The Gospel of Matthew: Torah for the Church (Biblia.com)

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The Gospel of Matthew was written to prove to the Jews that Jesus of Nazareth is indeed the Christ, the fulfillment of their Scriptures. It contains the most thorough and organized presentation of Christ’s teaching anywhere in Scripture. Thus, the Gospel of Matthew is like the Christian Torah—the record of God’s words and deeds through Christ. Matthew’s Gospel also stresses the church, since it...

to use the natural acoustics of the place. St. Matthew stresses the huge number of people, for it was because of them that Jesus taught in parables. The masses of men were not open to putting aside their prejudices and learning the true nature of the Kingdom. Like all Jews at that time, they thought the Kingdom would come cataclysmically and in political form. When Messiah came, they expected He would rally an army of angels and men and sweep the sinners (especially Roman sinners!) out of the land,

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