The evangelist who composed the gospel of Matthew was probably a Jewish Christian, possibly a scribe. The historical evidence suggests that he wrote between 80 and 90 CE and addressed his work to a ...

In my NT class this week we discussed the Gospel of Matthew, the ecclesial Gospel, which alone amongst the four Gospels actually uses the word “ekklesia,” or Church. We had some interesting ...

When I went to graduate school, we were taught that Mark is the oldest Gospel while Matthew and Luke copied Mark, and that Mark came from a theoretical source named Q (after German word “quelle” ...

The author of the first Gospel in the New Testament is a brilliant author. He has both a clear theology of Jesus’ nature and function and a clear method for telling the gospel story. He is a brilliant ...

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 ...

The Gospel of Matthew was the most popular Gospel in the early Christian centuries. Written for a Christian community as it begins to separate from the Jewish world, Matthew's Gospel goes to great ...

An eye-witness received special grace and guidance from the Holy Spirit to give a faithful account of information received from other sources. The Gospel of Matthew is a treasure house stored with a ...