How is Jesus the new Moses?

Answer 1

Another answer from our community:

Not quite.

Moses promised the coming advent of Jesus when he said in Deuteronomy 18.15. "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;"

Answer 2

Opinion: The Gospel of Matthew was writing for a Jewish audience and is demonstrating for them that Jesus indeed had a legitimate claim to be the Messiah as prophesied through Moses many years earlier.

Answer 3

Matthew's Gospel draws parallels between Jesus and Moses, especially in the nativity account.

Matthew had Herod slaughter the innocent infants of Bethlehem because he feared Jesus, just as the Old Testament says that the pharaoh slaughered the Israelite infants because he feared Moses. Joseph went with Jesus to Egypt and Jesus saved his people, just as the Old Testament Joseph went to Egypt and saved his people. Matthew even says that Joseph's father was Jacob (Heli in Luke's Gospel) just as the Old Testament Joseph's father was Jacob.

Answer 4

He is not.

Additonal Comment:

There is pictorial symbolism here between the two. Moses led physical Israel out of Egypt which represented sin towards the land of milk and honey. Jesus, who is far greater, leads spiritual Israel (Father's Church) out of sin and into eternal salvation as part of the God Family.

Answer 5

Moses is no body a simple man as it can be but HE was chosen by GOD since birth. b'coz He was Love by the Creator of all things Moses became a Prince with a crying eyes like a new born baby and a Monstrous talents like David the King, Solomon the wisest King second to me.

Answer 6

A:

The author of Matthew's Gospel developed the parallel between Moses and Jesus, most particularly in his nativity account. First, he said that Joseph's father was called Jacob, just as in the Old Testament (the author of Luke's Gospel chose the name Heli). He had the wicked king, Herod, seek to slaughter all the infant boys under two, just as the wicked Egyptian king had sought to kill the infant boys under two in the story of Moses.

Even earlier, Mark's Gospel had drawn a close parallel between jesus and Moses, when Jesus spent forty days in the wilderness. . Different scholars look for different reasons for the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness, but many note in the story that he was ministered by angels, which is an allusion to Elijah (1 Kings 19:5-7) who was ministered by an angel and in the wilderness forty days. There is no actual suggestion in Mark that Jesus fasted for the entire forty days, but those familiar with the story of Elijah are likely to have assumed he did do so, and this is made explicit in Matthew and Luke. This brings into play the allusion to Moses when (Exodus 34:28) he fasted for 40 days while he wrote the words of the Ten Commandments on tablets. Thus, Jesus is revealed as the new Moses.

Answer 7

The best place to start is with Mark's Gospel, which has hidden messages to compare Jesus to both Elijah and Moses, in the stories of the forty days in the wilderness and the Transfiguration of Jesus, and these appear some years later in Matthew and Luke. Elijah had already been portrayed in the Old Testament very much as the second Moses. So, by bringing these two together in the New Testament stories, there is a strong sense that Jesus was the new Moses.

Mark 1:13 tells of Jesus going into the wilderness for forty days, ministered by angels just as Elijah was ministered by an angel and in the wilderness forty days (1 Kings 19:5-7). The author has established an immediate comparison between Jesus and Elijah. There is no actual suggestion in Mark that Jesus fasted in the wilderness, but those familiar with the story of Elijah are likely to have assumed he did do so. This brings into play the other allusion, to Moses when (Exodus 34:28) he fasted for 40 days while he wrote the words of the Ten Commandments on tablets. In the story of the Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah are seen talking to Jesus. A parallel structure in Mark's Gospel provides mutual emphasis and reinforcement between the early allusions to the Old Testament prophets and their appearance at the Transfiguration, shown in the following pair D and D':A . John explains the coming of Jesus (Mark 1:1-8)

B .The baptism of Jesus (1:9)

C . The voice of God from heaven, "Thou art my beloved son" (1:11)

D . The forty days in the wilderness as an allusion to Elijah and Moses (1:13)

E . The people were astonished at what Jesus taught (1:22)

F . Jesus casts out an unclean spirit (1:23-26)

G . Pharisees took counsel with the Herodians how they might destroy Jesus (3:6)

H . Demons, whenever they see Jesus, fall down and say that he is the Son of God.

