tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post180234426417683805..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Agreement Between Matthew And Luke About Jesus' ChildhoodRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-59001320913841398022017-07-05T19:07:51.040-04:002017-07-05T19:07:51.040-04:00I've just added the following:
Mary knew abou...I've just added the following:<br /><br /><b><i>Mary knew about the pregnancy before Joseph (Matthew 1:18, Luke 1:31), which contrasts with how Abraham found out about Sarah's pregnancy before she did (Genesis 17:16).</i></b> For more about the significance of that contrast, see <a href="http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-matthew-and-lukes-annunciation.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br /><b><i>Mary didn't tell Joseph about the pregnancy early on (Matthew 1:18, Luke 1:39-40).</i></b> For further discussion, see <a href="http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-matthew-and-lukes-annunciation.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br /><b><i>The wedding didn't occur just after the conception of Jesus, but instead occurred long enough afterward to allow the series of events we see in Matthew 1:18-24 and Luke 1:39-56.</i></b><br /><br /><b><i>The announcement of Jesus' name comes from an angel (Matthew 1:20-21, Luke 1:30-31), in contrast to the direct announcement of Isaac's name by God in Genesis 17:19, for example.</i></b> An announcement by God would have been especially significant in the context of the infancy narratives, given the Father/Son relationship between God the Father and Jesus. But both gospels attribute the announcement of the name to an angel instead.<br /><br /><b><i>Joseph had close ties with Bethlehem beyond his ancestry there.</i></b> He was in a house in the city about two years after Jesus' birth in Matthew (2:11-16), and Luke implies that Joseph had property and/or close relatives there (2:1-7). For more about the relevant material in both gospels, see <a href="http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-response-to-annette-merz-on-infancy_23.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br /><b><i>Jesus entered the world through birth rather than just appearing (e.g., the angels who appear on earth as adults in other Biblical passages).</i></b><br /><br /><b><i>Not just in the context of Jesus' activity, but more generally as well, there's a significant lack of miracles.</i></b> In the context of discussing a dozen miracles in the Protevangelium Of James, Charles Quarles notes, "The proved tendency of nonhistorical birth narratives was to multiply the miraculous.", and he contrasts that with "The comparatively modest miracle material in the canonical birth narratives" (Midrash Criticism [Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1998], 117).<br /><br /><b><i>Jesus was sinless in his childhood (Matthew 3:15, Luke 4:34, Acts 3:14, 7:52, 22:14; also implied by references to Jesus' deity in both authors).</i></b><br /><br /><b><i>The events of Jesus' childhood didn't prevent his brothers from opposing him (Matthew 12:46-50, 13:57, Luke 8:19-21).</i></b> For more about these passages, see Svendsen's book cited above.<br /><br /><b><i><a href="http://christianapologeticsalliance.com/2014/01/18/christmas-notes-part-3-josephs-narrative/" rel="nofollow">Tim McGrew notes</a> an agreement between Matthew 2:22 and Luke 2:41-43:</i></b><br /><br />"There is one other point of interest about the reference to Archelaus. He was deposed by the Romans and banished to Gaul in the year AD 6, about ten years after he took the throne and in the twelfth year after Jesus’ birth. Curiously enough, Luke’s narrative, which never mentions Archelaus, tells us that Jesus’ parents went up to Jerusalem for the feast every year, but the first time it mentions his going with them is when he is twelve years old. The chronological coincidence is not a guarantee, but it is at least plausible that they took him with them only when Archelaus was no longer in power and the shadow of their harrowing journey to Egypt had passed."Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-46972409478213992452016-10-23T17:05:08.702-04:002016-10-23T17:05:08.702-04:00I've just added Matthew 1:25 to the passages c...I've just added Matthew 1:25 to the passages cited in the section about other children born to Mary. And I've added the following to the section about who chose Jesus' name:<br /><br />In the Old Testament, the parents or other people frequently chose the child's name, including in cases that involved a pregnancy that was supernatural in some manner (Genesis 5:28-9, 25:25-6, 30:6-24, Exodus 2:10, 2:22, Judges 13:24, Ruth 4:17, 1 Samuel 1:20).Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.com