A_Reflection_Of_The_Gospel_Of_St._Mathew

A Reflection Of The Gospel Of St. Mathew A Reflection of the Gospel of St. Mathew: “Jesus and the Pharisees: Friends and/or Enemies!” The Gospel According to Mathew was the first of the four gospels in the New Testament. It reflects both the view that it was the first to be written, a view that goes back to the late second century A.D., and the esteem in which it was held by the church; no other was so frequently quoted in the literature of earliest Christianity. The Gospel According to Mathew presents the story of Jesus, the demands of Christian discipleship, and the breaking-in of the new and final age through the ministry but particularly through the death and resurrection of Jesus. Readers learn of actions that are approved of and actions that are frowned upon. One of those actions is the love of enemies, family, and friends. The first part of the gospel starts out with a genealogy of Jesus starting with Abraham, the father of Israel. Yet at the beginning of that genealogy Jesus is designated as “ the son of David, the son of Abraham”. I interpreted the meaning of this first section two different ways. First I interpreted it to love, jesus, mathew, god, one, people, son, perfect, gospel, enemies, should, own, hate, friends, first, father, today, perfection, out, new, according, through, someone, say, said, reflects, reading, put, part, nature, just, enemy, david, come