Matthew 1 is the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
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12 Facts About Matthew 1
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Gundry contends they are included because the author of Matthew 1 is trying to portray the people of God as a brotherhood.
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Matthew 1 skips several names in portions where the genealogy is well known from other sources, Jehoiakim is left out in 1:11 and four names are dropped from 1:8.
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One popular theory is that, while Matthew 1 provides the genealogy of Joseph and his father Jacob, Luke details the genealogy of Joseph's father-in-law Heli.
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Luke's genealogy contains a more realistic number of names, given the time period, and Matthew 1's list lacks the papponymic naming used in the period.
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Gundry believes the latter part of Matthew 1's list is "a large figure of speech".
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Matthew 1 argues that at the time it was perfectly acceptable to fill gaps in a historical narrative with plausible fiction.
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Second part of Matthew 1 relates some of the events leading up to the birth of Jesus.
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Unlike Luke's account, Matthew 1 focuses on the character of Joseph and Joseph's discovery and concern over his betrothed's pregnancy "before they came together", and the message from an angel telling Joseph to stand by Mary, quoting Isaiah 7:14 presaging the birth of the Messiah.
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Swiss theologian Eduard Schweizer suggests that Matthew 1 is far more concerned with proving Jesus' legal status as the stepson of Joseph, and thus a legal heir of David, than with proving the Virgin Birth.
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Schweizer feels this evinces Matthew 1's intended audience was of predominantly Jewish background, a pattern continuing throughout the Gospel, and the importance Old Testament references provides further evidence.
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McLaughlin argues that Matthew 1 recognizes that the prophecy Isaiah gave to King Ahaz in the referenced Old Testament passage concerned a virgin living at that time and a child, who was born as a sign to Ahaz, and he argues that Matthew 1 saw the act of salvation of which Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz's birth was a sign as a "type" of the salvation that would come through the virgin and child he was describing.
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