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Taking into account both Luke’s Gospel and Acts, Marshall makes three suggestions. First, that Luke’s faith rested on the events associated with the work of Jesus and the apostles, hence the historical accounts found in his writings. Second, that the key concept in Luke’s theology is “salvation,” understood as both a present possession and a foretaste of future blessings. Third, that Luke was an...

concerned with the person of Jesus; to know who Jesus is constitutes his Gospel. The various motifs that come to expression in the Gospel of Matthew are not easy to sum up.1 Two main themes predominate. The one is that Jesus is the promised Messiah of the Old Testament and Judaism. It seems certain that one major purpose of Matthew was to demonstrate to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah and that consequently the church was the true people of God. Matthew therefore repeats much of the content
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