Meditation

Hi there,

Matthew records a series of debates and disputes with the Pharisees and the Sadducees over four chapters from Matthew 21:23-26:5.

These chapters almost exclusively record Jesus' words and contain a thorough condemnation and rebuke of the spiritual leaders of the time.

The culmination of which is the initiation of the plot to have Jesus killed.

You might feel moved to copy out other parts of this lengthy and dramatic discourse.​

For our Easter series, I have chosen a short passage that you'll likely be very familiar with, and which gets to the crux of who Jesus is and the core of the law.

Today's text is Matthew 22:34–40.

Today's verses are in black and red and tomorrow's are in gray and are provided for context and clarity

The Greatest Commandment

34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?​

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.

39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Whose Son Is the Messiah?

41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”

“The son of David,” they replied.

43 He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,

44 “‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
under your feet.”’

45 If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” 46 No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Encouragement

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33

Andy​

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