Matthew and Luke agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem during the reign of Herod the Great and later grew up in Nazareth, both having Mary conceived by the agency of the Holy Spirit, in Matthew’s Nativity Among them, the Annunciation is for Joseph, while Luke is for Mary. Matthew offers the Wise Men a star and places the baby Jesus in the house; Luke prefers the shepherds and the manger.
In Luke, Mary promises to marry him and expects a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for the child to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in a cloth and put him in a manger
In Matthew, Joseph accepts Jesus as his son, and she is found conceived by the Holy Spirit. 19 Since Joseph her husband was faithful to the law but did not want her to be publicly disgraced, he wanted to divorce her quietly, 2 and after Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, Magi came from the east. to Jerusalem.
The stories in Matthew and Luke are told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience, and each of the Gospels writes about different aspects of Jesus’ life, and each of them has its point of view. Matthew chose to focus more on trying to understand the relationship between Christianity and Judaism. He focuses on how Jesus became the Son of God. Matthew includes fewer details in the narrative of the baby narrative than Luke. Luke begins with the infancy of John the Baptist, in contrast, Matthew does not include the infantile narrative of John the Baptist at all. The birth of John the Baptist was a miracle, as was the birth of Jesus. According to Ian Peter Pearce, the structure of the Gospel of Luke begins with “chapters 1 and 2, which describe the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus in parallel”. This may have been a preview of the birth of Jesus, which would explain why Luke wanted to include the birth of John the Baptist. Luke emphasizes that the birth of Jesus was foreseen. John the Baptist was also the one who later baptized Jesus in the Gospel. The event of Jesus being baptized by John the Baptist is described in both Gospels.
In Matthew’s account, King Herod from Jerusalem wanted to kill Jesus. So, after Jesus was born, the family moved from Herod to Egypt. When they finally returned, they went to Nazareth instead of Jerusalem. Clearly, in Matthew, the family avoids Jerusalem, and the birth of Jesus is not celebrated as it is explained in Luke. This goes hand in hand with the differences in the themes of each Gospel. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is publicly acknowledged, and the feeling of the event is one of joy and joy.
Both have Mary conceived by the agency of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was born in Bethlehem and grew up in Nazareth. However, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke differ in some important ways, as well as their genealogies, in which Luke traces Jesus’ legacy to David or Abraham, or even the first human Adam, but God the father of Adam. While Luke’s genealogy does identify Jesus as descended from important Jewish leaders, it also shows that Jesus belonged not to the Jewish people, but to the entire world. A unique detail in Matthew’s Gospel is the genealogy found at the beginning of the birth narrative. This genealogy is unique in that it includes both women and non-Jews, whereas other biblical genealogies mainly include Jewish men.
My focus is on the place of the early Christian church in Israel in Matthew’s Gospel, or its relationship to so-called Judaism. These concerns belong to the era after the fall of Jerusalem. in that Luke’s account of the birth of Chr
(Compare and contrast two specific parallel passages in Scripture, but from different Gospels, (see options below) according to details included and omitted, word choices, figurative language (if any), and organization/word order. How do the passages complement each other, representing parts of a (unified whole), and/or create cognitive and/or emotional/spiritual dissonance?and to what end(s)? What (e.g., different primary audiences for the respective Gospels, and/or who is writing them, and with what life/other experiences in mind being part of rather than separate from the Holy Spirit’s inspiration) might help account for these differences?)
Matthew 1:17-2:12 and Luke 2:1-20
