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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…

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