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Matthew, Gospel of

From The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
The Gospel of Matthew opens the New Testament canon with its story of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, whom the Gospel designates as the Jewish messiah (Greek: Christos ; Matt 1:1). Though early church tradition took this Gospel to be the work of Matthew, the tax collector who became one of Jesus' twelve disciples (Matt 9:9, 10:3; see Eusebius Hist. eccl. 3.39.16), it was originally written anonymously, and questions about authorship remain speculative. The traditional view (held by Augustine and others) that Matthew was written first among canonical Gospels is no longer widely accepted, since most scholars believe Mark's Gospel was written first and used as a source by both Matthew and Luke ( see Mark, Gospel of ). Several themes distinctive to Matthew shed light on its occasion and purpose. In the first place, the writer emphasizes the Jewish nature of Jesus' messiahship. The Gospel's opening genealogy traces Jesus' lineage to the Israelite patriarch Abraham…
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The Matthew mentioned in the book of Matthew was a tax collector. Later, he became one of Jesus’ apostles. Nothing is known about Matthew the apostle’s life, other than that he obeyed Jesus’ call to follow him. Most scholars date the book to around 200 C.E. In the book, Jesus’ life and ministry are…
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Full text Article Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew

From The Christmas Encyclopedia
Also known as the Infancy Gospel of Matthew and the Book about the Origin of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the Childhood of the Savior; a pseudepigraphical account consisting of 42 chapters in the New Testament Apocrypha. Pseudo-Matthew includes a preface that features a series of letters in which…
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Full text Article Gospel of Matthew

From The Christmas Encyclopedia
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Full text Article MATTHEW, evangelist

From Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
We have little information from the NT concerning the evangelist Matthew- Levi, called a “publican”: only his name is found in the catalog of the apostles; we also have the description of his calling under the name of Levi (Mk 2:13-17). * Clement of Alexandria identifies him as Zacchaeus ( Strom. …
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Fol.135v Second Gospel of Matthew, from the Borso d'Este Bible. Vol 2 (vellum)
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Full text Article THE THREE KINGS

From The Handy Answer Book Series: The Handy Christianity Answer Book
THE THREE KINGS
In the Gospel of Matthew, the infant Jesus is visited by travelers from the East called Magi. The word “Magi” means astrologers. Astrologers looked at the position of the stars, the sun, and the moon and made predictions about the future. In Matthew's gospel, the Magi followed a star in the East. …
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Full text Article THE BIRTH OF JESUS

From The Handy Answer Book Series: The Handy Christianity Answer Book
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The birth of Jesus has been depicted in countless paintings. At Christmas, many people create a nativity scene of small statues. The word “nativity” refers to birth. You are a native of the country in which you were born. Only Matthew and Luke describe the birth of Jesus. In both versions, Jesus was…
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Full text Article EARLY GOSPEL STORIES

From The Handy Answer Book Series: The Handy Christianity Answer Book
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The Infancy Narratives are the stories about the birth of Jesus that are found in the first two chapters of the Gospel of Matthew and the first two chapters of Luke. The Gospels of Mark and John start with Jesus as an adult and do not have the narratives. The stories surrounding the birth of Jesus…
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Full text Article Sermon on the Mount

From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin
In the Gospel of Matthew , the first sermon of Jesus . It is a central expression of his teachings regarding the new age he has come to proclaim. Jesus tells his followers that he expects them to be even more generous than the Mosaic law requires: “Be ye perfect,” he says, “even as your Father which…
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Full text Article SYMMACHUS, translator (late 2nd c.)

From Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
The author of a Greek translation of the Hebrew text of the OT, which in Origen's * Hexapla occupies the column after the translation of *Aquila and before that of the Septuagint (LXX) and *Theodotion. * Eusebius of Caesarea, who considered Symmachus an * Ebionite , mentions him as the author of…
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