So, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that the "I Am" statements of Jesus in the New Testament book of John actually have a ...

Throughout John’s Gospel, numerous allusions to the Exodus reinforce Jesus’ role in a new and greater deliverance. For ...

JESUS AS MOSES The way Matthew then tells the story of Jesus draws on a lot of symbols from Jewish tradition that really convey a picture of Jesus. Jesus goes up on to a mountain to teach and ...

In the first of these, the “Sermon on Mount” (which in Luke 6:17ff occurs on a level place), Jesus, like a new Moses, presents his definitive teaching about the Torah. The sermon contains six ...

Question: If God gave Moses 10 commandments, why did Jesus say there were only two? Answer: You ask a very good question, which shows that you’ve been reading your Bible. Kudos to you! In the Gospel ...

Written by St. Paul, the verse referenced a miraculous incident that occurred when Moses led the people of Israel through the desert after they fled their Egyptian oppressors: “They [Israelites ...

Jesus and the disciples are on their way to “a quiet place” to get some rest, but they were followed on foot by a large crowd. We see Jesus’ compassion for people. He is hungry and tired ...

But even through the evangelist includes miracle stories, his main concern is to present Jesus as a teacher even greater than Moses. Accordingly, Matthew uses his sources to create a somewhat ...