Matthew: A Great Light Dawns (Read the Bible Today)
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Overview
The events recounted in the Gospel of Matthew when Jesus Christ walked this earth in the first century are at the centre of human history and reach into our time to tell us of the Messiah for all time and for all peoples. In this insightful commentary, Peter G Bolt leads readers through the account of Matthew, an historian, theologian and evangelist, who brings to us the life of Jesus and the hope of the kingdom to come. Matthew: A Great lIght Dawns illuminates a Gospel which continues to move people profoundly, touch them deeply, and make an impact on every corner of their existence.
- Aims to help to feel the impact of Jesus Christ in the reader's life
- Designed for ordinary church people to read as individuals but also to study together in small groups
- Written to try to help 21st century readers hear Matthew properly, so that the impact of Matthew's account of Jesus might be felt profoundly
- Matthew's basic invitation
- How to use this commentary
- Origins (Matthew 1-4)
- Jesus calls for Israel of the last days (Matthew 5-7)
- The works of the Messiah (Matthew 8-10)
- Israel responds to their Messiah (Matthew 11-12)
- The gospel of the kingdom separates people (Matthew 13:1-53)
- Shepherds bad and good (Matthew 13:54-17:21)
- Jesus moves towards his death (Matthew 17:22-20:34)
- The kingdom draws nearer (Matthew 21:1-26:2)
- The death and vindication of the Son of Man (Matthew 26:3-28:20)