDeut. 23:25 2:24pEx. 20:10; 31:15
2:25q1Sam. 21:16 2:26rLev. 24:59 2:27sDeut.
5:14 2:28tMatt. 12:8 3:1aLuke 6:611 3:2bLuke
14:1; 20:20 cLuke 13:14 3:5dZech. 7:12 3:6eMark
12:13 fMatt. 22:16 3:7gLuke 6:17 3:8hMark 5:19
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 4:2 1097
should be kept ready for Him because of
the multitude, lest they should crush Him.
10For He healed i many, so that as many as
had afflictions pressed about Him to j touch
Him. 11k And the unclean spirits, whenever
they saw Him, fell down before Him and
cried out, saying, l You are the Son of
God. 12But mHe sternly warned them that
they should not make Him known.
The Twelve Apostles
13n And He went up on the mountain and

called to Him those He Himself wanted.
And they came to Him. 14Then He appointed twelve,* that they might be with Him
and that He might send them out to preach,
15and to have power to heal sicknesses and*
to cast out demons: 16Simon,* oto whom He
gave the name Peter; 17James the son of
Zebedee and John the brother of James, to
whom He gave the name Boanerges, that
is, Sons of Thunder; 18 Andrew, Philip,
Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James
the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the
Cananite; 19and Judas Iscariot, who also
betrayed Him. And they went into a house.
A House Divided Cannot Stand
20T hen the multitude came together

again, pso that they could not so much as eat
bread. 21But when His qown people heard
about this, they went out to lay hold of Him,
rfor they said, He is out of His mind.
22 And the scribes who came down from
Jerusalem said, sHe has Beelzebub, and,
By the truler of the demons He casts out
demons.
23u So He called them to Himself and
said to them in parables: How can Satan
cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided
against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25And if a house is divided against itself,
that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan
has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. 27vNo
3:1112 He sternly warned them that they should

not make Him known. Jesus rebuked the demons
who proclaimed You are the Son of God. This
was not because the demons incorrectly identified
Jesus, but because their testimony was untrustworthy.
3:1619 gave the name Peter. Jesus gave Peter
a new name because it was the Jewish custom
to rename someone who had experienced a lifechanging event. This renaming of the disciples has
similarities to the renaming of Abram (Gen. 17:35)
and of Saul (Acts 9).
3:27 strong man. Whoever defeats Satan must be
stronger than he. Jesus implies that He Himself has
come to enter the house of the strong man, Satan, to
seize his goods (1John 3:8).
3:2830 he who blasphemes against the Holy
Spirit. This person places himself or herself outside
the redeeming grace of God. It is apparently not a single act of defiant behavior, but a continued state of
opposition entered into willingly. The tense of they
said indicates a continued action, not a one-time
event. The words and works of Christ were spoken
one can enter a strong mans house and

plunder his goods, unless he first binds
the strong man. And then he will plunder
his house.
The Unpardonable Sin
28wAssuredly, I say to you, all sins will

be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever
blasphemies they may utter; 29but he who
blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never
has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal
condemnation 30because they xsaid, He
has an unclean spirit.
Jesus Mother and Brothers Send

for Him
31yT hen His brothers and His mother

came, and standing outside they sent to
Him, calling Him. 32And a multitude was
sitting around Him; and they said to Him,
Look, Your mother and Your brothers*
are outside seeking You.
33But He answered them, saying, Who
is My mother, or My brothers? 34 And He
looked around in a circle at those who sat
about Him, and said, Here are My mother
and My brothers! 35For whoever does the
zwill of God is My brother and My sister
and mother.
The Parable oftheSower
again He began to teach by the

4eredAnd
sea. And a great multitude was gathto Him, so that He got into a boat and
a
sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude

was on the land facing the sea. 2Then He
taught them many things by parables, band
said to them in His teaching:
*3:14 NU-Text adds whom He also named apostles. *3:15 NU-Text omits to heal sicknesses
and. *3:16 NU-Text reads and He appointed the
twelve: Simon . *3:32 NU-Text and M-Text add
and Your sisters.
and performed by the power of the Holy Spirit. To

attribute them to Satan is to call the work of heaven
a work of hell. For such perverse belief there is no
remedy. How someone can commit this sin today is a
difficult question to answer, but those who persist in
denigrating Christ by insulting His work or by attributing it to Satan may drive themselves past a point of
no return (Matt. 12:3132).
3:31 His brothers and His mother. Opposition
arose from Jesus own immediate family. We are not
told precisely what they wanted to say, but it likely
involved a concern for Jesus safety or reputation,
since He was becoming widely known as a preaching
prophet and a worker of miracles.
3:10iLuke 7:21 jMatt. 9:21; 14:36 3:11kLuke 4:41
lMatt. 8:29; 14:33 3:12mMark 1:25, 34 3:13nLuke
9:1 3:16oJohn 1:42 3:20pMark 6:31 3:21qMark
6:3 rJohn 7:5; 10:20 3:22sMatt. 9:34; 10:25 t[John
12:31; 14:30; 16:11] 3:23uMatt. 12:2529 3:27v[Is.
49:24, 25] 3:28wLuke 12:10 3:30xMatt. 9:34
3:31yMatt. 12:4650 3:35zEph. 6:6 4:1aLuke
8:410 4:2bMark 12:38
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1098 Mark 4:3
3 Listen! Behold, a sower went out to
sow. 4 And it happened, as he sowed, that
some seed fell by the wayside; and the
birds of the air* came and devoured it.
5 Some fell on stony ground, where it did
not have much earth; and immediately
it sprang up because it had no depth of
earth. 6 But when the sun was up it was
scorched, and because it had no root
it withered away. 7And some seed fell
among thorns; and the thorns grew up
and choked it, and it yielded no crop. 8But
other seed fell on good ground and yielded
a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and
some a hundred.
9And He said to them,* He who has ears
to hear, let him hear!
The Purpose ofParables
10cBut when He was alone, those around

Him with the twelve asked Him about the
parable. 11 And He said to them, To you
it has been given to d know the mystery
of the kingdom of God; but to ethose who
are outside, all things come in parables,
12 so that
f Seeing
they may see and not perceive,

And hearing they may hear and not
understand;
Lest they should turn,
And their sins be forgiven them. *
The Parable oftheSower Explained
13 And He said to them, Do you not

understand this parable? How then will you
understand all the parables? 14gThe sower
sows the word. 15And these are the ones by
the wayside where the word is sown. When
they hear, Satan comes immediately and
takes away the word that was sown in their
hearts. 16These likewise are the ones sown
on stony ground who, when they hear the
word, immediately receive it with gladness;
4:38 a sower went out to sow. The point of the

parable is that the condition of the soil determines
the potential for growth. The principle is true for
Christians and non-Christians alike. Those who have
become complacent and lackadaisical are not likely
to receive the Word with benefit (James 1:225).
4:11 To you it has been given to know the mystery.
In Scripture, a mystery is a truth God has revealed or
will reveal at the proper time (Rom. 16:2526). Jesus
apparently used parables for several reasons. First,
they are interesting and grab the listeners attention. Second, such stories are easily remembered.
Third, they reveal truth to those who are ready spiritually to receive it. Fourth, they conceal truth from
those who oppose Christs message. Frequently
Jesus opponents failed to understand the lessons
because of their own spiritual blindness (Matt.
21:4546).
4:20 hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit. Only
one soil produces fruit. Such a person recognizes
Gods call, determines to follow it, and experiences a
profound transformation.
17and
they have no root in themselves,

and so endure only for a time. Afterward,
when tribulation or persecution arises for
the words sake, immediately they stumble. 18Now these are the ones sown among
thorns; they are the ones who hear the
word, 19and the hcares of this world, i the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it
becomes unfruitful. 20But these are the ones
sown on good ground, those who hear the
word, accept it, and bear jfruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.
Light Under a Basket
21k Also He said to them, Is a lamp

brought to be put under a basket or under
a bed? Is it not to be set on a lampstand?
22l For there is nothing hidden which will
not be revealed, nor has anything been
kept secret but that it should come to light.
23m If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.
24Then He said to them, Take heed what
you hear. nWith the same measure you use,
it will be measured to you; and to you who
hear, more will be given. 25oFor whoever
has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be
taken away from him.
The Parable oftheGrowing Seed
26 And He said, pThe kingdom of God

is as if a man should scatter seed on the
ground, 27and should sleep by night and
rise by day, and the seed should sprout
and qgrow, he himself does not know how.
28For the earth ryields crops by itself: first
the blade, then the head, after that the full
grain in the head. 29But when the grain
ripens, immediately she puts in the sickle,
because the harvest has come.
*4:4 NU-Text and M-Text omit of the

air. *4:9 NU-Text and M-Text omit to them.
*4:12 Isaiah 6:9, 10
4:2123 a lamp. These were small clay vessels that

burned a wick set in olive oil. Like the lamp, Jesus
teachings reveal the motives of the human heart.
4:2629 The kingdom of God is as if. Plants develop
in a complex, intricate process that humans still do
not fully understand even two thousand years after
Jesus spoke these words. Yet plants grow and bear
fruit and seeds just the same. Gods kingdom likewise
is growing, although we do not understand all that
is happening. This parable, which appears only in
Marks Gospel, presents Gods kingdom in brief, from
first sowing to final reaping.
4:10cLuke 8:9 4:11d[1Cor. 2:1016] e[Col.

4:5] 4:12fIs. 6:9, 10; 43:8 4:14gMatt. 13:1823
4:19hLuke 21:34 i1Tim. 6:9, 10, 17 4:20j[Rom. 7:4]
4:21kMatt. 5:15 4:22lMatt. 10:26, 27 4:23mMatt.
11:15; 13:9, 43 4:24nMatt. 7:2 4:25oLuke 8:18; 19:26
4:26p[Matt. 13:2430, 3643] 4:27q[2Pet. 3:18]
4:28r[John 12:24] 4:29sRev. 14:15
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 5:20 1099
The Parable oftheMustard Seed
30T hen He said, tTo what shall we liken
the kingdom of God? Or with what parable

shall we picture it? 31It is like a mustard
seed which, when it is sown on the ground,
is smaller than all the seeds on earth; 32but
when it is sown, it grows up and becomes
greater than all herbs, and shoots out large
branches, so that the birds of the air may
nest under its shade.
Jesus Use ofParables
33u And with many such parables He

spoke the word to them as they were able to
hear it. 34But without a parable He did not
speak to them. And when they were alone,
vHe explained all things to His disciples.
Wind and Wave Obey Jesus
35wOn the same day, when evening had

come, He said to them, Let us cross over
to the other side. 36Now when they had left
the multitude, they took Him along in the
boat as He was. And other little boats were
also with Him. 37And a great windstorm
arose, and the waves beat into the boat,
so that it was already filling. 38But He was
in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they
awoke Him and said to Him, xTeacher, ydo
You not care that we are perishing?
39T hen He arose and zrebuked the wind,
and said to the sea, aPeace, be still! And
the wind ceased and there was a great
calm. 40But He said to them, Why are
you so fearful? bHow is it that you have
no faith?* 41And they feared exceedingly,
and said to one another, Who can this be,
that even the wind and the sea obey Him!
A Demon-Possessed Man Healed
they came to the other side of the

5AndThen
sea, to the country of the Gadarenes.*
when He had come out of the boat,
a
immediately there met Him out of the

tombs a man with an bunclean spirit, 3who
had his dwelling among the tombs; and no
one could bind him,* not even with chains,
4 because he had often been bound with
shackles and chains. And the chains had
been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone
4:35 cross over to the other side. The Sea of Galilee

is about eight miles wide and twelve miles long. Its
unique geography produces a greatly varying climate.
It is 700 feet below sea level with mountains that rise
3,0004,000 feet around it. It is not unusual for sudden windstorms to appear during the evening hours.
The warm tropical air from the lakes surface rises and
meets the colder air from the nearby hills. The resulting turbulences and winds can be treacherous.
4:41 Who can this be. Mark uses the disciples question to evoke a similar response in the minds of his
readers. Mark relates the works and words of the one
he calls Jesus Christ, the Son of God (1:1).
5:1 the country of the Gadarenes. This area is on the
eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The form of the
name varies (Matt. 8:28; Luke 8:26,37).
tame him. 5And always, night and day, he

was in the mountains and in the tombs,
crying out and cutting himself with stones.
6W hen he saw Jesus from afar, he ran
and worshiped Him. 7And he cried out
with a loud voice and said, What have I to
do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High
God? I cimplore You by God that You do not
torment me.
8For He said to him, d Come out of the
man, unclean spirit! 9Then He asked him,
What is your name?
And he answered, saying, My name is
Legion; for we are many. 10Also he begged
Him earnestly that He would not send them
out of the country.
11Now a large herd of e swine was feeding there near the mountains. 12So all the
demons begged Him, saying, Send us to
the swine, that we may enter them. 13And
at once Jesus* gave them permission. Then
the unclean spirits went out and entered
the swine (there were about two thousand);
and the herd ran violently down the steep
place into the sea, and drowned in the sea.
14 So those who fed the swine fled, and
they told it in the city and in the country.
And they went out to see what it was that
had happened. 15Then they came to Jesus,
and saw the one who had been f demon-
possessed and had the legion, gsitting and
hclothed and in his right mind. And they
were afraid. 16And those who saw it told
them how it happened to him who had been
demon-possessed, and about the swine.
17T hen i they began to plead with Him to
depart from their region.
18 And when He got into the boat, jhe
who had been demon-possessed begged
Him that he might be with Him. 19However, Jesus did not permit him, but said
to him, Go home to your friends, and tell
them what great things the Lord has done
for you, and how He has had compassion
on you. 20And he departed and began to
kproclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had
done for him; and all lmarveled.
*4:40 NU-Text reads Have you still no faith?
*5:1 NU-Text reads Gerasenes. *5:3 NU-Text
adds anymore. *5:13 NU-Text reads And He
gave.
5:1720 they began to plead with Him to depart

from their region. Jesus was not well received in this
region. His presence had cost financial loss to some,
although it meant liberation to the demoniac. Jesus
could have healed and saved in that region, but He
was turned away by its fearful citizens. Decapolis.
4:30tMatt. 13:31, 32 4:33uMatt. 13:34,
35 4:34vLuke 24:27, 45 4:35wLuke 8:22,
25 4:38x[Matt. 23:810] yPs. 44:23 4:39zLuke
4:39 aPs. 65:7; 89:9; 93:4; 104:6, 7 4:40bMatt.
14:31, 32 5:1aMatt. 8:2834 5:2bMark 1:23; 7:25
5:7cActs 19:13 5:8dMark 1:25; 9:25 5:11eDeut.
14:8 5:15fMatt. 4:24; 8:16 gLuke 10:39 h[Is. 61:10]
5:17iActs 16:39 5:18jLuke 8:38, 39 5:20kPs. 66:16
lMatt. 9:8, 33
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1100 Mark 5:21
A Girl Restored toLife and a

