Jesus: The Four Gospels Of The New Testament

There are few historical sources that have detailed information about the founder of Christianity, Jesus, except for the four Gospels of the New Testament. Many biblical scholars regards the Gospel of Matthew, the first Gospel in the New Testament, as the most important work for the interpretation of Christian beliefs. Written roughly 70-90 CE probably by the apostle Matthew, it is a religious scripture mainly recording the life and ministry of Jesus, including his amazing birth, genealogy, baptism, temptation, preaching, crucifixion, resurrection, and his appearance to the twelve apostles to proclaim their mission. This text shares a lot of beliefs from the Old Testament, which were absorbed and shown in the New testament. Its regular quotations

The thirty-six generations of prophets and fathers are enumerated chronologically from Abraham to David, from David to Josiah, and finally from Josiah to Jesus. By doing this, Jesus’s identify, the descendant of King David, is emphasized. Also, in order to prove that Jesus is the Messiah predicted by prophets, a large number of the prophecies are quoted of the Old Testament. For example, Jesus “was born in Bethlehem of Judea”(2: 1) the place where Judaism firmly believe giving birth to messiah. His birth fulfill the prophecy that “Bethlehem, in the land of Judah…for from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.”(2: 6) As a part of the Old Testament lineage, Jesus fulfillment of prophecy further reinforced that he is the descendant of King David, the expected king of Jews, and the Messiah who will lead Jewish people to restore the glories of its golden age. Similarly, when Jesus was baptized, God showed up and said “This is my son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased”(3: 17). Therefore, Matthew stressed that the advent of Jesus can not be seen as just a historical event, but a the fulfillment of prophecy and the will of

In the Gospel of Matthew, the God is portrayed as an almighty, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and infinite figure. He knew every detail about the calamity Jewish people are going to suffer and sent his angel in dreams before danger was shown up so that people could take action ahead of time. For example, the warns were given to Joseph, which states in the Gospel “take the child and mother; and flee to Egypt ”(2: 13) when he was noticed in his dream that the king Herod was searching Jesus in the kingdom. However, unlike the the God Yahweh who spiritually giving directions to people, Jesus acted like a immediate “god” people can physically access to. He is physically a human being so that he is able to help people addressing things such as “teaching in [the] synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people”(4: 23). Compared to the God, Jesus is the one who actually doing things for people. He is worshiped as a physical version figure of God, or the Son of