A chiasm is a literary structure where the vocabulary of the first section of a passage is repeated in reverse order in the second. The center of the chiasm is typically the climax of the passage. In Matthew 16:5-12, in the center Jesus asks his disciples if they had forgotten the feeding of the five thousand and of the four thousand (Matt 16:9-10).
The Chiasm of Matthew 16:5-12
About the Author: Mike Rusten
Mike Rusten grew up in Plymouth, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. God drew him to himself at a Billy Graham crusade when Mike was a junior high boy, and life was never to be the same. He graduated from Princeton University where he was president of the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship. Read More ...
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