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. ...

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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...

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