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Jesus in Matthew

Matthew 1–28

Matthew moves Jesus through the land in a few large steps and says when each one happens: born in Bethlehem and brought up in Nazareth, baptized at the Jordan, settled at Capernaum by the sea, a ministry spent in Galilee and the towns around it, one road south through Judea beyond the Jordan and Jericho, a last week in Jerusalem, and a mountain in Galilee at the end. Every chapter that names a place has a map.

    Bethlehem, Egypt and Nazareth

    Matthew 1–2

    The genealogy counts its generations to and from the deportation to Babylon. Jesus is born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the east ask for him in Jerusalem, and Joseph takes the child to Egypt until Herod is dead, then settles in Nazareth in the district of Galilee.

    1. Matthew 1A genealogy from Abraham to Jesus, broken by the deportation to Babylon
    2. Matthew 2Born in Bethlehem, carried to Egypt, raised in Nazareth

    The Jordan, and the move to Capernaum

    Matthew 3–4

    John preaches in the wilderness of Judea and baptizes in the Jordan, and Jesus comes from Galilee to be baptized. After the temptation and John's arrest he leaves Nazareth for Capernaum by the sea, calls four fishermen, and crowds follow him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and beyond the Jordan.

    1. Matthew 3John baptizes at the Jordan, and Jesus comes from Galilee
    2. Matthew 4The temptation, and Jesus makes his home in Capernaum by the sea

    Galilee and the lake

    Matthew 5–18

    Most of the Gospel happens around one lake. Jesus teaches, heals and crosses the sea between Capernaum and the country of the Gadarenes, Gennesaret and Magadan; he goes once to the district of Tyre and Sidon and once north to Caesarea Philippi, where he first tells the disciples he must go to Jerusalem.

    1. Matthew 5The teaching on the mountain, and an oath sworn by Jerusalem
    2. Matthew 8Healings in Capernaum and a storm on the way to the Gadarenes
    3. Matthew 10The Twelve sent to Israel, and not to the Samaritans
    4. Matthew 11Woe to the lake towns, measured against Tyre, Sidon and Sodom
    5. Matthew 12The sign of Jonah, and the men of Nineveh
    6. Matthew 14Bread for five thousand, a night on the sea, and the sick of Gennesaret
    7. Matthew 15From Jerusalem's scribes to the district of Tyre and Sidon, and back to the lake
    8. Matthew 16Across the lake to Caesarea Philippi, and the first word of Jerusalem
    9. Matthew 17Down from the mountain, through Galilee to Capernaum

    The road to Jerusalem

    Matthew 19–20

    He leaves Galilee for the region of Judea beyond the Jordan, tells the twelve on the way up that the Son of Man will be handed over in Jerusalem, and heals two blind men as the crowd leaves Jericho.

    1. Matthew 19From Galilee to Judea beyond the Jordan
    2. Matthew 20On the road up to Jerusalem, by way of Jericho

    Jerusalem, and Galilee again

    Matthew 21–28

    From Bethphage and the Mount of Olives into the city and the temple, a night at Bethany, the Passover, Gethsemane, the trial, Golgotha and a tomb hewn in the rock. The risen Jesus sends the eleven back to Galilee, and the book ends on the mountain he had directed them to.

    1. Matthew 21Into Jerusalem from Bethphage and the Mount of Olives
    2. Matthew 23Woes on the scribes and Pharisees, and a lament over Jerusalem
    3. Matthew 24Leaving the temple, and the warning on the Mount of Olives
    4. Matthew 26Anointed at Bethany, arrested in Gethsemane
    5. Matthew 27Pilate, a man of Cyrene, and the place called Golgotha
    6. Matthew 28An empty tomb near Jerusalem, and the mountain in Galilee

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