Matthew 2 |
A full explanation of Matthew Chapter 2 - the Birth of Jesus, is now here [this site].
Bethlehem Jesus was said to be born in the little town of Bethlehem. The name Bethlehem means "The House of Bread." St. Jerome relates the intriguing fact that Bethlehem was shaded by a grove sacred to the Mystery godman Adonis, who was regarded as a god of the corn and represented by bread![1,p.33] Magi The baby Jesus is visited by the "Three Wise Men" and three shepherds. In the gospels the "Three Wise Men" are actually called the Magi. The Magi were followers of the Persian Mystery godman Mithras. His birthday is celebrated on December 25 -- exactly the same date that is celebrated as the birthday of Jesus. Mithras' birth was even said to have been witnessed by three shepherds![2,p.33] "The stable or manger that the biblical Jesus was born in is the constellation or house of Capricorn, which was once known as the 'STABLE of Augeas.'" - http://knowledgefirst.org/freedom/jesus.htm |
Matthew 5:17-20 | The New Righteousness. |
Matthew 6:9-11 (Luke 11:1-4) |
The Lord's Prayer. The Lord's Prayer was prefigured by an Egyptian hymn to Osiris-Amen beginning, "O Amen, O Amen, who are in heaven." Amen was also invoked at the end of every prayer.[5,p.748-754] |
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 | Jesus lays down rules for piety. |
Matthew 6:13 | “For thine is the kingdom and the power and
the glory, for ever. Amen.” This sentence is wanting in the
best authorities, though the less in point of number. It is believed
to have got insertion, in or after the fourth century, from
the custom of annexing it, as a doxology, in public prayer. No
fact, doctrine, or duty of religion is affected by either its presence
or its absence. —John Pye Smith, An Answer To A Printed Paper Entitled MANIFESTO of the CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE SOCIETY (by Robert Taylor)(1827). |
Matthew 7:6 | See Commentary on Matthew 15:22-28 |
Matthew 8:28-34 | See Commentary on Mark 5:1-20 |
Matthew 9:2 | See sermon by Robert Taylor (1831) "A man, named Mat Thew" |
Matthew 11:12 | “From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence,” &c. could not have been written till a very late period. |
Matthew 13:24b-30, 37b-43 | The parable of the weeds among the wheat and its interpretation. |
Matthew 13:33 (Luke 13:20-21) |
The parable of the leaven. |
Matthew 13:44 | The parable of the treasure in someone else's field, or, The deceitful finder. |
Matthew 15:22-28 | The meaning of the word "dogs" is known to us not only from its use by Jewish historians, but from the lips of Jesus Himself. The word was used to describe every nation that was not of the seed of Abraham. And we find that when a Syro-Phoenician woman came to Jesus and asked Him to exercise his miraculous power, His first answer was: "It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs." She meekly accepted the title and replied: "Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the master's table." So that the meaning of the word "dog" is by no means in dispute; it means those who are not within the limits of the kingdom of God. [6,pg.115] |
Matthew 16:18 | Jesus is making a pun on the Greek words for "Peter" and "rock" which are similar. However, the pun only works in Greek. Had Jesus and his alleged contemporaries really existed, they would have spoken Aramaic. This line must have been inserted centuries after the event it claims to describe. Indeed, the early readers would not have had the slightest idea as to what ‘the church’ meant. |
Matthew 16:14 | “In Matthew xvi. 14,
we find the Pharisees represented, according to the Pythagorean doctrines, as
saying that Jesus was Elias; and in Matthew xvii. 13, Jesus himself, so far
from discountenancing that doctrine, confirms it, by giving his disciples to
understand that John the Baptist was the soul of Elias come again in the
person of that prophet.” |
Matthew 18:15-18 | Jesus gives the church authority to bind and loose.[4,p.48] |
Matthew 19:12 | delivers the peculiar doctrine of the Encratites, a
sect which first appeared very early in the second century. —see The Dissonance of the Four Generally Received Evangelists: and the evidence of their respective authenticity, examined; with that of some other scriptures deemed canonical, by Edward Evanson, A.M. (1st edition: 1792. 2nd edition: 1805.) |
Matthew 21:18-19 | Jesus curses a fig tree. See Commentary on Mark 11:12-14 In Mark there is a whole day between the curse and its fulfilment. Here in Matthew the tree withers immediately. One possible explanation: there were two separate instances of cursing fig trees. This "both were true" explanation of literalists is common. (See [4,p.73]) The fig tree may be a metaphor for Israel. In this case the saying would derrive from the situation of Matthew's community and not from the time of Jesus. Christians of that time took refuge in nasty condemnations in their fight against non-Christian Jews, and without further ado attributed them to Jesus.[4,p.74] |
Matthew 21:33-46 | The parable of the wicked tenants. |
Matthew 22:1-14 | The parable of the wedding feast. |
Matthew 22:14 | Jesus is quoting Plato! Plato's statement that "Many carry the wand, but few become Bacchoi" became proverbial in the Hellenistic period and was often shortened to "Many are called but few are chosen." It is in this form that it turns up in the early Epistle of Barnabas, see Louth, A. (1968), 163, and in Matthew.[2,p.218,308] |
Matthew 23:13-28 | Woes against scribes and Pharisees. |
Matthew 23:14 | Verse 14 does not appear in the earliest manuscripts; it was formulated later on the basis of Mark 12:40 and is not an original part of the Gospel of Matthew. [Gerd Lüdemann - "The Great Deception" pg. 28.] |
Matthew 27:29 | "The crown of thorns spoken about in Matthew 27:29 is the layer of the SUN called CORONA. Corona is Latin for crown, and in science, the outermost part of the SUN is called corona. The SUN wears a crown of thorns. This is why it is said that Jesus wore a crown of thorns." - http://knowledgefirst.org/freedom/jesus.htm |
Matthew 28:16-20 | An appearance of Jesus and a mission charge. |
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