Expository Thoughts on the Gospels

Volume 1: Matthew

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J. C. Ryle

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Weight	0.552 kg
Dimensions	22.3 × 14.3 × 2.5 cm
ISBN	9781848711280
Scripture	Matthew
Topic	No topic listed
Set	Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (Clothbound)
Page Count	312
Banner Pub Date	Jul 1, 2012
Binding	Cloth-bound, eBook (ePub & Kindle), Cloth-bound & eBook (ePub & Kindle)
Format	Book
Original Pub Date	1856

Book Description

As the first Gospel in the New Testament, Matthew was, not surprisingly, the first to be published in J. C. Ryle’s series of Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (1856). Ryle’s expositions are a rich combination of doctrinal and practical comments on the Gospel text.

Ryle loved the Gospels because they were so full of the Lord Jesus Christ. ‘No part of the Bible is so important as this’, he wrote, ‘and no part is so full and complete. Four distinct Gospels tell us the story of Christ’s doings and dying. Four times we read the precious account of his works and words. How thankful we ought to be for this! To know Christ is to have peace with God. To follow Christ is to be a true Christian. To be with Christ will be heaven itself. We can never hear too much about the Lord Jesus Christ.’

Ryle’s Expository Thoughts can be used as a help in family worship, or as an aid in pastoral visitation, or simply as a companion to the Gospels in the private reading of Scripture.

Now reprinted in a fresh, new format, Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Matthew will bring Ryle’s plain yet profound insights to a new generation.

