Question

According to the Gospel of Matthew, what was Jesus’s Message and what was his relationship to that message?

Answer 1

Jesus Christ is the pinnacle of the Bible and play a crucial role in the life of all human history. He brings the whole Old witness to fulfilment, and he is also the way by which preservation floods out to the nations. Matthew’s Gospel thus has much to speak to the global church today as God’s people, settlement of both Jew and Gentile, pursue to make disciples of all nations.

The book of Matthew reaches to us with many brought teachings of Jesus. Matthew’s record of the message and bureau of Jesus comes from a Jewish perspective as he bespeak how Jesus was the promised messiah, the Promised Seed, and the seed of King David. Matthew makes it unembellished that Jesus is the King of the Jews.

Matthew was a tax collector so when he was chosen by Jesus to be one of his disciples, Matthew left this prominent and his well paid profession. Those appointed to be tax collectors had a secure job and well paid salary for life. But Matthew was a marvellous and strong example of leaving the old man behind and turning fully to follow Jesus Christ.

Matthew is referred to as Levi and Luke. It is probable that he was from the tribe of Levi. As a Levite and also a tax collector, he would not have been a person the Jewish community looked up to with esteem, since tax collectors more often than not exacted excessive taxes from travellers. Jesus mentioned tax collectors along with unethical people in Matthew. Still Jesus chose Matthew to follow Him.

As a Levite and a tax collector, Matthew would have known and been familiar in different language like Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin. He lived in Capernaum, a city on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee that had a major highway the Via Mari passing through it. People from different nations would pass through Capernaum, as because this highway extended from the Middle East to Egypt. Commerce and, unfortunately, armies used this way Via Maris for hundreds of years.

The book of Matthew is one of those three New Testament books often called the Synoptic Gospels. With Mark and Luke, Matthew holds a same view of life, ministry and message of Jesus Christ. Being similar however this does not discount the important features and records that each man was inspired by God to evidence.

As in the other three books known as the Gospels, Matthew provides several brought courses or teachings or learning of Christ. His value is the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus was the show and representative of the Kingdom, which had its authority from heaven. The kingdom of heaven phrase is used 33 times in Matthew, and it shows that Jesus’ message was about a Kingdom that had emphasis on earth through Jesus during His earthly ministry. That authority continues to this day through the Church Jesus is the main Head of.

William Barclay wrote that first and foremost, Matthew is the gospel of the church which was written for the Jews. Although written and thought with the Jewish community in mind, the Gospel of Matthew like all books in the Bible is for all the various people for all times. Matthew intended to show that the mantic of the Old Testament regarding the coming Messiah were being fulfilled and satisfies in Jesus Christ and that all prophecies would be fulfilled through Him.

Matthew’s account of the life and ministry of Christ has special light on God’s law, prophecy and the Church. Barclay wrote Matthew is especially interested in the Church. It is in fact that the only one of the Synoptic Gospels which practise and use the word Church at all.