The two chapters of Matthew’s Gospel devoted to the…

We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel; and as…

— Samuel Sharpe

Another [book on Matthew] is Amy-Jill Levine, who is a Jewish woman who teaches New Testament at the Vanderbilt School of Religion. It's a…

— John Shelby Spong

Matthew is the only gospel that uses the Sermon on the Mount, for example, because that's the new Moses making a new interpretation of…

— John Shelby Spong

I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow named Michael…

— John Shelby Spong

“It is interesting that whenever the evangelists Mark, Luke, or John mention the apostles, they call the author of the first Gospel either Levi…

— Brennan Manning

“In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus’s sayings in the other gospels about the “kingdom of God” are rendered as “kingdom of heaven”; since many read Matthew…

— N.T. Wright

If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Trying to draw Matthew into our conversation, I said, “Look, here’s Matthew’s.” I pointed out his card; on it, a smiling young man with…

— Kresley Cole

But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent…

— Washington Gladden

Out of the guys, I'm closest to Matthew Perry. He's a great friend. He cracks me up[on the set].

— Courteney Cox

All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about "For the sake of the song"; it's all that…

— Steve Young

The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I…

— Edith Sitwell

The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter…

— Michael Atherton

At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and…

— Chelsea Handler