Woman Healed
21m Now when Jesus had crossed over

again by boat to the other side, a great
multitude gathered to Him; and He was
by the sea. 22n And behold, one of the
rulers of the synagogue came, Jairus by
name. And when he saw Him, he fell at
His feet 23and begged Him earnestly, saying, My little daughter lies at the point of
death. Come and olay Your hands on her,
that she may be healed, and she will live.
24 So Jesus went with him, and a great
multitude followed Him and thronged
Him.
25Now a certain woman phad a flow of
blood for twelve years, 26and had suffered
many things from many physicians. She
had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. 27W hen she
heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in
the crowd and qtouched His garment. 28For
she said, If only I may touch His clothes, I
shall be made well.
29Immediately the fountain of her blood
was dried up, and she felt in her body that
she was healed of the affliction. 30And
Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself
that rpower had gone out of Him, turned
around in the crowd and said, Who
touched My clothes?
31But His disciples said to Him, You see
the multitude thronging You, and You say,
Who touched Me?
32 And He looked around to see her who
had done this thing. 33But the woman,
sfearing and trembling, knowing what had
happened to her, came and fell down before
Him and told Him the whole truth. 34 And
He said to her, Daughter, tyour faith has
made you well. uGo in peace, and be healed
of your affliction.
35vW hile He was still speaking, some
came from the ruler of the synagogues
This literally means ten cities. This largely Gentile,

Greek-speaking area was an important strategic link
in Romes military defense.
5:22 one of the rulers of the synagogue. Jairus was
a lay leader charged with supervising services at the
synagogue.
5:26 suffered many things from many physicians.
Mark is not complimentary toward the physicians
who had treated this woman.
5:2930 Immediately. This word is used twice in this
context. Both the woman and Jesus simultaneously
knew what had happened. Who touched My clothes?
Jesus turned when He was touched and confronted
the woman before she disappeared. He wanted to correct any mistaken notion she may have had about her
healing. It was not any magical quality of His clothing
but His divine will that had made her well.
5:33 told Him the whole truth. Jesus kind manner and tender words must have eased the fear this
woman had of being revealed. Naturally, the time
that Jesus took to care for the woman must have worried the already tense disciples.
5:34 Daughter. Jesus used this tender word to
house who said, Your daughter is dead.

Why trouble the Teacher any further?
36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that
was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue, Do not be afraid; only wbelieve.
37And He permitted no one to follow Him
except Peter, James, and John the brother
of James. 38Then He came to the house of
the ruler of the synagogue, and saw a tumult and those who xwept and wailed loudly. 39W hen He came in, He said to them,
Why make this commotion and weep?
The child is not dead, but ysleeping.
40And they ridiculed Him. zBut when He
had put them all outside, He took the father and the mother of the child, and those
who were with Him, and entered where
the child was lying. 41T hen He took the
child by the hand, and said to her, Talitha,
cumi, which is translated, Little girl, I say
to you, arise. 42Immediately the girl arose
and walked, for she was twelve years of
age. And they were aovercome with great
amazement. 43But bHe commanded them
strictly that no one should know it, and said
that something should be given her to eat.
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
Then He went out from there and came

to His own country, and His disciples
6followed
Him. And when the Sabbath had
a
come, He began to teach in the synagogue.

And many hearing Him were bastonished,
saying, cWhere did this Man get these
things? And what wisdom is this which is
given to Him, that such mighty works are
performed by His hands! 3Is this not the
carpenter, the Son of Mary, and dbrother of
James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are
not His sisters here with us? So they ewere
offended at Him.
4 But Jesus said to them, f A prophet is
not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his
address this woman, and He noted that her faith
made the difference, for it was correctly placed in
Him. Faith itself does not healit is the proper object
of that faith, Jesus, who heals.
5:43 He commanded them strictly. The command
to keep the miracle a secret was a temporary measure, for certainly the girls appearance could not be
hidden very long. Such orders would, however, allow
Jesus to exit quietly. Jesus did not want to be known
primarily as a miracle worker, lest people seek Him for
the wrong reasons.
6:4 A prophet is not without honor except in his
own country. This maxim is still repeated and is still
5:21mLuke 8:40 5:22nMatt. 9:1826 5:23oActs
9:17; 28:8 5:25pLev. 15:19, 25 5:27qMatt. 14:35, 36
5:30rLuke 6:19; 8:46 5:33s[Ps. 89:7] 5:34tMatt.
9:22 uLuke 7:50; 8:48 5:35vLuke 8:49 5:36w[John
11:40] 5:38xActs 9:39 5:39yJohn 11:4, 11
5:40zActs 9:40 5:42aMark 1:27; 7:37 5:43b[Matt.
8:4; 12:1619; 17:9] 6:1aMatt. 13:54 6:2bMatt. 7:28
cJohn 6:42 6:3dMatt. 12:46 e[Matt. 11:6] 6:4fJohn
4:44
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 6:33 1101
was a just and holy man, and he protected
him. And when he heard him, he did many
things, and heard him gladly.
21xT hen an opportune day came when
Herod yon his birthday gave a feast for his
nobles, the high officers, and the chief men
of Galilee. 22And when Herodias daughter
herself came in and danced, and pleased
Sending Out theTwelve
7jAnd He called the twelve to Himself,
Herod and those who sat with him, the
and began to send them out ktwo by two, king said to the girl, Ask me whatever you
and gave them power over unclean spir- want, and I will give it to you. 23He also
its. 8He commanded them to take nothing swore to her, zWhatever you ask me, I will
for the journey except a staffno bag, no give you, up to half my kingdom.
24 So she went out and said to her mother,
bread, no copper in their money belts
What shall I ask?
9 but l to wear sandals, and not to put on
And she said, The head of John the
two tunics.
Baptist!
10m Also He said to them, In whatever
25Immediately she came in with haste to
place you enter a house, stay there till you
depart from that place. 11n And whoever* the king and asked, saying, I want you to
will not receive you nor hear you, when you give me at once the head of John the Bapon a platter.
depart from there, oshake off the dust un- tist26a
And the king was exceedingly sorry;
der your feet as a testimony against them.*
Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tol- yet, because of the oaths and because of
with him, he did not want to
erable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day those who sat
refuse her. 27Immediately the king sent an
of judgment than for that city!
executioner and commanded his head to be
12 So they went out and preached that
people should repent. 13 And they cast brought.28And he went and beheaded him in
out many demons, pand anointed with oil prison, brought his head on a platter, and
gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her
many who were sick, and healed them.
mother. 29W hen his disciples heard of it,
they came and btook away his corpse and
John theBaptist Beheaded
laid it in a tomb.
14qNow King Herod heard of Him, for
His name had become well known. And Feeding theFive Thousand
he said, John the Baptist is risen from the
30cT hen the apostles gathered to Jesus
dead, and therefore rthese powers are at
and
told Him all things, both what they had
work in him.
done and what they had taught. 31d And He
15sOthers said, It is Elijah.
And others said, It is the Prophet, tor* said to them, Come aside by yourselves
to a deserted place and rest a while. For
like one of the prophets.
ethere were many coming and going, and
16u But when Herod heard, he said, This
they did not even have time to eat. 32f So
is John, whom I beheaded; he has been they departed to a deserted place in the
raised from the dead! 17For Herod himself boat by themselves.
had sent and laid hold of John, and bound
33But the multitudes* saw them departhim in prison for the sake of Herodias, his ing, and many gknew Him and ran there
brother Philips wife; for he had married on foot from all the cities. They arrived
her. 18Because John had said to Herod, vIt before them and came together to Him.
is not lawful for you to have your brothers
wife.
*6:11 NU-Text reads whatever place.NU-
Text
19Therefore Herodias held it against him
omits the rest of this verse. *6:15 NU-Text and
and wanted to kill him, but she could not; M-Text omit or. *6:33 NU-Text and M-Text read
20for Herod wfeared John, knowing that he
they.
own house. 5gNow He could do no mighty
work there, except that He laid His hands
on a few sick people and healed them.
6 And h He marveled because of their unbelief. iThen He went about the villages in a
circuit, teaching.
true today. Perhaps others were jealous of Jesus popularity and huge following. Their envy even took the
form of violence against Christ (Luke 4:29).
6:14 King Herod. This is Herod Antipas, one of the
sons of Herod the Great, the king who tried to kill
the baby Jesus (Matt. 2:118). After Herod the Greats
death in 4 b.c. his kingdom was divided between
Archelaus, who received Judea and Samaria; Philip,
who ruled Iturea and Trachonitis, north and east
of Galilee; and Antipas, who controlled Galilee and
Perea from 4 b.c. to a.d. 39. Jesus ministered largely in
the territory ruled by Antipas.
6:18 not lawful. Johns message to Herod was that
his divorce was not lawful as grounds for remarriage.
Johns declaration could be based on Jesus stern
words about divorce (10:1112) or on Leviticus 20:21,

which prohibits a man from taking his brothers wife.
6:23 up to half my kingdom. This is an expression
meaning a large amount but with some limits.
6:5gGen. 19:22; 32:25 6:6hIs. 59:16 iMatt. 9:35
6:7jMark 3:13, 14 k[Eccl. 4:9, 10] 6:9l[Eph. 6:15]
6:10mMatt. 10:11 6:11nMatt. 10:14 oActs 13:51;
18:6 6:13p[James 5:14] 6:14qLuke 9:79 rLuke
19:37 6:15sMark 8:28 tMatt. 21:11 6:16uLuke 3:19
6:18vLev. 18:16; 20:21 6:20wMatt. 14:5; 21:26
6:21xMatt. 14:6 yGen. 40:20 6:23z Esth. 5:3, 6, 7:2
6:26aMatt. 14:9 6:29b1Kin. 13:29, 30 6:30cLuke
9:10 6:31dMatt. 14:13 eMark 3:20 6:32fMatt.
14:1321 6:33g[Col. 1:6]
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1102 Mark 6:34
34h And Jesus, when He came out, saw a
great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like
i sheep not having a shepherd. So jHe began to teach them many things. 35kW hen
the day was now far spent, His disciples
came to Him and said, This is a deserted
place, and already the hour is late. 36 Send
them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy
themselves bread;* for they have nothing
to eat.
37But He answered and said to them,
You give them something to eat.
And they said to Him, l Shall we go and
buy two hundred denarii worth of bread
and give them something to eat?
38But He said to them, How many loaves
do you have? Go and see.
And when they found out they said,
mFive, and two fish.
39T hen He ncommanded them to make
them all sit down in groups on the green
grass. 40So they sat down in ranks, in hundreds and in fifties. 41And when He had
taken the five loaves and the two fish, He
olooked up to heaven, pblessed and broke
the loaves, and gave them to His disciples
to set before them; and the two fish He
divided among them all. 42So they all ate
and were filled. 43And they took up twelve
baskets full of fragments and of the fish.
44 Now those who had eaten the loaves were
about* five thousand men.
Jesus Walks ontheSea
45qImmediately He made His disciples

get into the boat and go before Him to the
other side, to Bethsaida, while He sent the
multitude away. 46And when He had sent
them away, He r departed to the mountain to pray. 47Now when evening came,
the boat was in the middle of the sea; and
He was alone on the land. 48Then He saw
them straining at rowing, for the wind was
against them. Now about the fourth watch
of the night He came to them, walking
on the sea, and swould have passed them
6:34 moved with compassion. The Gospels record

several times that when Jesus saw a need He
responded compassionately (1:41). That compassion
led to action, despite an obvious lack of food in this
instance.
6:3637 Send them away. The disciples sought to
avoid responsibility for the hungry multitude.
6:3940 in ranks, in hundreds and in fifties.
Details such as sitting on the green grass, which is
possible only in late winter and early spring, and the
fact that the groups were counted are indications
that an eyewitness, probably Peter, recounted this
story to Mark.
6:43 twelve baskets full of fragments. These were
small baskets commonly carried by travelers. It is possible to conclude that the leftovers gave each disciple
enough food for his own use.
6:51 He went up into the boat to them. Three miracles are contained in this brief account (vv. 4751):
by. 49And when they saw Him walking

on the sea, they supposed it was a tghost,
and cried out; 50for they all saw Him and
were troubled. But immediately He talked
with them and said to them, uBe of good
cheer! It is I; do not be vafraid. 51T hen
He went up into the boat to them, and
the wind wceased. And they were greatly
xamazed in themselves beyond measure,
and marveled. 52For ythey had not understood about the loaves, because their
zheart was hardened.
Many Touch Him and Are Made

Well
53aW hen they had crossed over, they

came to the land of Gennesaret and anchored there. 54 And when they came out
of the boat, immediately the people recognized Him, 55ran through that whole surrounding region, and began to carry about
on beds those who were sick to wherever
they heard He was. 56W herever He entered, into villages, cities, or the country,
they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and
begged Him that bthey might just touch
the chem of His garment. And as many as
touched Him were made well.
Defilement Comes fromWithin
the Pharisees and some of the

