Matthew 21:18

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The Authority of the King

• Matthew 2118 2246

2
Matthew 2118-19

• Now in the morning, when He was returning to the
  city, He became hungry.
• 19 Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to
  it and found nothing on it except leaves only
  and He said to it, No longer shall there ever be
  any fruit from you. And at once the fig tree
  withered.

3
Matthew 2120

• Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and
  asked, How did the fig tree wither all at once?

4
Matthew 2121-22

• And Jesus answered and said to them, Truly I
  say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt,
  you will not only do what was done to the fig
  tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be
  taken up and cast into the sea, it will happen.
  22 And all things you ask in prayer, believing,
  you will receive.

5
When He entered the temple, the chief priests and
the elders of the people came to Him while He was
teaching, and said, By what authority are You
doing these things, and who gave You this
authority?(Matthew 2123).
6
Matthew 2124-26

• Jesus said to them, I will also ask you one
  thing, which if you tell Me, I will also tell you
  by what authority I do these things. 25 The
  baptism of John was from what source, from heaven
  or from men? And they began reasoning among
  themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven, He
  will say to us, Then why did you not believe
  him? 26 But if we say, From men, we fear the
  people for they all regard John as a prophet.

7
Matthew 2127

• And answering Jesus, they said, We do not
  know. He also said to them, Neither will I tell
  you by what authority I do these things.

8
Matthew 2123-27
Matthew 2128-46
Jesus in
A Question of authority
Parables of authority
the Temple

• By what authority?
• John the Baptist
• Dont ask dont tell

• Parable of two sons

9
Matthew 2128-30

• But what do you think? A man had two sons, and
  he came to the first and said, Son, go work
  today in the vineyard. 29 And he answered, I
  will not but afterward he regretted it and
  went. 30 The man came to the second and said the
  same thing and he answered, I will, sir but
  he did not go.

10
Matthew 2131

• Which of the two did the will of his father?
  They said, The first. Jesus said to them,
  Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and
  prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God
  before you.

11
Matthew 2132

• For John came to you in the way of
  righteousness and you did not believe him but
  the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe
  him and you, seeing this, did not even feel
  remorse afterward so as to believe him.

12
Matthew 2123-27
Matthew 2128 2214
Jesus in
A Question of authority
Parables of authority
the Temple

• By what authority?
• John the Baptist
• Dont ask dont tell

• Parable of two sons
• Parable of vineyard

13
Matthew 2133

• Listen to another parable. There was a
  landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall
  around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a
  tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went
  on a journey.

14
Let me sing now for my well-beloved A song of my
beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved
had a vineyard on a fertile hill. (Isaiah 51).
15
He dug it all around, removed its stones, And
planted it with the choicest vine. And He built
a tower in the middle of it And also hewed out a
wine vat in it Then He expected it to produce
good grapes,But it produced only worthless ones.
(Isaiah 52).
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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of
Judah,Judge between Me and My vineyard.4 What
more was there to do for My vineyard that I have
not done in it?Why, when I expected it to
produce good grapes did it produce worthless
ones? (Isaiah 53-4).
17
So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to
My vineyardI will remove its hedge and it will
be consumedI will break down its wall and it
will become trampled ground.(Isaiah 55).
18
I will lay it waste It will not be pruned or
hoed,But briars and thorns will come up.I will
also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.
(Isaiah 56).
19
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the
house of IsraelAnd the men of Judah His
delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshedFor righteousness, but
behold, a cry of distress. (Isaiah 57).
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Matthew 2133

• Listen to another parable. There was a
  landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall
  around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a
  tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went
  on a journey.

21
Matthew 2134-35

• When the harvest time approached, he sent his
  slaves to the vine-growers to receive his
  produce. 35 The vine-growers took his slaves and
  beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

22
Matthew 2136-37

• Again he sent another group of slaves larger
  than the first and they did the same thing to
  them. 37 But afterward he sent his son to them,
  saying, They will respect my son.

23
Matthew 2138-40

• But when the vine-growers saw the son, they
  said among themselves, This is the heir come,
  let us kill him and seize his inheritance. 39
  They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard
  and killed him. 40 Therefore when the owner of
  the vineyard comes, what will he do to those
  vine-growers?

24
Matthew 2141

• They said to Him, He will bring those wretches
  to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard
  to other vine-growers who will pay him the
  proceeds at the proper seasons.

25
Matthew 2142

• Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the
  Scriptures,

The stone which the builders rejected, This
became the Chief Corner stone This came about
from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes?
26
Matthew 2143-44

• Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will
  be taken away from you and given to a people,
  producing the fruit of it. 44 And he who falls on
  this stone will be broken to pieces but on
  whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.

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When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard
His parables, they understood that He was
speaking about them. 46 When they sought to
seize Him, they feared the people, because they
considered Him to be a prophet. (Matthew
2145-46).
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Matthew 2123-27
Matthew 2128 2214
Jesus in
A Question of authority
Parables of authority
the Temple

• By what authority?
• John the Baptist
• Dont ask dont tell

• Parable of two sons
• Parable of vineyard
• Parable of the wedding feast

29
Matthew 221-3

• Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying, 2
  The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king
  who gave a wedding feast for his son. 3 And he
  sent out his slaves to call those who had been
  invited to the wedding feast, and they were
  unwilling to come.

