Our theme for 2022 is Journey With Jesus. We are taking our journey with Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew. Now that we are moving past the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew is going to record various accounts and events in the life of Jesus. One thing you will notice as you go through Matthew’s gospel is that he is not recording a continuous story. The gospel is not giving us a chronological account nor is it telling us an order of events. Rather, we are seeing short accounts from the life of Jesus, placed together to give us another angle on Jesus’ life. There are two reasons why I bring up this important point.

First, there is a strong temptation by many to want to supplement Matthew’s account with the accounts recorded in the other gospels. I cannot tell you how many commentaries and research works I consulted that did this. Rather than taking the text as it is presented, they go to the other gospels to fill in some of the missing details. This is a big mistake. There is a reason Matthew has recorded what he recorded the way he recorded it…

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