ESV Scripture Journal: Matthew

Bible #40

by Anonymous

Take extended notes alongside passages of Scripture, with lined blank pages interspersed throughout complete books of the Bible.



ESV Scripture Journals pair the entirety of individual books of the Bible with lightly lined blank pages opposite each page of Bible text, allowing readers to take extended notes or record insights and prayers directly beside corresponding passages of Scripture.

These thin, portable notebooks are great for personal Bible reading and reflection, small-group study, or taking notes through a sermon series.


Thick, opaque, cream-colored paper Full, lightly ruled blank pages opposite each page of Bible text Wide margins Lay-flat binding Single-column format Cover stamped with gold foil 5. 75 x 8. 00 11. 75-point Trinit� type Packaging: Belly band

Genres: Religion, Christian, Nonfiction, Classics, Christianity, History, Scripture

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 80

About the author

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Reviews

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library)]

The Gospel of Matthew is a powerful account of Jesus' life, teachings, death, burial, and resurrection.

[Loraine]

Matthew is the most structured of the four gospels and was written with a Jewish audience in mind. The book focuses on how Christ fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament and is truly the promised Messiah. Matthew begins with a record of Jesus' genealogy as a marker of his identity and ends with Jesus' transfer of authority to his disciples.

It is impossible to read the Gospels and not be filled with the depth and breadth of God's love for mankind. Through his son, Jesus Christ, he gave us the promise of a life of peace and comfort here on earth and an eternal life with Him in Heaven.

[Jules]

After not picking up the Bible in many months, I'm pleased to say I've finally started the New Testament. Already, I'm enjoying the New Testament much more than the Old Testament. So far, it reflects my view on life and how we should behave towards others more closely.

I really enjoyed reading the Gospel of Matthew. This covers all sorts about Jesus' life - his birth, being tempted by Satan, feeding the starving, healing the sick, being killed, coming back from the dead. It also discusses things like turning the other cheek, loving your enemies, and not judging others.

Favourite quotes and food for thought:

DO NOT WORRY:
6:25-27 - Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

ASK, SEEK, KNOCK:
7:7-8 - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

19:21-24 - If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

MY BIBLE CHALLENGE:
In January 2015 I set myself the challenge to read the complete Bible within a year. I discovered that was an unrealistic challenge, and decided to pick up my Bible as and when I felt ready to read more of it. Here is a link to all the reviews in my Bible challenge so far:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

[ChildOfGod💜🙌🏽 (for God I live and for God I die) ~ in my Christian pop era]

Beautiful

You are loved.

You are chosen.

You are priceless.

For Jesus paid the ultimate price for you,

“Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And by sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

[Alexander]

Four stars for...ZOMBIE SAINTS!!!

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. (27: 52-53)

[Aurimas Gudas]

Patiko knygos spalva, komentarai, noras kuo geriau išversti ir kvietimas gauti komentarų iš skaitytojų.
Mt 16, 23 „Pasitrauk nuo manęs, priešgyna!“. Daug aiškiau nei šetone. Juk Petras priešinosi Dievo planui, todėl ir buvo pavadintas priešininku.

Nepatiko retų, įmantrių žodžių vartojimas (nuomygis, įima, akliai, atbaiga). Esu už tai, kad Biblijos vertimas būtų kuo labiau šiuolaikiškas, o kalba kuo kasdieniškesnė.
Mt 1, 24. Pirmą kartą „girdžiu“ žodį nuomygis. Abejoju ar autorius norėjo pabrėžti situacijos dramatiškumą. Kai būna tikrai dramatiška, žmonės tiesiog negali užmigti.
18 komentaras. Sutinku, kad remiantis vien Biblija neįmanoma įrodyti amžinos Marijos mergystės. Tačiau nesutinku, kad Biblija to nepaneigia. Juk yra Mt 13, 55-56.
Viengubos kabutės.
190 komentaras. Naujasis Testamentas vadinamas Krikščionių Biblija.

[Diamond Cowboy]

I highly recommend this book. I shall write a full review at a later date.

