Matthew 4:24

Damascus Road Community Church

He was exhausted. The disciples? They were comfy around the campfire, until tensions arose after a long and exhausting day. Now they were waiting on Jesus.

The conversation is being driven by four brothers whom Jesus recently called to join him in full time ministry. They are core members of his small group (Matthew 4:18-22). What starts out as fun banter becomes weaponized religious nationalism targeted at Matthew, a recent Jesus follower, who would later write this gospel.

The tense scene is interrupted when Jesus, exhausted from healing (Matthew 4:24), stumbles past the quarrelsome disciples, stunning them into silence. Matthew’s recounting of the stories in chapter 4, verses 18-25, tells us so much about ourselves, and about a God who loves us with an unfailing love. Come and see.