Mathews Proof Texts In The Birth Narratives

Question 1

What is thought of the birth and infancy narratives?

Answer 1

• even though they tell Jesus’ early life they’re actually late additions to the gospel of Mathew and Luke

Question 2

The earliest gospel (Mark) and Paul’s letters which are even earlier make no reference to what?

Answer 2

The narratives

Question 3

What do scholars therefore suggest as there were no reference to the narratives in Marks gospel and Paul’s letter?

Answer 3

That the narratives were put in by the early Church to provide answers to some of the problems concerning the nature of Jesus