Matthew and Mission

1. Joshva Raja

2.  Matthew 10 Vs 2 says Go nowhere among
the Gentiles, and enter no town of the
Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep
of the house of Israel.
 Matt 15 with Canaanite women Vs 15 I was
sent only to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel.
 Matthew deliberately included the conflicting
sayings and upholds a theological correlation
between them

3.  Ch 1 the four non-Israelite Women in the
genealogy
 Visit of Magi (2:1-12)
 Centurion of Capernaum (8:5)
 Canaanite women (15)
 To all nations (24:14)
 Roman Centurion (27:54)

4. Universalism of Matthew
 Gentiles’ Faith in Jesus
 Galilee of Gentiles (4:15)
 Spread throughout all Syria (4:23-25,
9:35-38)
 Light of the world (5:13f)

5. Matthew’s tension
 From Particular to Universalism
 Two missions Jews and Gentiles exists in
tension in Jesus’ acts
 Fulfilment formula
 Great commission is a culmination of his
Gospel
 Traditional and innovative
 Missio ekklessia – Making disciples