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 ...

The Gospel According to St ... the master-pieces of its genre. Matthew is told with starling simplicity. Character is left as inscrutable as it is in the Bible's objective narrative: we learn ...

The only reference to these men in the Bible is in Chapter 2 of the Gospel of Matthew, and they’re not called “wise men,” or “kings.” There’s also no mention of how many men were there.

A historian studying a text in the Vatican has discovered a hidden fragment of the Gospel of Matthew, written in Old Syriac, that differs from what is seen today in the Bible. The alternate ...

The gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of the word. Rather, they are stories told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience. They're trying to ...

The Gospel of ... on the study of the Bible is out of proportion to the lasting contributions it has made to the science of exegesis. It is no accident that the Gospel of Matthew stands at the ...