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The life of Jesus as presented by Matthew. The gospel covers His virginal birth to His death and resurrection. Matthew also presents Jesus as the Lion of Judah and the fulfillment of prophecy. It is placed first in the New Testament because many of the early church leaders believed it to be the first written. There are still a few scholars who hold to "Matthean priority."
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What does 'Salt of the Earth' mean?
In the Hebrew Bible, salt is both a disinfectant and preservative, but if the salt loses its integrity (or its "flavor" to preserve) the result is disintegration. When Jesus talked about salt "trample …
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How is it that Jesus could be "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth"?
Matthew 26:20 (NASB)
20 Now when evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. … So, we read the following in the Gospel of Matthew regarding the eating of the Passover meal on the first day of Unleavened Bread -
Matthew 26:17 (NASB)
17 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread …
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Did Jesus teach people to literally pluck their eye out and cut their hand off?
The immediate context is adultery, which occurs in the heart. The adultery enters the heart through the eye, and clears the heart through the hand. Under these circumstances, one would be ceremonially …
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What factors bear on the authenticity of Matthew 23:14?
Metzger observed that the best witnesses to the Gospel of Matthew had omitted the verse. … question in the Gospel of Matthew. …
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On what basis do some modern Bible manuscripts omit Matthew 17:21?
On page 35 he writes the following:
17.21 omit verse {A}
Since there is no satisfactory reason why the passage, if originally present in Matthew, should have been omitted in a wide variety of witnesses …
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Why does Luke 11:20 read "The Finger of God" instead of "Spirit of God"?
The "finger of God" is mentioned in two passages in the Hebrew Bible. Once when the magicians of Pharaoh conceded defeat before Moses (Ex 8:19) and secondly when the two tablets were inscribed with th …
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Why does John the Baptist deny being "Elijah"?
The Hebrew Bible makes mention that Elijah will appear before the "great and terrible day of the Lord" (Mal 4:5). That is, Elijah was to turn the hearts of Israel for healing (Mal 4:6).
The Hebrew B …
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Why does Matthew include these women in Jesus' genealogy?
(Please note however that Bathsheba is not mentioned by name in the Matthew genealogy, but only mentioned to show that the kingly right of Jesus to the Davidic throne was through Solomon.) …
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How many animals is the King of Zion to ride according to Zechariah?
First, when we find Jesus on the Mount of Olives, he is in the company of a crowd of people according to the gospel of Matthew. … of Olives (Matthew 21:8). …
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Who are the Sheep and the Goats in Matthew 25?
Ezekiel 20:33-44 appears to be the parallel account in the Hebrew Bible to this passage in Matthew, when the Lord God will one day regather his people from the nations of the world in order to be their … At the end of Matthew 25:31-46 the announcement is made: “These (goats) will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous (sheep) into eternal life.” …
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What evidence supports Matthew as Paul's source?
However, there is one exclusive example in Paul's writing that is parallel to the Gospel of Matthew, and therefore suggests direct contact by Paul with Matthew and/or his writings. … This parallel suggests that Paul had direct personal contact with Matthew and/or to the written information that today forms the Gospel of Matthew. …
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Did the author intend to write Asa or Asaph in Matthew 1:7-8?
of Alexandrian (א B) and other witnesses (f 1 f 13 700 1071) with Eastern versions (cop arm eth geo) and representatives of the Western text (Old Latin mss and D in Luke [D is lacking for this part of Matthew … Although most scholars are impressed by the overwhelming weight of textual evidence supporting Ἀσάφ, Lagrange demurs and in his commentary prints Ἀσά as the text of Matthew. …
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Should different but synonymous words be translated differently?
The only remarkable observation is that this Greek word is both the imperfect and aorist active indicative (3rd Person Singular) of the verb φημί.
In this regard, Robinson (1919) cites the following …
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What would Jesus' qualifications have been for a "worthy" person for the disciples to stay w...
The Greek adjective here is ἄξιος, which has two meanings in the Christian New Testament:
(a) It means to be deserving. So the slave was "deserving" of a flogging (Lu 12:48); the prodigal son was not …
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"How did Jesus' "teaching with authority" differ from the Scribes?"
The Scribes were professional academicians, whose teaching was the basis of religious traditionalism (Matt 15:1-3). What is worse is that these Bible academicians tended to miss the forest for the tre …
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