matthew 21
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Matthew 21. Significance of Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem. Unity with the kings of Israel Fulfill the prophecy of Zechariah To show he was not a military leader To show humility. How did the people react to his entry? When do we celebrate this in the Church year? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Matthew 21
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Significance of Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem
• Unity with the kings of Israel• Fulfill the prophecy of Zechariah• To show he was not a military leader• To show humility
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• How did the people react to his entry?• When do we celebrate this in the Church
year?• What part of this passage do we say in mass
on a regular basis?
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Passover lamb
• Taken into Jerusalem at the same time as Jesus coming into Jerusalem
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Cleansing the Temple
• Cheating• House of prayer for all nations• If you were a Sadducee in charge of the
Temple, how would you feel about Jesus?
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Parable of the Tenants
• Tenants=Jews• Son=Jesus
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Kingdom of God (MT 22:1-14)
How does Jesus compare Heaven to a Wedding feast?
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Greatest Commandment (MT 22:37-39)
• Love God• Love neighbor
• How does this commandment relate to the 10 Commandments?
• Are you better at loving God or loving your neighbor???
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Pharisees
• Focus on law instead of Love• Practiced exclusion instead of inclusion• How does Jesus feel about them?• If you were a Pharisee, how would you feel
about Jesus?
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Lament over Jerusalem (MT 23:37-39)
• What is meant by Jesus’ lament over Jerusalem?
• How does Jerusalem respond?
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Apocalyptic literature
• A biblical style of writing that was developed during the exile
• Gives hope to the persecuted and was highly symbolic
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Parousia
• The glorious return and appearance of Jesus as judge of the living and dead at the end of time (2nd coming)
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Great Tribulation
• Generation=40 years• 70 AD destruction of Jerusalem• End of Jewish world (Temple was a microcosm
of the world)• Foreshadowed the end of the world
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Matthew 25
• 10 Virgins• Talents• Judgment of the nations
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Matthew 26
• 30 pieces of silver=price for a slave• Betrayed by Judas Iscariot
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Passover
• Why do you think Jesus would choose a Passover as his last meal?
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4 cups at a Passover meal
• Cup of solemn blessing (followed by bitter herbs that symbolized the bitterness of captivity in Egypt)
• Passover story cup (Passover story of Exodus was read, PS 113 sung)
• Cup of Blessing (After the main meal eaten)• Cup of Consummation (PS 114-118 sung and the
Passover came to its climax when the 4th cup was drunk)
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Last Supper
• Apostles realized what Jesus meant when he said they would have to eat his body and drink his blood.
• After the Last Supper, Jesus and his Apostles went to the Mt. of Olives (Garden of Gethsemane). Judas did not go.
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Sanhedrin
• Jewish governing council
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Caiaphas
• High priest
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Blasphemy
• Jesus is accused of Blasphemy (the crime of profaning God, claiming to be God or have God-like characteristics.)
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Peter’s denial
• 3 times• Charcoal fire in John’s gospel
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Death sentence
• Sanhedrin did not have authority to issue a death sentence
• Only Rome could issue a death sentence
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Matthew 27
27: 1-10. How is Judas’ response to sin different than Peter’s?
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Pilate
• Governor of Judea