New Testament

What is the point of Matthew’s description of the escape of Mary,Joseph, and Jesus to Egypt and their later return to Nazareth (Matt.2:13-23)? How does Matthew make his point?
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Is about the New Testament (Matthew Gospel)

In the story about Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness (Matt.4:1-11), what are the three temptations or challenges that Jesus successfully overcomes? How does he overcome them?

Mark 4:10-11 gives a difficult and harsh explanation for the reason why Jesus taught in parables. In what ways does Matthew retain the same explanation? In what ways does he alter it? (Matt. 13:13-16.) Explain.

Compare Matthew’s story of Peter’s confession of faith (Matt. 16:13-23) with Mark’s version of the story ( Mark 8:27-33). What did Matthew do to change Mark’s story? Also, speculate on why he might have changed it as he did.

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Matthew’s description about the escape of Mary and Joseph and Jesus to Egypt was to reveal what had been prophesied by the prophets earlier before the birth of Jesus. The prophet had revealed that the son of God was going to be called from Egypt. Despite Jesus being born in Bethlehem, he had to go to Egypt where he was recalled from as the scriptures on prophecy had revealed………………………..

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