Matthew 11:25-12:21 Dear RTB’ers, Today, two Sabbath issues – the disciples plucking grain and Jesus healing. In both cases Jesus answers His critics, in the first with citations from the Old Testament and in the second with a common sense response. It is interesting to me that Jesus did not quote Scripture in the second …
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February 2 / Matthew 11:1-24
Matthew 11:1-24 Dear RTB’ers, Matthew spends 19 of our 24 verses today with Jesus relating to John the Baptist. I often wonder how much interaction those two cousins had with each other while they were growing up. Very likely they met regularly when they were younger when their families went to Jerusalem for regularly-scheduled (triannual) …
February 1 / Matthew 10:24-42
Matthew 10:24-42 Dear RTB’ers, It’s February! Already…? I’m thankful to say goodbye to January. We’ve been in one of the worst cold, snow conditions that I can remember in the past many years. Praying for a better February and an early Spring!! Anxiety. It’s not only in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus talks …
February 2026 Readings
Date Readings Verses 01-Feb Matthew 10:24-42 19 02-Feb Matthew 11:1-24 24 03-Feb Matthew 11:25-12:21 27 04-Feb Matthew 12:22-50 29 05-Feb Matthew 13:1-23 23 06-Feb Matthew 13:24-52 29 07-Feb Matthew 13:53-14:12 18 08-Feb Matthew 14:13-36 24 09-Feb Matthew 15:1-20 20 10-Feb Matthew 15:21-39 19 11-Feb Matthew 16:1-20 20 12-Feb Matthew 16:21-17:13 21 13-Feb Matthew 17:14-27 14 …
January 31 / Matthew 9:35-10:23
Matthew 9:35-10:23 Dear RTB’ers, Jesus now leaves Capernaum and travels throughout Galilee, sending the Twelve to do the same after giving them instructions. He also predicts trouble for them: Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves… Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog …
January 30 / Matthew 9:9-34
Matthew 9:9-34 Dear RTB’ers, Today, Jesus’ calling of Matthew (Levi) and another three healing miracles. Two of these healings were prophesied by Isaiah: Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing …
January 29 / Matthew 8:23-9:8
Matthew 8:23-9:8 Dear RTB’ers, Yesterday’s STS introduction told us that we would be reading three sets of three miracles each in Matthew’s chapters 8 and 9. Yesterday we saw three healings – leprosy, paralysis, and a fever. Today we see the second of these three sets of miracles – Jesus calming the storm, casting out …
January 28 / Matthew 8:1-22
Matthew 8:1-22 Dear RTB’ers, Back to Matthew for the next couple of weeks. Jesus has finished His “Sermon on the Mount”; immediately we see Him healing all kinds of infirmities – leprosy, paralysis, a fever, and …many who were oppressed by demons, and He cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who …
January 27 / Obadiah
Obadiah 1-21 Dear RTB’ers, Obadiah, our final minor prophet during this stretch of RTB readings. Our STS authors give us a good introduction to Obadiah. I would especially encourage you to read their citation of Numbers 20:14-21. Those verses tell of Edom’s refusal to allow Israel to pass through their territory on their journey from …
January 26 / Habakkuk 3
Habakkuk 3 Dear RTB’ers, We are covering two STS assignments today to make up for one of the four we fell short last year. Without the STS intro and my Study Bible I would have been lost in today’s reading. Habakkuk is using poetic environmental images to describe Israel’s escape from Egypt and entry into …