My Great Awakening

[Gene C]

I will politely disagree with you John, about Matthew and Luke.
Matthew was a Jew and wrote to a Jewish audience. Luke was a Gentile and wrote to a Gentile audience.
The both wanted to emphasize different, but not mutually exclusive points regarding the birth of Jesus,
that would be important to their readers who had different cultural backgrounds.

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