Mark's Gospel Jesus Summary

Burridge states that ninety percent of Mark can be contemplated in Matthew. Nonetheless, Matthew presents a complete picture of Jesus’ biography. Furthermore, a different depiction of Jesus is shown. In Mark’s Gospel Jesus is presented as the Son of God, Matthew on the other hand begins with the biblos geneseos and presents Jesus to his Jewish audience as the Son of David and a direct offspring of Abraham. Although, Burridge mentions “two themes,” in which alludes the Jewishness and the gentilesness of Jesus’ ancestry. a genealogy that includes mysterious characters, women whose origin and occupations were despised by the Jewish people. Burridge states that Jesus is presented in Matthew as the new Abraham, the new David and the new Moses; in

Burridge describes Mark as dark and riddling and somewhat ambiguous, on the contrary, Matthew is describe as a child, one who ask questions after questions in order to make the darkness of Mark’s narrative crystal clear. Jesus is also portrayal as the new Moses, perhaps, like Moses; most of the teaching and everything important that Jesus did was done on a mountain. Therefore, making Jesus the new Moses, the new lawgiver and the new teacher of Israel. Jesus fulfilled all of the Law and summarizes what Moses was about. As a teacher, Matthew illustrate five pedagogical blocks of Jesus; the Sermon of the Mountain, the mission of the church, the parables of the kingdom, the life of the church and the eschatological teachings, just like Moses gave us the five books. Out of the four Gospels, only Matthew records the words of Jesus telling the disciples not to go to the Gentiles but to the loss sheep of Israel. Nevertheless, the loss sheep of Israel did not hear the Gospel; therefore the Gospel was extended to a different community, the Gentiles. Also, only in Matthew the word church (ecclesia) is mention first to Peter, after his