Category: Zechariah
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Fire in Matthew 7:19, Part 3
Just so that we have this text in front of us, here is Psalm 6. Like in the previous post, I have the NRSV and LXX text lined up next to each other, with the LXX in italics. Psalm 6 [1] O Lord Do not rebuke me in your anger, Lord, do no reproach me…
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Fire in Matthew 7:19, Part 2
In the previous post, we left off considering Matthew and Luke’s citations from Psalm 6, which I will lay out in a bit of detail below: Matthew 7:23 …separate from me workers of lawlessness. …apoxōreite ap’ emou hoi ergazomenoi tēn anomian …ἀποχωρεῖτε ἀπ᾽ἐμοῦ οί ἐργαζόμενοι τὴν ἀνομίαν Luke 13:27 …Stand apart from me all workers…
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Fire in Matthew 7:19, Part 1
Matthew 7:19 is the next stop on our tour through the use of the word πῦρ pyr fire, and this use also occurs in the Sermon of the Mount, in its closing section. As well shall see, the context surrounding the actual verse itself is quite interesting and should heavily shape our interpretation. Let us…
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Fire in Matthew 5:22
Matthew 5:21-24 appears in the Sermon on the Mount and reads: [21] You have heard that it was written of old: Do not murder. But whoever would murder shall be liable to judgment. [22] But I say to you that everyone who has anger against his brother shall be liable to judgment. And anyone who…
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Fire in Matthew 3:10-12
Matthew 3 begins with a description of John the Baptist, who is baptizing people in the Jordan river. The relevant passage for us begins: [7] But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees were coming upon his baptism, he said to them: “Brood of vipers, who showed to you to flee from the coming wrath?…
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered
Nestled in between the references to this lordly price of thirty pieces of silver (which, as we shall recall is the fine established in Exodus to be paid for an injured slave), we find a reference to Zechariah 13:7, which occurs after Jesus and his disciples are celebrating Passover and have gone to the Mount…
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Judas 30 Pieces of Silver
In Matthew, Judas goes to the high priests and establishes a reward of thirty pieces of silver for handing Jesus over to them. The precipitating event for this seems to be an unnamed woman anointing Jesus with expensive perfumes in Matthew 26:1-13. Matthew 26:14-16 then reads: [14] Then one of the twelve went, who was…
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Matthew & Zechariah 9:9
According to this handy list, citations of Zechariah are featured the most prominently in Matthew, and so we will focus our attention there. The first citation occurs in Matthew 21:5, but let’s read the citation in its context in Matt 21:1-7 (citation will be in italics): [1] And when they drew near unto Jerusalem and…
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The Two Destructions of the Temple
Prior to turning our attention to the text of the New Testament itself, there is some important context which needs to be discussed, which will make our later discussion more intelligible. One thing that is important to know is that there is a common dating convention among historians and Biblical scholars, in which the First…
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What is going on with the bad shepherd metaphor?
Having now reviewed the whole of Second Zechariah, I find myself asking the question, what the heck did that daggone shepherd imagery actually mean? This is the imagery that initially dragged me into this larger examination, since particularly Matthew seems to have found it quite compelling as a way of interpreting the events surrounding Jesus’…
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