30
Matthew 224

• Again he sent out other slaves saying, Tell
  those who have been invited, Behold, I have
  prepared my dinner my oxen and my fattened
  livestock are all butchered and everything is
  ready come to the wedding feast.

31
Matthew 225-7

• But they paid no attention and went their way,
  one to his own farm, another to his business, 6
  and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated
  them and killed them. 7 But the king was enraged,
  and he sent his armies and destroyed those
  murderers and set their city on fire.

32
Matthew 228-9

• Then he said to his slaves, The wedding is
  ready, but those who were invited were not
  worthy. 9 Go therefore to the main highways, and
  as many as you find there, invite to the wedding
  feast.

33
Matthew 2210

• Those slaves went out into the streets and
  gathered together all they found, both evil and
  good and the wedding hall was filled with dinner
  guests.

34
Matthew 2211-12

• But when the king came in to look over the
  dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not
  dressed in wedding clothes, 12 and he said to
  him, Friend, how did you come in here without
  wedding clothes? And the man was speechless.

35
Matthew 2213-14

• Then the king said to the servants, Bind him
  hand and foot, and throw him into the outer
  darkness in that place there will be weeping and
  gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but
  few are chosen.

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Matthew 2123-27
Matthew 2128 2214
Matthew 2215-46
A Question of authority
Parables of authority
Questions from the Critics

• By what authority?
• John the Baptist
• Dont ask dont tell

• Parable of two sons
• Parable of vineyard
• Parable of the wedding feast

• Taxation?

37
Matthew 2215

• Then the Pharisees went and plotted together how
  they might trap Him in what He said.

38
Matthew 2216-17

• And they sent their disciples to Him, along with
  the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that You
  are truthful and teach the way of God in truth,
  and defer to no one for You are not partial to
  any. 17 Tell us then, what do You think? Is it
  lawful to give a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

39
Matthew 2218-19

• But Jesus perceived their malice, and said, Why
  are you testing Me, you hypocrites? 19 Show Me
  the coin used for the poll-tax. And they brought
  Him a denarius.

40
Matthew 2220-21

• And He said to them, Whose likeness and
  inscription is this? 21 They said to Him,
  Caesars. Then He said to them, "Then render to
  Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God
  the things that are Gods.

41
Matthew 2222

• And hearing this, they were amazed, and leaving
  Him, they went away.

42
Matthew 2123-27
Matthew 2128 2214
Matthew 2215-46
A Question of authority
Parables of authority
Questions from the Critics

• By what authority?
• John the Baptist
• Dont ask dont tell

• Parable of two sons
• Parable of vineyard
• Parable of the wedding feast

• Taxation?
• Resurrection?

43
Matthew 2223-24

• On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no
  resurrection) came to Jesus and questioned Him,
  24 asking, Teacher, Moses said, If a man dies
  having no children, his brother as next of kin
  shall marry his wife, and raise up children for
  his brother.

44
Matthew 2225-28

• Now there were seven brothers with us and the
  first married and died, and having no children
  left his wife to his brother 26 so also the
  second, and the third, down to the seventh. 27
  Last of all, the woman died. 28 In the
  resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven
  will she be? For they all had married her.

45
Matthew 2229-30

• But Jesus answered and said to them, You are
  mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor
  the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they
  neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are
  like angels in heaven.

46
Matthew 2231-32

• But regarding the resurrection of the dead,
  have you not read what was spoken to you by God
  32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of
  Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God
  of the dead but of the living.

47
Matthew 2233

• When the crowds heard this, they were astonished
  at His teaching.

48
Matthew 2234

• But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had
  silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves
  together.

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Matthew 2123-27
Matthew 2128 2214
Matthew 2215-46
A Question of authority
Parables of authority
Questions from the Critics

• By what authority?
• John the Baptist
• Dont ask dont tell

• Parable of two sons
• Parable of vineyard
• Parable of the wedding feast

• Taxation?
• Resurrection?
• Greatest command?

50
Matthew 2235-36

• One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question,
  testing Him, 36 Teacher, which is the great
  commandment in the Law?

51
Matthew 2237-40

• And He said to him, You chall love the Lord
  your God with all your heart, and with all your
  soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the
  great and foremost commandment. 39 The second is
  like it, You shall love your neighbor as
  yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend
  the whole Law and the Prophets.

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Matthew 2123-27
Matthew 2128 2214
Matthew 2215-46
A Question of authority
Parables of authority
Questions from the Critics

• By what authority?
• John the Baptist
• Dont ask dont tell

• Parable of two sons
• Parable of vineyard
• Parable of the wedding feast

• Taxation?
• Resurrection?
• Greatest command?

Question from Jesus
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Matthew 2241-42

• Now while the Pharisees were gathered together,
  Jesus asked them a question 42 What do you
  think about the Christ, whose son is He? They
  said to Him, The son of David.

54
Matthew 2243-44

• He said to them, Then how does David in the
  Spirit call Him Lord, saying, 44 The Lord said
  to My Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I put
  Your enemies beneath Your feet? 45 If David
  then calls Him Lord, how is He his son?

Davids Son
(Messiah)
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Matthew 2246

• No one was able to answer Him a word, nor did
  anyone dare from that day on to ask Him another
  question.

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