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I took all the greek words in the gospel of Matthew and made a word list in my Bible study software, and sorted them by the ones that are used the most often to the least often.
I wanted to know what did Matthew talk about the most in his gospel.
So here is the list in order from the most to the least, but I’m only showing you the words that appear 50 times or more.
the; or
he
and; both
you
in
be
into; to; in
I; we
say; tell
not; where
but; and
say; tell
who; which
Jesus
from
this
all; every
not
on; upon
for; because
come; arrive
man that
do; make
what
son; Son
then; at
from; of
heaven; sky
have Lord
be; become;
with; after
disciple
go out
through
hear
behold
approach
father
many; much
or; whether
until; to; as
see
raise up
give; grant
receive; take
kingdom
or; whether
so; then
day
that
thus; in this
God
highpriest
answer
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There are 54 different greek words that appear in Matthew 50 times or more.
Only 54 greek words appear 50 times or more.
Matthew uses 1,658 different greek words in his gospel. of that 1,658 different words that he uses, he only uses 54 of them 50 times or more, most of them are the words, “the, or, he, and, you, in, be...”
Well you’re probably thinking, did you learn anything from doing this, because it just looks like a bunch of words to me?
Well, let’s now just look at the nouns, and beside them is the number of times the greek word appeared.
Of that 1,658 different words he uses, here are the nouns that he uses 50 times or more.
150 — Jesus
113 — man
92 — son; Son
82 — heaven; sky
80 — Lord
72 — disciple
63 — father
55 — kingdom
54 — day
50 — God
I used two different tools, 1: a word list tool, 2: a morph text search; and both gave me almost amazingly similar results.
Here is the list from the morph search by root:
152 — Jesus
115 — man
89 — son; Son
82 — heaven; sky
80 — Lord
78 — kingdom
73 — disciple
65 — father
51 — God
51 — house
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Now we can start to see a pattern.
Themes begin to emerge.
Jesus, family, Heaven, the kingdom, disciples, God
Now over 30 times in Matthew Jesus refers to Himself as the “Son of man.” so those first three categories, you could increase the first category (Jesus) by about 30 and drop man, and son by about 30.
And Lord is also another reference to God, and to Jesus, so if you adjust the numbers a little these are the topics he ends up addresses the most.
Jesus
God
heaven
kingdom
disciple
son/father
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Now how many of these topics do you feel like you hear about all the time and have a pretty good grasp on, and which ones do you not hear about a whole lot, and don’t think you know a whole lot about.
Which ones would you feel comfortable talking about with neighbors, friends, co-workers?
Because these are the things that Jesus and his disciples went around talking about and preaching about, which Matthew was one of the 12.
And today, I want to focus on the kingdom.
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