JESUS AS MOSES The way Matthew then tells the story of Jesus draws on a lot of symbols from Jewish tradition that really convey a picture of Jesus.

In their differing accounts of the first Christmas, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke provide important historical details about where and when Jesus was born.

Ms. Flowers is free to choose Luke’s story of Jesus’ birth as the one she likes best, but Matthew’s story, with the bloodthirsty King and the Holy Family’s desperate flight into Egypt, is ...

Little is said of Jesus’ youth in the four canonical gospels, with only Matthew and Luke mentioning the story of his birth, and Luke alone including a single anecdote of a child Jesus visiting a ...

Matthew is matching his account of Jesus’s virgin birth with part of the Old Testament. The part he has in mind is Isaiah 7:14.

We don’t know. Mark is the earliest Gospel written; Matthew and Luke are basically just revising it. Mark has no suggestion of a virgin birth. Instead, he says that neighbors called Jesus “son ...

During Christmas, we celebrate a phenomenon theologians call the incarnation. In scientific terms, the birth of Jesus Christ was a trans-dimensional dislocation; the Son of God stepped from the ...

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:20-21).

For Matthew, the birth of Jesus is an event that merits the attention of the powerful: sorcerers from the east, King Herod of the Jews. For Luke, it is a common-folks miracle.

As his story unfolds, the centuries melt away and we are intimately involved in the life of Jesus. We share the mystery and the wonder of His birth.

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:20-21).