Jesus continues His healings in His hometown and surrounding areas. He demonstrates the wonderful truth of His divine Person in the healing of the paralytic. And we also see the calling of Matthew and the early stages of His rejection by the pharisees. He discusses fasting; and continues His ministry of signs which proclaim that He is the Messiah.
In the Sermon on the Mount (chapters 5-7), Jesus demonstrated His authority in teaching. In Chapter 8, He demonstrates His authority over all manner of sicknesses and diseases and demonic possessions. He also gives two principles of discipleship – suffering and Jesus being the ultimate priority.
Jesus continues His teachings in several areas concerning judgment, prayer and works. As He ends His teachings, He concentrates on the necessity of good works. That is, true belief in Him as Messiah will manifest itself in the life of the believer by works of righteousness. True faith is evidenced by the life of the one confessing faith in Jesus.
Jesus continued His teaching that His disciples should surpass that of the pharisees in preaching about righteous conduct. He dealt with such issues forgiving to fasting. Finally, He spent a significant time on the issue of money.
The latter teachings of chapter 5 denote Jesus’ warning that the people’s righteousness should surpass that of the pharisees. So, He begins by attacking the wrong teachings of the pharisees and telling them His own, showing how the pharisees misinterpreted and went beyond the correct teachings of the Law of Moses.
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