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Matthew Week 161   There were no more than a dozen of us. Could we maintain a cover-up–to save the president? Consider that we were political zealots. We enjoyed enormous political power and prestige. With all that at stake, you'd expect us to be capable of maintaining a lie to protect the president.   But we couldn't do it. The first to crack was John Dean. First, he told the president everything...

Matthew Week 160 Matthew 2:11a ESV   11 And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him.       Matthew 28:10 ESV   10 Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me."       Matthew 26:30-32 ESV   30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 31 Then Je...

Matthew Week 159   Esther 4:16 ESV   16 "Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish."       Esther 5:1 ESV   On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner cour...

Matthew Week 158   Galatians 3:28 NASB95   28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.       Acts 20:17, 28 NASB95   17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.       28 Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overs...

Matthew Week 157   "The Hebrews reckoned two evenings, an earlier and a later. The former began midway between noon and sunset, or at three o'clock in the afternoon. The latter began at sunset, six o'clock. The reference here is to the earlier evening, though the time may have been well on toward the beginning of the later. The preparations had to be hurried because the Sabbath would begin at suns...

Matthew week 156     1 Kings 18:26, 29, 36-39 NASB95   26 Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon saying, "O Baal, answer us." But there was no voice and no one answered. And they leaped about the altar which they made.       29 When midday was past, they raved until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice; bu...

Matthew Week 155     Matthew 27:37 ESV   37 And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews."         Romans 3:21-25a ESV   21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no...

Main scripture: Matthew 27:33-44   John 19:20 Hebrews 13:10-12 Leviticus 4:11-12 Psalm 69:21 Proverbs 31:6-7 Psalm 22:16 John 12:32-33 John 3:14-15 Psalm 22:18 Psalm 22:17 Isaiah 53:3 Psalm 22:6-8 John 10:18 1 John 4:10

Matthew Week 153     Luke 23:20-22 ESV   22 A third time he said to them, "Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him."       John 19:1 ESV   Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him.       Matthew 27:27-30 ESV   Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion b...

Matthew Week 152   Matthew 27:11 ESV   11 Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said, "You have said so."     John 18:28-32 ESV   28 Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but cou...

Matthew Week 150   1 Peter 2:21 ESV   21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.       Hebrews 12:2-3 ESV   2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.   3...

Matthew Week 149   Matthew 26:55-56 ESV   55 At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. 56 But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.     Matthew 26:57-58 ESV   57 Then tho...

Main text: Matthew 26:52-56   Matthew 26:24 Matthew 26:31 Matthew 1:22 Luke 22:49 Luke 22:51 John 18:11 Genesis 9:6 Matthew 26:35 Matthew 4:11 Luke 22:43 Ephesians 6:12 John 12:27 John 12:47 Isaiah 53:3-12 Luke 22:51 lsaiah 53:12 Isaiah 53:8

Matthew Week 147 2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB 95   21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.       1 Peter 2:24 NASB95   24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.       Galatians 3:13 NASB95   13 Christ redeemed us from the curs...

Matthew Week 146   Matthew 26:33-34 ESV   33 Peter answered him, "Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away." 34 Jesus said to him, "Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."     Matthew 26:36-46 ESV   36 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go over there an...

Matthew Week 145       Matthew 26:26b ESV   after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."       Matthew 26:27b-28 ESV   and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you, 28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.       Matthew 26:29 ESV   29 I tell you I will...

Matthew Week 144   Psalm 41:9 ESV   Even my close friend in whom I trusted,   who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.       Matthew 26:26-29 ESV   26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."27 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all...

Matthew Week 142   Matthew 26:14-16 ESV   14 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.       Exodus 21:16 ESV   16 "Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of h...

Matthew Week 141   Matthew 26:1-5 ESV   When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, 2 "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."   3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, 4 and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by st...

Matthew Week 140 Matthew 25:31-32 ESV   31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.     Ezekiel 34:17 ESV   17 "As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I judge between sheep...

Matthew Week 139   Matthew 25:14-30 ESV   14 "For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the...

Matthew Week 138   Matthew 24:36 ESV   36 "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.     Ephesians 6:15 ESV   15 and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.       2 Timothy 4:2 ESV   2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete pati...

Matthew Week 137   Matthew 24:23-25 ESV   23 Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand.       Matthew 24:26-28 ESV   26 So, if they say to you, 'Look, he is in the wilderness,...

Matthew Week 136 Mark 13:1 ESV   And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!"       Luke 21:5a ESV   5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings…       Colossians 3:1-4 NASB95   Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things abo...