But even through the evangelist includes miracle stories, his main concern is to present Jesus as a teacher ... Matthew's gospel, Jesus delivers five major speeches, which parallel the five great ...

And thus Jesus' teaching also is one that is fully in the legitimate tradition of Israel's teaching of the law. So in Matthew ... just like the five books of Torah. There are a lot of elements ...

The structuring of Jesus' teaching into five discourses imitates the five books of Moses, the Torah. Therefore some scholars have proposed that Matthew presents Jesus as a New Moses giving a New Law.