# Unit 6: Teachings of the Lord Jesus

# Week 1: Intro to the beatitudes

**Objective:**

- Compare the nature of the commandments between the OT & the NT
- In spite of the difference, God's goal for mankind is the same
- Sin begins at the heart
- "You have heard ... but I tell you"
- How to apply these commandments in out lives

**Resources:**

- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Matthew](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhm4oPPstxNxfzeeC?e=j09aDR)
- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Luke](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhnHZhnUHHC6kfwJm?e=onOFMU)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Matthew)](https://catenabible.com/mt/1)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Luke)](https://catenabible.com/lk/1)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Matthew](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-matthew/)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Luke](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-luke/)

**Reading:**

- Matthew 5

**Key verse(s):**

- "<span class="woj">Let your light so shine before men,</span> <span class="woj">that they may see your good works and</span> <span class="woj">glorify your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:16</span>

**Comments:**

- Compare how the commandments in the NT are more spiritual as the believers are more spiritually mature
- Discuss the role of God's grace in being able to fulfil these commandments even the hard ones like love your enemies
- How the Lord Jesus elevated our perception of sin
- Discuss the gospel of the second mile
- \*\*\*\* make sure to include and discuss day-to-day examples for every commandment mentioned in the chapter \*\*\*

**Review/recap questions:** *\*\*Servant may add more questions*

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# Week 2: Living by the Spirit

**Objective:**

- Commandments related to the fast (charitable deeds, fasting, prayers, etc)
- The eye is the lamp of the body
- Do not worry - making priority straight
- The do not judge command
- The gospel of the narrow gate

**Resources:**

- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Matthew](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhm4oPPstxNxfzeeC?e=j09aDR)
- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Luke](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhnHZhnUHHC6kfwJm?e=onOFMU)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Matthew)](https://catenabible.com/mt/1)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Luke)](https://catenabible.com/lk/1)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Matthew](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-matthew/)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Luke](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-luke/)

**Reading:**

- Matthew 6
- Matthew 7
- Luke 11

**Key verse(s):**

- "<span class="woj">The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is</span> <sup class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-23305g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-23305g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline; color: #000000; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif, Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">\[[g](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-23305g "See footnote g")\]</sup><span class="woj">good, your whole body will be full of light." Matthew 6:22</span>

**Comments:**

- Match Mathew 6&amp;7 with Luke 11

**Review/recap questions:** *\*\*Servant may add more questions*

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# Week 3: Woe to you

**Objective:**

- What does "woe" mean?
- Who are the scribes and who are the pharisees?
- Why are they receiving these warnings?
- What can we learn from these warnings?

**Resources:**

- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Matthew](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhm4oPPstxNxfzeeC?e=j09aDR)
- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Luke](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhnHZhnUHHC6kfwJm?e=onOFMU)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Matthew)](https://catenabible.com/mt/1)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Luke)](https://catenabible.com/lk/1)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Matthew](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-matthew/)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Luke](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-luke/)

**Reading:**

- Matthew 23

**Key verse(s):**

- "<span class="woj">whoever exalts himself will be</span> <span class="woj">humbled, and he who humbles himself will be</span> <span class="woj">exalted." Matthew 23:12</span>

**Comments:**

- In the last few times we talked about many commandments where the Lord said "Blessed are the ....."
- Today we will talk about a series of warnings
- These warnings although for the scribes and pharisees we ought to be careful not to fall into the same mistakes

**Review/recap questions:** *\*\*Servant may add more questions*

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# Week 4: Intro to the parables + Parables of the kingdom

**Objective:**

- Learn the parables and their meanings
- How can we apply what we learned in our lives

**Resources:**

- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Matthew](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhm4oPPstxNxfzeeC?e=j09aDR)
- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Luke](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhnHZhnUHHC6kfwJm?e=onOFMU)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Matthew)](https://catenabible.com/mt/1)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Luke)](https://catenabible.com/lk/1)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Matthew](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-matthew/)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Luke](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-luke/)

**Reading:**

- Matthew 13

**Key verse(s):**

- "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" Matthew 13:9

**Comments:**

- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">A parable is a story in which a special meaning or a spiritual lesson is embedded</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">A way to deliver the message in a simple way</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Parables are found only in the synoptic Gospels</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">They are often stories based on the agricultural life that was familiar to His audience</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Some unfamiliar concepts, such as the kingdom of God, were compared to something from everyday life that could easily be understood</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">It is the lesson of a parable that is important to us.</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">"It is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning"</span>
- <div><div><table><tbody><tr><td>Parable</td><td>Matthew</td><td>Mark</td><td>Luke</td></tr><tr><td>The Sower</td><td>13:3-23</td><td>4:2–20</td><td>8:4-15</td></tr><tr><td>The Hidden Treasure</td><td>13:44</td><td>  
    </td><td>  
    </td></tr><tr><td>The Pearl of Great Price</td><td>13:45, 46</td><td>  
    </td><td>  
    </td></tr><tr><td>The Growing Seed</td><td>  
    </td><td>4:26–29</td><td>  
    </td></tr><tr><td>The Mustard Seed</td><td>13:31, 32</td><td>4:30-32</td><td>13:18, 19</td></tr><tr><td>The Leaven</td><td>13:33</td><td>  
    </td><td>13:20, 21</td></tr><tr><td>The Hidden Treasure</td><td>13:44</td><td>  
    </td><td>  
    </td></tr><tr><td>The Tares\*</td><td>13:24–30</td><td>  
    </td><td>  
    </td></tr><tr><td>The Dragnet\*</td><td>13:47-50</td><td>  
    </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table>
    
