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One of the earliest Christian confessions—that Jesus is Messiah and Lord—has long been recognized throughout the New Testament. Joshua Jipp shows that the New Testament is in fact centered around this foundational messianic claim, and each of its primary compositions is a unique creative expansion of this common thread. Having made this argument about the Pauline epistles in his previous book...

saving his people from their sins as his primary mission (1:21). Jesus’s identity and mission are inextricably linked. Patrick Schreiner gets to the point: “Monarchy is the chief metaphor Matthew employs to illuminate Jesus.”3 In what follows, I argue that Matthew presents Jesus as God’s royal Son who enacts God’s rule and saves his people by means of: (1) delivering his people from their sins; (2) authoritatively teaching, interpreting, and obeying God’s Torah; (3) enacting merciful and compassionate
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