Description

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 Israels Messiah Jesus comes to his people and forms a community of disciples of how he taught the people through such events as the Sermon on the Mount and its Beatitudes and how Israel becomes divided and how Jesus condemns this hostile Israel This culminates in his departure from the Temple and his execution At this point many people reject Jesus and on his resurrection he sends the disciples to the gentiles