7comeThen
scribes came together to Him, having
from Jerusalem. Now when* they
a
saw some of His disciples eat bread with

defiled, that is, with bunwashed hands,
they found fault. 3For the Pharisees and
all the Jews do not eat unless they wash
their hands in a special way, holding the
ctradition of the elders. 4W hen they come
from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other
things which they have received and hold,
*6:36 NU-Text reads something to eat and omits
the rest of this verse. *6:44 NU-Text and M-Text
omit about. *7:2 NU-Text omits when and they
found fault.
(1) In the darkness Jesus saw the disciples out in the

storm miles away, (2) Jesus walked on the water, and
(3) Jesus showed complete control over His creation
when the wind ceased.
6:56 Wherever He entered, into villages, cities, or
the country. Mark summarizes Jesus healing ministry, noting how widespread it was.
7:34 For the Pharisees. These two verses explain
the tradition of handwashing and various kinds of
6:34hMatt. 9:36; 14:14 iNum. 27:17 jLuke 9:11
6:35kMatt. 14:15 6:37l2Kin. 4:43 6:38mJohn
6:9 6:39nMatt. 15:35 6:41oJohn 11:41, 42 pMatt.
15:36; 26:26 6:45qJohn 6:1521 6:46rLuke 5:16
6:48sLuke 24:28 6:49tMatt. 14:26 6:50uMatt. 9:2
vIs. 41:10 6:51wPs. 107:29 xMark 1:27; 2:12; 5:42; 7:37
6:52yMark 8:17, 18 zMark 3:5; 16:14 6:53aMatt.
14:3436 6:56bMatt. 9:20 cNum. 15:38, 39
7:1aMatt. 15:120 7:2bMatt. 15:20 7:3cGal. 1:14
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 7:31 1103
like the washing of cups, pitchers, copper
vessels, and couches.
5dT hen the Pharisees and scribes asked
Him, Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but
eat bread with unwashed hands?
6 He answered and said to them, Well
did Isaiah prophesy of you ehypocrites, as
it is written:
f This
people honors Me with their lips,

But their heart is far fromMe.
And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the
commandments of men. *
8 For laying aside the commandment of
God, you hold the tradition of men* the
washing of pitchers and cups, and many
other such things you do.
9He said to them, All too well gyou reject the commandment of God, that you
may keep your tradition. 10For Moses said,
h Honor your father and your mother;*
and, i He who curses father or mother, let
him be put to death. * 11But you say, If a
man says to his father or mother, j Whatever profit you might have received from me
is Corban (that is, a gift to God), 12then
you no longer let him do anything for his
father or his mother, 13making the word
of God of no effect through your tradition
which you have handed down. And many
such things you do.
14kW hen He had called all the multitude to Himself, He said to them, Hear
Me, everyone, and l understand: 15T here
is nothing that enters a man from outside
which can defile him; but the things which
come out of him, those are the things that
m defile a man. 16n If anyone has ears to
hear, let him hear!*
17oW hen He had entered a house away
from the crowd, His disciples asked Him
concerning the parable. 18 So He said to
them, pAre you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot
7
ceremonial uncleanness. Marks intended readers in

Rome likely needed more background on the Jewish
faith to understand this controversy.
7:5 the tradition of the elders. This phrase refers to
a series of rules meant to bolster the ceremonial law
of the Jews. Its authority was not supported by Scripture. The question indirectly challenged Jesus, for as
the disciples teacher He was judged responsible for
their actions.
7:67 hypocrites. The term originally referred to
actors who wore masks on stage as they played different characters. Thus the Pharisees were not genuinely religious; they were merely playing a part for
all to see.
7:1113 But you say. This shows the absolute contrast between Gods will and mans empty tradition.
Corban. This was evidently a pious-sounding evasion
of the requirement of honoring ones parents by supporting them financially.
defile him, 19because it does not enter his

heart but his stomach, and is eliminated,
thus purifying all foods?* 20And He said,
qWhat comes out of a man, that defiles a
man. 21rFor from within, out of the heart
of men, sproceed evil thoughts, tadulteries, u fornications, murders, 22 thefts,
v covetousness, wickedness, w deceit,
xlewdness, an evil eye, yblasphemy, zpride,
foolishness. 23All these evil things come
from within and defile a man.
A Gentile Shows Her Faith
24a From there He arose and went to the

region of Tyre and Sidon.* And He entered
a house and wanted no one to know it, but
He could not be bhidden. 25For a woman
whose young daughter had an unclean
spirit heard about Him, and she came and
cfell at His feet. 26T he woman was a Greek,
a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept
asking Him to cast the demon out of her
daughter. 27But Jesus said to her, Let the
children be filled first, for it is not good to
take the childrens bread and throw it to
the little dogs.
28 And she answered and said to Him,
Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under
the table eat from the childrens crumbs.
29Then He said to her, For this saying go
your way; the demon has gone out of your
daughter.
30And when she had come to her house,
she found the demon gone out, and her
daughter lying on the bed.
Jesus Heals a Deaf-Mute
31d Again, departing from the region

of Tyre and Sidon, He came through the
midst of the region of Decapolis to the Sea
*7:7 Isaiah 29:13 *7:8 NU-Text omits the rest

of this verse. *7:10 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16 Exodus 21:17 *7:16 NU-Text omits
this verse. *7:19 NU-Text ends quotation with
eliminated, setting off the final clause as Marks
comment that Jesus has declared all foods clean.
*7:24 NU-Text omits and Sidon.
7:24 the region of Tyre. This city is the farthest Jesus

traveled from Israel during His public ministry.
7:27 to the little dogs. Jesus is not attempting to
insult the woman by using this metaphor. In fact, He
is testing her faith. Matthew records Jesus reaction to
her reply, O woman, great is your faith (Matt. 15:28).
7:28 And she answered. The woman understood
Jesus test and persistently replied that even during
the meal the dogs consume the childrens crumbs
that fall from the table.
7:5dMatt. 15:2 7:6eMatt. 23:1329 fIs. 29:13
7:9gProv. 1:25 7:10hEx. 20:12; Deut. 5:16 iEx.
21:17 7:11jMatt. 15:5; 23:18 7:14kMatt. 15:10
lMatt. 16:9, 11, 12 7:15mIs. 59:3 7:16nMatt. 11:15
7:17oMatt. 15:15 7:18p[Heb. 5:1114] 7:20qPs.
39:1 7:21rGen. 6:5; 8:21 s[Gal. 5:1921] t2Pet. 2:14
u1Thess. 4:3 7:22vLuke 12:15 wRom. 1:28, 29 x1Pet.
4:3 yRev. 2:9 z1John 2:16 7:24aMatt. 15:21 bMark
2:1, 2 7:25cJohn 11:32 7:31dMatt. 15:29
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1104 Mark 7:32
of Galilee. 32T hen ethey brought to Him
one who was deaf and had an impediment
in his speech, and they begged Him to put
His hand on him. 33And He took him aside
from the multitude, and put His fingers
in his ears, and fHe spat and touched his
tongue. 34Then, glooking up to heaven, hHe
sighed, and said to him, Ephphatha, that
is, Be opened.
35iImmediately his ears were opened, and
the impediment of his tongue was loosed,
and he spoke plainly. 36Then jHe commanded them that they should tell no one; but
the more He commanded them, the more
widely they proclaimed it. 37And they were
kastonished beyond measure, saying, He
has done all things well. He lmakes both the
deaf to hear and the mute to speak.
Feeding theFour Thousand
those days, the multitude being

8JesusInverycalled
great and having nothing to eat,
His disciples to Him and said
a
to them, 2I have bcompassion on the multitude, because they have now continued
with Me three days and have nothing to eat.
3And if I send them away hungry to their
own houses, they will faint on the way; for
some of them have come from afar.
4Then His disciples answered Him,
How can one satisfy these people with
bread here in the wilderness?
5cHe asked them, How many loaves do
you have?
And they said, Seven.
6 So He commanded the multitude to
sit down on the ground. And He took the
seven loaves and gave thanks, broke them
and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and they set them before the
multitude. 7They also had a few small fish;
and d having blessed them, He said to set
them also before them. 8 So they ate and
were filled, and they took up seven large
baskets of leftover fragments. 9Now those
who had eaten were about four thousand.
And He sent them away, 10eimmediately got
into the boat with His disciples, and came
to the region of Dalmanutha.
7:3235 one who was deaf. The healing of this deaf
man (who also had a speech impediment) is one of
the two miracles recorded by Mark only. (The other is
the healing of the blind man in 8:2226).
8:8 seven large baskets. There was one basket for
each original loaf. These baskets were much larger
than the 12 small personal baskets mentioned in 6:43.
It was the kind of larger basket that was used to lower
Paul over the wall of Damascus (Acts 9:25).
8:10 Dalmanutha. This was probably on the western
side of the Sea of Galilee, about three miles north of
modern Tiberias and about five miles southwest of
Capernaum. This is the only time it is mentioned in
the New Testament.
8:11 the Pharisees came out and began to dispute
with Him. The Pharisees testing of Jesus was crafty
and devious. Obviously these men did not heed
the many signs and wonders that Jesus had already
The Pharisees Seek a Sign
11fThen the Pharisees came out and

began to dispute with Him, seeking from
Him a sign from heaven, testing Him. 12But
He g sighed deeply in His spirit, and said,
Why does this generation seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to you, hno sign shall be given
to this generation.
Beware oftheLeaven
ofthePharisees and Herod
13 And He left them, and getting into

the boat again, departed to the other side.
14i Now the disciples* had forgotten to take
bread, and they did not have more than
one loaf with them in the boat. 15jThen He
charged them, saying, Take heed, beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
16 And they reasoned among themselves,
saying, It is because we have no bread.
17But Jesus, being aware of it, said to
them, Why do you reason because you
have no bread? k Do you not yet perceive
nor understand? Is your heart still* hardened? 18Having eyes, do you not see? And
having ears, do you not hear? And do you
not remember? 19lW hen I broke the five
loaves for the five thousand, how many
baskets full of fragments did you take up?
They said to Him, Twelve.
20Also, mwhen I broke the seven for the
four thousand, how many large baskets
full of fragments did you take up?
And they said, Seven.
21So He said to them, How is it nyou do
not understand?
A Blind Man Healed at Bethsaida
22T hen He came to Bethsaida; and they

brought a oblind man to Him, and begged
Him to ptouch him. 23So He took the blind
man by the hand and led him out of the
town. And when qHe had spit on his eyes
and put His hands on him, He asked him if
he saw anything.
*8:14 NU-Text and M-Text read they. *8:17 NU-

Text omits still.
performed. John 20:3031 indicates that the signs

were meant to produce faith. It is doubtful that the
Pharisees would have changed their minds even if
they had seen another miracle.
8:1721 How is it you do not understand? The disciples continued to show a lack of spiritual discernment despite the miracles they had witnessed. Jesus
rebuke was intended to make them recall what God
had done for them.
7:32eLuke 11:14 7:33fMark 8:23 7:34gMark
6:41 hJohn 11:33, 38 7:35iIs. 35:5, 6 7:36jMark
5:43 7:37kMark 6:51; 10:26 lMatt. 12:22 8:1aMatt.
15:3239 8:2bMark 1:41; 6:34 8:5cMark 6:38
8:7dMatt. 14:19 8:10eMatt. 15:39 8:11fMatt. 12:38;
16:1 8:12gMark 7:34 hMatt. 12:39 8:14iMatt. 16:5
8:15jLuke 12:1 8:17kMark 6:52; 16:14 8:19lMatt.
14:20 8:20mMatt. 15:37 8:21n[Mark 6:52]
8:22oJohn 9:1 pLuke 18:15 8:23qMark 7:33
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 9:9 1105
24 And he looked up and said, I see men
like trees, walking.
25T hen He put His hands on his eyes
again and made him look up. And he was
restored and saw everyone clearly. 26Then
He sent him away to his house, saying,
Neither go into the town, rnor tell anyone
in the town.*
Peter Confesses Jesus as theChrist
27sNow Jesus and His disciples went out

to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on
the road He asked His disciples, saying to
them, Who do men say that I am?
28 So they answered, tJohn the Baptist;
but some say, u Elijah; and others, one of
the prophets.
29He said to them, But who do you say
that I am?
Peter answered and said to Him, vYou
are the Christ.
30wT hen He strictly warned them that
they should tell no one about Him.
Jesus Predicts His Death and

Resurrection
31And xHe began to teach them that the

Son of Man must suffer many things, and
be yrejected by the elders and chief priests
and scribes, and be zkilled, and after three
days rise again. 32He spoke this word openly. Then Peter took Him aside and began
to rebuke Him. 33But when He had turned
around and looked at His disciples, He arebuked Peter, saying, Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things
of God, but the things of men.
Take Up theCross and Follow Him
34W hen He had called the people to

Himself, with His disciples also, He said
to them, b Whoever desires to come after
Me, let him deny himself, and take up his
8:27 Caesarea Philippi. This city is about 25 miles

north of Bethsaida and the Sea of Galilee. It stands
on the southern edge of Mount Hermon. One of the
sources of the Jordan River springs forth from under
a large rocky cliff that rises a hundred or more feet
above the village. The name Philippi distinguishes
this town from Caesarea by the sea.
8:29 But who do you say that I am? Jesus emphati
cally asks His disciples for their understanding. you.
Prominent in Jesus question is the word you. You
are the Christ. Peter answers for the group. Jesus
wants His disciples to grasp firmly His true identity
before He reveals to them the necessity of His coming
death and resurrection. In Marks Gospel, only the disciples come to understand who Jesus is.
8:30 tell no one about Him. Jesus warning may
seem strange. Its explanation lies in the fact that the
Jews expected the Messiah to be a political liberator.
Jesus first coming was meant to accomplish another
kind of liberationrelease from sin. Hence Jesus was
careful not to use the name Messiah publicly, for it
was misunderstood by the Jewish people, their leaders, and the Roman authorities.
cross, and follow Me. 35For cwhoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever
loses his life for My sake and the gospels
will save it. 36For what will it profit a man
if he gains the whole world, and loses his
own soul? 37Or what will a man give in
exchange for his soul? 38d For whoever eis
ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the
Son of Man also will be ashamed when He
comes in the glory of His Father with the
holy angels.
And He said to them, aAssuredly, I say
to you that there are some standing here
who will not taste death till they see bthe
kingdom of God present with power.
Jesus Transfigured ontheMount
2cNow after six days Jesus took Peter,