[Katja Labonté]

“But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” (‭4:4‬)
“The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.” (‭4:16‬)
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” (5:48)
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (‭6:24)
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” (‭7:11)
“And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?” (‭9:11‬)
“But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” (9:36-38)
“The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?” (‭10:24-25)
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (11:28-30)
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” (12:36-37)
“O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?” (‭16:8-10)
“If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (16:24-26‬)
“But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” (20:26-28)
“And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David. And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.” (20:31-34‬)
“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” (24:42)
“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.” (25:40, 45)

[F]

I have been reading the Bible through every year since 1974 and I can testify it is fresh every time.
I was amazed, once again, at the details the Holy Spirit included. Every year I find more reason to believe that Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is the very Word of the living God.
I understand more each year and yet have so much more to take in [it can never, this side of glory, be exhausted]. If you find something in the Bible you don't understand don't assume the Bible is wrong, assume that YOU don't understand ... yet.
On a side note: the idea of having individual copies of each book of the Bible is a good one... kind of pricy but good nonetheless.
While each Gospel gives the life of Christ they do so from 4 vantage points as the writers write under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Each Gospel [as every book of the Bible does] has a different theme. The theme of Matthew is to present Christ as "The King of the Jews." Because of this Matthew emphasizes things which highlight the theme. This is why Matthew discusses the Magi coming to worship the newborn King whereas Luke does not. They compliment, not contradict, each other.

[Ella あいみ M.]

Okay. Yes, I have to admit I have a bit of a hard time with reading the genealogy at the start of the book, and some people might write it off as boring because of it. But once you get through it, you'll see that Matthew is not boring at all. Reading through all the Gospels can be very eye-opening, no matter how many times you've done it, so I encourage you to do it!

[Jacqueline]

Matthew 28:5-6
But the angel answered and said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay."

[Carl]

I hope you enjoy my most demented, sacrilegious review yet:

Everyone focuses on the post-death/resurrcetion message of christ, that you have to bring the gospel and baptize all nations, etc 28:19-20. (This part of the book, the ending, made me think of Jesus as a hidden Taliban leader who has escaped death and is now preaching in the mountains of Galilee, hidden from the world after his death + resurrection). But while he is alive he very explicitly says to his disciples to only go to the “lost sheep of Israel” and no gentiles (10:5). If you comment any orthodox interpretation I will hate it. Instead I think Jesus is a super-racist. He compares a Canaanite woman to a dog in one section 15:22-28. His later plan to proselytize the world is to take revenge on his murderers and enact TCD (total Canaanite death, 1 Samuel 15, etc). At one point it is implied him and his followers all carry swords and are basically ready to kill anyone who opposes them (26:51-56). 

I am sure everyone will be super butthurt when they read that. I don’t care. You haven’t read the bible, never will read bible. I think people are chosen to read bible. It is the book that inspired all the other books on this website. Everyone has an opinion on the bible even though they haven’t read it. It’s so important that you have to instrumentalize it as a weapon, even if you don’t believe in it whatsoever.

Anyways I think there are some very useful teachings which I have implemented in my life:

Doctrine #1
18:3-7 -> Act like a baby
I do this all of the time and try to pass myself off as an actual ND minor. I talk in a sort of babble and ask things innocently, inquiring. I don’t think I need to be anymore humble, I am humble enough. If anything God is saying to me “you are too humble, you need to scale it back”. Anyways, I probably have 1-2 more years of baby larping max so I need to use it will I got it.

Doctrine #2
18:8-9 -> cut off your hands if you are masturbating
If you are masturbating you don't even need to cut off your hands. You can just use flip phone. Make sure you don’t get wifi password in coffee shop, and DO NOT bring your computer into the stall with you. Also do not use AirPods, listening to secret sounds. Evil. Actually flip flop phone also bad because you could take pictures. Need phone without camera, an uncamera’d phone.

Doctrine #3
18:20-35 -> always forgive
Basically I could be angry all of the time. I could make up reasons to be angry in my head and pace around a coffee shop, and I could glare and stare. I could be a really demented freak. I meet people like this every day. You start talking, then you realize this person was programmed by an algorithm to be an obstacle to my peace of mind and happiness. Most epic high level VIP hack: I forgive you. You just say it in your mind. (Also proverbs 23:9 if you are feeling resentful I use that all of the time, for years)

Doctrine #4
21:21-22, 7:7 -> “just believe” theory
Basically everything is in your head, so you just need to believe. I did this recently. Easy. I just believed. I just had faith. I see all this stuff online. I said “I guess I am going to believe in this now and operate accordingly”. With just a small amount of faith it all worked. Easy mode. I have a 100% hit rate. Thats high level. We are enjoying.

Doctrine #5
19:20-22 -> sell all books
Basically I have been a bibliotaph for years I even worked at bookstore so I could take discards. Useless, evil, worthless. All of the books = trash. Burn them. Slice them and put the books in a wok. I dont care how it happens, get rid of them. Worthless. More books = more confusion. This probably doesn’t apply if you are in your “golem made for corporate slave job” era, then more books = good? Because it is expanding your mind? Basically possessions are worthless and if I don’t use it minimum every week it’s gone.

