Follow me
Read Matthew 4:18-22 . The announcement of the good news of God's kingdom is followed straightaway by the call of the first disciples....
Repent and believe
Read Matthew 4:17 . The announcement that the kingdom of God is near was wonderful news – God was breaking into the world to re-establish...
The kingdom of God
Read Matthew 4:17 . “From that time on” Jesus began to proclaim that God’s kingdom was near. John the Baptist had prepared the way for...
Light dawns in the darkness
Read Matthew 4:12-16 . All was now ready. John had prepared the way and Jesus had been baptised and then tested. There was a short period...
Worship God alone
Read Matthew 4:8-11 . This temptation is the crunch test, for Jesus had come to reclaim the kingdoms of the world from the devil, “the...
Don't test God
Read Matthew 4:5-7 . The second test (in Matthew; the third in Luke) also challenged the truth of Jesus’s Sonship. It would have been a...
Words from God
Read Matthew 4:3-4 . After forty days without food Jesus was hungry and weak, vulnerable to the particular temptation to turn stones into...
The testing of God's Son
Read Matthew 4:1-2 . Matthew, Mark and Luke all tell us that immediately after his baptism, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert...
God's beloved Son
Read Matthew 3:16-17 . The main emphasis in the account of Jesus being baptised is not his baptism but the revelation from God (“heaven...
The baptism of Jesus
Read Matthew 3:13-15 . The ministry of Jesus began with his coming from Galilee to be baptised by John in Judea. It perhaps seems strange...