Matthew 20-22

• Master, God is the owner. He agrees to give one denarius for labourers (20:2)
• He promised 'whatever is right I will give you' (v4)
• Ends up giving the labourers who worked only 1 hour one denarius also. The first labourers show discontent. (v12) They are not content with what they are given. They did not realise it is them who agreed to whatever the master was going to give in v2. They failed to acknowledge who was the one going to give. (v13)
• Jesus foretells his death third time (v17-19)
• Mother of sons of Zebedee asking something she does not know what she is asking for: sitting on the right hand side of Jesus. Jesus explains he has come to serve, not to rule, so he cannot decide, but God the Father is the one who decides (v20-28)

• Jesus furious because of people turning the temple, a house of prayer to a market place, den of robbers (21:12-13)
• Everyone was amazed with Jesus performing miracles.
• Why did Jesus curse the tree just because it did not have fruit as and when he needed food? Does that have a meaning on our lives? (v18-19)
• Have faith and it will be done. Ask in prayer and you will receive, if you have faith (v21-22)
• Chief priests tried to set a trap for Jesus (v23), but Jesus out smarted them by getting them to answer his question first (v24). From the thoughts in v25-26, it appears the priests know they are stuffed, but they choose not to humble themselves and say they are wrong. In the end they do not get what they want (v27)
• Jesus sees their heart and addresses the issue, saying prostitutes and tax collectors who repent will get into heaven before the priests, who says they will go (v30b), but dont end up doing the will of God. Those that say without the heart will not get there.
  
• Parable of the tenants (v33-46)

• Parable of the Wedding Feast (22:1-14)
• God has chosen but they refuse to answer his call - Jews?
• They treat the prophets badly or ignored them
• God destroys the cities
• What is the selection criteria (v9)? It does not seem to show what the criteria is.
  
• What is evident though, that not everyone seems to make it into heaven. The man 'without the wedding garment' was refused entry (v11-14). What does the wedding garment symbolise? Was the fact that the servants went out (v10) meant that they were invited through an invitation of the gospel. The man without the garment did not accept such invitation of the gospel?
  
• Paying taxes to Caesar (v15-22) - they wanted to trap him by getting Jesus to say stuff the Roman government, but he did not do that. Pay Caesar what is his and pay God what belongs to God!
• The greatest commandment:

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself. On these two cammandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.

-- Matthew 22:37-40

• Jesus declares that he is there before David, so Christ is not son of David. (v41-46)