I. The King’s antecedents and status (1:1—2:23)
II. The King’s anointing (3:1—4:11)
III. The King’s ministry (4:12—11:30)
А. The beginning of the ministry (4:12-25)
B. The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (5:1—7:29)
C. The continuation of the ministry (8:1—9:34)
1. Signs with dispensational significance (8:1-17)
2. The way to follow the King (8:18-22)
3. The authority of the King (8:23—9:8)
а. Over the winds and the sea (8:23-27)
b. Over the demons (8:28-34)
c. To forgive sins (9:1-8)
4. Rejoicing with the sinners (9:9-13)
5. Being incompatible with religion (9:14-17)
6. Signs with dispensational significance repeated (9:18-34)
D. The enlargement of the ministry (9:35—11:1)
1. The need of shepherding and reaping (9:35-38)
2. The selection and sending out of the workers (10:1-5a)
3. The way to spread the gospel of the kingdom to the house of Israel (10:5b-15)
4. Persecution and the way to meet it (10:16-33)
5. The disturbance brought in by the King and the way of the cross to follow Him (10:34-39)
6. The King’s identification with the sent ones (10:40—11:1)
E. The King’s poise and attitude toward every situation (11:2-30)
1. Strengthening His imprisoned forerunner (vv. 2-6)
2. Appraising His forerunner (vv. 7-15)
3. Lamenting and reproaching the stubborn and unrepentant generation (vv. 16-24)
4. Acknowledging the Father’s will with extolment (vv. 25-27)
5. Calling the burdened to rest and the way to rest (vv. 28-30)
IV. The King’s being rejected (12:1—27:66)
А. The establishment of rejection (12:1-50)
1. The cause of rejection (vv. 1-14)
2. Rejection causing the King’s turn to the Gentiles (vv. 15-21)
3. The climax of rejection (vv. 22-37)
4. The sign to the rejecting generation (vv. 38-42)
5. The rejecting generation becoming worse (vv. 43-45)
6. Rejection resulting in the King’s forsaking (vv. 46-50)
B. The unveiling of the kingdom’s mysteries ( 13:1-52)
1. The preliminary work of the kingdom (vv. 1-23)
2. The establishment of the kingdom and its false constituents (vv. 24-30)
3. The abnormal development of the outward appearance of the kingdom (vv. 31-32)
4. The inward corruption of the outward appearance of the kingdom (vv. 33-35)
5. The establishment of the kingdom and its false constituents (continued) (vv. 36-43)
6. The kingdom hidden in the God-created earth (v. 44)
7. The church produced out of the Satan-corrupted world (vv. 45-46)
8. The eternal gospel and its result (vv. 47-50)
9. The treasure of things new and old (vv. 51-52)
V. The King’s victory (28:1-20)
