Читальный зал

The Gospel according to Matthew

Jesus of Nazareth

The gospel the early Church placed first and the most quoted in the liturgy. It organises Jesus's teaching into five great discourses, the first being the Sermon on the Mount (chs. 5–7), with the beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer and the golden rule. It presents Jesus as a new Moses and the fulfilment of Israel's Scriptures, with frequent fulfilment quotations, and opens with its own genealogy and infancy narrative (the magi, the flight into Egypt). It ends with the sending of the disciples to all nations.