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Matthews's View Of Jesus In The Gospels

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Each of writers of the Gospels gives a picture of Jesus from completely different perspectives. From Matthews’s perspective, we see Jesus as the King of Israel, he goes on to expound on the wise men and the gifts they had brought for Jesus, but gives no mention to shepherds being present. Mark’s account reveals Jesus not only as the Son of God and God but also as the perfect servant of God, while Luke’s description of Jesus is not one of great wealth or status, but that of a perfect man and Luke does this by giving his readers a prologue of Jesus’s boyhood, and traces his genealogy back to Adam. From Luke’s account, Jesus seems to be from a loving, but very poor home, this conclusion is drawn based on Luke’s mention of the mother of Jesus, offering up two turtledoves (Luke 2:24), suggesting that she did not have the means …show more content…

Luke then spends verse 39 sharing Simon’s criticism of Jesus for allowing this woman, who he refers to as a sinner to do such a thing, and in verses 40-47 Luke provides Jesus’s response, “Simon, I have something to say to you,,,” he continues the dialogue with Simon by telling him of a story about “a particular man who was owed money from two people, one owed him quite a bit, while the other owed very little, neither of them were in a position to pay this man the debt they owed, therefore, the creditor forgave their debts” to this, Jesus asks Simon, “Which one of these debtors will love the creditor the most?” to which Simon said “ I suppose the one who owed the most debt” Jesus told Simon that “he had answered

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