James, and John, and led them up on a high
mountain apart by themselves; and He was
transfigured before them. 3His clothes became shining, exceedingly d white, like
snow, such as no launderer on earth can
whiten them. 4 And Elijah appeared to them
with Moses, and they were talking with
Jesus. 5T hen Peter answered and said to
Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here;
and let us make three tabernacles: one for
You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah
6because he did not know what to say, for
they were greatly afraid.
7And a ecloud came and overshadowed
them; and a voice came out of the cloud,
saying, This is fMy beloved Son. gHear
Him! 8 Suddenly, when they had looked
around, they saw no one anymore, but only
Jesus with themselves.
9h Now as they came down from the
mountain, He commanded them that they
should tell no one the things they had seen,
*8:26 NU-Text reads Do not even go into the

town.
8:38 when He comes in the glory. This is the first

glimpse of the fulfillment of all history (1Cor. 15:2428).
Those who will reign with Christ invest their lives in
that which will last (v. 35). Those who are willing to
confess Him today will be rewarded before the Father
in heaven (Matt. 5:1012; 2Tim. 2:1113; Rev. 2:2628).
9:4 Elijah. Elijah is mentioned in Malachi 4:56 in
connection with the future coming of Christ. This is
why people asked John the Baptist if he were Elijah
(John 1:21). Moses was the lawgiver and liberator,
while Elijah was the first of the great prophets. Their
presence confirmed the reality that Jesus is the Messiah of Peters confession.
8:26rMark 5:43; 7:36 8:27sLuke 9:1820

8:28tMatt. 14:2 uLuke 9:7, 8 8:29vJohn 1:41; 4:42;
6:69; 11:27 8:30wMatt. 8:4; 16:20 8:31xMatt. 16:21;
20:19 yMark 10:33 zMark 9:31; 10:34 8:33a[Rev. 3:19]
8:34bLuke 14:27 8:35cJohn 12:25 8:38dMatt.
10:33 e2Tim. 1:8, 9; 2:12 9:1aLuke 9:27 b[Matt. 24:30]
9:2cMatt. 17:18 9:3dDan. 7:9 9:7eEx. 40:34 fMark
1:11 gActs 3:22 9:9hMatt. 17:913
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1106 Mark 9:10
till the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
10 So they kept this word to themselves,
questioning i what the rising from the dead
meant.
11 And they asked Him, saying, Why
do the scribes say j that Elijah must come
first?
12T hen He answered and told them, Indeed, Elijah is coming first and restores all
things. And khow is it written concerning
the Son of Man, that He must suffer many
things and lbe treated with contempt? 13But
I say to you that mElijah has also come, and
they did to him whatever they wished, as it
is written of him.
A Boy Is Healed
14n And when He came to the disciples,

He saw a great multitude around them,
and scribes disputing with them. 15Immediately, when they saw Him, all the people
were greatly amazed, and running to Him,
greeted Him. 16And He asked the scribes,
What are you discussing with them?
17T hen oone of the crowd answered and
said, Teacher, I brought You my son, who
has a mute spirit. 18And wherever it seizes
him, it throws him down; he foams at the
mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they
should cast it out, but they could not.
19He answered him and said, O pfaithless generation, how long shall I be with
you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring
him to Me. 20T hen they brought him to
Him. And qwhen he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on
the ground and wallowed, foaming at the
mouth.
21So He asked his father, How long has
this been happening to him?
And he said, From childhood. 22 And
often he has thrown him both into the fire
and into the water to destroy him. But if
You can do anything, have compassion on
us and help us.
23 Jesus said to him, rIf you can believe,*
all things are possible to him who believes.
24 Immediately the father of the child
cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe; shelp my unbelief!
25W hen Jesus saw that the people came
running together, He trebuked the unclean
spirit, saying to it, Deaf and dumb spirit, I
command you, come out of him and enter
him no more! 26Then the spirit cried out,
convulsed him greatly, and came out of
9:24 I believe; help my unbelief. These words

express the dilemma that even those who believe can
be nagged by doubt and hopelessness. This man took
the correct course by appealing to Jesus for help.
9:40 For he who is not against us is on our side.
Jesus is not endorsing all who claim to follow Him.
Rather, this statement was meant to remind the disciples that Gods work was not necessarily restricted
to their small group.
him. And he became as one dead, so that

many said, He is dead. 27But Jesus took
him by the hand and lifted him up, and he
arose.
28u And when He had come into the
house, His disciples asked Him privately,
Why could we not cast it out?
29 So He said to them, This kind can
come out by nothing but vprayer and fasting.*
Jesus AgainPredicts His Death and

Resurrection
30T hen they departed from there and

passed through Galilee, and He did not
want anyone to know it. 31wFor He taught
His disciples and said to them, The Son
of Man is being betrayed into the hands of
men, and they will xkill Him. And after He
is killed, He will yrise the third day. 32zBut
they did not understand this saying, and
were afraid to ask Him.
Who Is theGreatest?
33aT hen He came to Capernaum. And

when He was in the house He asked them,
What was it you disputed among yourselves on the road? 34But they kept silent,
for on the road they had bdisputed among
themselves who would be the cgreatest.
35And He sat down, called the twelve, and
said to them, d If anyone desires to be first,
he shall be last of all and servant of all.
36T hen eHe took a little child and set him in
the midst of them. And when He had taken
him in His arms, He said to them, 37 Whoever receives one of these little children in
My name receives Me; and f whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who
sent Me.
Jesus Forbids Sectarianism
38gNow John answered Him, saying,

Teacher, we saw someone who does not
follow us casting out demons in Your
name, and we forbade him because he does
not follow us.
39But Jesus said, Do not forbid him, h for
no one who works a miracle in My name
can soon afterward speak evil of Me. 40For
i he who is not against us is on our* side.
41jFor whoever gives you a cup of water to
*9:23 NU-Text reads If You can! All things.

*9:29 NU-Text omits and fasting. *9:40 M-Text
reads against you is on your side.
9:10iJohn 2:1922 9:11jMal. 4:5 9:12kIs. 53:3

lPhil. 2:7 9:13mLuke 1:17 9:14nMatt. 17:1419
9:17oLuke 9:38 9:19pJohn 4:48 9:20qMark 1:26
9:23rJohn 11:40 9:24sLuke 17:5 9:25tMark 1:25
9:28uMatt. 17:19 9:29v[James 5:16] 9:31wLuke
9:44 xMatt. 16:21; 27:50 y1Cor. 15:4 9:32zLuke 2:50;
18:34 9:33aMatt. 18:15 9:34b[Prov. 13:10] cLuke
22:24; 23:46; 24:46 9:35dLuke 22:26, 27 9:36eMark
10:1316 9:37fMatt. 10:40 9:38gNum. 11:2729
9:39h1Cor. 12:3 9:40i[Matt. 12:30] 9:41jMatt. 10:42
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 10:19 1107
drink in My name, because you belong to
Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no
means lose his reward.
Jesus Warns ofOffenses
42k But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it
would be better for him if a millstone were
hung around his neck, and he were thrown
into the sea. 43lIf your hand causes you to
sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into
life maimed, rather than having two hands,
to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be
quenched44where
mTheir
worm does not die

And the fire is not quenched. *
45And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it
off. It is better for you to enter life lame,
rather than having two feet, to be cast
into hell, into the fire that shall never be
quenched46where
nTheir worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched. *
47And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it
out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom
of God with one eye, rather than having
two eyes, to be cast into hell fire48where
oTheir worm does not die
And the pfire is not quenched. *
Tasteless Salt Is Worthless
49 For everyone will be qseasoned with

fire,* rand every sacrifice will be seasoned
with salt. 50sSalt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? tHave
salt in yourselves, and u have peace with
one another.
Marriage and Divorce
Then He arose from there and came

10
to the region of Judea by the other
side of the Jordan. And multitudes gatha
ered to Him again, and as He was accustomed, He taught them again.

2bT he Pharisees came and asked Him,
Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?
testing Him.
9:49 For everyone will be seasoned with fire. This

phrase may refer to the trials and judgments that all
will facebelievers with trials that purify faith, unbelievers with the eternal fire of Gods judgment.
10:4 a certificate of divorce. This was a document
signed before witnesses. Its intent was to limit frivolous divorces. In Jesus day, the interpretation of this
custom varied widely. The disciples of Hillel allowed
divorce for almost any reason, but the followers of
Shammai permitted divorce only for sexual impurity.
10:11 Whosoever divorces his wife. Mark includes
no exception to Christs prohibition of divorce, nor is
any exception listed in Luke 16:18, Romans 7:12, or
1Corinthians 7:1011. Compare Matthew 5:32 where
the exception is made.
10:18 No one is good but One, that is, God. This
3 And He answered and said to them,

What did Moses command you?
4T hey said, cMoses permitted a man to
write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.
5And Jesus answered and said to them,
Because of the hardness of your heart he
wrote you this precept. 6But from the beginning of the creation, God d made them
male and female. * 7eFor this reason a man
shall leave his father and mother and be
joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh;* so then they are no longer
two, but one flesh. 9T herefore what God
has joined together, let not man separate.
10In the house His disciples also asked
Him again about the same matter. 11So He
said to them, f Whoever divorces his wife
and marries another commits adultery
against her. 12And if a woman divorces her
husband and marries another, she commits
adultery.
Jesus Blesses Little Children
13gT hen they brought little children to

Him, that He might touch them; but the
disciples rebuked those who brought them.
14 But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly
displeased and said to them, Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid
them; for hof such is the kingdom of God.
15Assuredly, I say to you, i whoever does
not receive the kingdom of God as a little
child will jby no means enter it. 16And He
took them up in His arms, laid His hands
on them, and blessed them.
Jesus Counsels theRich Young Ruler
17k Now as He was going out on the road,

one came running, knelt before Him, and
asked Him, Good Teacher, what shall I ldo
that I may inherit eternal life?
18 So Jesus said to him, Why do you call
Me good? No one is good but One, that is,
mG od. 19You know the commandments:
*9:44 NU-Text omits this verse. *9:46 NU-Text

omits the last clause of verse 45 and all of verse
46. *9:48 Isaiah 66:24 *9:49 NU-Text omits
the rest of this verse. *10:6 Genesis 1:27; 5:2
*10:8 Genesis 2:24
reply is a claim to deity, which Jesus asks the young

ruler to recognize.
10:19 Do not. Jesus recounts the Seventh, Sixth,
Eighth, Ninth, and Fifth Commandments. Do not
defraud. Jesus inserts this phrase just before the
Fifth Commandment. All of these commands concern
9:42kLuke 17:1, 2 9:43lMatt. 5:29, 30; 18:8, 9
9:44mIs. 66:24 9:46nIs. 66:24 9:48oIs. 66:24
pJer. 7:20 9:49q[Matt. 3:11] rLev. 2:13 9:50sMatt.
5:13 tCol. 4:6 uRom. 12:18; 14:19 10:1aMatt. 19:19
10:2bMatt. 19:3 10:4cDeut. 24:14 10:6dGen.
1:27; 5:2 10:7eGen. 2:24 10:11f[Matt. 5:32;
19:9] 10:13gLuke 18:1517 10:14h[1Pet. 2:2]
10:15iMatt. 18:3, 4; 19:14 jLuke 13:28 10:17kMatt.
19:1630 lJohn 6:28 10:18m1Sam. 2:2
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1108 Mark 10:20
nDo not commit adultery, Do not murder,
Do not steal, Do not bear false witness,
Do not defraud, Honor your father and
your mother. *
20 And he answered and said to Him,
Teacher, all these things I have okept from
my youth.
21T hen Jesus, looking at him, loved him,
and said to him, One thing you lack: Go
your way, psell whatever you have and give
to the poor, and you will have qtreasure in
heaven; and come, rtake up the cross, and
follow Me.
22But he was sad at this word, and went
away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
With God All Things Are Possible

23sT hen
Jesus looked around and said

to His disciples, How hard it is for those
who have riches to enter the kingdom of
God! 24 And the disciples were astonished
at His words. But Jesus answered again
and said to them, Children, how hard it
is for those twho trust in riches* to enter
the kingdom of God! 25It is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a u rich man to enter the kingdom
of God.
26And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, Who then can be
saved?
27But Jesus looked at them and said,
With men it is impossible, but not vwith
God; for with God all things are possible.
28wT hen Peter began to say to Him, See,
we have left all and followed You.
29 So Jesus answered and said, Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who
has left house or brothers or sisters or
father or mother or wife* or children or
lands, for My sake and the gospels, 30xwho
shall not receive a hundredfold now in this
time
houses and brothers and sisters
and mothers and children and lands, with
ypersecutions
a nd in the age to come,
eternal life. 31zBut many who are first will
be last, and the last first.
the fair and ethical treatment of other people (Ex.
20:1217).
10:2527 It is easier. This comparison of a camel
going through a needle is a literal one. In human
terms, it is not just difficult, but totally impossible, for
a rich man to be saved. But it is also impossible for
anyone at all to be saved apart from Gods grace and
power. God provides the means of salvation, enlightens the sinners understanding, and regenerates the
believing soul.
10:30 in this time. This is the time between Christs
first and second comings. Mark alone mentions that
persecutions will follow as wella point his Roman
readers may have already known.
10:37 one on Your right hand and the other on
Your left. To be seated at a kings right hand was to
take the position of the most prominence; the person
seated at the left hand ranked just below that (Luke
Jesus a Third Time Predicts His

Death and Resurrection
32a Now they were on the road, going up

to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going before
them; and they were amazed. And as they
followed they were afraid. bThen He took
the twelve aside again and began to tell
them the things that would happen to Him:
33 Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem,
and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the
chief priests and to the scribes; and they
will condemn Him to death and deliver Him
to the Gentiles; 34and they will mock Him,
and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill
Him. And the third day He will rise again.
Greatness Is Serving
35cT hen James and John, the sons of

