"Saint Matthew"
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CALLS MATTHEW: "FOLLOW ME" |
Posted on 06/09/2021 5:57:31 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
CALLS MATTHEW: "FOLLOW ME" |
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MATTHEW
9:9-13As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
MARK
2:13-17Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.
While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
LUKE
5:27-32After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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Matthew was a Tax Collector, a hated and demonized person in ancient society.
2000 years later they still are......................
I, too, am amazed at what the Holy Spirit has accomplished, both through Matthew himself and later through these many fine artists depicting him.
Taxes are needed and inevitable, the natural outworking of the civil authorities established by God, per Romans 13, and specifically approved by Jesus; if you have government of/by/for the people, there is no reason for squawking. Tax collectors are merely the mechanism for collecting them. Of course, where there is no redress, as under the Roman occupation, then hatred and demonization ensue.
I don’t mind paying taxes as long as they are not wasted.......................
A most unusual painting by Caravaggio, whose artistic revolution is evident in this work. The painting is in a beautiful chapel of a church in Rome.
Instead of the conventional presentation, Caravaggio places Jesus at the corner, hidden behind Peter. The light has increased with Jesus presence, before the scene was only lit through a dirty window. The play of light and shadow bring the figures to life, real, natural, a quasi-photographic quality.
Peter and Jesus are wearing tunics and mantles while the people are dressed in contemporary clothing, symbolically depicting the way of the world versus the timelessness of another world. Jesus’ gesture is so direct and compelling that it seems to suspend the action for a moment. The realism of Caravaggio was innovative, he took his models from ordinary people, and painted them not in the idealized style of other artists.
Scholars are still uncertain if Matthew is the young man sitting on the left or the man with the long beard, standing at the center. Caravaggio never answered that question. For me, I think Matthew at the time was younger than the man with the long beard so it must be the one counting the money. There are two other paintings in the chapel, we see the much older Matthew, writing his gospel under the guidance of an angel and then of his martyrdom.
The entire scene has the quality of a theater production,few furnishing, lighting and the performance of the people.
But did Jesus really choose Matthew "out of the blue", without a predicate? That's why I appreciated the approach of "The Chosen", where plenty of groundwork was laid for Jesus' eventual calling, so much so that it came as no surprise, seemingly inevitably.
Wow—what a setting! I’ll have that picture, or else one very like it, on Sunday for “The Four Evangelists.”
As I say, as long as you have the legitimate potential for redress....
Tissot’s rendition looks a lot like how the Chosen portrayed Matthew’s calling. I wonder if they were influenced by him?
Recently, Jeff, I mentioned I have a Favorite Episode (S2E1); you didn't have one. Now, I have an official Favorite Character (well, two): Magdalene and Matthew, two underdogs. My wife's is Simon Peter, which certainly validates the choice of him as the face of the show. Yours?
My favorite character is also Matthew.
I really liked the Cana wedding episode, but I’m not sure I like it more than S1E1 with Mary Magdalene. They both barely edge out the miraculous catch of fish.
In the second season, I liked the calling of Nathanel, the healing at Bethsaida and of the paralytic, but none of them seemed as complete as the other episodes.
So I don’t have a firm favorite. My least favorite was the last one S2E5. It didn’t have a complete story arc like the other episodes. I don’t mind unexplained mysteries, but I want satisfactory closure to each episode. That one didn’t have it.
Some episodes are two-parters, in reality. If we didn’t have to wait several weeks for the sequel, we wouldn’t mind as much.
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