It
is customary to see in Matthew’s Gospel the fact that Jesus is presented
especially as the Messiah, the promised Son of David. This is true; but it also
declares that He is the Saviour from sin (1:21) and the Son of God (1:23; 3:17;
16: 16, 17); and although the writer was obviously a Jew to the core, and wrote
primarily for the Jews only, but of all nations (2:1, 11; 28:19, 20).
Nevertheless, this is the most Jewish of the Gospel. It is significant that our Lord’s genealogy
is traced back, not to Adam, as in Luke’s account, but to Abraham, the father
of the Jewish race.
The
story of the birth of Christ shows distinct signs of being derived from
Joseph’s side, as the story given by Luke would seem to come from Mary’s.
The
Gospel is characterized by the large place it gives tot the teaching of our
Lord, and in particular to His teaching in parables and about ‘things to come’.
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