Zebedee, came to Him, saying, Teacher,
we want You to do for us whatever we ask.
36 And He said to them, What do you
want Me to do for you?
37T hey said to Him, Grant us that we
may sit, one on Your right hand and the
other on Your left, in Your glory.
38 But Jesus said to them, You do not
know what you ask. Are you able to drink
the dcup that I drink, and be baptized with
the ebaptism that I am baptized with?
39T hey said to Him, We are able.
So Jesus said to them, f You will indeed
drink the cup that I drink, and with the
baptism I am baptized with you will be
baptized; 40but to sit on My right hand and
on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for
those gfor whom it is prepared.
41h And when the ten heard it, they began
to be greatly displeased with James and
John. 42But Jesus called them to Himself
and said to them, i You know that those who
are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord
it over them, and their great ones exercise
authority over them. 43jYet it shall not be so
among you; but whoever desires to become

*10:24 NU-Text omits for those who trust in
riches. *10:29 NU-Text omits or wife.
22:2430). Jesus had to remind the disciples again

about the price of greatness in Gods kingdom.
10:38 drink the cup that I drink . . . be baptized
with the baptism. These phrases are references to
the suffering and death that awaited Jesus (14:36).
Jesus wanted His disciples to understand the mocking, scourging, beating, and torture He would have
to endure.
10:19nEx. 20:1216; Deut. 5:1620 10:20oPhil. 3:6
10:21p[Luke 12:33; 16:9] qMatt. 6:19, 20; 19:21 r[Mark 8:34]
10:23sMatt. 19:23 10:24t[1Tim. 6:17] 10:25u[Matt.
13:22; 19:24] 10:27vJer. 32:17 10:28wLuke 18:28
10:30xLuke 18:29, 30 y[1Pet. 4:12, 13] 10:31zLuke 13:30
10:32aMatt. 20:1719 bMark 8:31; 9:31 10:35c[James
4:3] 10:38dJohn 18:11 eLuke 12:50 10:39fActs 12:2
10:40g[Heb. 11:16] 10:41hMatt. 20:24 10:42iLuke
22:25 10:43jMark 9:35
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 11:14 1109
great among you shall be your servant.
44 And whoever of you desires to be first
shall be slave of all. 45For even kthe Son of
Man did not come to be served, but to serve,
and l to give His life a ransom for many.
Jesus Heals Blind Bartimaeus
46m Now they came to Jericho. As He

went out of Jericho with His disciples and a
great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son
of Timaeus, sat by the road begging. 47And
when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, Jesus,
nSon of David, ohave mercy on me!
48T hen many warned him to be quiet;
but he cried out all the more, Son of David,
have mercy on me!
49 So Jesus stood still and commanded
him to be called.
Then they called the blind man, saying
to him, Be of good cheer. Rise, He is calling you.
50And throwing aside his garment, he
rose and came to Jesus.
51So Jesus answered and said to him,
What do you want Me to do for you?
The blind man said to Him, Rabboni,
that I may receive my sight.
52T hen Jesus said to him, Go your way;
pyour faith has made you well. And immediately he received his sight and followed
Jesus on the road.
The Triumphal Entry
Now when they drew near Jerusa11

lem, to Bethphage* and Bethany, at
the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His
a
disciples; 2and He said to them, Go into

the village opposite you; and as soon as you
have entered it you will find a colt tied, on
which no one has sat. Loose it and bring it.
3And if anyone says to you, Why are you
doing this? say, The Lord has need of it,
and immediately he will send it here.
10:45 The Ministry of Christ

1. He is Savior. Sinful men to be saved (1 Tim.
1:15); Christs qualifications to be Savior (John
10:1838); His humiliating death (John 19:18);
bodily resurrection to guarantee our salvation
(1Cor. 15:1322); and results of salvation (John
5:24). It is no wonder that, in light of these realities, Paul speaks of Christ as our great God and
Savior (Titus 2:13).
2. He is High Priest. The high priest brought the
people before God on the Day of Atonement
(Lev. 16:3233). Jesus is eminently qualified to
be our High Priest: appointed by God (Heb. 5:5),
eternal (Heb. 7:2425), sinless (Heb. 7:26), His
offering was final (Heb. 9:28), and His mediation
is effective (Rom. 8:34; Heb. 7:25; 1 John 2:1).
As the only qualified High Priest for men and
women, Jesus Christ thus constitutes the only
way to God (1Tim. 2:5).
3. He is King. King implies sovereign authority and
rule over all. This right belongs only to Jesus
Christ who is called Lord of lords and King of
kings (Rev. 17:14; 19:16). He is destined to rule
4 So they went their way, and found the*

colt tied by the door outside on the street,
and they loosed it. 5But some of those who
stood there said to them, What are you doing, loosing the colt?
6 And they spoke to them just as Jesus
had commanded. So they let them go.
7Then they brought the colt to Jesus
and threw their clothes on it, and He sat
on it. 8bAnd many spread their clothes
on the road, and others cut down leafy
branches from the trees and spread
them on the road. 9T hen those who went
before and those who followed cried out,
saying:
Hosanna!
is He who comes in the name
of the Lord! *
10 Blessed is the kingdom of our father
David
That comes in the name of the
Lord!*
d Hosanna in the highest!
cBlessed
11eAnd Jesus went into Jerusalem and into

the temple. So when He had looked around
at all things, as the hour was already late,
He went out to Bethany with the twelve.
The Fig Tree Withered
12fNow the next day, when they had

come out from Bethany, He was hungry.
13gAnd seeing from afar a fig tree having
leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would
find something on it. When He came to it,
He found nothing but leaves, for it was not
the season for figs. 14In response Jesus said
to it, Let no one eat fruit from you ever
again.
And His disciples heardit.
*11:1 M-Text reads Bethsphage. *11:4 NU-

Text and M-Text read a. *11:9 Psalm 118:26
*11:10 NU-Text omits in the name of the Lord.
as king and every knee must ultimately bow and

acknowledge His authority (Phil. 2:10). Those
who acknowledge Christ as King and Lord in this
life will reign with Him; those who do not will be
judged by Him (Rev. 20:1115).
11:811 Bethany. Jesus retired there each night,
perhaps staying in a friends home. But in view of the
fact that Jesus appears to have had no breakfast the
next day (v. 12), He and the twelve may have camped
outside this night.
11:13 it was not the season for figs. Passover always
comes in March or April, and fig season is not until May
or June. However, fig trees generally produce a number
of buds in March, leaves in April, and ripe fruit later on.
Jesus was looking for the edible buds, the lack of which
indicated that the tree would be fruitless that year.
10:45k[Phil. 2:7, 8] l[Titus 2:14] 10:46mLuke 18:3543
10:47nRev. 22:16 oMatt. 15:22 10:52pMatt. 9:22
11:1aZech. 9:9; Matt. 21:19 11:8bMatt. 21:8
11:9cPs. 118:25, 26 11:10dPs. 148:1 11:11eMatt.
21:12 11:12fMatt. 21:1822 11:13gMatt. 21:19
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1110 Mark 11:15
Jesus Cleanses theTemple

15h So
they came to Jerusalem. Then

Jesus went into the temple and began to
drive out those who bought and sold in
the temple, and overturned the tables of
the money changers and the seats of those
who sold idoves. 16And He would not allow
anyone to carry wares through the temple.
17T hen He taught, saying to them, Is it not
written, j My house shall be called a house
of prayer for all nations ?* But you have
made it a k den of thieves. *
18 And l the scribes and chief priests
heard it and sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, because
m all the people were astonished at His
teaching. 19W hen evening had come, He
went out of the city.
things? And who gave You this authority to

do these things?
29But Jesus answered and said to them,
I also will ask you one question; then
answer Me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things: 30The ubaptism of
Johnwas it from heaven or from men?
Answer Me.
31And they reasoned among themselves,
saying, If we say, From heaven, He will
say, Why then did you not believe him?
32But if we say, From menthey feared
the people, for vall counted John to have
been a prophet indeed. 33So they answered
and said to Jesus, We do not know.
And Jesus answered and said to them,
Neither will I tell you by what authority I
do these things.
The LessonoftheWithered Fig Tree The Parable oftheWicked

20n Now in the morning, as they passed
by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the Vinedressers
roots. 21And Peter, remembering, said to

Him, Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You
cursed has withered away.
22 So Jesus answered and said to them,
Have faith in God. 23For oassuredly, I say
to you, whoever says to this mountain, Be
removed and be cast into the sea, and does
not doubt in his heart, but believes that
those things he says will be done, he will
have whatever he says. 24T herefore I say
to you, pwhatever things you ask when you
pray, believe that you receive them, and
you will have them.
Forgiveness and Prayer
25And whenever you stand praying, qif

you have anything against anyone, forgive
him, that your Father in heaven may also
forgive you your trespasses. 26But rif you
do not forgive, neither will your Father in
heaven forgive your trespasses.*
Jesus Authority Questioned
27T hen they came again to Jerusalem.

s And as He was walking in the temple,
the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to Him. 28And they said to Him,
By what tauthority are You doing these
11:17 den of thieves. Jesus was referring to the practice of cheating people, both Israelites and those of
other nations, either through a crooked exchange of
money or by selling inferior products.
11:21 The fig tree which You cursed has withered
away. The passage emphasizes the power of true
faith. Some have suggested that the fig tree represented Israel, which bore no fruit and would soon
face the judgment of God.
11:2930 answer Me. The intent of Jesus question was to expose once again the insincerity of
His detractors. baptism of John. This refers to the
authority of Johns baptism. from heaven. Was it
ordained by God and worthy of obedience? from
men. Or was it of human contrivance and void of any
spiritual authority and reality?
12:1 He began to speak to them in parables.
Then He began to speak to them

12
in parables: A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a
a
place for the wine vat and built a tower.

And he leased it to vinedressers and went
into a far country. 2Now at vintage-time
he sent a servant to the vinedressers,
that he might receive some of the fruit
of the vineyard from the vinedressers.
3 And they took him and beat him and
sent him away empty-
handed. 4 Again
he sent them another servant, and at
him they threw stones,* wounded him in
the head, and sent him away shamefully
treated. 5And again he sent another, and
him they killed; and many others, bbeating some and killing some. 6Therefore
still having one son, his beloved, he also
sent him to them last, saying, They will
respect my son. 7But those vinedressers
said among themselves, This is the heir.
Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. 8 So they took him and
ckilled him and cast him out of the vineyard.
*11:17 Isaiah 56:7 Jeremiah 7:11 *11:26 NU-
Text omits this verse. *12:4 NU-Text omits and
at him they threw stones.
Parables usually get across a significant truth, but

the details are not meant to correspond exactly with
particular spiritual realities. In this parable, the owner
of the vineyard represents God, but God Himself was
never so mistaken as to assume they would respect
His Son. God is omniscient, whereas the vineyard
owner in the parable is not. This story illustrates the
immense patience God had with Israel.
11:15hJohn 2:1316 iLev. 14:22 11:17jIs. 56:7 kJer.
7:11 11:18lMatt. 21:45, 46 mMatt. 7:28 11:20nMatt.
21:1922 11:23oMatt. 17:20; 21:21 11:24pMatt.
7:7 11:25q[Col. 3:13] 11:26rMatt. 6:15; 18:35
11:27sLuke 20:18 11:28tJohn 5:27 11:30uLuke
7:29, 30 11:32vMatt. 3:5; 14:5 12:1aLuke 20:919
12:5b2Chr. 36:16 12:8c[Acts 2:23]
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 12:30 1111
9 Therefore what will the owner of the
vineyard do? He will come and destroy
the vinedressers, and give the vineyard
to others. 10Have you not even read this
Scripture:
d The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.
11 This was the Lords doing,
And it is marvelous in our eyes ?*
12e And they sought to lay hands on Him,
but feared the multitude, for they knew He
had spoken the parable against them. So
they left Him and went away.
The Pharisees: Is It Lawful toPay

Taxes toCaesar?
13fT hen they sent to Him some of the

Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch Him
in His words. 14When they had come, they
said to Him, Teacher, we know that You
are true, and care about no one; for You
do not regard the person of men, but teach
the gway of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay
taxes to Caesar, or not? 15Shall we pay, or
shall we not pay?
But He, knowing their hhypocrisy, said
to them, Why do you test Me? Bring Me
a denarius that I may see it. 16 So they
broughtit.
And He said to them, Whose image
and inscription is this? They said to Him,
Caesars.
17And Jesus answered and said to them,
Render to Caesar the things that are
Caesars, and to iGod the things that are
Gods.
And they marveled at Him.
The Sadducees: What About

theResurrection?
18jThen some Sadducees, kw ho say

there is no resurrection, came to Him;
12:12 they sought to lay hands on Him. Only as the

final points of the parable were made did these evil
men realize that Jesus was speaking of them.
12:14 You are true, and care about no one. This comment was intended as a compliment. The teachers recognized that Jesus was partial to no one. The question,
however, was a lose-lose proposition: a yes answer
would alienate Jews who opposed Rome, while a no
answer could be taken as treason against the state.
12:18 Sadducees were an elite group of religious
leaders who denied the existence of angels, the
immortality of the soul, and the resurrection. They
rejected the oral traditions and accepted only the
validity of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the
Old Testament.
12:1922 Moses wrote to us. The custom of marrying the widow of ones brother was supported by
Deuteronomy 25:56, but it was not absolutely binding (Deut. 25:710).
12:2627 I am the God of Abraham . . . Isaac . . .
Jacob. Jesus quotes from the lawthe Book of Exodusto make His point. God said I am the God of the
three patriarchs mentioned, not I was their God, but
and they asked Him, saying: 19 Teacher,

l Moses wrote to us that if a mans brother dies, and leaves his wife behind, and
leaves no children, his brother should
take his wife and raise up offspring for
his brother. 20Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife; and dying, he
left no offspring. 21 And the second took
her, and he died; nor did he leave any offspring. And the third likewise. 22 So the
seven had her and left no offspring. Last
of all the woman died also. 23T herefore,
in the resurrection, when they rise, whose
wife will she be? For all seven had her as
wife.
24 Jesus answered and said to them,
Are you not therefore mistaken, because
you do not know the Scriptures nor the
power of God? 25For when they rise from
the dead, they neither marry nor are given
in marriage, but mare like angels in heaven. 26But concerning the dead, that they
n rise, have you not read in the book of
Moses, in the burning bush passage, how
God spoke to him, saying, oI am the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob ?* 27He is not the God of the dead,
but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.
The Scribes: Which Is theFirst

