Synonyms:
Matthew, Gospel_According_to_Matthew
Meaning: one of the Gospels in the New Testament; includes the Sermon on the Mount
Synonyms:
Matthew, Saint_Matthew, St._Matthew, Saint_Matthew_the_Apostle, St._Matthew_the_Apostle, Levi
Meaning: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel
Usage examples
"Shepherd Oak," said Matthew.
"I'm the assistant sexton at St. Matthew's Church."
I shall never forget what I felt when I saw Matthew bringing in a GIRL.
I have spoken the truth, and I will not permit the evil-doers in St. Matthew's to silence me!"
Matthew, therefore, was very learned in the books of the Law, and in the writings of the old prophets.
We've had deaths here--my father and mother died here as well as Matthew; and we've even had a birth here.
This is why we find in the Gospel according to Matthew more quotations from the Old Testament than in the writings of any of the other evangelists.
Twenty years after Matthew's Gospel was written, God called a Greek scholar, named Luke, to write what was to be a most important part of our Bible.
'See, My Book has always spoken of the coming of My Son.' This is the wonderful message which God gave to the world through Matthew's knowledge of the Old Testament Scriptures.
Matthew, hastily summoned from the harvest field, was straightway dispatched for the doctor, who in due time came, to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed.