Abstract

A detailed intertextual analysis of the links between Mt 2:13-15 and the
Lucan text of Acts 3 leads to the conclusion that the text of Mt 2:13-15 is
an outcome of a strictly sequential, but on the other hand a highly creative
reworking of the ideas, motifs, and key words which occur in Acts 3.
Therefore, it can be argued that the quotation from LXX Hos 11:1, which
concludes the text of Mt 2:13-15, was used and consciously modified by
Matthew in order to illustrate intertextually the Lucan ideas which are
contained in the concluding part of Acts 3: the fulfilment in Jesus of that
which God foretold by the prophets (Acts 3:18,21), Jesus as the new Prophet
like Moses (Acts 3:22-24), and Jesus being in a particular relationship with
God (Acts 3:25-26).