Table of Contents Expand ↓

1:1-17	The genealogy of Christ	1
1:18-25	The incarnation and name of Christ	4
2:1-12	The wise men from the East	7
2:13-23	The flight into Egypt, and subsequent abode at Nazareth	11
3:1-12	The ministry of John the Baptist	14
3:13-17	The baptism of Christ	17
4:1-11	The temptation	19
4:12-25	The beginning of Christ’s ministry, and the calling of the first disciples	22
5:1-12	The beatitudes	25
5:13-20	The character of true Christians, and the connection between the teaching of Christ and the Old Testament	29
5:21-37	Spirituality of the law proved by three examples	32
5:38-48	The Christian law of love set forth	35
6:1-8	Ostentation in almsgiving and prayer forbidden	38
6:9-15	The Lord’s Prayer and the duty of forgiving one another	40
6:16-24	The right manner of fasting,—treasure in heaven,—the single eye	45
6:25-34	Over-carefulness about this world forbidden	47
7:1-11	Censoriousness forbidden,—prayer encouraged	50
7:12-20	The rule of duty towards others,—the two gates,—warning against false prophets	53
7:21-29	Uselessness of profession without practice, — the two builders	56
8:1-15	Miraculous healing of a leprosy, a palsy, and a fever	59
8:16-27	Christ’s wisdom in dealing with professors, the storm on the lake calmed	62
8:28-34	The devil cast out of a man in the country of the Gergesenes	65
9:1-13	A palsied man healed,—the calling of Matthew the publican	67
9:14-26	New wine and new bottles,—the Ruler’s daughter raised to life	70
9:27-38	Two blind men healed,—Christ’s compassion on the multitude,—the duty of disciples	73
10:1-15	The sending forth of the first Christian preachers	76
10:16-23	Instructions to the first Christian preachers	79
10:24-33	Warnings to the first Christian preachers	82
10:34-42	Cheering words to the first Christian preachers	85
11:1-15	Christ’s testimony about John the Baptist	88
11:16-24	Unreasonableness of unbelievers exposed,— danger of not using the light	91
11:25-30	Greatness of Christ,—fulness of gospel invitations	94
12:1-13	The true doctrine of the Sabbath cleared from Jewish error	98
12:14-21	Wickedness of the Pharisees,—encouraging description of Christ’s character	101
12:22-37	Blasphemy of Christ’s enemies,—sins against knowledge,—idle words	104
12:38-50	Power of unbelief,—danger of imperfect and incomplete reformation,—Christ’s love to his disciples	109
13:1-23	Parable of the sower	113
13:24-43	Parable of the wheat and tares	118
13:44-50	Parables of the treasure, the pearl, and the net	122
13:51-58	Christ’s treatment in his own country,— danger of unbelief	125
14:1-12	Martyrdom of John the Baptist	128
14:13-21	Miracle of the loaves and fishes	131
14:22-36	Christ walking on the sea	134
15:1-9	Hypocrisy of scribes and Pharisees,— danger of traditions	138
15:10-20	False teachers,—the heart the source of sin	141
15:21-28	The Canaanitish mother	144
15:29-39	Christ’s miracles of healing	148
16:1-12	Enmity of the scribes and Pharisees,— Christ’s warning against them	151
16:13-20	Peter’s noble confession	155
16:21-23	Peter rebuked	160
16:24-28	Necessity of self-denial,—value of the soul	162
17:1-13	The transfiguration	164
17:14-21	The young man possessed with a devil healed	169
17:22-27	The fish and the tribute money	172
18:1-14	Necessity of conversion and humility,— reality of hell	176
18:15-20	Rule for settling differences among Christians,—nature of church discipline	180
18:21-35	Parable of the unforgiving servant	184
19:1-15	Christ’s judgment about divorces,—Christ’s tenderness to little children	187
19:16-22	The rich young man	190
19:23-30	Danger of riches,—encouragement to forsake all for Christ	194
20:1-16	Parable of the labourers in the vineyard	197
20:17-23	Christ’s announcement of his coming death— mixture of ignorance and faith in true disciples	201
20:24-28	True standard of greatness among Christians	205
20:29-34	Healing of two blind men	208
21:1-11	Christ’s public entry into Jerusalem	211
21:12-22	Christ casting the buyers and sellers out of the temple,—the barren fig tree	214
21:23-32	Christ’s reply to the Pharisees demanding his authority,—the two sons	218
21:33-46	Parable of the wicked husbandmen	221
22:1-14	Parable of the great supper	224
22:15-22	The Pharisees’ question about paying tribute	228
22:23-33	The Sadducees’ question about the resurrection	231
22:34-46	The lawyer’s question about the great commandment,—Christ’s question to his enemies	234
23:1-12	Christ’s warning against the teaching of the scribes and Pharisees	238
23:13-33	Eight charges against the scribes and Pharisees	241
23:34-39	Christ’s last public words to the Jews	246
24:1-14	Prophecy on the Mount of Olives,—about the destruction of Jerusalem, Christ’s second coming, and the end of the world	250
24:15-28	Prophecy continued, about miseries to come at the first and second sieges of Jerusalem	253
24:29-35	Second advent of Christ described	257
24:36-51	Time just before second advent described, and watchfulness enjoined	261
25:1-13	Parable of the ten virgins	264
25:14-30	Parable of the talents	268
25:31-46	Last judgment	272
26:1-13	The woman who anointed our Lord’s head	276
26:14-25	The false apostle, and his besetting sin	280
26:26-35	The Lord’s supper and the first communicants	284
26:36-46	The agony in the garden	289
26:47-56	The false apostle’s kiss,—the voluntary submission of Christ	293
26:57-68	Christ before the Jewish Council	297
26:69-75	Peter’s denial of his Master	300
27:1-10	The end of Judas Iscariot	304
27:11-26	Christ condemned before Pilate	308
27:27-44	Christ’s sufferings in the hands of the soldiers, and crucifixion	311
27:45-56	Christ’s death, and signs accompanying it	315
27:57-66	Christ’s burial, and vain precautions of his enemies to prevent his resurrection	319
28:1-10	Christ’s resurrection	323
28:11-20	Christ’s parting charge to his disciples	327

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Robert Luff – 12 October 2021

This book will help you love your Lord Jesus more. Easily one of the best devotional books I have ever read. Read a chapter a day alongside your daily Bible reading and it will encourage you and deepen your fellowship with our kind, incomparable Savior.