Opened Scriptures Bible Studies

The Plot to Kill Jesus Mark 14:1  After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.  Mar 14:2  But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.  Jesus Anointed at Bethany Mar 14:3  And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.  Mar 14:4  And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?  Mar 14:5  For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.  Mar 14:6  And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.  Mar 14:7  For ye have the poor with you a...

  Today, I am giving us Matthew's account of the week of Jesus' Passion.  I suggest reading slowly through these texts and letting all the events that transpired, sink into our hearts.  This is Matthew's Holy Spirit guided, eyewitness account of Christ's sufferings, death, burial, and resurrection.  The theme is that Jesus suffered for us, He died for us, and He rose from the dead for us.  Jesus died because the wages of sin is death, and He died in our place, as God's perfect Lamb.  I also suggest reading Isaiah 53 as this is a prophecy about Christ's sufferings, followed by His glory. Judas to Betray Jesus Mat 26:14  Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,  Mat 26:15  And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.  Mat 26:16  And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.  The Passover with the Di...

Matthew 22:1-7  And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,  2  The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,  3  And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.  4  Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.  5  But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:  6  And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.  7  But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.  We previously learned that the "certain king" in this parable represents God the Father. "His son" represents the Lord Jesus Christ, ...