Matthew For Everyone Part 2 (Chapters 16-28)
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In this volume, Wright explains how the many parables Jesus tells are best understood in terms of their contemporary Jewish imagery, primarily surrounding God\'s relationship with his chosen people and the Temple. Wright characterizes Matthew\'s gospel as a guide to climbing the Eiger, the \mile-high rock, looking squarely at the death of Jesus in all its stark horror, and letting its beauty and terror captivate\ us for ever (p.147). On such a high mountain, we can react to our realization of sinfulness in one of two ways. Just as a drop of rain falling on a mountain in Palestine can either run down into the Dead Sea or to the Jordan, we can react with a holy sorrow like Peter did, which leads to repentance, or a bitter remorse like Judas did, which leads to despair and destruction.
Wright makes a number of interesting observations about these chapters of Matthew:
1. Throughout the story of Jesus\' arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection, it is the women who speak or act truly: Pilate\'s wife, the unnamed woman who anointed Jesus, the servant-girls who challenge Peter\'s concealment, the women at the cross and beside the tomb. (P. 179)
2. Elements of the Sermon on the Mount are replicated in the story of Gethsemane, the arrest, trial, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
3. The \angels\ of the little children, according to Jesus, do not have to hide their eyes like the six-winged cherubim guarding God\'s throne, instead their faces behold God\'s glory directly - Wright explains that this indicates how important the little children are to God.
Wright makes a number of interesting observations about these chapters of Matthew:
1. Throughout the story of Jesus\' arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection, it is the women who speak or act truly: Pilate\'s wife, the unnamed woman who anointed Jesus, the servant-girls who challenge Peter\'s concealment, the women at the cross and beside the tomb. (P. 179)
2. Elements of the Sermon on the Mount are replicated in the story of Gethsemane, the arrest, trial, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
3. The \angels\ of the little children, according to Jesus, do not have to hide their eyes like the six-winged cherubim guarding God\'s throne, instead their faces behold God\'s glory directly - Wright explains that this indicates how important the little children are to God.
