The Gospel According to Matthew

The Gospel According to Matthew provides the New American Bible translation of the text enhanced by the informative and perceptive commentary of Barbara E. Reid. This Gospel has long been the Church's favorite faith portrait of Jesus. The Good News would not be as good without such bold strokes of Matthew as: the unique details of Jesus' infancy (magi, flight into Egypt, massacre of infants), Jesus' counter-cultural Sermon on the Mount, his provocative parables and memorable miracles, the building of his church on the Rock, Peter, his concluding commissioning of the Eleven to make disciples of all nations, the assurance from start to finish that Jesus is EMMANUEL, God-with-us.

Barbara Reid is Professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago