In Whose name? The controversy about healing in Matthew 12,22-32
Keywords:
Gospel of Matthew, Jesus Therapist, Beelzebub, Demonic Possession, Holy Spirit.Abstract
The present article it’s an exegetical analysis of Matthew 12,22-32, whose theme is the controversy about the power of Jesus for healing, in that he would have done healings by the Beelzebub’s power and not from God. The aim of this study is to analyze the controversy between the community of Matthew and their accusers, about the authority of Jesus and the Church for healing and casting out demons from people. In addition, we will investigate the sense that this demonic possession had for the community and how we can interpret them today. To this we will use many exegetical tools, some from Historical-Critical Method, just under a social-political approaching. In the end of this article, we will see that this text had an important role in the communities, for bring them together in the belief that Jesus is Christ of God, whose healings and exorcisms had a therapeutic role, that yet today is important, by the Social-Political context of oppression under which the poor lived in the Roman Empire.
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