Jesus sits down and explains that it is not what enters one's mouth that defiles a person, rather it is what comes out of that persons mouth that defiles them. ... This focus on the Pharisees like this goes hand in hand with Matthew's Jewish interpretation of Jesus's life. ... Matthew presents Jesus as the new Moses, taking up the lead where Moses left off. ...
The Birth of Jesus According to Matthew The first Gospel presented in the New Testament of the Christian Bible is the Gospel of Matthew. Said to have been written in Syria during the last third of the first century, it is most likely the third of the four Gospels created (Brown: Messiah 45). Like that of Luke's, Matthew's Gospel draws its content from the Gospel of Mark, the elusive "Q" source, and from stories and other preexisting information from Pagan, Jewish and Christian sources (Wilkinson: 165). In Matthew's description of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus, th...
Matthew's Gospel starts with the ancestry of Jesus all the way down from David and Abraham. ... This is significant because this was a symbol of Moses bringing the Jews out of exile in Egypt. After this Jesus goes on to be baptized by John the Baptist. ... This again is a significant piece that is signifying Moses and the Jews forty year trek through the desert. ... The women go and tell the disciples and they go to Galilee to see the risen Christ. ...
According to the text (pg 93) it suggested that Matthew is portraying Jesus as the new Moses. ... In Matthew Jesus sees the multitude of people who have followed him, he then goes up the mountain to sit and soon after his disciples come to him. ... To be righteous is to be honorable, moral and good, so when one is all of these things they are going to most likely be ridiculed and harassed or persecuted by the majority of the population. ... I think that the dramatic tension in these verses starts when he begins blessing the poor and climaxes in verse 11 because here he talks about the pain t...
Jesus by no means laid down rules for the worship of himself or God. ... Klassen provides an example of this thirst for vengeance when he quotes Agamemnon stating, "No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers" wombs- not even they must live. ... Klassen also provides a quote from the Odyssey stating, "The disgrace of it will echo down the generations should we fail to punish the murderer of our sons and kindred (Odyssey XXIV. 433-34)." ... This scale of foreseen vengeance is not scaled down until the teachings of Jesus were implemented t...
