Matthew Summary

 

 

Matthew Summary
We have detailed a brief summary of the Book of Matthew for Bible Study or Sunday School lessons. Definition of a summary: A summary, synopsis or recap is a shortened version of the original. The main purpose of a summary is as a simplification highlighting the major points from the original and much longer version of the subject. This article contains an overview of the key events and Bible People found in Matthew in the Bible. A brief synopsis the famous Bible Stories found in the scriptural text of the Book of Matthew contained in this short summary of Matthew.

Brief Summary of Matthew - The KJV Bible Scriptures
The content of Matthew according to the KJV Bible Scriptures contains a short overview of the main subjects, people, events and ancient topics in the following summary of the KJV Bible Scriptures:

  • Matthew is book number 40 of the Bible and number 1 of the New Testament. It contains 28 chapters

  • Who was Matthew? Matthew was one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, was called by Jesus to the Apostleship: in that profession his name is Levi. (Luke 5.27, and Mark 2.14.)

  • The same day on which Jesus called him he made a "great feast" (Luke 5:29), a farewell feast, to which he invited Jesus and his disciples, and probably also many of old associates. He was afterwards selected as one of the twelve (Luke 6:15).

  • He was the first of the Evangelists that wrote the Gospel  in Hebrew, which the Jews in Palestine spoke at that time. It was translated in the time of the Apostles into Greek

  • What is a Gospel? A Gospel is a book that describes the life and death of Jesus. Gospels also explain how Jesus came back to life again.

  • He wrote the Book of Matthew about about six years after the Lord's Ascension.

  • It is believed that Matthew preached the gospel to the Hebrews for fifteen years and then went to Ethiopia, south of the Caspian Sea, Persia, Macedonia and Syria

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Short Summary of Matthew - The Bible Stories of Matthew taken from the Scriptures
A short summary of the Bible Stories of Matthew taken from the Scriptures. An overview of the key events and Bible People found in Matthew together with the famous Bible Stories and brief summary of the Book of Matthew from the Bible.

  • The Biblical stories, plot, characters and events detailed in this summary of Matthew

  • The ancestry and the birth of Jesus and the escape of the family to Egypt

  • John the Baptist; the baptism and temptation of Jesus by the Devil

  • Jesus in Galilee and Jerusalem

  • The teachings and parables of Jesus

  • The Sermon on the Mount

  • The last week in the life of Jesus including the last supper, his trial and his death by Roman crucifixion

  • The resurrection of Jesus

  • The Biblical stories, plot, characters and events detailed in Matthew

The above summary details the Bible people and summary of important events which occur in the Bible scriptures of the Book of Matthew. People of the Christian faith can this useful short summary of these Bible Scriptures for an online Bible study course or biblical studies. This brief summary of Matthew is also very useful for Sunday School lessons and Bible Study at home.

Famous Bible Stories from Matthew
The following links provide instant access to famous Bible Stories from the Old Testament Book of Matthew.  We hope that these stories prove helpful to visitors of the Christian faith who are teaching Bible lessons to children, taking an online Bible Study course or undertaking Bible study at home on the subject of the Book of Matthew.

The Nativity
The Magi
John the Baptist
Jesus at Galilee
Woman of Samaria
Jesus Heals the Sick
Jesus and the Leper
Jesus and the Pharisees
Sermon on the Mount
Jesus and the Centurion
Parables of Jesus
Legion Bible Story
Daughter of Jairus
Salome
Feeding the Five Thousand
Loaves and Fishes
The Prophecies of Jesus
Parables of Jesus
Blind Bartimeus
Judas Bible Story - Palm Sunday
Jesus and the Money Changers
Jesus at the Mount of Olives
The Last Supper
Garden of Gethsemane
Pontius Pilate Bible Story - The Crown of Thorns
The Crucifixion
Resurrection of Jesus
Doubting Thomas

Additional Summary of the Book of Matthew - Easton's Bible Dictionary
The following additional short summary of the Book of Matthew contains facts and information taken from Easton's Bible Dictionary. It provides a short synopsis of this Biblical Book of the Scripture with reference with interesting points or lessons to be learned from the summary of these famous Biblical events and people. With this additional short summary of the Book of Matthew you can discover the people, places and stories detailed in this Holy Scripture. This summary of the Book of Matthew will help with many different forms of Bible Study:

The author of this book was beyond a doubt the Matthew, an apostle of our Lord, whose name it bears. He wrote the Gospel of Christ according to his own plans and aims, and from his own point of view, as did also the other "evangelists."

As to the time of its composition, there is little in the Gospel itself to indicate. It was evidently written before the destruction of Jerusalem ( Matthew 24 ), and some time after the events it records. The probability is that it was written between the years A.D. 60 and 65.

The cast of thought and the forms of expression employed by the writer show that this Gospel was written for Jewish Christians of Palestine. His great object is to prove that Jesus of Nazareth was the promised Messiah, and that in him the ancient prophecies had their fulfilment. The Gospel is full of allusions to those passages of the Old Testament in which Christ is predicted and foreshadowed. The one aim prevading the whole book is to show that Jesus is he "of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write." This Gospel contains no fewer than sixty-five references to the Old Testament, forty-three of these being direct verbal citations, thus greatly outnumbering those found in the other Gospels. The main feature of this Gospel may be expressed in the motto, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

As to the language in which this Gospel was written there is much controversy. Many hold, in accordance with old tradition, that it was originally written in Hebrew (i.e., the Aramaic or Syro-Chaldee dialect, then the vernacular of the inhabitants of Palestine), and afterwards translated into Greek, either by Matthew himself or by some person unknown. This theory, though earnestly maintained by able critics, we cannot see any ground for adopting. From the first this Gospel in Greek was received as of authority in the Church. There is nothing in it to show that it is a translation. Though Matthew wrote mainly for the Jews, yet they were everywhere familiar with the Greek language. The same reasons which would have suggested the necessity of a translation into Greek would have led the evangelist to write in Greek at first. It is confessed that this Gospel has never been found in any other form than that in which we now possess it.

The leading characteristic of this Gospel is that it sets forth the kingly glory of Christ, and shows him to be the true heir to David's throne. It is the Gospel of the kingdom. Matthew uses the expression "kingdom of heaven" (thirty-two times), while Luke uses the expression "kingdom of God" (thirty-three times). Some Latinized forms occur in this Gospel, as kodrantes ( Matthew 5:26 ), for the Latin quadrans, and phragello ( 27:26 ), for the Latin flagello. It must be remembered that Matthew was a tax-gatherer for the Roman government, and hence in contact with those using the Latin language.

As to the relation of the Gospels to each other, we must maintain that each writer of the synoptics (the first three) wrote independently of the other two, Matthew being probably first in point of time.

"Out of a total of 1071 verses, Matthew has 387 in common with Mark and Luke, 130 with Mark, 184 with Luke; only 387 being peculiar to itself." (See MARK; LUKE; GOSPELS .)

The book is fitly divided into these four parts:

Containing the genealogy, the birth, and the infancy of Jesus (1; 2).

The discourses and actions of John the Baptist preparatory to Christ's public ministry (3; 4:11 ).

The discourses and actions of Christ in Galilee ( (4:12-20:16). ).

The sufferings, death and resurrection of our Lord ( 20:17-28 ).

Matthew Summary
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Matthew Summary

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