Similarities Birth Narrative
Differences
Birth Narrative
Luke's Genealogy and Incarnation
Matthew's Genealogy
John 9
100

Jesus is born in this city

Bethlehem

100

Group of people who visit Jesus in Matthew

Magi

100

Luke wants us to know that Jesus is ultimately whose son

God's

100

Matthew begins with Abraham because Jesus is the fulfillment of this thing

Covenant

100

What is the basic story of John 9

Jesus cures a blind man

200

Jesus grows up in this city

Nazareth

200

For Matthew Jesus is compared to this person who received the Torah

Moses

200

Who is the last person mentioned in Jesus's genealogy in Luke?

God

200

Matthew includes woman because they were all _____________________ to the covenant

Faithful

200
The washing and cleansing of the man's eyes is a reference to which saving sacrament

Baptism

300

The prophets say the Messiah is descended from this king

David

300

Because Matthew focuses on the idea of covenant and Abraham, Matthew's community is described as this.

Jewish

300

Greek word translated as consubstantial: Jesus and the Father are the "same substance"

Homoousios

300

The number 14 in Matthew represents this ancestor of Jesus

David

300

Why are the man's parent's afraid to defend in son before the Jewish authorities

Because they will be thrown out of the synagogue

400

The angel by this name appears to Mary to tell her that she will give birth to the Messiah

Gabriel

400

These are the first people to tell people about Jesus according to Luke.

Shepherds and Anna

400

Word used to identify God becoming human

Incarnation

400

This woman in Matthew's genealogy was the great-grandmother of King David

Ruth

400

The blind man goes from understanding of Jesus as a man to what?

Lord or God

500

Means "Yahweh Saves"

Jesus

500

Luke has Jesus's message meant for social group.

People on the margins

500

Words used to identify Jesus as fully divine and fully human

Hypostatic Union

500

Practice of attaching a numerical value to the letters within an alphabet

Gematria

500

By the end of the story, Jesus says that those who can see are actually _________________

Blind

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