Matthew has been about the ‘outsider being brought inside’, and the outsider is any human (because we are all sinners).

Jesus is now into His last week, before His crucifixion, in Jerusalem. It has not been a calm week – it has been a week of conflict and confrontation. It has been a week of plotting (by the religious and political authorities), and a week of truth-telling (by Jesus). The King has come to His ‘capital’ and His ‘people’, and they are actively opposed to Him. As we resume, the conflict and the traps are reaching their climax… and so is the revelation of who Jesus is!