The Gospel of Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew is the first of the four gospels in the New Testament of the Bible.

Matthew comes from a Jewish point-of-view and presents Jesus as the Messiah who fulfills the promises and prophecies of the Jewish Scriptures.

His style of writing is very much business, being a tax collector, making references and mentions of money and sums of money and generational statistics.

The gospel of Matthew toggles between narration and teaching.

His audience was that of Judaism and Jewish converts to Christianity making its content frequent with Old Testaments scripture references -- particularly those demonstrating Jesus' fulfillment of Messianic prophecies and his human genealogy as the Son of David.

The theological message of the gospel of Matthew is that Jesus is the Son of David, the promised Jewish Messiah who came to bring the Kingdom of God to humanity.

In the gospel according to Matthew, it is very clear that the Old Testament points to the Christ of the New Testament. The whole Law and all the Prophets are fulfilled in Him. Praise God!

A direct comparison of this gospel to the other three can be seen clearly in the book Horizontal Chronology of the Gospels

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