JESUS AS MOSES The way Matthew then tells the story of Jesus draws on a lot of ... from the killing of the babies, in the birth narrative, to the Sermon on the Mount, to even to the way that ...

Luke 2:8-21 narrates the story of an angel telling the ... or “Dennis the Short,” to calculate the date of Jesus’ birth. The gospels of Matthew and Luke speak of Jesus being born when ...

JESUS AS MOSES The way Matthew then tells the story of Jesus draws on a lot of ... from the killing of the babies, in the birth narrative, to the Sermon on the Mount, to even to the way that ...

This gospel was written by a Jew, Matthew the tax-collector, for a Jewish Christian audience. The narrative closely follows the life of Jesus from his birth, through his ministry and unto his ...

His special emphasis on Jesus as Messiah continues not only in the birth narrative but also in the ministry of Jesus and in the Paschal Mysteries. Matthew thus has prepared us for the next stage of ...