In Matthew's gospel, Jesus delivers five major speeches ... before the women and directs them to tell the disciples to meet him in Galilee. The disciples go the mountain -- just as Jesus himself ...

Paras Patel is a standout from The Chosen. His best scenes as Matthew include moments featuring Simon Peter and Mary Magdalene.

Then they arrested Jesus. One of those who were with Jesus drew his sword and struck at the high priest's slave, cutting off his ear. “Put your sword back in its place” Jesus said to him ...

Jesus’ response rejected our excuses and expanded the limits of forgiveness beyond any horizon. As we read the parable in Matthew 18, we find ourselves identifying with a servant who is thrown into ...

Yet for Gospel writers Matthew and Luke, they were absolutely essential for understanding Jesus. Genealogies fulfilled multiple purposes in the ancient world. Society was organized around kinship ...

And it's very important that Jesus for Matthew is fully a man from Israel. Therefore, Matthew begins his gospel by taking all the genealogy of Jesus; he wanted to show that Jesus was the son of ...