Doctrine #6
25:25-30 -> profit
If you aren’t taking profits… dude. We need to be making profit. We cannot bury gold, slave brain. Not good. Bad. Jesus is #1 prosperity gospel preacher. He needs us to be rich. It is required.

Doctrine #7
28:3 -> Jesus is white
This is self explanatory. Basically he is so white he is bioluminescent. That’s crazy. This is the most secret doctrine, that you cannot divulge to anyone. But basically I need to figure out how to become so white I am bioluminescent (more of a future project).

In conclusion

Who is to say anything in the Gospel of Matthew did or didn’t happen. It doesn’t matter ultimately. Like whether or not the world is flat or dinosaurs are real. This is largely irrelevant to your day to day life. Like Buddha taught “everything depends on the mind”. Buddha would agree. Whether the world is flat or dinosaurs exist, this doesn’t matter and is a distraction. So I think if you believe in the myth and it helps you and molds your psychology and makes you successful -> that is a good thing. Like Nietzsche says the philosopher of the future judges not on truth value but on how life furthering something is. Beyond good and evil. That’s how I rate all books in essence. How useful they are to me.

I like to read bible because it teaches me about how so many people think about and have thought about the world. Like the ultimate, most important primary source text of all time. it also teaches me the contrast between what people think about the Bible vs what is in the Bible, so I can know immediately who has and hasn’t read it. This can teach you a lot about someone’s personality. If someone says something about the Bible with absolute certainty that contradicts the content, lacks nuance, I know I have to tread lightly around them and be very sensitive, loving, caring and forgiving. They need my care and support. They are zealots who believe something about the Bible very strongly even though they haven’t read it which means they do not delve deeply into content but have strong views on it, and will be frustrated if you contradict them in any way. Highly inflexible mind being programmed by unknown sources. This lets me know I need to go to the source to understand them. Talking about that with them is pointless, instead we go to the source of their programming and absorb what they are being taught to think, so we can love and understand them better.

I think if you have sympathy and empathy for others you will probably, at some point in your life, be drawn to earnestly study the bible. Because if you have sympathy or empathy you will want to learn about how others think and feel. I think if you have hatred in your heart and dehumanize others you may also be drawn to read the bible. So you can denigrate others beliefs and instrumentalize the bible as a tool, to weaponize their beliefs against them because you have hatred and anger towards them. But that is not an earnest reading of the bible. I know people who say they “read" the bible but if you can’t sympathize with the ideas, if you didn’t inhabit the spirit of the text, did you really “read” it? For example I read the Quran. And while reading it I earnestly tried to understand and identify with its teachings. Maybe some people are very low in openness. I don’t think thats a bad thing either, just part of human expression. I have met people who read the bible who are like that too. And I can be that way too with many things I am sure. It is just how all people are.

[Ben Davis]

The Thief on the Cross

12:29 - "How can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man?"

24:43 - "If the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming he would have stayed awake and would not let his house be broken into."

26:55 - "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to capture me?"

27:44 - "And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way."

[Marlene]

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." -- Matthew 6:33 KJV (King James Version)

That's the version I memorized as a kid at church. (I still remember my teacher singing the verse to us, and today that still seems to be how I memorize verses best.) I've found that in general, I really like the New Living Translation for more plainspeaking. See the NLT translation of the same verse below.

"Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need." -- Matthew 6:33 NLT

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Rating: 5 stars

I read this with my family before breakfast for a while.

Matthew is the first book in the New Testament. This is an easy book of the Bible to read, but it took me a long time because I'd been watching it signed in ASL (American Sign Language) very sporadically via an app called Deaf Bible. I enjoy this app quite a bit. The only thing is, no matter which media I'm using to read, barring Audible, it requires that I stop moving. Which is very difficult for me to bring myself to do during my peak productive hours while the kids are in school.

But now I've hit upon something that works really well for me. This (school) year, I've decided to sit at my dining room table and read from the Deaf Bible app while eating lunch! So now I'm able to read the Bible - for ten to twenty minutes a day - while I'm eating my lunch, and it's working beautifully because I have a personal commitment to sit for those 10-20 minutes. As a result, I'm not distracted by the nagging feeling that I should go move the laundry along, move the Roomba or Braava to the next room, or start the dishwasher, or…

That's the key, isn't it? Finding that sweet spot for daily Bible reading. It's changed for me over the years, each with varying degrees of success. Realistically speaking, I know I can't blame the time of day for not being consistently faithful to read. But I thrive on routine, and am just tickled pink to find something that works so EASILY for this season in my life.

"Oh, the joys of those who do not
follow the advice of the wicked,
or stand around with sinners,
or join in with mockers.
But they delight in the law of the Lord,
meditating on it day and night."
-- Psalm 1:1-2, NLT

Christian elements: Well, it is the Bible… So really, the whole thing has "Christian elements."

