Posts Tagged ‘The Gospel of Matthew’

We’ve been following Jesus through the Gospel of Matthew, and for the last several months, have been following Jesus through that last crucial holy week of His passion. It is Good Friday, and the Lord Jesus has just died on the cross. No longer is it going to get worse. From here on, it just gets better.

We’ve followed Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew from before His birth no to the day of His death. We are smack dab in the middle of the worst day in human history. the worst day in Jesus’ life, because it is the day of His death. And it just gets worse.

We’ve followed Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew from before His birth no to the day of His death. We have been concentrating on the events of that last week, and that last night, and now this last day.

For the last several weeks in our ongoing series through the Gospel of Matthew, we have following Jesus through the crucial events of the last hours before His crucifixion. We have seen His Passover meal, watched as he prayed in the garden, and gasped with horror as our Lord was betrayed with a kiss, arrested, drug off to the high priest, and subjected to a sick joke of an unjust trial. Now our Lord will be disowned and condemned.

We are following Jesus through the events of that crucial last week, and now last day, just hours really, before His crucifixion. We have slowed down to carefully consider everything that Matthew tells us about Jesus during these crucial last hours.