2我们需要记住马太福音前十二章的要点。一章论到基督的家谱和出生。二章论到外邦星象家寻找并敬拜基督，基督逃往埃及，以及祂回到以色列，在拿撒勒长大。在三章我们看见引荐和受膏；在四章有试验，以及王开始尽职事，得著群众；在五、六、七章有诸天之国宪法的颁布。八章包括王职事的继续，医治患痲疯的人、百夫长的仆人、和彼得的岳母，以及主管理风、海和鬼的权柄。九章论到王赦罪的权柄；马太的蒙召；启示主是医生、新郎、新布、新酒和新皮袋的筵席；具有时代意义的神迹；以及求主打发工人收割庄稼的祷告。十章有选差十二使徒，十一章说到约翰想要激动王，王的回答和祂对约翰的称赞，祂责备顽梗的世代，并呼召人来得安息。最后，十二章论到干犯安息日的规条，表明主是头，并且祂顾念祂身体上的肢体，为著国度的争战，对王弃绝的极峰，豫言世代每下愈况，放弃犹太世代并转向信徒。
2We need to remember the main points covered in the first twelve chapters of Matthew. Chapter one covers Christ’s genealogy and birth, and chapter two, the Gentile wise men seeking Christ and worshipping Him, the flight of Christ to Egypt and His return to Israel to be raised in Nazareth. In chapter three we see the recommendation and the anointing; in chapter four, the temptation and the beginning of the King’s ministry to gain the crowds; and in chapters five, six, and seven, the decree of the constitution of the kingdom of the heavens. Chapter eight includes the continuation of the King’s ministry in healing the leper, the centurion’s servant boy, and Peter’s mother-in-law, and the Lord’s authority exercised over the wind, the sea, and the demons. Chapter nine covers the King’s authority exercised in the forgiveness of sin; the calling of Matthew; the feast where the Lord is revealed as the Physician, the Bridegroom, the new cloth, the new wine, and the new wineskin; signs with dispensational significance; and the prayer to send reapers into the harvest. In chapter ten we have the appointment and sending out of the twelve apostles, and in chapter eleven, John’sat tempt to stir up the King, the King’s answer and His appraisal of John, His rebuke of the stubborn generation, and the calling of people to come to His rest. Finally, chapter twelve covers the breaking of the Sabbath regulations to show that the Lord is the Head and that He cares for the members of His body, the battle for the kingdom, the climax of the King’s rejection, the prophecy of the generation becoming worse, and the forsaking of the Jewish generation and the turning to the believers