A Commentary On The Gospel Of Matthew - Tbd - Bog

You see the full character of Christ through the four different portraitsin Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Each of them is painting a differentpicture – not a contradictory one, but filling it out with a new aspect. Matthew paints the King of the Jews. That is his object. We nowsuddenly realise why Matthew is the first in the New Testament, evenif it was not the first to be written. The answer is that it is the nearestGospel to the Old Testament, the most Jewish one that picks up thethreads of all that has gone before…. ...