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A 7 page research paper that analyzes the Gospel of Matthew in references to the theme of Jesus as King. The writer discusses how Matthew relates Jesus' life, ministry and sacrifice to Old Testament prophecy and ideas of kingship. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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of a Virgin Mother" (Jacquier). From the inception of his public life, Jesus proclaimed that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand and in the Sermon on the Mount, he
"promulgates the charter of this kingdom" (Jacquier). As this implies, a principal theme of the Matthews Gospel is the kingship of Jesus, and his legitimate claim to be the fulfillment
of prophecy and the rightful heir of the throne of Israel. The following examination of Jesus as King demonstrates how Matthews first century account of Jesus life and ministry sought
to present him as the culmination of prophecy, but also as the harbinger of a new covenant in which the Jesus church would be the manifestation of all prophecy.
In Matthews Gospel, when Jesus gives Peter the "keys to the kingdom," he also cites an "obscure oracle of Isaiah" that refers to the transfer of "the key to the
House of David" (Hahn 28). By this Jesus confers upon Peter authority over his church, and this passage corresponds to the authority that Isaiahs king conferred upon Eliakim when he
conferred authority to be the prime minister of the Davidic kingdom (Hahn 28). As this suggests, this passage identifies Jesus as the "new Davidic king" and the his church as
the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "New Testament is concealed in the Old and the Old
Testament is revealed in the New," as it is impossible to read Matthew without having "your ear tuned to the Old Testament, as this scripture refers to Old Testament verse
often, "four or five times per chapter, more than a 100 times" in the gospel as a whole (Hahn 28). The author of Matthew writes in this manner because he
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