Expositions of Holy Scripture: Matthew IX–XVIII

About this book

One volume of Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture, gathering his expository sermons on Matthew chapters nine to eighteen. MacLaren spent his long ministry in Manchester, and these sermons show his gift for taking a passage apart, explaining it in order, and pressing it home to conscience and conduct. They remain valued helps for preachers and for any reader working steadily through this part of Scripture.

Contents

1. Christ’s Encouragements.
2. Soul-healing First: Body-healing Second.
3. The Call of Matthew.
4. The Touch of Faith and the Touch of Christ.
5. A Christlike Judgment of Men.
6. The Obscure Apostle.
7. Christ’s Charge to His Heralds.
8. The Widened Mission, Its Perils and Defences. 🔒
9. Like Teacher, Like Scholar. 🔒
10. The King’s Charge to His Ambassadors. 🔒
11. A Life Lost and Found. 🔒
12. The Greatest in the Kingdom, and Their Reward. 🔒
13. John’s Doubts of Jesus, and Jesus’ Praise of John. 🔒
14. The Friend of Publicans and Sinners. 🔒
15. Sodom, Capernaum, Manchester. 🔒
16. Christ’s Strange Thanksgiving. 🔒
17. The Rest Giver. 🔒
18. The Pharisees’ Sabbath and Christ’s. 🔒
19. An Attempt to Account for Jesus. 🔒
20. ‘Make the Tree Good’. 🔒
21. ‘A Greater than Jonas’ 🔒
22. ‘A Greater than Solomon’ 🔒
23. Four Sowings and One Ripening. 🔒
24. Ears and no Ears. 🔒
25. ‘To Him That Hath Shall Be Given’. 🔒
26. Seeing and Blind. 🔒
27. Mingled in Growth, Separated in Maturity. 🔒
28. Leaven. 🔒
29. Treasure and Pearl. 🔒
30. The Martyrdom of John. 🔒
31. The Grave of the Dead John and the Grave of the Living Jesus. 🔒
32. The Food of the World. 🔒
33. The King’s Highway. 🔒
34. Peter on the Waves. 🔒
35. Crumbs and the Bread. 🔒
36. The Divine Christ Confessed, the Suffering Christ Denied. 🔒
37. Christ Foreseeing the Cross. 🔒
38. The King in His Beauty. 🔒
39. The Secret of Power. 🔒
40. The Coin in the Fish’s Mouth. 🔒
41. The Law of Precedence in the Kingdom. 🔒
42. Self-mutilation for Self-preservation. 🔒
43. The Lost Sheep and the Seeking Shepherd. 🔒
44. Persistence of Thwarted Love. 🔒
45. Forgiven and Unforgiving. 🔒
46. The Requirements of the King 🔒
47. Nearest to Christ. 🔒
48. The Servant-Lord and His Servants. 🔒
49. What the Historic Christ Taught about His Death. 🔒
50. The Coming of the King to His Palace. 🔒
51. A New Kind of King. 🔒
52. The Vineyard and Its Keepers. 🔒
53. The Stone of Stumbling. 🔒
54. Two Ways of Despising God’s Feast. 🔒
55. The Tables Turned: the Questioners Questioned. 🔒
56. The King’s Farewell. 🔒
57. Two Forms of One Saying. 🔒
58. The Carrion and the Vultures. 🔒
59. Watching for the King. 🔒
60. The Waiting Maidens. 🔒
61. Dying Lamps. 🔒
62. ‘They That Were Ready!’ 🔒
63. Traders for the Master. 🔒
64. Why the Talent Was Buried. 🔒
65. The King on His Judgment Throne. 🔒
66. The Defence of Uncalculating Love. 🔒
67. The New Passover. 🔒
68. ‘Is It I?’ 🔒
69. ‘This Cup’. 🔒
70. ‘Until That Day’ 🔒
71. Gethsemane, the Oil-press. 🔒
72. The Last Pleading of Love. 🔒
73. The Real High Priest and His Counterfeit. 🔒
74. Jesus Charged with Blasphemy. 🔒
75. ‘See Thou to That!’ 🔒
76. The Sentence Which Condemned the Judges 🔒
77. The Crucifixion. 🔒
78. The Blind Watchers at the Cross. 🔒
79. Taunts Turning to Testimonies. 🔒
80. The Veil Rent. 🔒
81. The Prince of Life. 🔒
82. The Risen Lord’s Greetings and Gifts. 🔒
83. On the Mountain. 🔒