-- Jesus commands that they tell no one of this (3:11-12)

I .. Jesus calls the 12 disciples (3:13-19)

J .. Jesus rejects his own family: he has a new family, his followers (3:31-35)

K . Jesus rebukes the wind (4:36-41)

L . The demoniac, wearing no clothes (5:15), cries out that Jesus not torment him and Jesus sends out the demons (5:1-20)

M . Jesus comes into his own country (6:1)
-- Where he was brought up

N . The people misunderstand Jesus and he can do no mighty work (6:2-6)

O . Jesus sends out the disciples and curses those who will not receive them (6:7-11)
-- in sending the disciples with authority and expecting all to receive them, Jesus is asserting his own authority

P . Herod thinks that Jesus is John the Baptist risen from the dead (6:14)

Q . Herodias and her daughter conspire to kill John the Baptist (6:16-29)

R . Feeding the thousands, and related miracles and discourses (6:33-8:21)

S . Who do people say that I am (8:27)

T . Peter affirms faith in Jesus as the Christ (8:29)

U . Whosoever shall be ashamed of me: of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed (8:38)

V . The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and scribes (8:31a)

W . Be killed and after three days rise again (8:31b)

X . Prophecy of second coming (9:1)- Jesus tells the disciples that some of them would not taste death until they saw the kingdom of God coming with power.

B' .The Transfiguration of Jesus (9:2-3)

C' .The voice of God from heaven, "This is my beloved son" (9:7)

D' . Jesus talks to Elijah and Moses then to the disciples about Elijah (9:4-13)

E' .A great multitude was amazed at Jesus (9:15)

F' .Jesus cast out a dumb spirit (9:17-27)

G' .They shall kill the Son of man and he shall rise on the third day (9:31)

H' .Jesus clarifies his divine status, saying that he is not God: "Why call me good? There is none good but God" (10:18)

I' . Peter says the disciples have left all and followed Jesus (10:28)

J' . Those who have left their family for Jesus have a new family: all Jesus' followers (10:29-30)

K'. Jesus rebukes the 'sons of thunder', James and John (10:35-45 - cf 3:17)

L' .Blind Bartimaeus cries out for mercy and casts off his clothes, then Jesus heals him (10:46-52)

M' .Jesus comes into Jerusalem (11:1-10)
-- Where he will die

N' .Jesus misunderstands the fig tree that can provide no fruit (11:13-14)

O' .Jesus casts out them that sold and bought in the Temple and curses them for making the Temple a den of thieves (11:15-17)
-- Jesus is asserting his authority

P' .Jesus asks whether the baptism of John is from heaven or of men, and the priests, scribes and elders can not answer (11:30-33)

Q' .Parable of husbandmen who conspire to kill the vineyard owner's son (12:1-9)

X' .Prophecy of second coming (chapter 13)

-- on clouds of glory, within the lifetimes of some of those to whom he was speaking

R' .The Last Supper (14:17-25)

S' .Art thou the Christ, Son of God (14:61)

T' .Peter denies Jesus three times (14:66-72a)

U' .And when he thought thereon, Peter wept (14:72b)

V' .The chief priests, elders and scribes delivered Jesus to Pontius Pilate (15:1)

-- Delivering Jesus is a similar concept to rejecting him.
-- Both parts of the pair involve chief priests, elders and scribes

W' .Jesus dies and on the third day rises again (15:37, 16:6)

A' .The young man explains the departure of Jesus(16:6-8)

The portrayal of Jesus as the second Moses is most evident in Matthew's Gospel. Even in the nativity story, the author of Matthew sought to draw parallels between Moses and Jesus. King Herod sought to kill all the boys under two years old, just as the Old Testament pharaoh sought to kill all the boys under two years old. Like Moses, Jesus was saved from being killed. The flight to Egypt and the magi contribute to this Moses parallelism, as Jewish legends of Jesus' time told of the pharaoh received information from wise men. In Matthew, Joseph's father is called Jacob (compare Luke, where Joseph's father is called Heli), just as Joseph's father is called Jacob in the Old Testament.

Answer 8

Matthew's Gospel portrayed Jesus as a second Moses. Among other things, this is reflected in Matthew's account of the birth of Jesus, including the decision of the ruler {pharaoh, Herod} to slaughter the infants under two years old, out of fear of {Moses, Jesus}.

The author of Matthew's Gospel did this because in Deuteronomy 18:15-18, God is quoted as saying, "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee [Moses] ..." and Matthew wanted to prove that this was a prophecy of Jesus.

Answer 9

No. Nowhere in the gospel of Matthew is this written.