Commandment ofAll?
28pT hen one of the scribes came, and

having heard them reasoning together,
perceiving* that He had answered them
well, asked Him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 Jesus answered him, The first of all
the commandments is: qHear, O Israel,
the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30And
*12:11 Psalm 118:22, 23 *12:26 Exodus 3:6, 15

*12:28 NU-Text reads seeing.
now they are dead. He still is their God because they

are still alive. Their souls not only live after death, but
their bodies will be raised anew as well.
12:29 Hear, O Israel. In Judaism, these words
(quoted from Deut. 6:45) are known as the Shema.
It is described by Jews as the most important words
a Jew can know. Jesus quotes these words at the
beginning of answering the question, Which is the
first commandment of all? We should be driven to
the cross. There, we understand His love for us and
are constantly motivated to seek to love Him better because of what He has done. We can only be
thankful at the comprehensiveness of His love. Even
though we sin every day of our lives, He forgives. We
just need to keep coming to Him for that forgiveness.
12:10dPs. 118:22, 23 12:12eJohn 7:25, 30, 44
12:13fLuke 20:2026 12:14gActs 18:26 12:15hLuke
12:1 12:17i[Eccl. 5:4, 5] 12:18jLuke 20:2738 kActs
23:8 12:19lDeut. 25:5 12:25m[1Cor. 15:42, 49,
52] 12:26n[Rev. 20:12, 13] oEx. 3:6, 15 12:28pMatt.
22:3440 12:29qDeut. 6:4, 5
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1112 Mark 12:31
you shall rlove the Lord your God with all
your heart, with all your soul, with all your
mind, and with all your strength. * This is
the first commandment.* 31And the second,
like it, is this: sYou shall love your neighbor as yourself. * There is no other commandment greater than tthese.
32 So the scribe said to Him, Well said,
Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for
there is one God, uand there is no other
but He. 33 And to love Him with all the
heart, with all the understanding, with all
the soul,* and with all the strength, and
to love ones neighbor as oneself, vis more
than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
34 Now when Jesus saw that he answered
wisely, He said to him, You are not far
from the kingdom of God.
wBut after that no one dared question
Him.
Jesus: How Can David Call His

Descendant Lord?
35xT hen Jesus answered and said, while

He taught in the temple, How is it that
the scribes say that the Christ is the Son
of David? 36For David himself said yby the
Holy Spirit:
zThe
Lord said to my Lord,

Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your
footstool. *
37Therefore
David himself calls Him

Lord; how is He then his aSon?
And the common people heard Him
gladly.
Beware oftheScribes
38T hen bHe said to them in His teaching,

cBeware of the scribes, who desire to go
around in long robes, dlove greetings in
the marketplaces, 39the ebest seats in the
synagogues, and the best places at feasts,

devour widows houses, and for a
40f who
12:35 in the temple. This does not refer to the sanctuary itself, where only the priests were allowed to
minister. The temple environs included a number of
porticos and courts. One was designated especially
for women, another for men. Gentiles could view the
temple from an outer area.
12:4344 this poor widow hath put it more than all
those who have given to the treasury. Jesus comparison of the percentages contributed by the rich
and the poor reminds us that God measures not how
much we give, but how much we retain. Those with
greater income have an obligation to return a larger
percentage of it to Gods work.
13:12 what manner of stones and what
buildings are here. The disciples excitement
over the temples tremendous construction was a
natural reaction to splendid and majestic architecture; each stone weighed several tons. Josephus
described its magnificence. There was nothing like
pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.
The Widows Two Mites
41gNow Jesus sat opposite the treasury

and saw how the people put money h into
the treasury. And many who were rich put
in much. 42T hen one poor widow came
and threw in two mites,* which make a
quadrans. 43So He called His disciples to
Himself and said to them, Assuredly, I
say to you that i this poor widow has put in
more than all those who have given to the
treasury; 44for they all put in out of their
abundance, but she out of her poverty put
in all that she had, jher whole livelihood.
Jesus Predicts
theDestructionoftheTemple
Then as He went out of the temple,

13
one of His disciples said to Him,
Teacher, see what manner of stones and
a
what buildings are here!

2 And Jesus answered and said to him,
Do you see these great buildings? bNot
one stone shall be left upon another, that
shall not be thrown down.
The Signs oftheTimes and theEnd

oftheAge
3Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives

opposite the temple, cPeter, d James, eJohn,
and fAndrew asked Him privately, 4gTell
us, when will these things be? And what
will be the sign when all these things will
be fulfilled?
5And Jesus, answering them, began to
say: h Take heed that no one deceives you.
6For many will come in My name, saying, I
am He, and will deceive many. 7But when
you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do
*12:30 Deuteronomy 6:4, 5 NU-Text omits this

sentence. *12:31 Leviticus 19:18 *12:33 NU-
Text omits with all the soul. *12:36 Psalm 110:1
*12:42 Greek lepta, very small copper coins worth
a fraction of a penny
it in all the world. Begun by Herod the Great in 20

b.c., the temple was later completed by Herods
descendants some time before a.d. 66. Its beautiful
white marble stones with gold ornamentation
reached 100 feet high. Surrounding it were colonnaded walkways, courtyards, and stairways that
filled 20 acres of the most prominent landscape in
all Jerusalem.
12:30r[Deut. 10:12; 30:6] 12:31sLev. 19:18
t[Rom. 13:9] 12:32uDeut. 4:39 12:33v[Hos.
6:6] 12:34wMatt. 22:46 12:35xLuke 20:41
44 12:36y2Sam. 23:2 zPs. 110:1 12:37a[Acts
2:2931] 12:38bMark 4:2 cMatt. 23:17 dMatt. 23:7
12:39eLuke 14:7 12:40fMatt. 23:14 12:41gLuke
21:14 h2Kin. 12:9 12:43i[2Cor. 8:12] 12:44jDeut.
24:6 13:1aLuke 21:536 13:2bLuke 19:44
13:3cMatt. 16:18 dMark 1:19 eMark 1:19 fJohn 1:40
13:4gMatt. 24:3 13:5hEph. 5:6
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 13:33 1113
not be troubled; for such things must happen, but the end is not yet. 8For nation will
rise against nation, and ikingdom against
kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in
various places, and there will be famines
and troubles.* jT hese are the beginnings
of sorrows.
9 But kwatch out for yourselves, for
they will deliver you up to councils, and
you will be beaten in the synagogues. You
will be brought* before rulers and kings
for My sake, for a testimony to them. 10And
l the gospel must first be preached to all the
nations. 11m But when they arrest you and
deliver you up, do not worry beforehand,
or premeditate* what you will speak. But
whatever is given you in that hour, speak
that; for it is not you who speak, nbut the
Holy Spirit. 12 Now obrother will betray
brother to death, and a father his child;
and children will rise up against parents
and cause them to be put to death. 13pAnd
you will be hated by all for My names
sake. But qhe who endures to the end shall
be saved.
The Great Tribulation
14rSo when you see the sabomination

of desolation, * spoken of by Daniel the
prophet,* standing where it ought not (let
the reader understand), then tlet those
who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
15Let him who is on the housetop not go
down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house. 16And let him who
is in the field not go back to get his clothes.
17u But woe to those who are pregnant and
to those who are nursing babies in those
days! 18And pray that your flight may not
be in winter. 19vFor in those days there will
be tribulation, such as has not been since
the beginning of the creation which God
created until this time, nor ever shall be.
20And unless the Lord had shortened those
days, no flesh would be saved; but for the
13:1112 the Holy Spirit. The promise given

that the Holy Spirit will guide ones speech in the
hour of trial applies first to the twelve and only secondarily to others who will experience persecution.
But this promise does not assure escape from persecution or even freedom from being put to death.
13:13 he who endures to the end shall be saved.
This is not referring to regeneration or justification
but to physical deliverance from affliction (vv. 1920).
The ones who physically endure will be delivered into
Christs messianic kingdom.
13:14 standing where it ought not. This phrase
refers to the presence of an idol standing in the temple. Daniels prediction primarily referred to placement of sacrifices to Zeus on the temples altar by
Antiochus Epiphanes. Some believe that the destruction of the Herodian temple in a.d. 70 fulfilled Jesus
prediction. Others still await its fulfillment in the
blasphemous actions of the antichrist in the last days
(2Thess. 2:34).
13:2829 when you see these things happening.
elects sake, whom He chose, He shortened

the days.
21wThen if anyone says to you, Look,
here is the Christ! or, Look, He is there!
do not believe it. 22For false christs and
false prophets will rise and show signs and
xwonders to deceive, if possible, even the
elect. 23But ytake heed; see, I have told you
all things beforehand.
The Coming oftheSonofMan
24zBut in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the
moon will not give its light; 25the stars of
heaven will fall, and the powers in the heavens will be ashaken. 26bThen they will see
the Son of Man coming in the clouds with
great power and glory. 27And then He will
send His angels, and gather together His
elect from the four winds, from the farthest
part of earth to the farthest part of heaven.
The Parable oftheFig Tree
28cNow learn this parable from the fig

tree: When its branch has already become
tender, and puts forth leaves, you know
that summer is near. 29So you also, when
you see these things happening, know that
it* is nearat the doors! 30Assuredly, I say
to you, this generation will by no means
pass away till all these things take place.
31Heaven and earth will pass away, but
d My words will by no means pass away.
No One Knows theDay or Hour
32 But of that day and hour e no one

knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor
the Son, but only the fFather. 33gTake heed,
watch and pray; for you do not know when
*13:8 NU-Text omits and troubles. *13:9 NU-

Text and M-Text read will stand. *13:11 NU-
Text omits or premeditate. *13:14 Daniel 11:31;
12:11NU-Text omits spoken of by Daniel the
prophet. *13:29 Or He
Jesus likened the signs of His second coming to the

sprouts of growth and leaves on a fig tree. Both point
to the glories to comethe full flowering of the
earth and return of Christ.
13:32 But of that day and hour no one knows. As
one who was fully God and at the same time fully man,
Jesus possessed all the attributes of deity, including
omnipotence and omniscience. He knew what was
in peoples hearts (2:8), and He could still the waves
(4:39). When Jesus became a man, however, He voluntarily placed certain knowledge in the hands of the
13:8iHag. 2:22 jMatt. 24:8 13:9kMatt. 10:17, 18; 24:9
13:10lMatt. 24:14 13:11mLuke 12:11; 21:1217 nActs
2:4; 4:8, 31 13:12oMic. 7:6 13:13pLuke 21:17 qMatt.
10:22; 24:13 13:14rMatt. 24:15 sDan. 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
tLuke 21:21 13:17uLuke 21:23 13:19vDan. 9:26;
12:1 13:21wLuke 17:23; 21:8 13:22xRev. 13:13, 14
13:23y[2Pet. 3:17] 13:24zZeph. 1:15 13:25aIs.
13:10; 34:4 13:26b[Dan. 7:13, 14] 13:28cLuke
21:29 13:31dIs. 40:8 13:32eMatt. 25:13 fActs 1:7
13:33g1Thess. 5:6
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1114 Mark 13:34
the time is. 34h It is like a man going to a
far country, who left his house and gave
iauthority to his servants, and to each his
work, and commanded the doorkeeper to
watch. 35jWatch therefore, for you do not
know when the master of the house is
comingin the evening, at midnight, at
the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning36lest, coming suddenly, he find you
sleeping. 37And what I say to you, I say to
all: Watch!
The Plot toKill Jesus
After two days it was the Passover

and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
14
And the chief priests and the scribes
a
sought how they might take Him by trickery and put Him to death. 2But they said,
Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people.
The Anointing at Bethany
3c And being in Bethany at the house

of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard.
Then she broke the flask and poured it
on His head. 4 But there were some who
were indignant among themselves, and
said, Why was this fragrant oil wasted? 5For it might have been sold for more
than three hundred d denarii and given to the poor. And they e criticized her
sharply.
6 But Jesus said, Let her alone. Why
do you trouble her? She has done a good
work for Me. 7fFor you have the poor with
you always, and whenever you wish you
may do them good; gbut Me you do not
have always. 8 She has done what she
could. She has come beforehand to anoint
My body for burial. 9Assuredly, I say to
you, wherever this gospel is hpreached
in the whole world, what this woman has
done will also be told as a memorial to her.
Father. Of course today, glorified in heaven, Jesus now

knows the day and hour of His return.
13:3436 like a man going to a far country. Jesus
parable of the absent master of the house is unique
to Mark. The point of the parable is that the master
could return at any time so all servants must be vigilant and watchful (Luke 19:1127).
14:3 alabaster. Alabaster is a translucent stone still
used to make ornamented jewelry boxes and other
items of value. spikenard. Spikenard was a precious
perfume imported from India, made from plants that
grow in the high elevations of the Himalayas. This
perfume is mentioned in the Song of Solomon (1:12;
4:1314).
14:7 For you have the poor with you always. Jesus
statement does not show callousness towards the
poor (Deut. 15:711). His compassion for those overwhelmed by sickness and poverty appears frequently
in the Gospels, and He encouraged others to meet
their needs (10:21). But He also wanted people to give
freely and of their own volition. No one can coerce a
gift from another; no one should criticize anothers
Judas Agrees toBetray Jesus
10iT hen Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve,

went to the chief priests to betray Him to
them. 11And when they heard it, they were
glad, and promised to give him money. So
he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.
Jesus Celebrates thePassover

