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Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 0 — Introduction to the book of Matthew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 0 — Introduction to the book of Matthew. Show all posts

02 February, 2017

Search The Scriptures —Study 0 — Introduction to the book of Matthew


Study 0 From the Book of  Matthew: Is the Introduction of the book
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’.