King James Bible ยท 1611
Read The Gospel According to Matthew with context
You can read the Gospel and save notes and quotes from it. Matthew presents Jesus inside Israel's scriptures and Roman-occupied Judea: a new teacher on a mountain, a healer among the sick and poor, a challenger of domination, and a speaker of parables about judgment, mercy, forgiveness, and the kingdom of heaven.
Key Reading Paths
- The Sermon on the Mount: blessing, law, inward righteousness, nonviolence, prayer, almsgiving, and a kingdom that reverses ordinary measures of greatness.
- Parables of the kingdom: seeds, fields, debt, laborers, weddings, talents, vineyards, and judgment turn ordinary social scenes into spiritual tests.
- Law fulfilled and intensified: Jesus honors Torah while pressing commandment into anger, desire, speech, retaliation, enemy-love, and mercy.
- Healing and compassion: the sick, blind, lame, leprous, hungry, and possessed become the visible center of Jesus's mission.
- Religious hypocrisy: Matthew's sharpest conflicts test whether public religion serves mercy, justice, and humility or reputation and control.
- The disciples under pressure: the disciples follow, misunderstand, fear, compete, sleep, deny, and are sent anyway.
- Forgiveness and debt: mercy is imagined through debt, release, patience, and the danger of receiving forgiveness without extending it.
- Passion and kingship: trial, mockery, Pilate, the cross, and the title 'King of the Jews' make power look weakest where Matthew makes it most revealing.