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Jesus is the Messiah! Matthew’s Gospel was written to show that Jesus is the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. It is carefully arranged by subject matter as a clear explanation to the Jewish people, and to the world, of who Jesus really is. Here you will meet Jesus the Great Teacher (chapters 5–7, the Sermon on the Mount), the Storyteller (chapter 13), the Prophet (chapter 24), the Atoning...

priests and elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest and ‘plotted to arrest Jesus in some sly way and kill him’ (26:4). Their intention to arrest him in some ‘sly way’ is evidence they knew they had no legitimate case against him, and therefore to put a sufficient case against him to warrant his death would necessarily involve resorting to deceit and trickery. In addition to the build-up of opposition against him, ever since he had been with his disciples in Caesarea Philippi,
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