Matthew Luke Consistent

1 Genealogy 1 Genealogy 1 Jesus is from the line of David

from Abraham to Jesus from Jesus to Adam
Salvation is for the JEWS. Salvation is for EVERYONE.
Jesus is the NEW DAVID - the awaited
mentions women with questionable relations Palestine Messiah.
1. TAMAR with Judah
2. RAHAB by vocation, (gentile) It is he who shall build a house for my name,
3. RUTH, widow and a gentile
and I will establish his royal throne forever. (2
4. BATHSHEBA with David
5. MARY on ILLEGITIMACY Sam 7:14)
God’s work involves all people of all sorts and
Acts
Rome Messiah means "the one anointed with oil”.
backgrounds and races. (Boch, p 123)
The coming of God’s Son to earth is an event of
such immensity that God willed to prepare for it
over centuries. He makes everything converge on
Christ: all the rituals and sacrifices, figures and
symbols of the “First Covenant”. He announces him
through the mouths of the prophets who succeeded
one another in Israel. (CCC 522)

2 perspective of Joseph 2 perspective of Mary 2 There was an annunciation from

the angel
“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, a son, and you shall name him Jesus. Jesus’ divine origin:
and shall call his name Immanuel.” (Isa. 7:14; Mt. (Lk 1:31) *virgin birth
1:23).
*conceived by the Holy Spirit

To become a child in relation to God is the

condition for entering the kingdom. For this, we
must humble ourselves and become
little. Even more: to become “children of God” we
must be “born from above” or “born of God”. Only
when Christ is formed in us
will the mystery of Christmas be fulfilled in us.
Christmas is the mystery of this “marvelous
exchange”:

“O marvelous exchange! Man’s Creator has

become man, born of the Virgin.
We have been made sharers in the divinity of Christ
who humbled himself to share our humanity.”
(CCC 526)

by ALMEROL, RICHEL MAE O.

3 Bethlehem to Nazareth 3 Nazareth to Bethlehem to Nazareth 3 Bethlehem (birth)
Joseph and Mary seem to reside in Bethlehem Joseph and Mary returned to Nazareth after a Nazareth (where Jesus grew up)
(Mt. 2:11); not mention of travel short time in Bethlehem
Micah 5:2 points to Bethlehem as the source of a
Mary could have given birth at home. It was mentioned that she gave birth in a “ruler who will be a shepherd of my people Israel.
manger.
Bethlehem, about five miles south of Jerusalem,
was the city of David (1 Sam 16:1; Lk 2:11).

4 First visitors are wealthy wise men 4 First visitors are poor shepherds 4 What is clear is that their initiative stands
in contrast to the indifference or secret
The Epiphany is the manifestation of Jesus as Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a poor hostility of Israel’s leaders.
Messiah of Israel, Son of God and Savior of the family. Simple shepherds were the first witnesses
world. The great feast of to this event. In this poverty
Here, Matthew hints that those outside
Epiphany celebrates the adoration of Jesus by the heaven’s glory was made manifest. (CCC 525)
Palestine/Israel are sensitive to what is God doing
wise men (magi) from the East (…). In the magi,
through Jesus, while those within the nation are
representatives of the neighboring pagan religions,
hostile (Herod) or indifferent (the chief priests and
the Gospel sees the first fruits of the nations, who
scribes).
welcome the good news of salvation through the
Incarnation. Their coming means that pagans can
Luke describes a king who will shepherd the people
discover Jesus and worship him as Son of God and
which alludes to a Davidic ruler contrasting to the
Savior of the world only by turning towards the
current king whose roots are in Idumea (which is
Jews and receiving from them the messianic
not mentioned in the ancient text).
promise as contained in the Old Testament. (Boch, p 139)
(CCC 528)

5. Murder of innocents; Egypt was a common place for Jewish refugees because of the large The flight into Egypt and the massacre of the
innocents make manifest the opposition of
Flight to Egypt Jewish population there (1King 11:40; 2Kings 25:26; Josephus, Ant.
darkness to the light: “He came to his
12.9.7) Jesus’ life begins as a refugee, which foreshadows his future own home, and his own people received him not.”
rejection. Christ’s whole life was lived under the sign of
persecution. His own share it
The failure to get the exact location of the child caused Herod to fly in
with him. Jesus’ departure from Egypt recalls the
rage and command that all children two years and younger in exodus and presents him as the definitive liberator
Bethlehem region be slain. Herod’s rage is in contrast to the magi’s of God’s people. (CCC 530)
joy at finding Jesus.

6 Observance of Jewish practices 6 Mary and Joseph are pious Jews

 Circumcision of Jesus Everything they did reflects their piety and
 Purification (33 days after) faithfulness to God in following his law. Jesus’
 Presentation at the temple parents were not renegade Jews.
(Boch, pp 135-136)
 Offering of two turtle doves

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

The finding of Jesus in the temple is the only event
that breaks the silence of the Gospels about the
hidden years of Jesus. Here Jesus lets us catch a
glimpse of the mystery of his total consecration to a
mission that flows from his divine sonship: “Did you
not know that I must be about my Father’s work?”
Mary and Joseph did not understand these words,
but they accepted them in faith. Mary “kept all these
things in her heart” during the years Jesus
remained hidden in the silence of an
ordinary life. (CCC 534)

And Jesus advanced in wisdom and

age and favor before God and man.
(Lk2:52) Jesus’ Hidden Life
During the greater part of his life Jesus shared the
condition of the vast majority of human beings: a
daily life spent without
evident greatness, a life of manual labor. His
religious life was that of a Jew obedient to the law
of God, a life in the community.
From this whole period it is revealed to us that
Jesus was “obedient” to his parents and that he
“increased in wisdom and in
stature, and in favor with God and man.”

The hidden life at Nazareth allows everyone to

enter into fellowship with Jesus by the most
ordinary events of daily life: The home of Nazareth
is the school where we begin to understand the life
of Jesus – the school of the Gospel. (CCC 533)

by ALMEROL, RICHEL MAE O.