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Charts from Jensen's Survey of the NT - used by permission
Another Chart from Charles Swindoll

THE LIFE OF JESUS AS COVERED
BY MATTHEW (shaded area)


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CAVEAT: A number of the resources listed below interpret the events of Mt 24:15ff as prophecy which was fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy by the Romans in 70 AD. Matthew 24:21 would seem to be a stumbling block to such an interpretation. Jesus said "For then (speaking of Mt 24:15-20+) there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will." Note His qualifier "NOR EVER WILL." Jesus is describing a time in history that will never be repeated (if we interpret Him literally, which I do). That means the worst tribulation in the history of the world occurred in 70 AD! What about World War I? What about World War II when 85 million people were killed? But let's say we restrict the "great tribulation" to an event just affecting the Jews. To say that the killing of upwards to a million Jews in 70 AD is worse than the 8 million killed by Hitler in the Holocaust does not seem to fit with Jesus' teaching in Mt 24:21 "NOR EVER WILL." For more discussion see Matthew 24:21 Commentary All this to say BE A BEREAN when you read the comments (INCLUDING MINE!) on the eschatological passages, especially Matthew 24-25. 

HENRY ALFORD

GREG ALLEN

JOSEPH ADDISON ALEXANDER GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

Cyril Barber - Published posthumously in 1861 and covering (in detail) only chapters 1-16, this volume contains the same richness of thought and close attention to detail that is found in Alexander's other commentaries.

INDEX - Note that chapters 17-28 are only brief summaries.

MICHAEL ANDRUS - click link for audio and notes - click "Notes" for pdf

WILLIAM BARCLAY

Comment: I appreciate Barclay's unique insights on Greek words, but clearly his teaching about a "second chance" is NOT sound doctrine! Be an Acts 17:11 Berean with Barclay. See discussion of his orthodoxy especially the article "The Enigmatic William Barclay".

ALBERT BARNES

BRIAN BELL

JOHANN A BENGEL

JOSEPH BENSON

BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATOR

BRIAN BILL Sermons on Matthew

JIM BOMKAMP SERMONS MATTHEW

JOHN BROADUS - well done verse by verse

James Rosscup writes that "In many ways it is the finest and most satisfying overall older commentary on Matthew. It helps the student on almost every verse. Broadus deals frontally with problems and gives much rich material that throws light on the text. His citations from other sources are often very helpful. From the standpoint of the Greek text, he is also sound. This 1886 work, long a part of the American Commentary on the New Testament series, is still one of the best in detailed explanation of the text where it counts." (Ibid)

Rosscup rates this as the #2 best detailed exegetical commentary on Matthew.

Cyril Barber - Very complete. Tackles interpretative problems honestly. Provides "Homiletical and Practical" suggestions for preachers. Adopts an amillennial interpretation of Christ's parables and teaching about the Kingdom. Valuable.

D Edmond Hiebert - One of the ablest American commentaries on Matthew from the past century and still valuable for the systematic interpretation of the gospel. It is the work of an accomplished conservative scholar.

Note: Broadus does interpret Mt 24:15 as fulfilled in 70AD.

WILLIAM BURKITT

JOHN CALVIN interprets Mt 24:15, 21 ;as fulfilled in 70AD 

ARTHUR CARR

RICH CATHERS

OSWALD CHAMBERS My Utmost for His Highest

KNOX CHAMBLIN

ADAM CLARKE

THOMAS CONSTABLE

W A CRISWELL

RON DANIEL - Sermon Notes

JOHN DUMMELOW

J LIGON DUNCAN

EARLY CHURCH FATHERS

CHARLES ELLICOTT (editor) - Edward H Plumptre - author of Matthew

CHARLES R ERDMAN

D Edmond Hiebert A well-outlined paragraph-by-paragraph interpretation by a noted conservative Presbyterian teacher and writer. Intended for the lay reader. His understanding of the Olivet Discourse is premillennial.

This commentary is easy to read often with a devotional flavor.

EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - John Gibson

EXPOSITOR'S DICTIONARY OF TEXTS - excerpts from other sermons

EXPOSITOR'S GREEK TESTAMENT - A B Bruce

D Edmond Hiebert - Greek text. Provides introductory material on the synoptics in relation to each other and individually. The notes provide many illuminating insights for the Greek student. Due to its age, it does not reflect the latest insights concerning the Greek.

DON FORTNER

FUNERAL MESSAGE

A C GAEBELEIN

GENE GETZ - 10+/- minute videos emphazing principles in each section of Scripture

  • Matthew; Principle #47; Mt. 20:17-28; Servant-Leadership: Spiritual leaders who follow Christ's example should become servant-leaders Video
  • Matthew; Principle #48; Mt. 20:29-21:11; Personal Interest: Servant-leaders are not to allow accolades from the masses to dull their compassion for the specific needs of individuals. Video

JOHN GILL

GOSPEL COALITION

GOTQUESTIONS GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

L M GRANT

DAVID GUZIK

ROBERT HAWKER

MATTHEW HENRY

F B HOLE

HOLMAN STUDY - Open>select "gear" symbol right upper page>select "Synch>enter Scripture

DAVID HOLWICK - frequent illustrations

JAMES HASTINGS Matthew - Great Texts of the Bible

DAVID HOCKING

HOMILETICS - from Pulpit Commentary

  • Not Futuristic
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H A IRONSIDE

IVP COMMENTARY - Craig Keener

Tim Challies: Keener’s work receives high recommendations and significant warnings about the limits of its usefulness.

