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Emphases of Matthew

• Jesus is the Jewish Messiah.
• Jesus a teacher and lawgiver like Moses.
• 5 Teaching Tracts – like Torah (Pentateuch) and Psalms.
  • Suggests Jesus' teaching is scripture (follows the O.T. model).
  • Suggests Jesus is a second Moses.
  • Matthew 5:17: He came not to abolish, but to fulfill, Torah.
  • OT fulfillment formulae (11x).

Observations chapter by chapter in Matthew

• 1:1 -- Son of Abraham, Son of David: Jesus is Jewish through and through.
• 2:1 -- Born in the town of David, Bethlehem.
• 2:1-2 -- King of the Jews (legitimately)
• 4:1ff -- Tested in the desert, like the people of Israel. For more on the parallels, listen to Night of Redemption: A Study of Exodus (10 lessons).
• 5-7 -- Teaching like Moses
  • Goes up a mountainside (as Moses twice went up Mt. Sinai).
  • Authority higher than that of the rabbis or Pharisees; Jesus speaks on his own (divine) authority. See 7:28-29.
  • Updates God's Word, reinterpreting Torah.
• 10:23 (15:24) -- Preaching to the Jews.
• 12:1ff -- Lord of the Sabbath.
• 28:16-20 -- Make disciples of all the Gentiles (nations)
  • Mountain -- Moses.
  • Worship -- Deity.
  • Fulfilling the Abrahamic promise (Genesis 12:3; Exodus 19:6).

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