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Dictionary definition: Matthew, gospel of
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Matthew, gospel of
The first book in the NT. It was widely held in the past, as by St Augustine, that Matt. was the earliest of the four gospels to be written and that the gospel of Mark was an abbreviation of it. The more usual view now is that Mark was used by Matt., and in the process Mark's inelegant Greek was polished and Mark's treatment of the person of Jesus developed in a more devotional direction. In addition to Mark, the author of Matt. prefaced his work with the two chapters about the
birth
and infancy of Jesus. In the body of the work, Matt. incorporated, in a very orderly fashion, much of Jesus'
teaching
that was unrecorded by Mark, whose 240 verses of teaching is expanded ...
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