(March 16, 2022 at 11:30 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(March 16, 2022 at 10:15 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I've always heard that Luke was the "Roman" gospel and Matthew was the more Jewish document (ie. more siding with the Jews and condemning the Romans than trying to blame the scribes and Pharisees for Jesus' death).
… And looking a bit further into it, I think we might actually both be off base. Apparently, it was more the Gospel of Mark which was written for the Romans. And given how two of the other three Gospels were obviously based on that one, it creates some obvious issues. That said, the part about the census was from Luke (whose intended audience was apparently the Greeks). This is probably what happens when you type the post on the toilet.
Matthew's Gospel was Jewish, yet, it blamed the Jews for Jesus' death ("his blood be on us and our children"), laying the foundation for the "crime" of deicide.
