Genealogy of Jesus

Throughout these past classes, we’ve had discussions about the Gospels of Luke and Matthew. Each story contains infancy narratives which educates us more about Jesus’ early life. With the vital elements given in the Gospels, we obtain more knowledge about the Annunciation, genealogy, visitors, other significance. The annunciation was when the angel Gabriel appeared before Mary and asked her to carry the son of God. Similar to the word “annunciation, the incarnation was announced at this time. In…

discussed about the genealogy, and birth, whereas towards the middle-end it mentions the baptism and the early life of Jesus Christ. In other words, it tells us the story of Jesus and his teachings. As we read on, we can see that in Matthew, Jesus performs many miracles, and shares a handful of parables to make his point. Beside the point, I believe the Gospel of Matthew was to persuade the Jewish community that Jesus was the Messiah that was foretold in the Old Testament. The job of Jesus was…

With four gospels in the New Testament, there are many different ways Jesus could be represented. Each one paints a different portrait, some more similar than others due to a common source. In the Gospel of Matthew, the author chooses to focus on the teaching and prophecy fulfilling aspects of Jesus over the other possible views. The stories and references were carefully chosen to be suit the intended audience of the author, showing the savior who they needed the most. The gospel of Matthew was…

The portrayal of Jesus in the Gospel of St Matthew and St Mark significantly helps enrich the lives of Christians today by leading and guiding them the ways of Jesus. The portrayal of Jesus allows Christians to understand and believe that there is only one God whom they call Father and Jesus as the Son of God who was sent to save mankind from death and sin. Throughout both Gospels, Jesus was notably portrayed as a teacher, messiah, and each Gospel was targeted towards different audience,…

Throughout the Bible the reader learns about Jesus through many different stories, people, and types of writing. One of the many things the reader may learn, it the different traits God possesses and how different books of the Bible illuminate those different characteristics in their own unique way. This paper will be focusing on the four gospels and one portrait they each bring to focus in their respective books. In the book of Matthew, the book is catered to the Jewish Christians which…

first book of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew, begins with the genealogy and infancy narrative of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Written to a Jewish community in Syria (Harrington 861) after the Romans had destroyed all of Jerusalem and the Temple of Herod, Matthew’s Gospel acts as a bridge from the Old Testament to the New Testament, revealing the identity of Jesus as the Supreme Teacher--the new Moses. Matthew interprets Jesus as the fulfillment of the Hebrew Scriptures by connecting his…

audience that Jesus completely fulfills the…

Levi, a tax collector. Matthew’s portrayal of Jesus is to establish his royal messianic bloodline, that Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism, and to show Jesus as the Teacher. The first verse in Matthew is, “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1, NKJV). Matthew then proceeds to list all of the genealogy, fourteen generations from Abraham to Jesus Christ. It is important to establish Jesus’ bloodline through the Old Testament and…

New Testament portray Jesus very humanly. They are biographies of Jesus’ life from Nazareth to Bethlehem. The purpose of the Gospels is to share the news of Jesus, His birth, His life, His teachings, His death, and His resurrection. Within all four Gospels, He is portrayed as many leaders, kings, and saviors, although, after reading all four, He is one with all, He is Christ. Three of the four Gospels are considered to be the synoptic gospels, because in the end they paint Jesus very similarly.…

birth and early life of Jesus. They are only found in two of the gospels. While Matthew and Luke are the only two gospels that contain the infancy narratives, they are a significant part in the story of Jesus. Matthew’s and Luke’s infancy narrative are both distinct, neither were a source for each other. While referred to as the infancy narratives they do not give us much from Jesus’ infancy and childhood. What the infancy narratives do answer is the question “Who is this Jesus of Nazareth?”…