should not pit the accounts against one another as if they tell two completely different stories. These gospels complement each other. They do not contradict each other.3 The emphasis in this early section of the gospel is on Jesus as the promised Davidic king who brings peace and light to those in darkness (1:31–35, 78–79). It also emphasizes how people live with repentance before God, bringing reconciliation of formerly estranged groups, like fathers and children, as well as the disobedient and
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