Gospel of Matthew

A gospel that expands Mark, its principal source alongside a hypothesized shared sayings collection ("Q"), with extensive teaching material organized into five major discourses, most famously the Sermon on the Mount, and with a genealogy and infancy narrative framing Jesus as the promised heir of both Abraham and David. Composed for a community still deeply engaged with Jewish law and identity, likely in or near Antioch, it repeatedly frames events in Jesus's life as direct fulfillment of specific prophetic texts, quoting the Septuagint even where its wording departs from the underlying Hebrew. Its most quoted material, including the Sermon on the Mount and the Lord's Prayer, made it the most widely used gospel in the early church's liturgy and instruction.