Quotes About Matthew

I read through the book of Matthew this evening. I was up all night. I couldn't stop reading so I read through Mark. This Jesus of yours is either a madman or the Son of God. Somewhere in the middle of Mark I realized He was the Son of God.

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.' An Englishman named John Harrington said that, all the way back around the year 1600.

All that matters is stories feel true, they resonate....the point is not to determine the truth by a process of rational evaluation, assessment and conclusion. You choose your own reality, as if from a buffet.

it is a common error to confuse data with truth: the former informs the latter, but they are not the same thing

her classic work English Surnames, reasoning that it was a fairly

Who was it who said that irony is the fundamental operating principle of the universe?" "I believe," I said, "that it was Henghis Hapthorn.

If we accept the abolitionist portrait of Northern Unionists, we are left to wonder how many cotton merchants there really were in the North!

He had me at "hallo." No red-blooded American can resist the siren song of TV exposure. It's our God-given right.

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

The Gospel of Matthew states explicitly that Jesus was of royal blood—a genuine king, the lineal descendant of Solomon and David.

it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).

Overtime unofficially, was won when one of the Patriot's captains, Matthew Slater, called heads on the coin toss.

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28).

Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don't have a New Testament; you don't have a Christianity; as Paul says, you are still in your sins.

The story Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell is the story of how God became king—in and through Jesus both in his public career and in his death.

Once you lose the kingdom theme, which is central to the gospels, everything else becomes reinterpreted in ways that radically distort, that substitute a subtly different "gospel" message for the one Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are eager to convey.

The gospels have been emasculated in much of the church by being split up into small portions and never seen as a whole, rather as if a great symphony were only ever heard in twelve-bar snatches; and it is this, incidentally but importantly, that has left the door open to those who want, for quite other reasons, to suggest that works such as the so-called Gospel of Thomas belong in the same category as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

when we turn to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John we discover that they at least think it's important to retell the history of Israel and to show that the story of Jesus is the story in which that long history, warts and all, reaches its God-ordained climax.

That's part of the complex task the gospel writers are accomplishing: describing something as both the fulfillment of the vocation of Israel and divine judgment on the mess and the muddle that Israel's story had become. Matthew, then, is telling his story in such a way as to say: "This is it! This is what we've been waiting for—even though we would never have thought it would be like this!

When Matthew has the angel tell Joseph that the child to be born will be "Emmanuel," "God with us," and then finishes his gospel with Jesus himself telling his followers that he will be "with them always," alert readers know that the entire story ought to be read with this in mind.

John the Baptist Was indeed a Messenger of God Matthew 11:11-14 bears witness to John the Baptist. Let

Persecution is designed to make you run away from the Word (Matthew 13:21).

As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.