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                                                                                                                       Introduction It appears that the primitive preaching focuses on the death and resurrection of Jesus rather than birth and early life of Jesus which may be obvious in Mark and Petrine preaching. However, the infancy narratives could be the result of growing interest of early Christians in the early part of the life of their saviour. This paper is going to discuss the nature, purpose and major motifs of Matthean infancy narratives.   Nature of the Matthean Infancy Narratives 1. Scholars like R.H. Fuller, Brown identified that infancy narratives include pre-Gospel traditions and the Christological reflections of the early church. [1] Matthew used this pre-Matthean tradition along with citation from OT by using his unique citation formula and the implicit motifs of OT stories particularly Exodus event. [2] 2. Matthean infancy narratives are written from the