For over a year we have been going through Matthew’s Gospel, walking through chapter after chapter of Jesus’ ministry to Israel for months. In the last few chapters, after spending His entire ministry in the outskirts of Israel, Jesus finally made it to Jerusalem. And from here, the pace of the story starts to quicken. He enters the temple, being publicly rejected by the heads of the people of Israel, then He spends the next two chapters prophesying against that place and that city. From there the die has been cast. Jesus is going to die. Judas has sold him to the chief priests and elders. Jesus is going to His doom.