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Raw Concept Context Data

Tool: concept_context.py

Query: concept_context.py "MAT 5:17"

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  CONCEPT CONTEXT: Matthew 5:17
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  "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
   I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

  Book: Matthew | Chapter: 5 | Author: Matthew

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  CONCEPTS IN THIS VERSE:
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    LAW: Torah, commandments, statutes, ordinances
      Strong's: G3551 (law)
    PROPHET: Nabi/prophetes - spokesman, prophet
      Strong's: G4396 (prophets)
    FULFILLMENT: Pleroo/male - fill, fulfill, complete
      Strong's: G4137 (to fulfil)

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  SAME CHAPTER (Matthew 5) (3 verses)
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  1. Matthew 5:12 [PROPHET]
     "Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven:
      for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."

  2. Matthew 5:18 [LAW]
     "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one
      tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

  3. Matthew 5:19 [LAW]
     "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,
      and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom
      of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall
      be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

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  SAME BOOK (Matthew) (50 verses -- top 10 shown)
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  1. Matthew 1:22 [FULFILLMENT, PROPHET]
     "Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
      of the Lord by the prophet, saying,"

  2. Matthew 11:13 [LAW, PROPHET]
     "For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John."

  3. Matthew 12:17 [FULFILLMENT, PROPHET]
     "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,"

  4. Matthew 13:14 [FULFILLMENT, PROPHET]
     "And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias..."

  5. Matthew 13:35 [FULFILLMENT, PROPHET]
     "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet..."

  6. Matthew 2:15 [FULFILLMENT, PROPHET]
     "...that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet..."

  7. Matthew 2:17 [FULFILLMENT, PROPHET]
     "Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet..."

  8. Matthew 2:23 [FULFILLMENT, PROPHET]
     "...that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets..."

  9. Matthew 21:4 [FULFILLMENT, PROPHET]
     "All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet..."

  10. Matthew 22:40 [LAW, PROPHET]
     "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

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  OTHER BOOKS (top 10 of 4529 verses)
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  1. 1 Kings 3:28 [FULFILLMENT, LAW, PROPHET]
  2. 2 Chronicles 19:6 [FULFILLMENT, LAW, PROPHET]
  3. Deuteronomy 33:21 [FULFILLMENT, LAW, PROPHET]
  4. Deuteronomy 4:5 [FULFILLMENT, LAW, PROPHET]
  5. Jeremiah 5:1 [FULFILLMENT, LAW, PROPHET]
  6. Luke 24:44 [FULFILLMENT, LAW, PROPHET]
     "...that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law
      of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me."
  7. Micah 7:9 [FULFILLMENT, LAW, PROPHET]
  8. Nehemiah 9:26 [FULFILLMENT, LAW, PROPHET]
     "...they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law
      behind their backs, and slew thy prophets..."
  9. Numbers 15:39 [FULFILLMENT, LAW, PROPHET]
     "...remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them..."
  10. Zechariah 1:6 [FULFILLMENT, LAW, PROPHET]
     "But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets..."

Key Findings from Concept Context

  1. The three concepts in Mat 5:17 are LAW, PROPHET, and FULFILLMENT
  2. Within the same chapter, vv. 18-19 share the LAW concept, reinforcing the immediate context
  3. Within Matthew's Gospel, the FULFILLMENT + PROPHET combination appears 10+ times in the fulfillment formula
  4. Luke 24:44 is the strongest cross-book parallel: "all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets"
  5. Nehemiah 9:26 provides an OT parallel concept of rejecting God's law and prophets