MATTHEW 21:1 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethfage at the Hill of Olives, Jesus then sent two pupils, telling them, “Go to the settlement ahead of you and straight off you’ll find a donkey tied up with a foal. Loose them and bring them to me. And if anyone says […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 20:29 As they were going out of Jericho, a large crowd followed them. And -see this-! there were two blind men seated by the road, who when they heard that Jesus was going by, cried out, “Do us a kindness, Lord, Son of David!” The crowd gave them a warning, that they should […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 20:20 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to him with her sons, going down on her knees to ask him for something. He speaks to her and says, “What do you want?” She says, “Tell me that they’ll sit, my two sons, one or your right and one on your left in […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 20 : 17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve aside by themselves on the way, and told them, “See this! we are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the legal experts, who will condemn him to […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 20:1 For the Rule of heaven is like a landowner who went out at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day, he sent them into the vineyard. About nine in the morning he went out again, he saw others standing unemployed in the […]

Mea Culpa! I realise rereading my last blog that I have expounded the reason Matthew tells the story of Jesus and the little children, but missed the story itself. Matthew shows that the magical world-transforming Jesus has time and love for little children. I don’t doubt that Jesus did this and that it was remembered […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 19: 13 Then small children were brought to him, so that he would put his hands upon them and pray. But his disciples censured them.Then Jesus said,”Do not refuse the children or hinder them from coming to me, for the Rule of Heaven belongs to such as these.” And he put his hands […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 19:1 Now when Jesus had completed these teachings, he left Galilee and came into the territory of Judaea across the River Jordan. Large crowds followed him and he healed them there. Pharisees approached him, in order to test him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to dismiss his wife for any reason?” […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 18: 21 Then Peter approached and said to him, “How often can my brother sin and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him,”I am telling you, not up to seven times but up to seventy times seven! Because of this, the rule of heaven is likened to someone, a […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 18:18 “Amen I tell you that whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will have been loosed in heaven. Again, amen I tell you, if two of you on earth come to agreement about something you ask for, whatever it is, it will […]