The Gospel of Matthew

c. 80–90 AD · Anonymous Gospel, traditionally credited to Matthew the Apostle

The first book of the New Testament, written in Koine Greek. According to Wikipedia ↗, it was written “in the last quarter of the first century anonymously by a Jewish author,” and tradition credits it to Matthew the Apostle. Its first long discourse is the Sermon on the Mount, which opens with the Beatitudes.

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“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted”

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