The Gospel of Matthew is concerned with the position of these early Christian churches within Israel, or in its relationship to what we call Judaism. And these are concerns that belong to the time ...

Readers might be tempted to skip the first 17 verses of Matthew’s Gospel. After all, it’s just a genealogy of who “begat” whom, a list of names we don’t recognize and can’t pronounce. We’re tempted to ...

In Matthew’s Gospel, the disciples of John the Baptist asked Jesus, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do ...

Luke portrays Jesus’ family observantly going to Jerusalem, but in Matthew they avoid the city. This Gospel was apparently written in the mid-80s. The traditional point of origin is Antioch in Syria, ...

Awell-known passage for living in the Kingdom of God is found in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapters 5 through 7.

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The Gospel of Matthew is concerned with the position of these early Christian churches within Israel, or in its relationship to what we call Judaism. And these are concerns that belong to the time ...

This gospel was written by a Jew, Matthew the tax-collector, for a Jewish Christian audience. The narrative closely follows the life of Jesus from his birth, through his ministry and unto his ...