Both Herod and Jesus:
- are confronted with a crowd of people
- have requests lodged at them
- make a promise to the people
- order something to be "brought" "here" in their response to the request
- hear about each other.
The great difference, of course, is that Herod was self-serving (didn't want to disappoint his guests, so he murdered), Jesus was other-serving. Herod was inspired by the allure of a dancing female; Jesus was inspired by the desperate need of the people. Herod brought death; Jesus brought life.
4 comments:
That's very interesting, Dane. I don't know how much you're aware of the new scholarship on Hebrew literature, but it is often opined that Hebrew narrators will put two scenes side-by-side that don't seem to have much to do with each other, and nudge the reader to start drawing implicit contrasts between the two. Matthew was such a good reader of the OT, maybe he picked it up unconsciously from them!
Fascinating! Did not know that.
That is interesting! I'll have to go look again with fresh eyes at both passages. Thanks for sharing! Love to you and your sweet ones.
Huge to the Hausams! I like the new blog look.
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