A remarkable hidden chapter of the Bible was uncovered, shedding new light on ancient scripture after ... Initially, it was a manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew, written in Old Syriac.

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 ...

Such a method was used by ancient civilizations ... It pertains to Chapter 12 of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The Syriac versions of the Old and New Testaments date from the 3rd century ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke ... places the life of Jesus in the context of ancient Jewish worship and emphasizes the length ...

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 ...

For example, Jesus dies on a different day in John's gospel than in Matthew, Mark and ... of people and institutions and traditions of ancient Israel. So Jesus is a new option at the end of ...