\n\n\tGenesis 37:2
\n<\/td> | Joseph was A shepherd of his father's sheep, as was Jesus.<\/td> | John 10:11, 27
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tGenesis 37:3
\n<\/td> | Joseph was loved by his father as Jesus was loved by the Father.<\/td> | Matthew 3:17 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tGenesis 37:4
\n<\/td> | Both were rejected by their brothers. <\/td> | John 7:5
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Genesis 37:13, 14<\/td> | Joseph was sent by his father with a message for his brother. Jesus was sent by the Father to his own.<\/td> | Hebrews 2:11 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tGenesis 37:20
\n<\/td> | Both were plotted against...<\/td> | John 11:53
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tGenesis 37:23
\n<\/td> | ... and had their robes taken from them<\/td> | John 19:23
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tGenesis 37:25
\n<\/td> | Both were taken to Egypt<\/td> | Matthew 2:14, 15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Genesis 37:28<\/td> | Both were sold for the price of a slave.<\/td> | Matthew 26:15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Genesis 39:7<\/td> | Both were tempted<\/td> | Matthew 4:1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Genesis 39:16-18<\/td> | Both were falsely accused...<\/td> | Matthew 26:59, 60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Genesis 39:20<\/td> | ...and bound in chains.<\/td> | Matthew 27:2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Genesis 40:2, 3<\/td> | Both were \"punished\" with two others, one of whom was \"saved\" and the other \"lost\".<\/td> | Luke 23:32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Genesis 41:41<\/td> | Both were raised up after their suffering.<\/td> | Philippians 2:9-11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Genesis 41:46<\/td> | Both were about 30 when they started their public ministry.<\/td> | Luke 3:23
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Genesis 45:1-15<\/td> | Both forgave those that wronged them.<\/td> | Luke 23:34
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Genesis 45:7<\/td> | Both were Saviours of their people (and of the whole World)<\/td> | Matthew 1:21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tGenesis 50:20
\n<\/td> | What Joseph recognised in his own story was ultimately more true in Jesus': what men had worked for evil, God turned for good.<\/td> | Corinthians 2:7, 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n
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<\/a>The Sci-fi writer and gnostic theologiser Philip K Dick once helped an African man in a petrol station, I dont know the details of the encounter, but there was something about it that led Philip K Dick to believe it was a re-interpretation of the story of Philip meeting the Ethopian on the road to Gaza, (Acts 8).<\/p>\n