The Jewish council’s decision to execute Jesus required Roman approval. The governor, Pontius Pilate, attempts to avoid entangling himself with the Jewish problems; but ultimately surrenders Jesus to be crucified. | Matthew | Series: The Exiled King

Matthew | Series: The Exiled King

Matthew | Series: The Exiled King

This chapter is the beginning of the end. With Jesus’s final discourse concluded, we see how various people respond to his statements about his coming death. Some are incredulous. Others mourn. Many are frustrated with him. | Matthew | Series: The Exiled King

Concluding his Olivet Discourse, Jesus discusses the final judgment of all of humanity; and he leaves no room for ambiguity. | Matthew | Series: The Exiled King

As Jesus continues with his Olivet Discourse, he offers two parables that relate to the role of the disciples and the church in the time between his first and second coming. The implications of this wouldn’t set in until after he was resurrected and ascended to heaven. | Matthew | Series: The Exiled King

2 Corinthians | Series: Giving

Drawing on the prophecies of Daniel, Jesus evokes memories of Antiochus IV’s blasphemy that launched a seven year war that ravaged all of Judea. He warns of a coming atrocity that will make this pale in comparison. | Matthew | Series: The Exiled King

Jesus’s last great discourse begins with him leaving Jerusalem and the disciples asking him to admire the temple. Jesus then takes the disciples on a tour of the coming end of Jerusalem (which was destroyed by the Romans a couple decades later) and foreshadowing the final judgment of the world. | Matthew | Series: The Exiled King

As Jesus transitions to his last great discourse (24:1–25:45), he pauses to present a poetic lament over the way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem refused to see what God was doing. | Matthew | Series: The Exiled King