Matthewlinity

Matt 4:23-5:2 and 7:28-29 The Frame for the Sermon on the Mount What is "not like the scribes"?

The first four to join Jesus on a mission to ... do what, exactly?To "catch people"?Is it a manly thing?Peter, Andrew, James (Jacob), and John accept the invitation to become people catchers. Why? Matt 4:18–22

Matt 4:12–17And so it begins.Jesus begins his ministry in the North. Why?

Matt 4:1–11Jesus refuses to take the easy way out

After Jesus is baptized, God is pleased  . . . with what exactly?(Matt 3:16–17)

Matt 3:13–15John wants Jesus to take over the ministry and does not want to baptize Jesus.Jesus has different plans.

John the Baptist warns of coming wrath/judgementDoes this fit Matthew's portrayal of Jesus?

Episode 19 (Matt 3:1–6) Noting two points:1. Validating the Outlier Perspective of John the Cleanser (I say "outsider" but "outlier" is probably a more accurate term;2. Cataloging John's Various Credentials. 

Part 1 of Matthew chapter 3 John the Baptist calls for national repentance Response is massive

Why poetics of Matthew research is not quite masculinity studies. Should I remove the term "masculinity" from the name of the podcast?This question is once more on my mind since I have recently received my first book review by Sébastien Doane.

Matthew 2:19–23. Jesus grows up in a small town (Nazareth) in Galilee, at a safe distance from Jerusalem. Why?

Matthew 2:16–18Herod kills the children. "Rachel" weeps for her children.

In the middle of the night, Joseph hides the child and the child's mother in Egypt.Verses 13–15 of Matthew chapter 2.

Matthew 2:7–12The Magi do not follow all of Herod's instructionsWhy are they warned in a dream?

The first six verses of Matthew 2.Why does it say "and all Jerusalem with him" was troubled?

In this episode I offer some conclusions for Matthew chapter 1 as I begin to prepare to move on to study other chapters.In the last 9 minutes I read from the Epilogue of my forthcoming book looking at how Matthew 28 corresponds to Matthew 1.

Finally in this episode I get to answer the question: Why does the genealogy in Matthew chapter one refer to five stories of how particular heirs were produced in a particular way by particular patriarchs from particular mothers ...? So why five? Why five stories? Is there some pattern? Last time in episode nine I compared the first story with the final the fifth story so this time in episode 10 I'm concentrating on the middle three stories and how do they fit the overall pattern; particularly the middle of the middle story: the story of how Boaz produced Obed from Ruth.If you're interested in supporting the podcast you can find Matthewlinity on Patreon. 

PG Contains mild adult themes and sexual references. This episode is about the parallel story to how Joseph almost does not become known as the father of Jesus because he thought it would not be right for him to claim to be the father of Mary's child nor pursue marital relations with Mary. There's actually a parallel story that for some reason we haven't previously studied even though it's such a close story parallel, much closer than the apocryphal story of Noah's birth, or the apocryphal story of Moses's conception. So it's time to study this story parallel, and to help answer the question of why Matt 1:18-25 is so focused on Joseph. What Joseph is doing what Joseph is not doing. What Joseph is told to do and what he ends up doing or not doing. Why is it so focused on Joseph. Verse three of Matthew chapter one has already dropped a hint as to what the parallel story is. So I'll begin reading aloud the relevant portions of Matthew chapter one, in this case, the first three verses and then verses 18 to 25. 

This episode is about what connects the first unit and the second unit in what we usually call Matthew chapter one, as if they might be intended to function together as a single, whole as a single unit? It's very easy to treat them separately as two distinct literary units. But how are they meant to be connected together as a single unit?  And what about Mary? Why does Mary appears in both units? Somehow Marry seems to be connected back to the earlier references to four previous mothers in the genealogy. But what is the connection? This episode won't be about unpacking the pattern just looking at, what kind of connection it is that we find in Matthew chapter one between the two units?  

This is the second part of episode 7 which completes the structural analysis of Matt 1:18-25 by examining the centerpiece of the literary unit, namely verse 22.What is verse 22 referring to when it says "this whole thing happened..." if it has not yet happened (not yet been narrated)?The solution turns out to be pretty obvious.