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The Matthean Apocalypse

Heythrop College, University of London

Most students of the gospels believe that Matthew and Luke are separated from their Marcan source by the catastrophic events of the Jewish War. This makes the difference between the Matthean and Lucan editing of the Marcan Apocalypse rather puzzling. Luke takes considerable liberty in updating Mark, but Matthew is so faithful to his source that the modern reader may assume that he is mainly repeating Mark in this section of his gospel. But though Matthew respects the Marcan wording more than Luke, he eliminates the breaks in Mark's discourse, so that sections originally concerned with the present or future, or even with God's final intervention, are reinterpreted in the light of history. The fulfilment of Jesus' prophecies warns Matthew's readers of a coming judgement like the one which overtook Jerusalem and prepares them for the universal mission mandate with which the gospel closes.

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