Matthew 21:23-46 Dear RTB’ers, When the chief priests and the Pharisees try to challenge Jesus, He always gets the upper hand. But with today’s reading, they got a triple-dose of Jesus’ upper hand! In spite of being in the their own temple area, the Jewish leaders were on weak ground in challenging Jesus’ authority. From …
Author Archives: Fred
March 5 / Matthew 20:29-21:22
Matthew 20:29-21:22 Dear RTB’ers, I went to the VA yesterday and got tested – no flu, no COVID, no RSV. They gave me a week’s worth of antibiotics and cough suppressant. Hopefully I’ll get better soon. Thank you for your prayers! Two lives forever changed. They’re blind, sitting by the side of the road, possibly …
March 4 / Matthew 19:23-20:28
Matthew 19:23-20:28 Dear RTB’ers, I am not well, folks. Please pray for me. I always react negatively when I read the “laborers in the vineyard” parable. Those hired first speaking: And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal …
March 3 / Matthew 19:1-22
Matthew 19:1-22 Dear RTB’ers, Welcome back to Matthew! I don’t know that Jeremiah is a good interlude, but it did afford us a two-week break from Matthew. So now we return, finishing Matthew over the next three weeks. One of the last items that I posted on Matthew had to do with gospel “turning points”. …
March 2 / Jeremiah 24-25
Jeremiah 24-25 Dear RTB’ers, After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon… (v. 24:1a) In today’s first verse we see that many of the residents of …
March 1 / Jeremiah 23
Jeremiah 23 Dear RTB’ers, And we are back to Fred posting the first comments of the day. Thank you, John, for stepping in during our travels. Jeremiah is not the easiest book on which to offer comments, but you did that admirably. So we continue… I have three items to cover: First, Jesus the Messiah… …
March 2026 Readings
Date Readings Verses 01-Mar Jeremiah 23 40 02-Mar Jeremiah 24-25 48 03-Mar Matthew 19:1-22 22 04-Mar Matthew 19:23-20:28 36 05-Mar Matthew 20:29-21:22 28 06-Mar Matthew 21:23-46 24 07-Mar Matthew 22:1-14 14 08-Mar Matthew 22:15-46 32 09-Mar Matthew 23:1-22 22 10-Mar Matthew 23:23-39 17 11-Mar Matthew 24:1-31 31 12-Mar Matthew 24:32-25:13 33 13-Mar Matthew 25:14-46 33 …
February 14 / Matthew 18:1-35
Matthew 18:1-35 Dear RTB’ers, Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! (v. 7) This verse got my attention because of how I read it in my NASB translation, where “stumbling blocks” was used instead of temptations: Woe …
February 13 / Matthew 17:14-27
Matthew 17:14-27 Dear RTB’ers, Jesus again foretells His death and resurrection. But this time, instead of being confused Matthew writes that they were “greatly distressed”. But no doubt, they were still confused…! Two incidents today leave me wondering about Jesus’ relationship with His Father. In the first, Jesus seems not to know His time frame …
February 12 / Matthew 16:21-17:13
Matthew 16:21-17:13 Dear RTB’ers, All four gospels have specific “turning points” in Jesus’ earthly ministry. Here’s Mark 8:31: And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. …