Today’s chapter is Matthew 2. What I want to point out today is that Matthew, like any good author, writes with a specific purpose and a specific audience in mind. He’s not just putting words onto ...

One can read the twinned stories of the flight to Egypt and the massacre of the infants in Bethlehem as an example of how Matthew likes to depict Jesus as the fulfillment of the promises of the Old ...

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