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The Preexistent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and Luke is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this challenging book, rising New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole contradicts a commonly held view among biblical scholars—that the Gospel of John is the only Gospel to give evidence for Jesus’ heavenly identity and preexistence. The Preexistent Son demonstrates that Matthew, Mark, and Luke were also well aware that the Son of God existed with the Father prior to his earthly ministry....

Even though there is no identification of Jesus with preexistent Wisdom in Matthew 23 at this point, it will nevertheless be argued here that the reference to “how often” in connection with Jesus’ attitude to Jerusalem portrays Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel as a transcendent figure who has been summoning Israel to repentance throughout her history. Although we have disagreed with Burnett’s emphasis on Wisdom christology in the interpretation
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