2. A Journey Through The Life Of Jesus

3. Upside Down

4. “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets…I am come not to destroy, but to fulfil.”
Matthew 5:17

5. “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am come not to destroy…, but to fulfil.”
Matthew 5:17

6. “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am come not to destroy, but to fulfil.”
Matthew 5:17

7. fulfil – to fill, to fill up. Judaism emptied the Law.
Jesus filled the Law back up.

8. “And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:”
Matthew 7:28

9. “For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.”
Matthew 7:29

10. Question
How much authority
did Jesus have?

11. “At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.”
Matthew 12:1

12. “But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.”
Matthew 12:2

13. “But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;”
Matthew 12:3

14. “How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?”
Matthew 12:4

15. “Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?”
Matthew 12:5

16. “But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple
Matthew 12:6

17. “But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.”
Matthew 12:7

18. “For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.”
Matthew 12:8

19. “But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple
Matthew 12:6

20. The temple was
everything
to the Jews.

21. The Temple
Solomon’s Temple
Zerubbabel’s Temple
Herod’s Temple

22. “And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!”
Mark 13:1

23. “And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings
“And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
Mark 13:2

24. “And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,”
Mark 13:3

25. “Tell us, when shall these things be
“Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?”
Mark 13:4

26. The Temple was disassembled. On that day Judaism died.
August 6, 70 AD
The Temple was disassembled.
On that day Judaism died.
Just as Jesus said it would.

27. Why is there no “I told you so?”
When Matthew, Mark, Luke and most of the New Testament
was written, the temple
was still standing.

28. But it did happen!

29. “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
I Corinthians 6:19

30. “But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple
Matthew 12:6

31. The invitation of Jesus
“Follow Me!”