Matthew 2:15

Matthew 2 vs. 15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. I announce the obituary o……

The New Testament is not a stand-alone story. It’s the surprising plot twist that resolves the old kingdom struggle in a new way.…

Here’s a refresher: how we started approaching the Gospel of Matthew in 2016.…

How can Matthew say that Jesus’ flight to Egypt fulfils Hosea 11:1? Hosea was talking about Israel’s exodus.…

The baby of Bethlehem becomes the nobody of Nazareth. The rescued becomes the rescuer.…

Open Exodus 4:21-23. Moses sets out for Egypt to confront Pharaoh with YHWH’s claim of sovereignty over the Hebrew people: Exodus 4:22–23 (ESV) 22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord……

If the king says so, you have a place in his family. Open Matthew 12:46-50. Joseph was absent from Jesus’ adult life, so responsibility for the family fell to the oldest son. Jesus was firstborn, but he’d been travelling instead of looking after his family. Suddenly they turn up: Matthew...…

Christmas proclaims the best news ever: God sent his Son. What the Son does is restore heaven’s reign to earth. Matthew lights up his portrait of the Christ-child from five angles. All of them high……

1.0 CONTEXT Philip found Natan’el and told him,“We’ve found the one that Moshe [Moses] wrote about in theTorah, also the Prophets — it’s Yeshua Ben-Yosef from Natzeret!”[John 1:45] The “Torah[Law] and the Prophets” was a title for the Old Testament before the New Testament was written. Philip understood the Old Testament was about Yeshua, which …