Matthew wants this to be understood as a legitimate new interpretation of the law of Moses. Matthew's gospel is clearly written for a Jewish Christian audience living within the immediate ...

It is found in the Gospel According to Matthew, the 25th chapter beginning in verse 31. Over the years, editors of various translations have given this pericope different titles. Some have called it ...

The New Testament was written in Greek, with the exception of St. Matthew's Gospel which - according to the unanimous testimony of Christian antiquity - was written in Hebrew or Aramaic.

The Holy Bible's New Testament, from the Book of Matthew to the Book of Luke ... a doctrine known as "the prosperity gospel" claims that the ultra-rich became rich because of their morality ...

Not so, for Matthew, Mark, and Luke ... sayings of Jesus than do the first three gospels of the New Testament. Jesus in the Gospel of John is difficult to reconstruct as an historical person ...

The famous statement in Matthew 5:17 ("Do not think that I have ... von Walde, "The Johannine Jews: A Critical Survey," New Testament Studies 28 (1982) 33-60. 8. Cf. R. T. Fortna, The Gospel of Signs: ...

5-7) to deliver the new law, just as Moses had ascended Mt. Sinai in the book of Exodus. Many scholars accept the Two-Source Theory, that Matthew and Luke used the gospel of Mark and a ...