Because of its rich theological content, Matthew was used as the primary catechetical text in the early Church and was the gospel most quoted by the fathers. It presents a holistic and systematic ...

In fact, even though no copy of this gospel has survived independently, some nineteenth-century scholars found fragments of such an early Christian composition embeded in the gospels of Matthew ...

The evangelist who composed the gospel of Matthew was ... beautiful but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and all kinds of filth." (MATT 23:27) Matthew's attitude toward the Pharisees ...