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Matthew: Outline of Contents

I. Jesus presented (1:1–4:16)

A. Jesus as fulfillment of end-time expectations (1:1–25)

1. Jesus’s ancestors recalled (1:1–17)

2. Jesus’s birth announced (1:18–25)

B. Birth of Jesus (2:1–23)

1. Appearance of the magi (2:1–12)

2. Jesus taken to Egypt (2:13–15)

3. Slaughter of the innocents (2:16–23)

C. Jesus and John the Baptist (3:1–17)

1. John baptizes in Judea (3:1–12)

2. John baptizes Jesus (3:12–17)

D. Jesus tempted by Satan (4:1–11)

E. Jesus in Galilee (4:12–16)

II. Jesus’s ministry (4:17–16:20)

A. Jesus’s ministry to Israel (4:17–11:1)

1. Jesus calls disciples (4:17–22)

2. Jesus teaches (4:23–7:29)

3. Jesus does mighty deeds (8:1–9:34)

4. Jesus commissions the twelve (9:35–11:1)

B. Israel’s repudiation of Jesus (11:2–16:20)

1. Israel repudiates Jesus (11:2–12:50)

2. Jesus speaks in parables (13:1–52)

3. Rejection of Jesus and the death of John the Baptist (13:53–14:12)

4. Jesus feeds, heals, and teaches (14:13–16:12)

5. Disciples confess Jesus as Son of God (16:13–20)

III. Jesus in Jerusalem (16:21–28:20)

A. Jesus predicts his passion in Jerusalem and journeys to it (16:21–21:11)

B. Jesus in the temple (21:12–23:39)

C. Jesus speaks about end times (24:1–25:46)

D. Jesus’s trial and crucifixion (26:1–27:66)

E. Jesus rises from the dead (28:1–20)

Courtesy of HarperCollins Bible Dictionary, ed. Mark Allan Powell (New York: HarperCollins, 2011).