After healing the leper, centurion’s servant, and calming the storm, Matthew continues to expound on who King Jesus is. Jesus’ authority is questioned when He heals the paralytic, He calls those who shouldn’t be called, and Matthew’s question starts to shift from who is this man to if this IS who this man is, what
Jesus is born, and this text shows the reactions of three different people – Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father, Herod, and earthly king, and the wise men, who come to worship Jesus. How did their expectations affect how they saw and understood Jesus’ birth? How do ours affect when and how we see King Jesus today?
As we kick off our year-long look at Matthew, we begin with the genealogy. While many people today find these sections of Scripture boring and meaningless to us, even just the genealogy tell us much about Jesus, including answering the question already that Matthew will spend his entire book answering – what kind of king
