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Gospel of Matthew

Gospel of Matthew

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The Gospel of Matthew is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells how Israel's Messiah, Jesus, comes to his people but is rejected by them and how, after his resurrection, he sends the... Wikipedia
The gospel begins with a narrative prologue (Mt 1:1–2:23), the first part of which is a genealogy of Jesus starting with Abraham, the father of Israel (Mt 1:1– ...
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Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.
These passages show that, although Matthew's Gospel is Jewish, it has a universal outlook. Purpose. Matthew's main purpose is to prove to his Jewish readers ...