withHis Disciples
12jNow on the first day of Unleavened

Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb,
His disciples said to Him, Where do You
want us to go and prepare, that You may
eat the Passover?
13 And He sent out two of His disciples
and said to them, Go into the city, and a
man will meet you carrying a pitcher of
water; follow him. 14W herever he goes in,
say to the master of the house, The Teacher says, Where is the guest room in which
I may eat the Passover with My disciples?
15T hen he will show you a large upper
room, furnished and prepared; there make
ready for us.
16 So His disciples went out, and came
into the city, and found it just as He had
said to them; and they prepared the Passover.
17k In the evening He came with the
twelve. 18Now as they sat and ate, Jesus
said, Assuredly, I say to you, lone of you
who eats with Me will betray Me.
19And they began to be sorrowful, and to
say to Him one by one, Is it I? And another said, Is it I?*
20 He answered and said to them, It is
one of the twelve, who dips with Me in the
dish. 21mThe Son of Man indeed goes just
as it is written of Him, but woe to that man
by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It
*14:19 NU-Text omits this sentence.
gift; and no one can read the heart of a giver. A givers

motive is known only to God.
14:1415 a large upper room. There is reason to
suspect that the master of the house may have been
Marks father. Mark himself may have been the young
man of verses 51 and 52. Acts 12:12 indicates that this
house was later used as a gathering place for many
believers who prayed together. Tradition has it that
this was also the upper room of Acts 1:13 where
over 100 believers met on Pentecost.
14:19 Is it I? In Greek this is actually a negative
question that implies a negative answer. The phrase
means It is not I, is it? Matthew and John both identify the culprit as Judas, even though Mark does not
(Matt. 26:25; John 13:26).
13:34hMatt. 24:45; 25:14 i[Matt. 16:19] 13:35jMatt.
24:42, 44 14:1aLuke 22:1, 2 bEx. 12:127 14:3cLuke
7:37 14:5dMatt. 18:28 eJohn 6:61 14:7fDeut. 15:11
g[John 7:33; 8:21; 14:2, 12; 16:10, 17, 28] 14:9hLuke 24:47
14:10iMatt. 10:24 14:12jMatt. 26:1719 14:17kMatt.
26:2024 14:18lJohn 6:70, 71; 13:18 14:21mLuke 22:22
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 14:42 1115
would have been good for that man if he
had never been born.
Jesus Institutes theLords Supper
22n And as they were eating, Jesus took

bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it
to them and said, Take, eat;* this is My
obody.
23T hen He took the cup, and when He
had given thanks He gave it to them, and
they all drank from it. 24 And He said to
them, This is My blood of the new* covenant, which is shed for many. 25Assuredly,
I say to you, I will no longer drink of the
fruit of the vine until that day when I drink
it new in the kingdom of God.
26pAnd when they had sung a hymn,
they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Jesus Predicts Peters Denial
27qT hen Jesus said to them, All of you

will be made to stumble because of Me this
night,* for it is written:
rI
will strike the Shepherd,

And the sheep will be scattered. *
28 But safter I have been raised, I will go
before you to Galilee.
29tPeter said to Him, Even if all are
made to stumble, yet I will not be.
30 Jesus said to him, Assuredly, I say
to you that today, even this night, before
the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me
three times.
31But he spoke more vehemently, If I
have to die with You, I will not deny You!
And they all said likewise.
14:24 This is My blood. This means that the contents of this cup represented Jesus blood that would
be shed for our sins. The sprinkling of blood was
required to institute the Mosaic covenant in Exodus
29:12 (Heb. 9:1822). In the same way, Jesus blood
shed on the cross initiated the new covenant. His
blood was shed for many. He died on the cross in the
place of many sinners from every nation. He paid the
price for all of their sins. All those who believe in Him
will receive eternal life.
14:26 And when they had sung a hymn. What they
sang was no doubt from the Psalms. Frequently
Psalms 113118 were used in connection with the
Passover.
14:30 before the rooster crows twice. Only Mark
mentions Christs prediction of Peters denial. The
incident would have remained vivid in Peters mind
when he related the story to Mark.
14:34 My soul is exceeding sorrowful. The crushing
realization of having to bear the sin of the world and
to lose, even temporarily, the fellowship of God the
Father was nearly more than Jesus soul could bear.
14:35 the hour might pass from Him. This is a reference to the time Jesus would bear the punishment
for the sin of the world in His own body, becoming, as
it were, sin for all.
14:38 Temptation by the FleshFlesh in the Bible
often means something other than the substance of
the human body. It is used constantly to refer to the
carnal, sinful principle within man that is opposed to
The Prayer intheGarden
32uThen they came to a place which was

named Gethsemane; and He said to His
disciples, Sit here while I pray. 33And He
vtook Peter, James, and John with Him,
and He began to be troubled and deeply
distressed. 34Then He said to them, wMy
soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to
death. Stay here and watch.
35He went a little farther, and fell on the
ground, and prayed that if it were possible,
the hour might pass from Him. 36And He
said, xAbba, Father, yall things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me;
znevertheless, not what I will, but what You
will.
37T hen He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, are you
sleeping? Could you not watch one hour?
38aWatch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. bThe spirit indeed is willing, but the
flesh is weak.
39Again He went away and prayed, and
spoke the same words. 40And when He returned, He found them asleep again, for
their eyes were heavy; and they did not
know what to answer Him.
41T hen He came the third time and said
to them, Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough! cT he hour has come;
behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed
into the hands of sinners. 42d Rise, let us be
going. See, My betrayer is at hand.
*14:22 NU-Text omits eat. *14:24 NU-Text omits

new. *14:27 NU-Text omits because of Me this
night.Zechariah 13:7
God (Rom. 8:7). The actions produced by the flesh

are given in detail in Galatians 5:1921. Among these
are all types of sexual immorality, impurity, hatred,
anger, envy, and drunkenness. A person whose life is
characterized by these sins cannot be a true Christian
and is under the wrath of God (Gal. 5:21; Eph. 2:3).
Though the flesh is not eradicated for the Christian,
he does have the power to deny it (Rom. 7:1525).
He possesses a new nature empowered by the Holy
Spirit. The solution to the urges of the flesh lies in
acknowledging that the power of sin was nullified
by Jesus death (Rom. 6:11) and in living under the
control of the Spirits power (Gal. 5:16). The latter is
a moment-by-moment dependence in faith on the
Spirits power. The believer must choose by an act of
his will to benefit from the Spirits enablement.
14:3941 Again He went away. The three apostles
were exhorted to watch and pray several times, and
no doubt truly desired to uphold their Lord in His
deepest hour of need. Yet physical fatigue overcame
spiritual alertness.
14:22n1Cor. 11:2325 o[1Pet. 2:24] 14:26pMatt.

26:30 14:27qMatt. 26:3135 rZech. 13:7
14:28sMark 16:7 14:29tJohn 13:37, 38 14:32uLuke
22:4046 14:33vMark 5:37; 9:2; 13:3 14:34wJohn
12:27 14:36xGal. 4:6 y[Heb. 5:7] zJohn 5:30; 6:38
14:38aLuke 21:36 b[Rom. 7:18, 2124] 14:41cJohn
13:1; 17:1 14:42dJohn 13:21; 18:1, 2
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1116 Mark 14:43
Betrayal and Arrest inGethsemane

43eAnd
immediately, while He was still

speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, with
a great multitude with swords and clubs,
came from the chief priests and the scribes
and the elders. 44 Now His betrayer had
given them a signal, saying, Whomever
I fkiss, He is the One; seize Him and lead
Him away safely.
45As soon as he had come, immediately
he went up to Him and said to Him, Rabbi,
Rabbi! and kissed Him.
46T hen they laid their hands on Him and
took Him. 47And one of those who stood by
drew his sword and struck the servant of
the high priest, and cut off his ear.
48gThen Jesus answered and said to
them, Have you come out, as against
a robber, with swords and clubs to take
Me? 49I was daily with you in the temple
hteaching, and you did not seize Me. But
i the Scriptures must be fulfilled.
50jT hen they all forsook Him and fled.
A Young Man Flees Naked
51 Now a certain young man followed

Him, having a linen cloth thrown around
his naked body. And the young men laid
hold of him, 52and he left the linen cloth
and fled from them naked.
Jesus Faces theSanhedrin
53k And they led Jesus away to the high

priest; and with him were l assembled
all the mchief priests, the elders, and the
scribes. 54But nPeter followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high
priest. And he sat with the servants and
warmed himself at the fire.
55oNow the chief priests and all the council sought testimony against Jesus to put
Him to death, but found none. 56For many
bore pfalse witness against Him, but their
testimonies did not agree.
57T hen some rose up and bore false
witness against Him, saying, 58We heard
Him say, qI will destroy this temple made
with hands, and within three days I will
build another made without hands. 59But
not even then did their testimony agree.
14:43 with a great multitude. Judas came with a

detachment of troops (John 18:3). It was one-tenth of
a Roman legion or roughly 600 men.
14:5052 young man. Only Mark tells of this incident
and many believe that this young man was Mark himself. How else would he have known this story, and
why else should he have included it? If it was Mark,
and if the Last Supper was at his home that evening,
he could easily have risen from bed, pulled on a linen
sheet, and followed the disciples.
14:61 He kept silent. Jesus remained silent before
Pilate and Herod Antipas. Finally they could find
nothing substantial with which to charge Him. the
Christ, the Son of the Blessed. The trial was over, and
Jesus stood falsely condemned for blasphemy, which
in this context means laying claim to deity. Naturally,
60rAnd the high priest stood up in the

midst and asked Jesus, saying, Do You
answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You? 61But sHe kept silent and
answered nothing.
t Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, Are You the Christ, the Son of
the Blessed?
62 Jesus said, I am. u And you will see
the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of
the Power, and coming with the clouds of
heaven.
63T hen the high priest tore his clothes
and said, What further need do we have
of witnesses? 64You have heard the vblasphemy! What do you think?
And they all condemned Him to be deserving of wdeath.
65T hen some began to xspit on Him, and
to blindfold Him, and to beat Him, and to
say to Him, Prophesy! And the officers
struck Him with the palms of their hands.*
Peter Denies Jesus, and Weeps
66yNow as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high
priest came. 67And when she saw Peter
warming himself, she looked at him and said,
You also were with zJesus of Nazareth.
68 But he denied it, saying, I neither
know nor understand what you are saying. And he went out on the porch, and a
rooster crowed.
69a And the servant girl saw him again,
and began to say to those who stood by,
This is one of them. 70But he denied it
again.
bAnd a little later those who stood by
said to Peter again, Surely you are one
of them; cfor you are a Galilean, and your
speech shows it.*
71T hen he began to curse and swear, I
do not know this Man of whom you speak!
72d A second time the rooster crowed.
Then Peter called to mind the word that
Jesus had said to him, Before the rooster
crows twice, you will deny Me three times.
And when he thought about it, he wept.
*14:65 NU-Text reads received Him with slaps.

*14:70 NU-Text omits and your speech shows it.
this is the boast of a liar or a lunaticunless He is

the Almighty God in human flesh, as Jesus was (Phil.
2:58; 1John 1:13).
14:7172 the rooster crowed. We are not told that
Peter thought at all about Jesus words. If he did,
14:43eLuke 22:4753 14:44f[Prov. 27:6]
14:48gMatt. 26:55 14:49hMatt. 21:23 iIs.
53:7 14:50jPs. 88:8 14:53kMatt. 26:5768
lMark 15:1 mJohn 7:32; 18:3; 19:6 14:54nJohn
18:15 14:55oMatt. 26:59 14:56pEx. 20:16
14:58qJohn 2:19 14:60rMatt. 26:62 14:61sIs. 53:7
tLuke 22:6771 14:62uLuke 22:69 14:64vJohn
10:33, 36 wJohn 19:7 14:65xIs. 50:6; 52:14
14:66yJohn 18:1618, 2527 14:67zJohn 1:45
14:69aMatt. 26:71 14:70bLuke 22:59 cActs 2:7
14:72dMatt. 26:75
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 15:30 1117
Jesus Faces Pilate
15
Immediately, a in the morning, the

chief priests held a consultation with
the elders and scribes and the whole council; and they bound Jesus, led Him away,
and bdelivered Him to Pilate. 2cT hen Pilate asked Him, Are You the King of the
Jews?
He answered and said to him, It is as
you say.
3 And the chief priests accused Him of
many things, but He danswered nothing.
4eT hen Pilate asked Him again, saying,
Do You answer nothing? See how many
things they testify against You!* 5fBut
Jesus still answered nothing, so that Pilate
marveled.
Taking thePlace ofBarabbas
6Now gat the feast he was accustomed to

releasing one prisoner to them, whomever
they requested. 7And there was one named
Barabbas, who was chained with his fellow rebels; they had committed murder in
the rebellion. 8Then the multitude, crying
aloud,* began to ask him to do just as he
had always done for them. 9But Pilate answered them, saying, Do you want me to
release to you the King of the Jews? 10For
he knew that the chief priests had handed
Him over because of envy.
11But hthe chief priests stirred up the
crowd, so that he should rather release
Barabbas to them. 12Pilate answered and
said to them again, What then do you
want me to do with Him whom you call the
i King of the Jews?
13So they cried out again, Crucify Him!
14T hen Pilate said to them, Why, j what
evil has He done?
But they cried out all the more, Crucify
Him!
15k So Pilate, wanting to gratify the
crowd, released Barabbas to them; and
he delivered Jesus, after he had scourged
Him, to be lcrucified.
maybe he tried to conceal his identity more carefully,

but to no avail. Each of the other Gospel writers tells
us that the cock crowed immediately upon Peters
final denial (Matt. 26:74; Luke 22:60; John 18:27). This
time he thought about it, and he wept.
15:13 held a consultation. Rather than murdering
Jesus privately, the Jewish politicians decided to seek
Pilates approval so they could execute the blasphemer legally. Their charges included many things
but apparently centered on treason. Jesus claimed
to be a king, thus defying Caesar (Luke 23:2). This
crime was punishable in the Roman Empire by death.
Pilate must have concluded that the charges against
Jesus were groundless, for Mark tells us he desired to
release Him.
15:15 after he had scourged Him. This word, used
only twice in the New Testament (Matt. 27:26 and
here), describes a punishment more severe than flogging or beating. The prisoner was beaten with a whip
fashioned of numerous strips of leather attached to a
handle. To the leather strips were tied sharp pieces of
The Soldiers Mock Jesus
16mT hen the soldiers led Him away into

the hall called Praetorium, and they called
together the whole garrison. 17And they
clothed Him with purple; and they twisted
a crown of thorns, put it on His head, 18and
began to salute Him, Hail, King of the
Jews! 19Then they nstruck Him on the head
with a reed and spat on Him; and bowing
the knee, they worshiped Him. 20And when
they had omocked Him, they took the purple off Him, put His own clothes on Him,
and led Him out to crucify Him.
The King ona Cross
21pT hen they compelled a certain man,

Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was coming out of
the country and passing by, to bear His
cross. 22qAnd they brought Him to the
place Golgotha, which is translated, Place
of a Skull. 23rT hen they gave Him wine
mingled with myrrh to drink, but He did
not take it. 24 And when they crucified
Him, sthey divided His garments, casting
lots for them to determine what every
man should take.
25Now tit was the third hour, and they
crucified Him. 26 And uthe inscription of
His accusation was written above:
THE KING OF THE JEWS.

