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Jesus is invoking Jonah as a shadow or type of His resurrection (and the consequent good news thereof being preached to the nations, just as Jonah preached to those at Ninevah after he was vomitted up …

In Matthew 16, Messiah (= King) Jesus calls together his inner circle of disciples. … The church established in Matthew 16. No other reason exists or presents the needs for the claim of a 'mass apostasy.' …

It is. In the sense that when one becomes married to his wife, they become one flesh, and no man can dissolve that bond. Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and femal …

For example, when teaching that we must avoid the near occasion of sin (i.e. avoidable things which we know in ourselves generally lead us to sin), He teaches it in the following way: Matthew 18:7-9 Woe … Again: Matthew 5:33-37 Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, Thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord. 34 But I say to you not to swear at all, neither …

And God shows no favoritism, but rather, those who are of the faith of Abraham are counted for sons, and not of his flesh merely: "for God is able to raise up from these stones sons unto Abraham" (Matthew …

The question presupposes that St. Paul's teaching on grace implies salvation does not require good works and avoidance of evil (in this instance, in a word, following the laws of Christ). This is not …

However, one can fall away from faith in Christ, which is the other side of the "persevere to the end" (Matthew 24:13) coin. …

Not at all. Jesus is, as He's very much wont to, employing rhetoric to make His teachings more memorable, and to drive the point through. (I think it's quite clear that Jesus didn't intend for us to b …

We know this, and don't merely infer this, because one Gospel author uses the (presumably) original, "sword," and one uses "division" (Matthew 10:34; Luke 12:51). … This is also proven by how He continues: Matthew 10:35-36 For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law …

Matthew 15:24 "I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house of Israel." … Matthew 32:33-34 Hear ye another parable. …

In Jesus' day, per the book of Revelation (12:10), Satan was seen as playing the role of the accuser (in Hebrew, Satan means Adversary, or Accuser in a justice setting) - the opposite of an Advocate. …

abode of the dead, and not of the 'hell of the damned' i.e. that region of hell, or that hell where, the damned endure eternal tormet in the "everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matthew …

"An eye for an eye" would seem in context to be a legal limitation for retaliations, rather than activerly calling for revenge, making Jesus' statement actually mean, 'The law says to only get even, d …

Jesus's sacrifice ("the [Christ] must give his life a ransom for many" Mt 20:28) is the basis of the effectiveness of such forgiveness outside the immediate context of sacrifice. In other words, you c …

However, it can refer to divine worship in certain contexts, such as: Matthew 4:10 τότε λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς Ὕπαγε, Σατανᾶ· γέγραπται γάρ Κύριον τὸν θεόν σου προσκυνήσεις καὶ αὐτῷ μόνῳ λατρεύσεις. …