Matthew

INTRODUCTION ST. MATTHEW - INTRODUCTION THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. PREFACE. This and other titles, with the names of those that wrote the Gospels, are not the words of the Evangelists themselves. The Scripture itself nowhere teacheth us, which books or writings are to be received as true and canonical Scriptures. It is only by the channel of unwritten traditions, and by the testimony and authority of the Catholic Church, that we know and believe that this gospel, for example of St. Matthew, with all contained in it, and that the other books and parts of the Old or New Testament, are of divine authority, or written by divine inspiration; which made St. Augustine say, I should not believe the gospel, were I not moved thereunto by the authority of the Catholic Church: Ego Evangelio non crederem, nisi me Ecclesiœ Catholicœ commoveret auctoritas. (Lib. contra Epist. Manichœi, quam vocant fundamenti. tom. viii. chap. 5, p. 154. A. Ed. Ben.) (Witham) St.…

• Mt 1:23 — Emmanuel.
• Mt 3:16 — Baptism of Jesus.
• Mt 5:3 — Beatitudes.
• Mt 5:17 — Not to abolish the law.
• Mt 5:32 — Divorce.
• Mt 6:9 — Our Father.
• Mt 7:21 — Not everyone who says Lord.
• Mt 10:32 — Acknowledge me.
• Mt 12:32 — Sin against the Spirit.
• Mt 13:55 — Brothers of Jesus.
• Mt 16:18 — Peter the rock.
• Mt 16:19 — Keys of the kingdom.

• Brant Pitre, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist
• Brant Pitre, Jesus and the Last Supper
• Scott Hahn, The Fourth Cup
• Edward Sri, Dawn of the Messiah
• Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus
• Scott Hahn & Curtis Mitch, Ignatius Catholic Study Bible