59 Areas of Agreement between Paul and Jesus....in the book of Matthew Alone

As I said in a recent post, I showed how there is a remarkable and numerous similarities between what Jesus said about the second coming, and what Paul said about it. I leave that part out, since I have another post on Matthew 24-25 and agreement with Paul.

I am very lazy and did not put citations by this. But what I did was go through the teachings found only in Matthew and wrote where Paul agreed. Most of these are teachings in undisputed Pauline letters:

1. aversion to testing God/Christ 
2. Rejoicing in persecution for Christ
3. The sad will be comforted
4. Against antinomianism 
5. Christ is the goal of the Law
6. A high priority to get rid of anger between brothers
7. Negative view of lust
8. Eternal implications for living a lifestyle of anger or lust
9. "Yes, yes" and "no, no"
10. Same teachings of view 
11. Rather to let the person with the lawsuit win than to sue back
12. Not retaliating
13. Greed is idolatry 
14. Those who judge others are hypocritical 
15. do not worry/ pray with requests/ God will supply the needs of those who serve him
16. Asks for good gifts (Paul interprets this as spiritual gifts)
17. The saved are apparently a minority 
18. Bearing "fruit" to good deeds or to bad deeds
19. Those who don't bear fruit are "destroyed" or "destruction"
20. "Kingdom of God" an eschatological reality, entrance of which contingent upon performing God's will
21. Building a good house on a good foundation 
22. People from the whole word will come to God's kingdom, while many of those originally in the kingdom would be rejected 
23. Jesus is in relative poverty 
24. Christ comes to call and save sinners
25. Christ is the groom
26. Gaining new converts is called getting a "harvest"
27. God's servants are worthy to be paid
28. Paul a witness to Gentile politicians
29. Confessing Jesus needed for salvation
30. God conceals truth from the wise, and reveals it to people of humble knowledge 
31. People of Christ are "brothers"
32. "sowing"/"reaping" and as a result "reaping" a "harvest"
33. Both quote Isaiah about callous heart and not hearing and understanding
34. Money causes people to fall away from Jesus (Timothy)
35. Foods do not defile a person
36. Jews demand miracles 
37. Jesus is the Messiah
38. Jesus comes with the Father and angels 
39. God repays according to deeds
40. Everything is given up for sake of Christ
41. "Take up their cross and follow me" and Paul's being "crucified with Christ"
42. Having a faith that moves mountains 
43. Christ is above human rulers but still pay taxes nonetheless
44. keeping someone from "stumbling" into sin
45. Jesus doesn't want anyone (little ones?) to perish
46. Do not associate with brothers who persist in sin
47. Forgive as God forgave you
48. Idea of no divorce, but singleness to serve the kingdom of God a higher path for those who can bear it
49. Christ's humility and love an example to serve one another
50. Jesus is the cornerstone and stumbling block
51. Pay taxes
52. Resurrection of the dead at end of time
53. Messiah is the Son of David 
54. Messiah is the Lord
55. "Gospel" will be preached throughout the world
56. References to the "Father" the "Son" and the "Holy Spirit"
57. Jesus was crucified 
58. Jesus was betrayed 
59. Jesus rose from the dead and appeared to followers

Again I am very lazy so I have not cited this. But if anyone reads this and wants citations I will provide them the moment they are requested......

But again the issue is raised. It's relatively easy to show that the direction of the "borrowing" of the ideas would be Paul borrowing from actual teachings of Jesus, not people inventing parables that cherry pick and stylistically change Paul. After all, you can't say Paul misrepresents Jesus and at the same time say that those who wrote the Gospels borrowed from Paul. (However, I have no idea of anyone who claims this to begin with.)

So if Paul is making allusions to Jesus teachings in the 50's and 60's A.D., then that means that material in the gospels is much earlier, and likely from eyewitnesses, whom Paul knew. (see my argument for this here).