Christians Can’t Be Anti-Semitic

Christians Can’t be Anti-Semitic

Matthew 2:13-23

1. Introducing Jesus

a. history

b. prophecy

2. Three Episodes

a. flight to Egypt

b. slaughter in Bethlehem

c. settling in Nazareth in 2:19-23

3. The Prophetic History

a. I called my son

b. Rachel weeping

c. a Nazarene

4. Three Observations

a. prominence of Joseph

b. God’s sovereignty

c. fulfilling Jewish expectations

5. The Jewish Jesus

a. God’s sovereign preparation

b. salvation is from the Jews

c. the son of David son of Abraham