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The
Book of Matthew
Matthew was taught by Dr. James Modlish
CHAPTER
TWENTY SIX
26:1-5
The passage takes place on Tuesday evening before 6:00pm.
The Passover was killed on Wednesday and eaten on
Thursday.
26:6-13
The passage is parenthetical, for in (Jn. 12:1-8) it is said
to occur before the triumphal entry.
[1].
"Simon the leper" is identified, but may have been the
leper who returned to give thanks in (Lk. 17:12-15).
[2]. The other gospels identify the ointment as
Spikenard or "Nardus Spicatus," which is a pointed,
yellow-brown plant looking like the tail of an ermine. It
grows in the Himalayas.
[3]. All the disciples murmur, but (Jn. 12:4)
points out the trouble maker as Judas. It might have been
sold for 300 pence (Jn. 12:5), almost a year's wages. The
bag holder wanted all the money in one jackpot, i.e.:
United fund, So. Baptist Convention, etc. Judas is
obviously worried about losing control of the money, not
the poor.
Practical
lessons:
[1].
An act of love toward Christ is greater than the
"visiting, feeding, and clothing" of our fellowman, see
(Matt. 25:32-45).
[2]. Jesus accepts worship as proper always and
never refuses it. He tolerates and approves of the belief
that He Himself IS
GOD
(Jn. 20:28, Matt. 14:33).
[3]. If you have done what you can, you have done
all you can do. If you have NOT
done what "you could," then you have no room to gripe or
criticize others.
[4]. Proper worship of Christ, by a Believer,
will COST
something. Something has to be broken before real love
can be poured out (Acts 9:16).
[5]. The death of Christ is the most important
thing, not His birth. He is born to die, and the woman
does well in anointing Him ahead of time, for those who
came to do it later (Matt. 28:1-4, Mark 16:1-4) came too
late!!
[6]. Real devotion to Christ cannot be hid and it
will fit all the house if it is truly there (Prov. 27:16,
1 Cor. 8:3).
[7]. Real devotion will immediately attract the
criticism of those moralists and religious formalists who
are trying to work their way to heaven by works of
righteousness (1 Jn. 16:1-4, 1 Thess.
2:13-16).
26:14-16
Judas fulfills 30 pieces of silver (Zech. 11:13). It is the
price of a slave (Ex. 21:32). The Anti-Christ is in (Zech.
11:15-17).
"And
he sought how he might conveniently betray him" (Mk.
14:11).
Convenience:
26:17-20
Tuesday at 6:00pm. (See Lk. 22:7).
26:21-25
Judas partook of the "sacrament."
[1].
John says "Lord, who is it (Jn. 13:25), he did not
question his own love.
[2]. Judas prefers "Master" to LORD,
Good liberal.
26:26-30
This is the favorite passage of the Catholic to reprove the
Protestant for not believing the Bible literally.
[1].
If the passage is literal, the Cup is His blood, not the
fruit of the vine in it.
[2]. Christ's body would have been divided into
12 individual bodies, for each disciple gets a piece and
the statement is "This is my body."
26:31-35
Jesus warn them with a quote from (Zech. 13:7). They still
persist in believing otherwise.
Jesus knows
Peter will go back to his fishing after the denial (Jn.
21:1-5), so he purposely says "I will go before you into
Galilee." He knows where Peter is going.
26:36-46
The place is Gethsemane: an "olive press.: Olive oil
is a type of the Holy Spirit. The typology of this place is
that very life of the Son of God is being squeezed out of
him. See (Lk. 22:44).
[1].
It was a solitary prayer.
[2]. it was a submissive prayer. "Not my will but
thine be done."
[3]. It was a scriptural prayer. Mary isn't
mentioned.
(a).
Jesus never had to worry about dying anywhere. No one
could kill Him. (Jn. 7:32,45; 7:30; 8:59; Lk. 4:29,30,
Jn. 10:18). The devil could not have killed Him in
Gethsemane if he had tried all night.
(b). Jesus never had to worry about death on the
cross, for He faced it joyfully and triumphantly (Heb.
12:2, Col. 2:15).
(c). He, therefore, is not praying to be released from
crucifixion or from physical death; He is praying to
be released from drinking a cup. Now scripture with
scripture (that is the only way to do business), "What
is a cup?"
(d). God's cup, that a man would not want to drink, is
clearly defined up until (Matt. 26) as the "cup of
God's wrath" on sin Note: (Jer. 25:15. Isa. 51:17, Ps.
75:8). The cup that He is praying to be delivered from
is the cup of God's wrath, which is to be poured out
on Him while He is being crucified, thus, making Him
to "be" sin for us! (2 Cor. 5:21).
(e). The prayer is not answered in the affirmative!
(Jn. 18:11) dispels all doubts and matters of
interpretation: "The cup which my Father hath given
me, shall I not drink it?" He does. He drinks it to
the dregs. He is not answered with a "yes"; He is
answered with a "No," and to make the cup an
elementary thing like "physical death" is to knock the
meaning clean out of the passage and the heart clean
out of the Atonement.
The Spirit
is willing, but the flesh is weak. Real insight is given
on that subject in (Rom. 7-8; Gal. 5).
WATCH:
(1 Thess.
5:1-10; 1 Cor. 16:13; Rev. 3:2; 16:15. 2 Tim. 4:15. 1
Pet. 4:6-7, Eph. 6:18, Heb. 13:17)
26:47-52
See (Jn. 18:4-9), "he" is italicized in (Jn. 18:5) the "I
am" (Ex. 3:14).
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