Outline: The Gospel According to Matthew

Rabbi Glenn Harris

Week 1 Introduction to The Gospel According to Matthew

Week 2 Messiah’s ancestral lineage (1:1-17)
Week 3 Yeshua’s birth / flight to Egypt / return to Israel (1:18 – 2:23)
Week 4 The forerunner / baptisms & preparation / testing (3:1 – 4:11)
Week 5 Miraculous ministry in Galilee / first disciples chosen (4:12 – 25)
Weeks 6-11 Yeshua’s signature teaching: The Sermon on the Mount (5:1 – 7:29)
Week 6: The Beatitudes (5:1-11)
Week 7: The demands of a disciple (5:12-20)
Week 8: Messiah’s Torah (“You have heard… but I say”) (5:21-48)
Week 9: Giving, praying and fasting discreetly (6:1-18)
Week 10: Overcoming materialism and anxiety (6:19-34)
Week 11: Equal weights, measures / only 2 choices, outcomes (7:1-29)

Week 12 People from all walks of life coming to Him, part 1 (8:1-22)
Week 13 Messiah’s supreme authority / Matthew chosen (8:23 – 9:9)
Week 14 People from all walks of life coming to Him, part 2 (9:10-38)
Week 15 Messiah defines what discipleship will require (10:1 – 11:1)
Week 16 John the Baptist (praised by Yeshua, executed by Herod (11:2-19, 14:1-12)
Week 17 Messiah asserts His authority amid opposition (11:20-12:21)
Week 18 Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit / a generation condemned (12:22-50)
Week 19 Yeshua’s farming-themed parables (13:1-32, 36-43)
Week 20 Other kingdom-comparison parables (13:33-35, 44-52)
Week 21 Messiah’s hometown visit / John beheaded (13:53 – 14:12)
Week 22 Yeshua’s divine authority manifested (14:13-36)
Week 23 Yeshua exposes the hypocrisy of His opponents (15:1-20)
Week 24 Ministry to a faith-filled foreigner, healing to multitudes (15:21-39)
Week 25 The necessary cost of being a disciple (16:1-28)
Week 26 The Transfiguration – answering all the “why’s” (17:1-13)
Week 27 Continued ministry in Galilee / opposition intensifies (17:14-18:20)
Week 28 The eternal consequences of unforgiveness (18:21-35)
Week 29 Messiah’s standard for marriage, divorce / bless children (19:1-15)
Week 30 The necessary cost of being a disciple (cont’d.) (19:16 – 20:16)
Week 31 Approaching Jerusalem for the last time (20:17-34)
Week 32 The King enters Jerusalem / the fig tree prophecy (21:1-22)
Week 33 Messiah’s indictment of Israel’s religious leaders (21:23 – 22:14)
Week 34 The religious leaders’ plot to destroy Yeshua (22:15-46)
Week 35 Messiah’s indictment of Israel’s religious leaders, pt. 2 (23:1-39)
Week 36 Last Things: what we are to watch for, what we are to do (24:1-51)
Week 37 Last Things: two deeply troubling but important parables (25:1-46)
Week 38 Passover – the defining moment and the betrayal (26:1-56)
Week 39 The unlawful trial and torture of the Messiah (27:1-32)
Week 40 The Crucifixion (27:33-66)
Week 41 The Resurrection and the Great Commission (28:1-20)