Jochebed And Jesus: The Divine Moses

Another parallel that emphasizes the argument that Jesus is the Divine Moses of the New Testament is that of Herod and Pharaoh. Both of these leaders are obsessed with power, so any kind of adversary becomes an instant target. Both try “to slay all the male children…only to have one (Moses, Jesus) escape and become the savior of his people”. In the case of the Pharaoh, he notices that “the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than [the Egyptians]” , so he decides to stop their proliferation by commanding that all the Hebrew boys are to be thrown into the Nile. In comparison, Herod learns that the Messiah has just been born, which meant that another king of the Jews could take the reign from him, so after failing to find Jesus,

More specifically, Jochebed and be compared to Mary, while Miriam to Joseph. Mary and Jochebed are both the mothers of a very special child, who will grow up to be the savior of his people. Specifically in the chapters in question, Jochebed and Mary have to protect Moses and Jesus from tyrant kings. Jochebed cannot bring herself to kill her own baby, so she puts Moses in a papyrus basket and leaves him on the banks of the Nile. Likewise Mary, even though she does not have Divine dreams, she too travels far distances to make sure Herod cannot find the newborn King of the Jews. Another comparison that can be made between these two mothers is that they both are willing to give up their sons. For one thing, Jochebed gives Moses to the Pharaoh’s daughter when she is done nursing him; even though she could easily have fled with the child, she knew it was the right thing to sacrifice her son so he could have a future. In a similar way, Mary with total resignation gives up Jesus on the cross so he could save the world from sin. The analysis can go farther with the comparison of Miriam and Joseph. They too, play a very important roll in the protection of Jesus and Moses. For one thing, Miriam keeps an eye on the basket and ensures her brother’s safety. She then talks to the Pharaoh’s daughter, and leads her to want to keep the Hebrew baby. In comparison, Joseph too protects Jesus only he has a lot of divine assistance. He had three Divine dreams that help him protect Jesus. At first, God tells Joseph to go and hide in Egypt until Herod dies, then God tells him to go back to Israel, and then again to withdraw “to the district of Galilee”. As shown above, both Miriam and Joseph are key characters in the Moses/Jesus analogy. Without Miriam, Moses would have died inside that basket; correspondingly, without Joseph Mary