In this series of posts, we’ve been exploring why Matthew sees the slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem as “fulfilling” Jeremiah 31:15, which speaks of Rachel weeping for her lost children at Ramah. In part one of this series, we saw that the connection between Bethlehem and Ramah has to do with Rachel’s death in […]
In yesterday’s post, I began relating how I used Accordance to teach a Sunday School class on why Matthew saw the slaughter of the innocents at Bethlehem as the “fulfillment” of what Jeremiah wrote about Rachel weeping at Ramah. In that post, we saw that Bethlehem and Ramah, at eleven miles apart, are not exactly […]
In Matthew’s account of Jesus’ birth, he points to specific events as the “fulfillment” of several Old Testament “prophecies.” For the past several weeks, I’ve been exposing my Sunday School class to these Old Testament passages in their original context to show how Matthew’s narrative is much more nuanced and profound than most of us […]