There are four gospels because four men wrote their accounts of the person and ministry of Jesus Christ. All four knew Christ ...

Therefore some scholars have proposed that Matthew presents Jesus as a New Moses giving a New Law. For he ascends a new mountain in the Sermon on the Mount (Ch. 5-7) to deliver the new law ...

Matthew and Luke depend on Mark ... It's now consensus in the New Testament scholarship to some extent [that]... in the gospels we're dealing with theologians, people who are reflecting ...

Matthew wrote for a Jewish community in conflict ... of theological disagreement. And the New Testament tells a story of a broken relationship, and that's part of the sad story that evolves ...

The New Testament is an account of the pact between ... by Christ's own blood (Matthew 26:28; 1 Corinthians 11:25). Besides denoting the Jewish and Christian religions, the terms "Old" and ...