06/07/2026
Matthew 2:14-15 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
Matthew is the very first book of the New Testament, which obviously follows the Old Testament, and Matthew meticulously makes theological claims about the personhood and divinity of Jesus in the very beginning. Matthew's predominately Jewish audience would have known the story of Moses, the one who brought the Hebrews out of captivity and into the Promised Land, and one claim that Matthew makes early on is that Jesus is a greater Moses.
This would have been a huge claim for the Jewish audience!
Moses was the hero of the Old Testament, the writer of the Torah, the archetype of faith and boldness, and most of their understanding of salvation was because of how God moved during that day (from the Plagues, to Passover, to the signs and wonders, and even their entry into Canaan).
Moses was an incredible man of God, but there would be one who would be better. This motif is carried up in the book of Hebrews if you're wanting to read more, but it's first introduced in Matthew and even in Matthew's structure of Five Narratives that mirror the Five Books of the Law.
All that to say, Jesus is better.
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