Gospel of Matthew

Near the end of Matthew 26, after Judas has embraced Jesus and the apostles are aware of what is happening, Peter jumps to defend Christ by slashing the ear of a servant belonging to a high priest. Jesus then scolded Peter and told him to allow the will of God to be done…

A Journey Through the Covenants: Exodus, Deuteronomy, Hebrews “If there is a single most important theological structure in the Old and New Testament, few would disagree that it must be the covenant. Both the Old and New Testaments weave their theology on the loom of history with the thread of the covenant” (Walton, 10). While the Old Testament and New Testament share many unifying values, it is important to look at how Jesus’ death and resurrection altered and further developed certain…

In chapter twenty nine Hendricks mentions the importance of five literary genres that God uses throughout the Bible. Exposition is a common literary genre that is seen in the Bible. Hendrick uses Paul's letters in Roman as a representative of exposition. Since exposition means an argument or an explanation of truth. Therefore, Hendrick believes Paul's letters represent the exposition genre. Simply because paul uses many conjuction words like and, but, and therefore. The usage of those words can…

Let me tell you of another Parable of Jesus in the Book of Luke 12:13-15, The Parable of the Rich Fool; “Then one from the crowd said to Him, Teacher tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me. But He said to him, Man who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you? And he said to them, take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.” Luke 12:16-21, Then He spoke a parable to them saying, “The ground of a certain Richman…

healing in v. 8a-b have already occurred in 30:26 where the prophet compares God’s healing of the wounds Hebrew Grammar-Syntax, 70-80; Polan, In the Ways of Justice, 207. Cf. Because of its function as an equivalent to the imperative, the LXX renders the absolute infinitives as imperative (lu/e, dia, lue, avpo,stel le). 98Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 40-66, 503; Childs, Isaiah, 478. For example, xt;P' occurs in 22:22; 35:5; 41:18; 45:1; 48:8; 50:5; 51:14; 52:2. xl;v' in 42:19; 43:14;…

encountering Jesus in the scripture, I learned that Jesus’ mission was to proclaim that the kingdom of God is at hand and to summon people to reform their lives. Also, he proclaims that the kingdom of God is “among you, not “within you” (Harrington and Matthews 21). He was bringing the kingdom of God to existence on earth through His preaching and actions. He had set a “Edenic Model” for His people (Levine, video). I’m compelled to restate the beginning passage from Gaudium Et…

When it comes to people in the Bible being like Jesus. My mind immediately goes to one person. This man became like Jesus in such a short amount of time. This man’s name is Stephen, and this is his story. In acts 6:1-7, we see that the church is growing rapidly and an issue is brought to the attention of the Apostles that the food rations were not given out fairly. So the 12 Apostles got together and they gathered the people and said get seven people from among you, with good reputations, wisdom…

The scholars in the video question that Jesus was a humble carpenter because of evidence they discovered through research which contradict this. These scholars thought that Jesus was thriving in a sophisticated urban environment that would have brought with it all the diversity of the Roman Empire; this speculation was brought upon the fact that the social rankings at this time were predominantly based on the sophistication and education. Proven through the bible, Jesus was a an intellectual,…

is all about the arrival of messaiah, the savior, his birth, his suffering and his death. Whereas in the new testament, the Jesus of Nazreth called his listeners to repentance in anticipation of the imminent arrival of the God’s kingdom. There are gospels in the new testament indicating the Christ communicating the message that the god kingdom is arrived and it is to be…

Jesus came announcing that the kingdom of God was at hand (Matthew 3:2) and then preceded to demonstrate what God’s true kingdom on earth would look like. However, as Robert Stein points out, “Jesus never defined exactly what he meant by the kingdom of God/heaven” in his teachings (Stein 61). Instead, Jesus told John’s disciples “the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor” (Luke 7:22). In doing…