27vWith
Him they also crucified two robbers, one on His right and the other on
His left. 28 So the Scripture was fulfilled*
which says, wAnd He was numbered with
the transgressors. *
29And xthose who passed by blasphemed
Him, ywagging their heads and saying,
Aha! zYou who destroy the temple and
build it in three days, 30 save Yourself, and
come down from the cross!
*15:4 NU-Text reads of which they accuse You.
*15:8 NU-Text reads going up. *15:28 Isaiah
53:12 NU-Text omits this verse.
bone and metal, which could rip and tear ones skin
to shreds.
15:22 Golgotha is an Aramaic word. The hill may
have resembled the bony features of a skull or was
called this because it was a place of death. The name
Calvary comes from the Latin word for skull.
15:25 the third hour. This was 9 a.m., using a common Jewish system of marking the day. Jesus suffered on the cross until at least 3 p.m., the ninth hour
of verse 34.
15:1aPs. 2:2 bActs 3:13 15:2cMatt. 27:1114
15:3dJohn 19:9 15:4eMatt. 27:13 15:5fIs. 53:7
15:6gMatt. 27:1526 15:11hActs 3:14 15:12iMic.
5:2 15:14j1Pet. 2:2123 15:15kMatt. 27:26 l[Is.
53:8] 15:16mMatt. 27:2731 15:19n[Is. 50:6; 52:14;
53:5] 15:20oLuke 22:63; 23:11 15:21pMatt. 27:32
15:22qJohn 19:1724 15:23rMatt. 27:34 15:24sPs.
22:18 15:25tJohn 19:14 15:26uMatt. 27:37
15:27vLuke 22:37 15:28wIs. 53:12 15:29xPs. 22:6,
7; 69:7 yPs. 109:25 zJohn 2:1921
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
1118 Mark 15:31
31Likewise the chief priests also, a mocking among themselves with the scribes,
said, He saved bothers; Himself He cannot
save. 32Let the Christ, the King of Israel,
descend now from the cross, that we may
see and believe.*
Even cthose who were crucified with
Him reviled Him.
Jesus Dies ontheCross
33 Now d when the sixth hour had

come, there was darkness over the
whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And
at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a
loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is translated, eMy
God, My God, why have You forsaken
Me? *
35Some of those who stood by, when they
heard that, said, Look, He is calling for
Elijah! 36Then f someone ran and filled a
sponge full of sour wine, put it on a reed,
and goffered it to Him to drink, saying, Let
Him alone; let us see if Elijah will come to
take Him down.
37h And Jesus cried out with a loud voice,
and breathed His last.
38T hen i the veil of the temple was torn
in two from top to bottom. 39So j when the
centurion, who stood opposite Him, saw
that He cried out like this and breathed
His last,* he said, Truly this Man was the
Son of God!
40kThere were also women looking
on l from afar, among whom were Mary
Magdalene, Mary the mother of James
the Less and of Joses, and Salome, 41who
also mfollowed Him and ministered to Him
when He was in Galilee, and many other
women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.
Jesus Buried inJosephs Tomb

42n Now
when evening had come,

because it was the Preparation Day,
15:32 Let the Christ. Jesus was mockingly called the

Christ or Messiah by the chief priests and scribes.
Their offer to believe in Christ if He would descend
from the cross was not believable.
15:37 Jesus cried out with a loud voice. Frequently,
crucifixion produced a coma or unconsciousness
prior to death, but Jesus was in control of all His faculties until the moment when He voluntarily gave up
His life (John 10:1718).
15:38 the veil of the temple. The significance of
this event is that access to God is now open to all.
No longer through priests and the blood of bulls and
goats do we approach God, but through the torn veil,
which also symbolizes Jesus broken and torn body
(Heb. 10:20).
15:4041 There were also women looking on.
These women were true disciples of Christ. They had
ministered to Jesus needs and would be the first witnesses of His resurrection. Mark does not name Jesus
mother here but includes other prominent women.
Three Marys were present along with many other
that is, the day before the Sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent council
member, who owas himself waiting for
the kingdom of God, coming and taking
courage, went in to Pilate and asked for
the body of Jesus. 44 Pilate marveled that
He was already dead; and summoning the
centurion, he asked him if He had been
dead for some time. 45So when he found
out from the centurion, phe granted the
body to Joseph. 46qT hen he bought fine
linen, took Him down, and wrapped Him
in the linen. And he laid Him in a tomb
which had been hewn out of the rock,
and rolled a stone against the door of the
tomb. 47And Mary Magdalene and Mary
the mother of Joses observed where He
was laid.
He Is Risen
Now when the Sabbath was past,

16
Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices,
a
that they might come and anoint Him.

2cVery early in the morning, on the first
day of the week, they came to the tomb
when the sun had risen. 3 And they said
among themselves, Who will roll away
the stone from the door of the tomb for
us? 4 But when they looked up, they saw
that the stone had been rolled awayfor it
was very large. 5d And entering the tomb,
they saw a young man clothed in a long
white robe sitting on the right side; and
they were alarmed.
6e But he said to them, Do not be
alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who
was crucified. He is risen! He is not here.
See the place where they laid Him. 7But
go, tell His disciplesand Peterthat He
is going before you into Galilee; there you
will see Him, fas He said to you.
*15:32 M-Text reads believe Him. *15:34 Psalm

22:1 *15:39 NU-Text reads that He thus
breathed His last.
women and Salome. She was the mother of the disciples James and John (Matt. 27:56).
15:43 Joseph of Arimathea. He is identified as a
prominent member of the Sanhedrin. To ask Pilate
for the body of Jesus was not just a gesture of kindness. It was an act of bravery, which placed Joseph in
opposition to the Sanhedrin and identified him as a
follower of Jesus.
16:56 a young man... sitting on the right side.
Mark does not identify the young man with the robe
as an angel, but he is there to explain the mystery
15:31aLuke 18:32 bJohn 11:43, 44 15:32cMatt. 27:44
15:33dLuke 23:4449 15:34ePs. 22:1 15:36fJohn
19:29 gPs. 69:21 15:37hMatt. 27:50 15:38iEx.
26:3133 15:39jLuke 23:47 15:40kMatt. 27:55 lPs.
38:11 15:41mLuke 8:2, 3 15:42nJohn 19:3842
15:43oLuke 2:25, 38; 23:51 15:45pIs. 53:9, 12
15:46qMatt. 27:59, 60 16:1aJohn 20:18 bLuke 23:56
16:2cLuke 24:1 16:5dJohn 20:11, 12 16:6eMatt.
28:6 16:7fMatt. 26:32; 28:16, 17
1/22/15 9:07 AM
SECOND PROOFS
Mark 16:20 1119
8 So they went out quickly* and fled
from the tomb, for they trembled and were
amazed. gAnd they said nothing to anyone,
for they were afraid.
Mary Magdalene Sees theRisen

Lord
9 Now when He rose early on the first

day of the week, He appeared first to Mary
Magdalene, hout of whom He had cast seven demons. 10iShe went and told those who
had been with Him, as they mourned and
wept. 11jAnd when they heard that He was
alive and had been seen by her, they did
not believe.
Jesus Appears toTwo Disciples
12 After that, He appeared in another

form kto two of them as they walked and
went into the country. 13And they went and
told it to the rest, but they did not believe
them either.
The Great Commission

14l Later
He appeared to the eleven as

they sat at the table; and He rebuked their
unbelief and hardness of heart, because
they did not believe those who had seen
that confronts the women. He is risen. In the passive
voice, this indicates that an act of God accomplished
the raising up of Jesus.
16:920 Now when He rose. The authenticity of
these last twelve verses has been disputed. Those who
doubt Marks authorship of this passage point to two
fourth-century manuscripts that omit these verses.
Others believe that they should be included because
even these two manuscripts leave space for all or some
of these verses, indicating that their copyists knew of
their existence. The difficulty is in knowing whether
the space is for this longer version of Marks ending
or for one of the alternate endings found in the manuscripts. Important early church fathers endorsed this
passage, and it does not seem likely that Mark would
end his story on a note of fear (v. 8).
Him after He had risen. 15m And He said to

them, Go into all the world nand preach
the gospel to every creature. 16oHe who
believes and is baptized will be saved;
pbut he who does not believe will be condemned. 17And these q signs will follow
those who believe: rIn My name they will
cast out demons; sthey will speak with
new tongues; 18tt hey* will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; uthey
will lay hands on the sick, and they will
recover.
Christ Ascends toGods Right Hand
19 So then, vafter the Lord had spoken

to them, He was wreceived up into heaven,
and xsat down at the right hand of God.
20And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them yand
confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.*
*16:8 NU-Text and M-Text omit quickly.

*16:18 NU-Text reads and in their hands they will.
*16:20 Verses 920 are bracketed in NU-Text as
not original. They are lacking in Codex Sinaiticus
and Codex Vaticanus, although nearly all other
manuscripts of Mark contain them.
16:14 to the eleven. After Judas demise (Matt.

27:35; Acts 1:1618), the disciples were known for a
while as the eleven. Jesus upbraided these disciples
for not believing the accounts of eyewitnesses, but
He pronounced a blessing on those who have not
seen and yet have believed (John 20:29).
16:19 He was received up into heaven. This was the
final sign that Jesus was the Son of God.
16:8gMatt. 28:8 16:9hLuke 8:2 16:10iLuke
24:10 16:11jLuke 24:11, 41 16:12kLuke 24:1335
16:14l1Cor. 15:5 16:15mMatt. 28:19 n[Col. 1:23]
16:16o[John 3:18, 36] p[John 12:48] 16:17qActs 5:12
rLuke 10:17 s[Acts 2:4] 16:18tActs 28:36 uJames
5:14 16:19vActs 1:2, 3 wLuke 9:51; 24:51 x[Ps. 110:1]
16:20y[Heb. 2:4]
1/22/15 9:07 AM

KJV Foundation Study Bible - Book of Matthew

Uploaded by

Document Information

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

KJV Foundation Study Bible - Book of Matthew

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

SECOND PROOFS

9780718034320_int_05_matt_acts_nkjv-foundations_SECOND PROOFS.indd 1051

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO

KEY VERSES: Matt. 16:1619

The Genealogy ofJesus Christ

The book of the a genealogy of Jesus

Ahaz begot Hezekiah. 10qHezekiah begot

9780718034320_int_05_matt_acts_nkjv-foundations_SECOND PROOFS.indd 1053

Christ Born ofMary

18 Now the xbirth of Jesus Christ was

Wise Men fromtheEast

after Jesus was born in Bethle2king,Now

came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, cWhere is He

(from the Hebrew) and Christ (from the Greek) both

who has been born King of the Jews? For

Buth you, Bethlehem, in the land of

*1:23 Isaiah 7:14. Words in oblique type in the

9780718034320_int_05_matt_acts_nkjv-foundations_SECOND PROOFS.indd 1054

The Flight intoEgypt

13Now when they had departed, behold,

Herod, when he saw that he was

A nvoice was heard in Ramah,

The Home inNazareth

19 Now when Herod was dead, behold,

2:15 might be fulfilled. The prophecy quoted here,

the land of Israel, for those who psought

John theBaptist Prepares theWay

In those days John the Baptist came

heaven is at hand! 3For this is he who was

voice of one crying in the

*2:15 Hosea 11:1 *2:18 Jeremiah 31:15

3:7 Pharisees and Sadducees. The Pharisees and

2:12lMatt. 1:20 2:15mHos. 11:1 2:18nJer.

9780718034320_int_05_matt_acts_nkjv-foundations_SECOND PROOFS.indd 1055

John Baptizes Jesus

Jesus came tfrom Galilee to

Satan Tempts Jesus

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit

days and forty nights, afterward He was

3:11 baptize. Sometimes fire has connotations of

hungry. 3Now when the tempter came to

shall give His angels charge over

their hands they shall bear you up,

7Jesus said to him, It is written again,

Him all the kingdoms of the world and

Jesus claimed to be one with the Father, He was

9780718034320_int_05_matt_acts_nkjv-foundations_SECOND PROOFS.indd 1056

Jesus Begins His Galilean Ministry

when Jesus heard that John had

land of Zebulun and the land of

Four Fishermen Called as Disciples

And seeing the multitudes, He went

He opened His mouth and btaught them,

Blessedc are the poor in spirit,

11mBlessed are you when they revile and

Jesus Heals a Great Multitude

Believers Are Salt and Light

Jesus went about all Galilee,

13 You are the salt of the earth; qbut if

4:1516 great light. The passage quoted here (Is.

privileged because they are on top but because, by

*4:16 Isaiah 9:1, 2

4:12lJohn 4:43 4:15mIs. 9:1, 2 4:16nLuke 2:32

9780718034320_int_05_matt_acts_nkjv-foundations_SECOND PROOFS.indd 1057

2:15 Hosea 11:1 2:18 Jeremiah 31:15

5:43 Compare Leviticus 19:18 5:44 NU-Text

8:17 Isaiah 53:4 8:28 NU-Text reads