JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament. NICNT New International Commentary on the New Testament NIGTC International Greek New Testament Commentary NovT Novum Testamentum. Jesus opens his public ministry with the commandment Μετανοεῖτε, ἤγγικεν γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (4:17), but.
Pennington for his sincere assistance with my PhD program and his work on rough drafts of this dissertation. Ciampo for guiding my studies and for his encouragement and to many friends who make my life fruitful. Thanks to my teachers at Hapdong Theological Seminary, where I was encouraged to study theology and New Testament theology.
Special thanks to my father and mother EulPyo Lee and OgBog Jun for their constant love and support. This dissertation is dedicated to my family, SangHee Kim, and Haram Christine Lee, whose support allowed me to finish.
INTRODUCTION
Metanoέω and μετάνοια in the concluding statements are powerful motivations for the rest of Matthew's Gospel. For the last half of the article, Croteau examines the concept of repentance in the fourth gospel (107-23). The life of Jesus as a model or fulfillment of a worthy and fruitful life of the penitent expresses the theme of μετάνοια.
Boda's analysis of the OT prophetic background of μετανοέω and μετάνοια is helpful for understanding repentance in the NT. Chamberlain argues for the importance of repentance in the New Testament and the need to reexamine the biblical meaning of the term. This shows the importance of re-examining repentance in today's church where people become.
Matthew includes repentance, but I go on to say that repentance (µετανοέω and µετάνοια) is a major theme of the Gospel of Matthew. For example, the conversion of the Gentiles in Jonah clearly shares the theme of the conversion of the Gentiles in Matthew's Gospel. Würthwein provides the OT prophetic concept of the theme of conversion as the origin of the NT µετανοέω and µετάνοια.
The next chapter deals with the preaching of John the Baptist µετάνοια in Matthew 3 as an introduction to Matthew's Gospel and his. This reconstitution of God's people displays the theme of µετάνοια in the body of Matthew, echoing the opening command of conversion (µετανοέω) in 3:2 and 4:17. Finally, the appearance of John the Baptist in the body of Matthew (chapters show the continuity of the µετάνοια theme.
The temptation of Jesus is a summary of the temptation in which ancient Israel failed, thus demonstrating the theme of μετάνοια. Edwards, "Uncertain Faith: Matthew's Portrait of the Disciples," in Discipleship in the New Testament, ed. The references to the centurion's great faith (8:5-13), the impenitent generation contrasted with the μετάνοια people of Nineveh and the Queen of the South, the Canaanite woman, and the feeding of the four thousand Gentiles all express the universal μετάνοια (returning) theme of Matthew.
Secondly, the prophetic message of Jesus' suffering, death and resurrection in 16:21-28 is fulfilled in the last part of Matthew's gospel.
The following parable of the wedding feast (22:1-14) illustrates this theme of µετάνοια and its associated judgment. As noted above, the Great Commission has been recognized as a summary of the Gospel of Matthew. I will look at the representative works on the Great Commission-oriented reading through the lens of the theme µετάνοια.
Moreover, Matthew begins the public ministry of Jesus with a µετάνοια call to all all nations at the dawn of the kingdom of heaven (4:17b; also the last words of the book, 28:18-20). Kingsbury, "The place, structure, and meaning of the Sermon on the Mount within Matthew", Interpretation 41, no. The Sermon causes people to turn (µετανοέω) because of the human impossibility of following the Sermon perfectly.
The sermon is a commentary on the opening command to turn (µετανοέω) with a view to the coming kingdom (Matthew 4:17). 49 Notice also that the appearance of the disciples both in the sermon and in the last commandment constitutes another great inclusion. Matthew draws a parallelism between John's µετάνοια message (3:2-12) and the Sermon, indicating µετάνοια as a coherent theme of the two.52.
This µετάνοια content in the Sermon is parallel to the µετάνοια content of the OT and NT. The main theme of justice in the sermon gives the content of the introductory commandment of conversion (µετανοέω) (4:17). This reinterpretation of the law, related to the theme of µετάνοια, is also found in Qumran µετάνοια.
The following verses, 7:13-14, illustrate µετάνοια as entering the narrow gate of life, not the broad way and gate of destruction. The parable of the rock and the sand in 7:23-27 is another illustration of reversal (µετανοέω) and of the corresponding reward and judgment according to one's µετάνοια. The conjunction γὰρ indicates the explanatory relationship between the two ideas in 4:17 and functions so that the latter strengthens the former.81 The sermon demonstrates the essence of µετάνοια and unpacks the proximity of.
Runge, Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. According to Steve Runge, the conjunction γὰρ introduces background information explanation or exposition of the previous assertion, reinforcing it rather than characterizing it provide. information; no development but introductions. In many cases reward and judgment immediately follow a rebuke and claim unit, so we can also easily find γὰρ between the two.
Therefore, it is likely that the summary statement directs the Sermon and shows that μετάνοια is an important driving idea in the Sermon that reveals the content of the opening commandment to return (µετανοέω) (4:17). He gives five ideas of the prophetic and intertestamental concepts of the "day of the Lord," especially related to the final judgment (Isa 13:6, 9; Joel. Allison suggests that this opening and closing couplet of the Sermon encourages people to act on what Jesus teaches in the Sermon.
