Associate Professor of New Testament, Tyndale Seminary
A Cosmic Mission Much like Matthew, Luke too emphasizes that the non-Jewish nations are now being invited to participate in the re-established reign of God. Luke places Jesus’ genealogy at the transition from the infancy narrative to the account of Jesus’ adult career. So it is significant that Luke traces the Messiah’s ancestry all the…
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God’s New People More than the other Gospels, Matthew is focused in large part on the life of the Christian community. It is only in Matthew that the word “church” (ekklesia, ἐκκλησία) appears on Jesus’ lips as a term for his circle of disciples (Matt 16:18; 18:17). This has seemed unlikely to many historians, who…
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