A Review of the Rationale for Jesus’ Use of David’s Example in Matthew 12: 3-4 in Contemporary Scholarly Debate

The rationale for Jesus’ use of David’s story in Matt 12:3-4 has attracted varied views biblical scholarship. text records example the first Sabbath conflict Matthew’s Gospel. This article attempted to sample prominent scholarly on 12:3-4. adopted a descriptive and evaluative approach contemporary scholars example, 12:3-4, conflict. aims were describe evaluate why Jesus used Matthew qualitative method research. surveyed literature hermeneutical appraisal It centered arguments rabbinic hermeneutics 12:1-8. Two methodology are identified as: (1) (2) typological hermeneutics. Scholarly mainly Christological authority approaches text. authors concluded that above postulations do not adequately explains David answering Pharisaic query. Hence, critical look at requires review advanced by these approaches. As such, further study explore possible reason would be order. research contributed scholarship controversy Keywords: Methodology, Rabbinic Hermeneutics, Typological Christology.