Gospel of Matthew
Scripture · Gospel · c. 80–90 · Greek
The gospel the early church set first: Jesus as the Messiah of Israel's scriptures, teaching in five great discourses from the Sermon on the Mount to the last judgment. Tradition from Papias onward names the apostle Matthew; the church received it everywhere and without dispute from the earliest canon lists.
To: the church — a Jewish-Christian audience
Surviving witnesses
- א · GA 01 · Codex Sinaiticus · 4th century · British Library · Leipzig University Library · St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai · National Library of Russia, Add MS 43725 (London)
- B · GA 03 · Codex Vaticanus · 4th century · Vatican Apostolic Library, Vat. gr. 1209
- Rabbula · Rabbula Gospels · 586 · Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Plut. I, 56
Authors
- Matthew the Apostle author