Contents

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Incidents of the Birth and Boyhood of Jesus Christ Till He Was Twelve Years of Age

1. Introduction

1:1-4

1:1-14

2. The genealogies Matthew the legal, Luke the natural descent

1:1-17

3:23-38

3. Birth of John announced to Zacharias

1:5-25

4. Birth of Jesus announced to Mary at Nazareth six months later

1:26-38

5. Mary's visit to Elizabeth, and her hymn

1:39-56

6. John the Baptist's birth, and Zacharias's hymn

1:57-80

7. The angel appears to Joseph

1:18^-25

8. Birth of Jesus at Bethlehem

2:1-7

9. Angelic announcement to the shepherds. (In spring flocks are watched by night.)

2:8-20

10. Circumcision of Jesus, and presentation in the Temple, where He is welcomed by Simeon and Anna, forty-one days after nativity (Leviticus 12:3, 4)

2:21-38

11. Visit of the Magi, in the house-no longer in manger; epiphany to Gentiles

2:1-12

12. Flight into Egypt

2:13-15

13. Herod's murder of the innocents

2:16-18

14. Return to Nazareth, fearing Archelaus's cruelty, shown from the first

2:19-23

2:39, 40

15. Jesus, at the age of twelve, goes up to the Passover, and is found with the doctors in the Temple; then follows His eighteen silent years

2:41-52

Inauguration of Christ's Public Ministry

16. Preparatory preaching of John the Baptist

3:1-12

1:1-8

3:1-18

17. Christ's baptism in river Jordan at Perean Bethany

3:13-17

1:9-11

3:21-22

18. The Spirit leads Him to desert of Judea, where Satan tempts Him

4:1-11

1:12, 13

4:1-13

19. The Baptist's witness to Jesus

1:15-34

20. Two of John's disciples follow Jesus, Andrew brings his brother Simon

1:35-42

21. Christ retums to Galilee; finds Philip, who in turn finds Nathanael

1:43-51

22. First miracle at Cana, and visit to Capernaum

2:1-12

Public Ministry of Christ from the First Passover to the Second

23. Christ goes up to Jerusalem for the Passover, and, with a whip, expels the sellers and money-changers from the Temple; works miracles, convincing many

2:13-25

24. Nicodemus is convinced; has a night interview with Jesus

3:1-21

25. Christ leaves Jerusalem, stays eight months in NE Judea, and His disciples baptize

3:22, 4:2

26. John, baptizing in Aenon, again witnesses to the Christ

3:23-36

27. Imprisonment of John

3:19, 20

28. John being thrown into prison, Jesus leaves Judea for Galilee; John beheaded not till A.D. 28 (Matthew 14:12-21)

4:12

1:14

4:14, 15

4:1-3

29. Passing through Samaria, He converts a woman of Sychar, and through her many of the Samaritans, four months before harvest

4:4-42

30. Commencement of His public ministry in Galilee

4:17

1:14, 15

4:14, 15

4:43-45

31. Visiting Cana again, He heals a nobleman's son sick at Capernaum

4:46-54

From His Second to His Third Passover

32. Returns to Jerusalem at the Passover, "the feast." His second Passover. From this to the third, His main Galilean ministry. Jesus cures an infirm man at Bethesda pool on the Sabbath. The Jews seek to kill Him for declaring Himself one with the Father in working

5:1-47

33. Returns to Galilee. A chasm between the earlier visit to Nazareth, while fresh from the Spirit's baptism, and this later visit to Galilee, and His sermon at Nazareth, as Luke 4:23 proves

4:14-30

34. He settles at Capernaum and teaches in public

4:13-17

1:21, 22

4:31-32

35. Miraculous catch of fishes; call of Simon, Andrew, James, and John

4:18-22

1:16-20

5:1-11

36. Jesus casts out a demon

1:23-28

4:33-37

37. Cure of Simon's wife's mother, and other sick people

8:14-17

1:29-34

4:38-41

38. Circuit with the disciples through Galilee

4:23-25

1:35-39

4:42-44