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Matt 5:17-48 Structure

Matt 5:17-48 Structure. 5:17-20 General Declaration Jesus Fulfills the Law (17-18) Exceeding Righteousness Required (19-20). 5:21 Particular(s) Specific contrasts between the traditional injunctions and the “exceeding righteousness” demanded by Jesus

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Matt 5:17-48 Structure

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  1. Matt 5:17-48 Structure 5:17-20 General Declaration • Jesus Fulfills the Law (17-18) • Exceeding Righteousness Required (19-20) 5:21 Particular(s) Specific contrasts between the traditional injunctions and the “exceeding righteousness” demanded by Jesus 1. Murder (5:21-26) 2. Adultery (5:27-30) 3. Divorce (5:31-32) 4. Oaths (5:33-37) 5. Lex Talionis (5:38-42) 5:48 6. Love (5:43-48)

  2. Particularization 5:17-20 - General Declarations • Christological – Jesus fulfills law • Ethical - Exceeding righteousness required • Material - Law and prophets 5:21-48 - Particulars Specific process of Jesus’ fulfilling the law by explicating the character and necessity of the exceeding righteousness with six examples - and in the process he supports the general christological and ethical claims of 5:17-20.

  3. Questions 1. What is the meaning of the general claims re. the law in 5:17-20, and how does 5:17-20 provide specific content and clarification to each? How does 5:21-48 provide support for these claims made in 5:17-20? 2. Why did the Jesus make these claims re. the law in 5:17-20, and why did he spell them out and support them by this discussion about these six specific examples? • Implications? Strategic Passage: 5:17-20

  4. Recurrence of Contrast Traditional Law vs. Demands of Jesus “You have heard...” “But I say or “it was said” to you” 1. Murder (5:21) 2. Adultery (5:27) 3. Divorce (5:31) 4. Oaths (5:33) 5. Lex Talionis (5:38) 6. Love (5:43)

  5. Questions 1. What are the specific differences between the traditional injunctions and Jesus’ demands, and what is the meaning of each of these differences? How are these antitheses related to each other, and how do they illumine each other? 2. Why did the Matthean Jesus thus set his demands over against these traditional injunctions? • Implications? Strategic Passage: 5:43-48

  6. Climax 5:43-48: Explicit demand for all-inclusive love, esp. a God-like perfection, the ultimate ethical submission to character of God. • 5:21-42: • - Various behavioral demands stemming from motive of relational redemptive-ness (and submission to sovereign Lordship of God [esp. 33-37])

  7. Questions 1. How does 5:43-48 climax 5:21-42, and how does this climactic development illumine both the discussion of love (43-48) and the preceding antitheses? 2. Why did the Jesus move this discussion of the commands toward this culmination in the love command, with its demand for God-like perfection? • Implications? Strategic Passage: 5:43-48

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