MATTHEW'S Jewish readership

1:1	‘Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham’ ‘Christ’ from Gk: Christos from Heb: Mesheyach (Messiah)
2:2	“...born King  of the Jews”
2:5-6	‘thou Bethlehem...least among princes of Judah...out of thee a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel’ Micah 5:2
2:14-15	‘Out of Egypt have I called my Son’  Hosea 11:1
3:18	‘Rachel weeping for her children..’  Jer 31:15
5:17	“I am not come to destroy , but to fulfil [the law and the prophets]”
5:35	‘...Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King’
8:17	The Man of Isaiah 53
9:33	“It was never so seen in Israel”
10:6	“Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel”
11:2	‘...the works of Christ...’ – the Messiah
15:24	“I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel”
21:5	“Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee...”
24:15	“...the abomination of desolation...stand in the holy place...’
24:16	“Then let them which be in Judaea flee...”
24:23	“...Lo, here is Christ, or there...” – the Messiah
27:11	“Art thou the King of the Jews” “ Thou sayest”
27:29	“Hail, King of the Jews!”
28:16-20	Jesus remains rejected in Galilee – not heaven.