| Using
Greek for Sunday Text Preparations
Exegetical
Considerations
6th
Sunday after Pentecost/ June 30, 2002
Matthew
10:40-42
1.
What is the literary context of this passage?
a.
How does that literary context impact an understanding of this text?
2.
What sources stand behind this text?
a.
How has Matthew redacted those sources?
3.
What is the significance of the sixfold use of the word
dechomai in vv. 40-41?
4.
How does this text form the flip-side of 10:14-25 in terms of
reception for ministry?
5.
In the claims of v. 40, how does ministry begin with God and end with
God?
a.
How does the use of apostello recall its use in
10:5,16?
6.
What is meant by misthos in 10:41-42?
a.
Of what does it consist?
b.
What is the significance of the tense of lempsetai
in v. 41?
7.
How should the category of prophet be understood in v. 41?
a.
What does it mean to receive a prophet because they are a prophet?
b.
What does it mean to receive a prophet’s reward?
8.
How should the category of dikaios be understood
in v. 41?
a.
What does it mean to receive a righteous person because they are a
righteous person?
b.
What does it mean to receive a righteous person’s reward?
9.
How does v. 42 break the parallelism of v. 41?
a.
What is the significance of such a break in parallelism?
10.
What is the significance of the double negative ou me
in v. 42?
11.
How does v. 42 foreshadow 25:31-46?
12.
What is being said about who does mission and about how mission is
received in this text?
a.
What is the significance of this text as the conclusion of Jesus’
missional discourse?
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