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The always thoughtful John G. Butler writes, “The Gospel of Matthew is a vital connector of the Old Testament to the New Testament. In fact, no book in the New Testament makes a better book to start the New Testament and connect it to the Old Testament than Matthew.” The Old Testament saw Christ in the future; the New Testament sees Christ in fulfillment and the fulfillment of Christ starts in...

earthquake” (Matthew 28:2). The damage this would cause is not reported by Matthew, for he had more important news to report than the damage done to the earth by the earthquake. He had the resurrection to report. The resurrection makes any earthquake back-page news in comparison. Our world, or course, puts the resurrection on the back page. • The message in the shaking. “Behold, there was a great earthquake” (Matthew 28:2). Many messages can be in the earthquake. The main one is that it puts perspective on the
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