"Holy
City," and Christ the "Son of David" and the "Son of Abraham." He
speaks of the Jewish temple as the temple of God, the dwelling place
of God and the holy place. The genealogy is traced to Abraham by three
great Jewish events of history. All this would be calculated to win
the Jews, but, much more, the sixty-five quotations from the Old
Testament and the oft repeated attempt to show that deeds and sayings
recorded were that the "Scripture (or saying) might be fulfilled."
And, while not seeing as much in the numbers as Plummer and others,
one can hardly believe that all numbers, so characteristic of Jews,
are accidental here. The genealogy has three fourteens being multiples
of seven. There are fourteen parables, seven in one place and seven in
another. There are seven woes in chapter 23. There are twenty miracles
separated into two tens. The number seven usually, if not always,
divides into four and three, the human and the divine. Of the seven
parables in chapter 13, four touch the human or natural while three
refer to the divine or spiritual side of his kingdom. There are seven
petitions in the Lord's prayer, the first three relating to God and
the last four to man. A like division is perhaps true in the
beatitudes.

Subject. The Kingdom of God or of Heaven.

Analysis.

I. The Beginning of the Kingdom, 1:1-4:16.

1. Jesus, the King, is the Old Testament Messiah, chs. 1-2.

2. Jesus, the King, is prepared for his work, 3:1-4:16.

II. The Proclamation of the Kingdom, 4:17-16:20.

1. The beginning of the proclamation, 4:17 end.

2. By the Sermon on the Mount, chs. 5-7.

3. By the miracles and connected teachings, chs. 8-9.

4. By the sending of the Twelve and subsequent teachings and
miracles, chs. 10-12.

5. By the seven parables and subsequent miracles, chs. 13-14.

6. By the denunciation of the Pharisees with attendant miracles
and teachings, 15:1-16:12.

7. By the Great Confession, 16:12-20.

III. The Passion of the Kingdom, 6:21-27 end.

1. Four predictions of the passion with intervening discourses and
miracles, 16:21-26:2.

(A) At Caesarea Philippi, 16:21-17:21.

(B) In Galilee near Capernaum, 17:22-20:16.

(C) Near Jerusalem, 20:17-22 end.

(D) At Jerusalem, 23:1-26:2.

2. The events of the Passion, 26:3-27 end.

IV. The Triumph of the Kingdom, Ch. 28.

1. The resurrection of the King, 1-15.

2. Provision for the