The Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Matthew is one of the
four canonical gospels in the New Testament and is a
synoptic gospel. It narrates an account of the life and
ministry of Jesus. It describes his genealogy, his
miraculous birth and childhood, his baptism and
temptation, his ministry of healing and preaching, and
finally his crucifixion and resurrection. The
resurrected Jesus commissions his Apostles to "go and
make disciples of all nations." (Matthew 28:19)
The Christian community traditionally ascribes
authorship to Matthew the Evangelist, one of Jesus'
twelve disciples. Augustine of Hippo considered it to be
the first gospel written, and it
appears as the first gospel in most Bibles. Secular
scholarship generally agrees it was written by an
anonymous non-eyewitness to Jesus' ministry. The author
apparently used the Gospel of Mark as one source,
possibly writing in Antioch, c 80-85.
Of the four canonical gospels, Matthew is most closely
aligned with the Jewish tradition, and the author was
apparently Jewish. Most scholars consider the gospel,
like every other book in the New Testament, to have been
written in Koine Greek, though some experts maintain the
traditional view that it was originally composed in
Aramaic. The gospel is associated with non canonical
gospels written for Jewish Christians, such as the
Gospel of the Hebrews.
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