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Create or log in to your Bible Gateway account. With 28 chapters, it is the longest Gospel of the four. The Outline and Structure This Gospel of Matthew is divided into eight sections that describe different parts of Jesus' life. It begins with the Genealogy of Jesus that establishes and proves that He was a descendant of King David.
This fact is important because it is consistent with the Old Testament description of the Messiah. The first section also describes the miracle birth story of Jesus. The second section of the Gospel records the beginning of Jesus' ministry. It also describes in detail the baptism of Jesus and His temptation by Satan in the desert. After 40 days and nights of fasting Jesus resisted all temptation.
The next section beginning in the middle of chapter 4 through the middle of chapter 14 covers accounts of the ministry of Jesus while in Galilee. During this time, He commissions the 12 Apostles, preaches The Beatitudes, performs miracles and teaches many lessons on very important subjects including; adultery, divorce, giving, prayer, judging, worry, treasures in Heaven and warnings to people. Also, in chapter 13, Jesus begins teaching in parables to provide examples to His lessons.
Jesus withdraws from Galilee in section four and performs the miracle of feeding five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fish Matthew He also walks on water Matthew One of the earliest of these was done by the early church father Tatian in the second century AD.
So should we have just one Gospel? If we cut and paste them into the single gospel, we take four Spirit-inspired masterpieces and turn them into one un-inspired human work. Their goals are noble: This is because each Gospel represents a unique portrait of Jesus. Each Gospel writer has a particular story to tell and certain theological themes to emphasize.
Matthew includes the complete Sermon on the Mount in Chapters 5 through 7; and Matthew's description of his becoming an Apostle in Chapter 9: Again, the discourse moves on two levels: Seen from this perspective, Hosea The Little Children It is not known whether Matthew's writings were in Hebrew or Aramaic, for while Hebrew was the formal language of Israel, daily language was in Aramaic, as with Jesus and the Apostles.
In this series of four short articles, we will look at the distinctive themes and theology of each of the four Gospels. Though probably not the first gospel to be written Mark likely has that distinction , the Gospel according to Matthew comes first in our New Testament. This is appropriate since Matthew is the most Jewish of the Gospels and also the one most closely linked to the Old Testament and to the prophecies concerning the coming of the Messiah.
While Western cultures tend to have little interest in genealogies, viewing them as tedious curiosities, Matthew and his readers would have considered this announcement to be the most exciting news of all time. God called Abraham to leave his homeland in Ur of Mesopotamia and to go to a place he would show him. God made a covenant with Abraham, promising to create from him a great nation Israel , to give him the Promised Land Canaan and through his descendant to bless all nations of the earth Gen Twelve hundred years after Abraham, when Israel was established in the Land, God made a covenant with King David, promising him that his dynasty would be established forever and that one of his descendants would reign on his throne forever 2 Sam 7: For example, when King Herod asks the chief priests and teachers of the law where the Messiah was to be born, they quote Micah 5: For example, in its original context, Hosea The full sentence in Hosea Does he distort the meaning of the text to fit his agenda?