Is it clean/chaste? Yup.

Possible content issues: The crucifixion is covered in Matthew. (As well as in Mark, Luke, and John) It's dealt with on a PG level. The horror of it is not amplified in such a way that sensitive readers will be unable to stomach it.

What I liked: I love reading the account of Jesus' life because it's so interesting.

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The bottom line: Matthew outlines Jesus' life from beginning to end. I recommend this book to anyone, even someone who knows Matthew inside and out. The Bible is pretty neat like that. New depths can always be found if one looks for them. Or perhaps it will be just that we need to be reminded of something that we have forgotten. God knows what we need.

I've started reading Acts at a much faster rate than Matthew. I'm not even going to LOOK to see how long it took me to get through Matthew!!!

[emily marie ٠࣪⭑ (Jesus is King)]

Matthew 28:19-20: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

[⋆｡˚ jessie ୨ৎ⋆｡]

"And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matt. 28:20) one of my favorite verses 💗

yes, I do count my bible reading to my book goal, sue me 😌

[Rosa Cleiren]

consider me influenced 🙏📿 (dit + rosalia's lux tour … ik zie het licht nu) (mopje)

[Andy Zach]

Matthew covers the life of Jesus in detail. He begins with Jesus legal genealogy through His father Joseph and traces His ancestry from Abraham, through Ruth and Boaz to David, then to the Babylonian exile and then to Jesus' legal father. This is all fitting and proper showing Jesus comes from the line of David and is the Messiah.

Matthew gives a brief history of Jesus' childhood, showing Him a precocious student of the Bible and responsible at 12 to be left alone in Jerusalem.

Matthew covers Jesus' 3 1/2 years of ministry with a great many parables and teachings, like the Sermon on the Mount. He devotes the last six chapters of 28 to Jesus last week on earth, His teaching, arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection.

It's the story of the ages. Don't miss it.

[Hanna B Reads]

There are so many contradictions, just in this one book alone, it will make your head spin. However, he makes good points in favor of peace and socialism.

The book begins with a list of the descendants of Abraham that ends with "Joseph, wife of Mary, mother of Jesus". Okay, so is he the son of god? or the son of Joseph? because he cannot biologically be both. And this is important because the rest of the book, Jesus is referred to as "Son of David" which means descendent of David, which means he would have to be Joseph's biological son! If he is not Josephs son, he is not the descendent of David and therefore, not the prophet. So right off the bat, we are in quite the pickle. And then you have the honorific "Son of Man" which Jesus uses to tell of the prophet to come (though the narrator knows in hindsight that Jesus was referring to himself in third person). In Aramaic, this "son of man" term also means "human being", "a person", or "mortal". So, let me see if I got this straight: Jesus is descended from David on Josephs side, but Joseph isn't his biological father, his biological father is god, but he referred to himself as "son of man" in the third person, but "son of man" literally translates to "mortal". Got it.

There also seems to be one overarching message here, and it's not "love god above all else and love your neighbor as you would love yourself". The message that both John the Baptist and Jesus preach the most is that of hypocrisy. When we first are introduced to John, he is calling out the "strict" religious people for "performing" religion but not actually acting on it. Essentially they are just going through the motions, and attending the right rituals, but they aren't living a Pius life. They talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk.

Then Jesus gives several parables about hypocrisy. The whole "why do you point out the speck in someone else's eye when you have a log in your own" "you strain out the nat but you swallow the camel" or "you say to honor your father in mother, yet when they are in need you declare Corban". Corban is the practice of declaring an item or property is dedicated to god, and therefore cannot be sold or used by anyone but the owner. So, in this instance, these people were inheriting property from their parents, but when their parents needed assistance, they were claiming "Corban", which meant "I cannot sell this land or use it to help my parents because it belongs to god". However, people use this passage to demand children honor their parents, but Jesus commands us to honor children as well. At the time, children were socially considered less-than. They were seen as similar to servants and livestock. Jesus was very radical in calling the children innocent and demanding people respect them.

There also seems to be two different expectations from god to humanity. For the non-believers, the only thing god wants is for them to turn to him and believe. He expects very little from them in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. For the believers, he expects much more. He demands that they stop being hypocrites, he demands that they hold strong to their faith and do not question him. And lastly, when they have dedicated their entire lives to him and followed all of his rules, he demands that they give up all of their worldly possessions, that they do not need, to those who do need them. Jesus tells several parables in regards to this as well. Including one for which a master pays his servants the same amount regardless of how long they worked for him.

