Matthew 12:22-13:23
Skip Heitzig
| Matthew 12 (NKJV™) | |
| 22 | Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw. |
| 23 | And all the multitudes were amazed and said, "Could this be the Son of David?" |
| 24 | Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, "This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons." |
| 25 | But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. |
| 26 | "If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? |
| 27 | "And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. |
| 28 | "But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. |
| 29 | "Or how can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house. |
| 30 | "He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad. |
| 31 | "Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. |
| 32 | "Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come. |
| 33 | "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. |
| 34 | "Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. |
| 35 | "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. |
| 36 | "But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. |
| 37 | "For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." |
| 38 | Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You." |
| 39 | But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. |
| 40 | "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. |
| 41 | "The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. |
| 42 | "The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. |
| 43 | "When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. |
| 44 | "Then he says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. |
| 45 | "Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation." |
| 46 | While He was still talking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him. |
| 47 | Then one said to Him, "Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You." |
| 48 | But He answered and said to the one who told Him, "Who is My mother and who are My brothers?" |
| 49 | And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, "Here are My mother and My brothers! |
| 50 | "For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother." |
| Matthew 13 (NKJV™) | |
| 1 | On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. |
| 2 | And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. |
| 3 | Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: "Behold, a sower went out to sow. |
| 4 | "And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. |
| 5 | "Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. |
| 6 | "But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. |
| 7 | "And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. |
| 8 | "But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. |
| 9 | "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" |
| 10 | And the disciples came and said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?" |
| 11 | He answered and said to them, "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. |
| 12 | "For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. |
| 13 | "Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. |
| 14 | "And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; |
| 15 | For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.' |
| 16 | "But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; |
| 17 | "for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. |
| 18 | "Therefore hear the parable of the sower: |
| 19 | "When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. |
| 20 | "But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; |
| 21 | "yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. |
| 22 | "Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. |
| 23 | "But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." |
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In this in-depth study of the Gospel of Matthew, Pastor Skip Heitzig shows how Jesus Christ is presented as the King, the fulfillment of all the Old Testament prophecies of the messiah.
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