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The featured studies
The studies in What Jesus Taught, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
What Jesus Taught holds 17 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 2 of the ten kinds.
- 1 study asks what one passage says, line by line.
- 16 studies ask what Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest.
The studies by kind
Passages and psalms
These studies take a chapter, a song or a single teaching and read it line by line. Each stays inside one passage and follows its own movement.
1 study
What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.
16 studies, 8 as cards, 8 in the register
The Lord's PrayerPhrase by phrase — the Old Testament roots under each petition, the Jewish prayers it spoke alongside, and Matthew's and Luke's forms honestly compared.
The BeatitudesEight blessings from the mountain — each with roots deep in the Psalms and Isaiah — and the shape of the life Jesus calls blessed.- The Kingdom of Heaven: Matthew's Great SubjectWhy Matthew alone says 'of heaven,' and a kingdom already at hand yet not consummated in the present age.
Parables of JesusThe kingdom told in stories — some forty parables of Jesus, gathered into seven clusters and opened one door at a time.
Prayer in Luke — Jesus at Every HingeThe Gospel of prayer: Jesus praying at the baptism, before the Twelve, before the confession, on the mountain, and from the cross.
The Great Reversal — the Ledger of LukeLuke keeps accounts: the low lifted, the self-secure emptied, the Magnificat, the banquet, Lazarus, and Zacchaeus as one double-entry ledger.
The Kingdom ParablesMatthew 13 is one teaching day with two rooms — four parables from a boat to the multitude, four in a house to the disciples — and the chapter's own hinges show the floorplan.
Why Jesus Spoke in ParablesThe disciples asked the question outright — Matthew 13:10 — and Jesus answered it from Isaiah 6. One form of speech that reveals and conceals at once, and the text says both without blushing.
The register: 8 more studies of this kind
- Jesus on DiscipleshipThis page gathers Jesus's own discipleship sayings across nine sections, from the call through the cross, the vine, the ransom saying, and the foot-washing, then names two live debates: lordship salvation versus free grace, and how much weight the dust of your rabbi image can bear.
- Jesus on Money and PossessionsThis page pairs Jesus's money sayings as counter-cases, the rich man who could not let go against Zacchaeus who let go of half, then works through the temple treasury, the Caesar coin, the overflowing measure, and five historic positions on how a Christian should hold wealth.
- Jesus on PrayerThis page fills in four prayer texts not covered elsewhere on the site: the prayer of agreement, asking in His name, Gethsemane's threefold Matthew account, and His pre-dawn withdrawal habit in Mark, then holds the promise texts beside Gethsemane's own unanswered request.
- Jesus on the FatherThis hub gathers the Father-thread across the Gospels, some of it doored to fuller pages elsewhere, with its own original weight on the prayer's opening address, the father of the prodigal son, and the Abba word study.
- Jesus on the Holy SpiritThis page walks Jesus's own teaching on the Spirit from Nicodemus's night visit through the upper room's Paraclete sayings to the promise of the Father that opens Acts, then doors out to the fuller doctrine, baptism, and blasphemy pages rather than repeating them.
- Jesus on the KingdomThis hub gives full original treatment to four texts the rest of the kingdom estate does not cover: the opening announcement of Mark 1:14-15, the within-or-among question of Luke 17:20-21, named positions on already and not yet, and the full John 18:36-38 exchange before Pilate, dooring everywhere else to the pages already built.
- Jesus on the ScripturesThis page tracks nine places where Jesus himself quotes, argues from, or corrects a reading of Scripture, backed by a source ledger of every Old Testament book he draws from, then closes with three named positions on how law and gospel relate.
- The Questions Jesus AskedJesus taught as much by asking as by telling.
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The roster is the site’s own build manifest, so no study can be missing from it. A study leads its kind when it carries a line of its own and more of the other studies link to it; a register row with no line of its own borrows the first sentence of the study’s own summary. The pictures are public domain: engravings by Gustave Doré from Doré’s English Bible(1866), and paintings held at Wikimedia Commons. Each is named in full on the study’s own page.