    </div></div>Like the seed (Mk 4:26) Fruits based soil. Like the leaven, &amp; mustard seed (Mt 13:31; Mk 4:30) Starts small, invisible but grows by God's grace Like hidden treasure, &amp; Pearl of great price (Mt 13:44) valuable, worth the sacrifice, joy for the finder! Like wheat &amp; tares, net (Mt 13:24) Opposition to the Kingdom Co-existence of good and evil until judgment (harvest, net cast).
- "Hear" occurs 19 times in Mt 13, 7 times in the parable. "Seed" – Word of God: (1) has life, (2) must be planted, (3) nurtured, (4) bears fruit. "Soil #1"– Hard, on rocky path, stolen by bird (Satan) "Soil #2" – shallow root, withers under persecution (flesh). "Soil #3" – Crowded, choked by thorns of the world (riches). "Soil #4" – Good. fruitful. Hears, receives, believes, &amp; obeys. Which soil are you? Which soil do you want to be?

**Review/recap questions:** *\*\*Servant may add more questions*

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# Week 5: Parables of Mercy and Parables of forgiveness

**Objective:**

**Resources:**

- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Matthew](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhm4oPPstxNxfzeeC?e=j09aDR)
- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Luke](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhnHZhnUHHC6kfwJm?e=onOFMU)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Matthew)](https://catenabible.com/mt/1)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Luke)](https://catenabible.com/lk/1)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Matthew](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-matthew/)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Luke](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-luke/)

**Reading:**

- 

**Key verse(s):**

- 

**Comments:**

- 

**Review/recap questions:** *\*\*Servant may add more questions*

**Homework:** *\*\*Servant may add more questions*

# Week 6: Parables of the Jewish Rejection + Parables of Readiness

**Objective:**

- Review the meaning of parables
- Discuss the "Jewish Rejection" and "Readiness" as categories of parables 
    - Explain their meanings
- Read the parables and identify practical lessons we can learn from them

**Resources:**

- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Matthew](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhm4oPPstxNxfzeeC?e=j09aDR)
- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary on Luke](https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgFZ7_O8DQBnhnHZhnUHHC6kfwJm?e=onOFMU)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Matthew)](https://catenabible.com/mt/1)
- [Catena Bible Commentary (Luke)](https://catenabible.com/lk/1)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Matthew](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-matthew/)
- [HEMY's Bible study on Luke](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/holy-gospel-according-to-st-luke/)

**Reading:**

- Matthew 21: 28-32 (<span class="text Matt-21-28" id="bkmrk-the-parable-of-the-t">The Parable of the Two Sons)</span>
- Matthew 21:33-46 (<span class="text Matt-21-33" id="bkmrk-the-parable-of-the-w">The Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers)</span>
- <span class="text Matt-21-33"><span class="text Matt-21-33">Matthew 22:1-14 (<span class="text Matt-22-1" id="bkmrk-the-parable-of-the-w-0">The Parable of the Wedding Feast)</span></span></span>
- <span class="text Matt-21-33"><span class="text Matt-21-33"><span class="text Matt-21-33"><span class="text Matt-22-1">Mathew 25:1-30 (<span class="text Matt-25-1" id="bkmrk-the-parable-of-the-w-1">The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins &amp; The Parable of the Talents)</span></span></span></span></span>
- <span class="text Matt-21-33"><span class="text Matt-21-33"><span class="text Matt-21-33"><span class="text Matt-22-1">Luke 12:13-21 (<span class="text Luke-12-13" id="bkmrk-the-parable-of-the-r">The Parable of the Rich Fool)</span></span></span></span></span>

**Key verse(s):**

- <span class="woj">“Watch therefore, for you</span> <span class="woj">know neither the day nor the hour</span> <span class="woj">in which the Son of Man is coming. "Matthew 25:13</span>

**Comments:**

- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">"All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them, 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:</span>
    
    <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">“I will open My mouth in parables; (Psalm 78:2)</span>
    
    <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.” (Matthew 13:34-35)</span>
    
    <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">"And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it. But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples." (Mark 4:33-34)</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">A parable is a story in which a special meaning or a spiritual lesson is embedded</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">A way to deliver the message in a simple way</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Parables are found only in the synoptic Gospels</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">They are often stories based on the agricultural life that was familiar to His audience</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Some unfamiliar concepts, such as the kingdom of God, were compared to something from everyday life that could easily be understood</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">It is the lesson of a parable that is important to us.</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">"It is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning"</span>
- **<span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Jewish rejection: </span>**<span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">These are parables which describe how the Lord rejected the Jews. </span>
    - <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">The Lord cared for the Israelites, he provided for them and he looked after them for hundreds of years. They were not faithful towards HIm and went after other Gods. Therefore the Lord rejected them and made salvation possible for everyone who believes in Him and live a holy life.</span>
- <span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">**Readiness Parables:** These are parables which encourage us to be ready for the second coming. Like the parable of the wise and foolish virgins </span>

**Review/recap questions:** *\*\*Servant may add more questions*

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