Response Paper on Gospel of Matthew

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Response Paper #2 on the Gospel of Matthew--Ali Abouahmed
The Gospel of Matthew is a book that the disciple Matthew wrote. It is the first book of
the New Testament and one of the three synoptic gospels. Matthew is the first book of the Bible
to introduce Jesus as the Son of God also known as the promised Messiah (Matthew 3:17). It
tells the message that Jesus brought to us. Jesus came performing many miracles, healing the
sick, casting out demons and teaching people to repent of their sins. According to the gospel he
performed these miracles often; one being he healed a man with Leprosy (Matthew 8:1-4). He
also spread the message of love. The religious people with authority were skeptical because of
who Jesus claimed he was. Jesus’s enemies accused him to be an imposter of God and sentenced
him to be crucified. The gospel of Matthew says that three days following his death, he
resurrected from the dead. Jesus’ death broke the barrier between people and God so they could
have a relationship with him. One of Jesus’s main messages in Matthew was that Jesus foretold
that in the last days, the good news of the Kingdom would be preached to all people. (Matthew
24:14) Jesus preached “the good news of the Kingdom,” and he wanted his disciples to do the
same after his death, and to spread his message of God. Jesus’s relationship to that message is
that he was sent by God to teach all of these people about the way that God wants them to live.
However, he didn’t really have just one message he had many. There were times when he talked
about the commandments that we need to follow in order to go to Heaven. These are basically a
set of rules that he expects us to obey. In the gospel of Matthew though there was a central theme
and message Matthew described in Jesus’s teachings.
The central theme in Jesus’s teaching was the kingdom of God (in Matthew the kingdom
of heaven). For Jesus, the kingdom of God was not an ordinary occurrence but the state of affairs
that exists when human beings recognize God’s sovereignty over the world and respond in love
and obedience to Gods will. Whether speaking of the kingdom of God as present or future, Jesus
emphasized its all-surpassing importance. Nothing can compare to the kingdom, he said, and so
it is worth any price: “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone
found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field” (Matthew
13:44) Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is open to all who repent. By repentance, he meant
reflect a lesson. One example would be “The Parable of the Unforgiving Debtor.” This story
explains how a master asked a king to forgive his debt but doesn’t forgive someone else.

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