Click for Another Critique on Keener's commentary on Matthew

JAMIESON, FAUSSET, BROWN

S LEWIS JOHNSON

Futuristic on Matthew 24-25

HAMPTON KEATHLEY

LOWELL JOHNSON - MATTHEW 8-28 - click for sermons below

WILLIAM KELLY

STEVE KRELOFF - Messianic Pastor

PAUL KRETZMANN

LANGE'S COMMENTARY

JOHN LIGHTFOOT

JOHN MACARTHUR

Futuristic on Matthew 24-25 

ALEXANDER MACLAREN

BRYN MACPHAIL - sermons

J VERNON MCGEE

F B MEYER

HEINRICH A MEYER - Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

G CAMPBELL MORGAN - Commentary

Hiebert - The prince of biblical expositors covers the entire gospel in a series of seventy-three biblical expositions. This volume on Matthew is the best of his expository volumes on the four gospels. Does not deal with critical introductory problems. The volume requires careful and intent reading, and offers many rich spiritual insights into Matthew's gospel.

JAMES MORISON

Hiebert comments on "A Practical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Matthew" (1895) - The lengthy introduction covers critical problems and supports traditional Matthean authorship. This volume of some 650 closely printed pages offers a thorough interpretation by an accomplished conservative scholar of the previous century. It shows wide acquaintance with the scholarly work on the gospel to his day. (Ed: His comments are verse by verse, phrase by phrase, often with a devotional "flavor.")

HENRY MORRIS - Defender's Study Bible study notes - well-done, conservative

ROBERT NEIGHBOUR

TOMMY NELSON

NET BIBLE NOTES - short notes including notes on passages where there is a variation in the manuscripts used for translation. Futuristic

PHIL NEWTON - sermons

JAMES NISBET - Church Pulpit Commentary

OUR DAILY BREAD

JOSEPH PARKER

PASTOR LIFE SERMONS - multiple different preachers

PETER PETT

MATTHEW POOLE

PREACHER'S HOMILETICAL

RAY PRITCHARD

PULPIT COMMENTARY

ROBERT RAYBURN

REFORMATION STUDY BIBLE

GRANT RICHISON

A T ROBERTSON

ALLEN ROSS

GIL RUGH

BOOKLETS:

J C RYLE

ROB SALVATO

PHILLIP SCHAFF

SERMON BIBLE

CHARLES SIMEON

CHUCK SMITH - Sermon Notes

JAMES SMITH SERMON OUTLINES GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

Matthew - click here for all of the following topics

C H SPURGEON

C H SPURGEON - Devotionals

  • Matthew 20:7  Help Wanted

      YES, here is work in Christ’s vineyard for old bodies. It is the eleventh hour, and yet He will let us work. What great grace is this! Surely every old man ought to jump at this invitation! After men are advanced in years, nobody wants them as servants; they go from shop to shop, and employers look at their grey hairs and shake their heads. But Jesus will engage old people and give them good wages too! This is mercy indeed. Lord, help the aged to enlist in thy service without an hour’s delay.

    But will the Lord pay wages to worn-out old men? Do not doubt it. He says He will give you what is right if you will work in His field. He will surely give you grace here and glory hereafter. He will grant present comfort and future rest: strength equal to your day, and a vision of glory when the night of death comes on. All these the Lord Jesus will as freely give to the aged convert as to one who enters His service in his youth.

    Let me tell this to some unsaved old man or old woman and pray the Lord to bless it, for Jesus’ sake. Where can I find such persons? I will be on the look-out for them and kindly tell them the news.

  • Matthew 20:8 God is a good paymaster; he pays his servants while at work as well as when they have done it; and one of his payments is this: an easy conscience. If you have spoken faithfully of Jesus to one person, when you go to bed at night you feel happy in thinking, “I have this day discharged my conscience of that man’s blood.” There is a great comfort in doing something for Jesus. Oh, what a happiness to place jewels in his crown, and give him to see of the travail of his soul! There is also very great reward in watching the first buddings of conviction in a soul! To say of that girl in the class, “She is tender of heart, I do hope that there is the Lord’s work within.” To go home and pray over that boy, who said something in the afternoon which made you think he must know more of divine truth than you had feared! Oh, the joy of hope! But as for the joy of success! it is unspeakable. This joy, overwhelming as it is, is a hungry thing—you pine for more of it. To be a soul-winner is the happiest thing in the world. With every soul you bring to Christ, you get a new heaven upon earth. But who can conceive the bliss which awaits us above! Oh, how sweet is that sentence, “Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!” Do you know what the joy of Christ is over a saved sinner? This is the very joy which we are to possess in heaven. Yes, when he mounts the throne, you shall mount with him. When the heavens ring with “Well done, well done,” you shall partake in the reward; you have toiled with him, you have suffered with him, you shall now reign with him; you have sown with him, you shall reap with him; your face was covered with sweat like his, and your soul was grieved for the sins of men as his soul was, now shall your face be bright with heaven’s splendour as is his countenance, and now shall your soul be filled with beatific joys even as his soul is.

C H SPURGEON - EXPOSITION TO THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

Not Futuristic on Mt 24-25 See Commentary on Matthew in Pdf

SPURGEON'S EXPOSITIONS ON Matthew Commentary

NOTE: This is a different set of expository notes

DON STEWART - 385 pages (1997)

JOSEPH SUTCLIFFE

THIRD MILLENNIUM STUDY NOTES MATTHEW

TODAY IN THE WORD - Devotionals often with good sermon illustrations

JOHN TRAPP

BOB UTLEY

MARVIN VINCENT

JOHN WALVOORD

DANIEL WHEDON

SERMONS BY VERSE

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