Matthew. Now it is not that either Matthew or Luke has made mistakes in his presentation. It is that sometimes a re-ordering or a rewriting will make the significance of a story clearer than a merely chronological account does. In a similar way the Old Testament narratives which were among the evangelists’ models—books such as Genesis and Exodus, Kings and Chronicles—were concerned with real historical events, but they, too, select, order, and rewrite their material so as to make the message of history