The parts that do not feel cohesive, and often contradict themselves, are the parts where the narrator tries to make Jesus perform all the events of the prophecies. This feels very forced into the narrative. It's like "and then Jesus went [here] in accordance with this prophecy", "and then Jesus said [this] in accordance with this prophecy". I also feel like the narrator often over explains some of Jesus's parables like "and then the disciples knew what he meant was [this]". And honestly, some of the narrators explanations feel like oversimplifications. Like Jesus is actually saying something much more profound and the narrator is boiling it down to something more simple. For instance, there is a moment when Jesus says people will not recognize the prophet when he comes and that the prophet has come before and the hypocrites did not recognize him. And the narrator says "and the prophets knew he was speaking of John the Baptist". I take this a lot less literally than the narrator does. I don't think Jesus was specifying one person exactly. I think he was just pointing out the flaws of the hypocrites and the curse of not practicing what you preach means that you will not recognize someone of your own faith. You may even think them an enemy or foe. You may even kill them as the people killed John the Baptist. John the Baptist might be one example of this, but I think Jesus was saying this happens a lot more frequently than that. Good, solid, stories do not need to be oversimplified and overexplained like that. If you ignore the conjecture from the narrator, it is actually a much better story.

A big problem I have with the book, and this is really just a sign of the times, is the idea that sickness and disability is brought about by a lack of faith. And any sickness or disability can be cured through faith. Well, I think we can all agree that is not true. Every 36 minutes, in the US alone, a child is diagnosed with cancer. Do we really think that is because of a lack of faith? The people of the time did not understand basic hygiene, let alone how illnesses, diseases, or disabilities came about. This alone shows the human flaws of the teachings of Jesus.

[Joan Haughton]

This is Matthew's account of my Lord and Savior, Jesus. From birth, his ministry, healing the sick and freeing all that were oppressed of the enemy, crucifixion/death, burial and resurrection. Bless the name of Jesus!

[Paul Kuntze]

Jesus is a lot stricter than I thought, I didn't know he told so many people to go to hell. I don't know what to make if his high standard of ethics as well as devotion. Very insightful and historically valuable read though, much more lively than some of the other books.

[Alix Saich]

jesus was a revolutionary who would have hated every modern day christian. his message is so clear about compassion, being forgiving, helping the poor, and not amassing wealth or being performative in your kindness. he reads as a cool guy very detached from the religion that followed after him.

[Wren (fablesandwren)]

Sidenote: The reason for such vague and short and "eh" words on each of these books, is because I wasn't challenging the study of the Bible when I read these. I was challenging myself to read the whole Bible in a year because I knew it would be discipline to keep at it daily. I do, however, plan to pick up a book and study what it is saying. Those will be longer reads and more notes.

So here is my review from my "Read the Bible in a Year" challenge. Usually just snippets of thoughts and random things I liked about the book itself. Nothing in-depth.

So here is my review of Matthew.

The Gospels are going to be an interesting read. The first three, Matthew, Mark and Luke, are a lot a like with how the story of Jesus goes. John, on the other hand, is the same but from a different eye of detail.

Matthew was a great introduction into the New Testament. I can tell you that the story of Jesus is beautiful and magical.

[Roman Leao]

Not a review of the gospel of Matthew since it is what it is, but an appreciation of this format. I have long put off a deep dive into the books of the Bible as the wee type and onion skin pages were not inviting at all. These journal versions have a blank page for notes (mostly, “wait, what?”) on the right and the print on the left in a large, easy to read, font. It’s been a long time coming, so here we go ...

[Shantelle]

The first of the gospels, Matthew tells a powerful story. Very interesting. It's kind of fun to see the small differences between Matthew and Luke, which I recently read too. Same story, but each individual notices different details, I guess. :)

[Marlene]

?? - Read with the Bible Recap
10/1/2024 - 11/10/2024 with The Bible Recap
2/5/2025 - 3/5/2025 with the kids
10/2/2025 - 11/?/2025 with The Bible Recap

[isa lim]

jesus really do be a hobo travelling around yelling woes at pastors and talking to the poor on mountaintops

[Mikael Hall]

Första delen av mitt bibelläsningsprojekt. Matteusevangeliet är både bra litteratur i konventionell mening men också religiöst djupsinnigt och gripande på ett sätt som jag inte helt väntat mig.

[Arvin Gasco]

I like the parable of the sheep and the goats

[Kos froux]

Again no rating reasoning being the same as in Genesis.
Regarding what you can expect from this particular Gospel, Matthew is addressing Jews and writes from them. Not meaning that this Gospel is not christian but rather you may need to go back some pages to Jeremiah in order to fully graps the story.